The Office of Financial Aid and Educational Financing is adjusting to recent changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid after the Department of Education altered the form for the 2024-25 academic year. The department’s changes will streamline the process, revise the aid determination methodology, and expand access to more federal grants and scholarships, according to the Federal Student Aid website.

Conservative author and radio host Dennis Prager, a School of International and Public Affairs dropout, spoke to students in the Lerner Roone Arledge Cinema on Tuesday in an event titled “Israel and Morality,” hosted by the Columbia University College Republicans.

The University Registrar launched enhanced course search and planner tools within the new Vergil system on Oct. 23, Associate Vice President and University Registrar Barry Kane announced in an email to the community.

Columbia’s department of neurological surgery has launched a new Translational Research Initiative, intent on expanding the resources available to apply both existing and novel research to patient care.

The Office of the President held its first inaugural symposium event on Wednesday in the Low Library Rotunda to commemorate the inauguration of University President Minouche Shafik.

The Journalism School on Friday named Gisela Winckler, associate director of the geochemistry division at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, as its inaugural climate-scientist-in-residence for fall 2023.

Columbia welcomed a handful of presidents to campus last week in its 20th World Leader’s Forum—the first for University President Minouche Shafik.

President Joe Biden has nominated Jacob Lew, a visiting professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, to the post of U.S. ambassador to Israel. The appointment was announced on Sept. 5.