Mary Boyce, provost emerita and professor of mechanical engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, has won a 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal, a Franklin Institute award honoring the greatest minds in science, engineering, and industry.

Hundreds of students and faculty have signed two separate open letters released on Sunday condemning the University’s suspension of the Columbia chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, which administrators announced on Nov. 10.

Henry Swieca, Business ’83, a Jewish billionaire and founder of Talpion Fund Management, resigned from the Columbia Business School board on Oct. 30. In his resignation letter, which was obtained by multiple news outlets, Swieca described his resignation as “an expression of [his] deep concern for the direction in which the university is heading.”

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine is selling keffiyehs, a traditional black-and-white Palestinian scarf, as “a subtle way to make a statement and show solidarity on campus daily with Palestinians currently facing genocide,” a representative of SJP wrote in a statement to Spectator.

The School of International and Public Affairs’ Institute of Global Politics hosted an online “Rapid Response Webinar” on Tuesday following Hamas’ unexpected attack on Israel over the weekend.