Traders may soon be able to place bets for Columbia’s admissions rates and applicant numbers on Kalshi, a prediction market app.

The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia and the Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic at Yale Law School filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of six individuals challenging President Donald Trump for his administration’s pattern of restricting or revoking White House press access for journalists whose reporting the president deems “false” or “fake.”

Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark professor of political economy, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Memorial Prize in economics on Monday.

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.

Columbia spent $200,000 on federal lobbying between January and March this year—a $70,000 decrease from its high spending in the first quarter of 2025—amid federal cuts to research funding and renewed Department of Homeland Security threats to international students.

A federal judge on June 1 dismissed a lawsuit brought by two Columbia Facilities workers against 48 pro-Palestinian protesters who occupied Hamilton Hall in April 2024, ruling that the workers failed to prove the protesters conspired to deprive Jewish people or their supporters of civil rights.

For the four graduating seniors awarded with the highest academic distinctions in Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science—the valedictorians and salutatorians—the recognition came as a surprise.

Nearly four months after the University said it had disciplined those involved in the “irregular” admission of Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend to the College of Dental Medicine, Columbia announced Wednesday that another key administrator implicated, Dr. James Fine, senior associate dean for postdoctoral academic and student affairs, will step down from his role.

At the beginning of each semester, Sam Cano Cabrera, CC ’26, president of the Columbia College Student Council, buys a set of Muji journals. The pack of notebooks always contains the same five colors: red, green, yellow, gray, and navy blue.