Affinity groups at the Law School are boycotting formal involvement with the school’s admissions process. The boycott comes after a March 14 post on the official Law School Instagram account, highlighting a meeting between Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the Columbia Law School branch of the Federalist Society.

Columbia will host its first disability affinity graduation in the Joseph D. Jamail l Lecture Hall in April 2023.

Gregory J. Wawro will become the founder and inaugural program director of the new Master of Science in Political Analytics program, the School of Professional Studies announced in a press release on Feb. 6.

Columbia’s African American and African diaspora studies department and Columbia University Press, in collaboration with Howard University’s College of Arts and Sciences, formally announced a new book series project entitled “Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past, Present, and Future.” The series was launched at an event held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture last Thursday.

As outdoor temperatures reached record-breaking lows across the Northeast, some Columbia Housing residents were left without heat for up to three days.

Nemat “Minouche” Shafik is used to making history. At the age of 36, she became the youngest-ever vice president of the World Bank; in 2008, she became the first permanent woman secretary of the U.K. Department of International Development; and in 2017, she became the first woman director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The Union Theological Seminary announced last Friday that it has received a $5 million grant from the Lilly Endowment, a private philanthropic organization that provides funding to influential Christian charitable organizations. UTS was one of 16 theological seminaries across North America to receive a grant, which range from approximately $5 million to $8 million. The grant will primarily fund the creation of a collaborative space for a variety of theological seminary affiliates.

Two armed New York Police Department officers interrupted the proceedings of a Student Workers of Columbia-United Auto Workers general body meeting held in Deutsches Haus at 420 W. 116th St. last Monday, according to SWC-UAW members.

Huma Abedin, former deputy chief of staff to the secretary of state, discussed her memoir “Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds” at an event hosted by the School of International and Public Affairs on Wednesday.