Jane Watson, CC ’22, who spent her years on campus producing and performing original music and graduated with honors last spring, passed away Monday. She was 23.

First Lady Jill Biden and Queen Letizia of Spain visited Columbia Cancer Center at the School of Nursing on Wednesday to speak to doctors, patients, students, and community members about the school’s approach to clinical research.

Gerald Lewis Jr. has been appointed the next vice president for Public Safety, stepping into the role nine months after James McShane’s retirement, Executive Vice President for University Facilities and Operations David Greenberg announced in an email to the University community today.

For this year’s NSOP edition, University News has compiled a list of the top University administrators who make the decisions that affect you the most! From familiar names like Bollinger and Beilock to more behind-the-scenes actors you might not have heard of, this is your one-stop guide to the Low Library power players.

Barnard President Sian Beilock will leave her role at Barnard in 2023 to become president of Dartmouth College, she announced today in a community message.

Columbia was hit with a proposed class-action lawsuit on Tuesday for allegedly misreporting data submitted to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges ranking, which recently “unranked” Columbia from its No. 2 position. The suit calls the University’s alleged misreporting “immoral, unethical,” and “unscrupulous” and proposes the creation of a class of over 30,000 students enrolled between 2016 and 2022 seeking over $5 million.

U.S. News & World Report, which releases a popular but controversial annual ranking of American colleges and universities, has removed Columbia from its 2022 undergraduate ranking for being “unable to provide satisfactory responses to the information U.S. News requested,” it announced in a Thursday news release.