Melanie Greer Huff, BC ’86, TC ’95, dean of student affairs at the Journalism School, has died, Dean Jelani Cobb wrote in a Tuesday email to the Journalism School community.

Barnard will extend some students’ move-out date to Dec. 24, modifying the college’s original decision to make the last move-out date Dec. 23—the last day of final exams.

Columbia and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been challenging a renewed push this summer by President Donald Trump’s administration to upend the mechanisms that allocate critical federal funding to universities.

Columbia joined 35 universities in filing an amicus brief July 22 that supports Harvard University’s ongoing legal battle against President Donald Trump’s administration, after the federal government appealed a lower court’s ruling that called on it to restore nearly $2.2 billion in frozen funding.

Levien Gymnasium will remain closed until the 2026-27 academic year after its courts flooded in late January, a University official told Spectator. The University has identified alternate venues for summer camp programs that the space was previously scheduled to hold.

Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, appealed his deportation case to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, asking a federal court for the first time to review a final removal order to Jordan, which was issued by an immigration judge last week.

Ahead of the University’s upcoming Commencement, which for the second year in a row will use AI to read graduates’ names during its Class Days, Columbia affiliates are ramping up calls for the University to end its use of the tool during the ceremonies and distance itself from all AI platforms.

Morningside Heights residents have constructed a growing memorial on the corner of 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, at the site of what neighbors describe as a “horror show” crash.

When she started at Barnard, Sunaya Mueller, BC ’26, did not think that she was going to rebuild the Barnard Bulletin, the college’s student newspaper. But four years later, she is celebrating its 125th anniversary, having done just that.