The Columbia Space Initiative hosted a live video call on Friday with NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, who is currently living and working onboard the International Space Station.

Dorm2Dorm LLC, a moving and storage company commonly used by college students, is facing a lawsuit by the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. The lawsuit, filed on March 6 in the New York County Supreme Court, alleges that the company defrauded students and mishandled personal property.

President of the Republic of Slovenia Nataša Pirc Musar gave a talk at Columbia on Thursday in the first Columbia World Leaders Forum event of 2023.

Barbara J. Fields, professor of history at Columbia, and Adolph L. Reed, Jr., professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, participated in a book talk conversation on March 1 about Reed’s most recent book, “The South: Jim Crow and its Afterlives.”

Lisa Goddard—a former adjunct associate professor in the department of earth and environmental sciences and director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society—was posthumously awarded the 2023 Outstanding Service Award by the American Meteorological Society on Jan. 10.

Black student organizations across the Columbia community announced on Monday that the vacant brownstone on 114th Street will become the Black Residential Brownstone—the University’s first residential building designated for Black students.

The Equality for GS movement, which advocates for students from the School of General Studies, has received several public endorsements from prominent figures both within and outside the University community, including New York City Council Member Shaun Abreu.

Cy Gilman, CC ’22, was selected in December as a 2023 Marshall Scholar, joining a cohort of 40 students selected this year.

The announcement of Nemat “Minouche” Shafik as Columbia’s 20th president comes at a time of sweeping administrative turnover across the University, with at least a dozen top roles being filled in the past year.

As Nemat “Minouche” Shafik, the successor of long-standing University President Lee Bollinger, prepares to step into the presidency, the resounding sentiment among Columbia faculty is one of high confidence in Shafik.