The Columbia Center for the Core Curriculum this semester amended the syllabus of Art Humanities to add a Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba and Amiens Cathedral unit to the curriculum. The Spanish mosque will be the first Islamic masterpiece included in the syllabus.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science held its 2023 Class Day on Monday.

Ethan Wu, SEAS ’23, and Julia Zhao, SEAS ’23, have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of this year’s graduating senior class. Wu will address the class of 2023 on the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science’s Class Day, held on May 15.

A swastika was found drawn inside a restroom stall in Jerome L. Greene Hall on Thursday, according to an email from Law School Dean Gillian Lester sent to the Law School community on Friday.

Elan Ganeles, GS ’22, was killed outside Jericho last Monday “in a terror attack,” School of General Studies Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch announced in a Feb. 28 email to the General Studies community with “profound sadness.” He was 26.

Three Columbia graduate students—Hanna Raisya Muljawan, TC ’23, Muhammad Rifqi Febrian, SIPA ’23, and Siti Hilya Nabila, GSAS ’22—won third place in the 2022 Geneva Challenge in November 2022 for their proposal to develop a more efficient system for waste management in Indonesia. The team represented North America and Oceania at the convention and won 2,500 Swiss Francs, the equivalent of $2,700.

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse spoke at the Law School on Monday about his new book “The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court.”