Columbia and Barnard faculty held a press conference on Monday condemning Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Saturday detention of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, a lead negotiator for the April 2024 “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on Feb. 24 against President Donald Trump and two of his colleagues seeking files from the special counsel’s report in Trump’s classified documents criminal case.

Columbia’s most recent form 13F —a financial report detailing equity and asset holdings—for the quarter ending on Dec. 31, 2024, indicated that the University had invested in Riley Exploration Permian, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas company.

Barnard will restrict campus access to only Barnard and Columbia ID holders starting at 8 a.m. Thursday and will introduce increased security measures, including potential bag searches and mandatory unmasking at entry points after the sit-in in the Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning.

Activists and businesswomen Yasmeen Ohebsion and Mandana Dayani launched Our CampUs United on Monday, a platform intended to provide Jewish and pro-Israel students with resources to take action against antisemitism, at Columbia.

Charlie Shen, GS ’25, reported the theft and vandalism of a mailed package to Public Safety earlier this month, raising concern that the incident was an act of racial discrimination.

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor, spoke alongside Jon Finer, principal deputy national security adviser under former President Joe Biden, at a virtual fireside chat on Tuesday. The event was hosted by the Institute of Global Politics and moderated by School of International and Public Affairs Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo.

Columbia became the first U.S. academic institution to join the Richtech Accelerator program, which aims to support artificial intelligence and robotics resources, on Feb. 12.