For the first time in its 75-year history, Art Humanities, an integral part of Columbia College’s Core Curriculum, has had its syllabus markedly revised. The revisions include nine new artists—all women or people of color.

During its first public debate of the spring semester, the Columbia Political Union and the Columbia Debate Society asked whether or not “Columbia is a force for good in the world.”

Assistant astronomy professor David Kipping and a team of researchers at Columbia’s Cool Worlds lab have reportedly discovered a promising exomoon candidate. If their research findings—which were featured in science journal “Nature”—are validated, Kipping and the other researchers would be the first team to discover a confirmed exomoon.

Lili Luo, SOA ’24, raised two children in the United States before deciding to pursue a master’s degree in creative nonfiction writing at Columbia. But Lili isn’t the only member of the Luo family receiving a Columbia education. Her youngest son, Alan Luo, SEAS ’24, is also a student at Columbia, and the mother-son duo are former roommates with the same graduation year.

Twenty-four members of the Columbia College senior class have been selected for initiation to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. While 2 percent were elected this fall, ​​the remaining 8 percent of inductees will be elected in the upcoming spring 2022 term.

Sydni Scott, CC ’22, has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford University in fall 2022. Scott, who competes in the long jump and the triple jump for Columbia’s track and field team, is the first female athlete in University history to receive this honor. She plans to study comparative government at Oxford.

As students from across the University’s 21 schools gathered on College Walk for the first Tree Lighting ceremony since 2019 on Thursday, student-workers took to College Walk to picket in support of the Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers strike. The picket came one day after over 100 student-workers and their supporters marched from Columbia University Irving Medical Center on 168th Street to the Morningside campus on 116th Street.

The School of General Studies broke its fundraising records this past year, despite the financial setbacks of the ongoing pandemic.