Davide Giri, a sixth-year doctoral student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, died following a stabbing that occurred near 123rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue on Thursday around 11 p.m, interim SEAS Dean Shih-Fu Chang and SEAS Senior Vice Dean Soulaymane Kachani announced in an email Friday morning. Giri was 30 years old.

Carman Hall, Lerner Hall, and Butler Hall were evacuated after Columbia received bomb threats this afternoon, according to emergency text notifications sent to students at 2:27 p.m. today. At 4:44 pm, the University notified students that police had concluded their investigation and all three aforementioned buildings had been swept and were being reopened.

Hollywood notable David Geffen has donated $75 million to support Columbia Business School’s January 2022 move to the Manhattanville campus, the latest in a series of large donations to fund the $6.3 billion expansion. The school’s eight-story multi-use building, currently still under construction, will be named David Geffen Hall. Geffen, who has no previous public affiliation with the University, also donated $150 million to the School of Drama at Yale in 2021 and has donated over $450 million to UCLA. Yale’s drama school and the School of Medicine at UCLA have both taken on Geffen’s name in light of these gifts.

A mattress fire broke out on the sixth floor of Brooks Hall after 9 p.m. on Monday, causing hundreds of Barnard students to evacuate their dorms onto Claremont Avenue and Broadway and across Barnard’s campus. No injuries were reported, and the structural damage remains unclear.

Steve Coll will step down as dean of the Journalism School in June 2022 after nine years in the role, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email on Thursday. Coll will remain a member of the Journalism faculty. Bollinger’s message provides no information about the search for Coll’s replacement.

Under the University test and trace program, 112 University affiliates at both the Morningside campus and Columbia University Irving Medical Center tested positive for COVID-19 during the week of Sept. 13, resulting in a 100 percent increase in University-administered tests from the week before. In response, the University tightened in-person restrictions.

James Valentini will step down as dean of Columbia College and vice president of undergraduate education in June 2022, after a decade serving in one of the most senior student-facing administrative positions at Columbia, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email Thursday.

Fawzia Muhammed, a first-year student at the Mailman School of Public Health, has died, Dean Linda P. Fried wrote in an email on Wednesday.

For the 1,569 Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science first-year students arriving on campus this week, their first steps onto College Walk will represent the end of an application process that has been anything but normal. After facing the unprecedented academic, personal, and economic impacts of the pandemic, the class of 2025 is the most selective in the University’s history.

Dennis Mitchell, senior vice provost for faculty advancement and a professor of dental medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, has been appointed to be the next executive vice president for University Life, University President Lee Bollinger announced in an email to the Columbia community today. Mitchell will also be serving as senior vice provost for faculty advancement and will continue his work as a faculty member at the College of Dental Medicine.