Since before she was in kindergarten, Sarayu Bethamcherla, CC ’26, president of the Columbia College class of 2026, remembers ladling food to her community with her father, without asking for anything in return.

Fakemink will no longer perform at Bacchanal, Spectator has confirmed, after the organization announced its headliner’s cancellation in a Friday evening Instagram post on its official account—the night before the event.

Dozens gathered in the Low Library Rotunda on Wednesday to honor the Roger Lehecka Double Discovery Center at its 60th anniversary gala.

For 60 years, the Roger Lehecka Double Discovery Center has helped over 25,000 low-income high school students from Harlem and Washington Heights navigate educational barriers by offering a variety of academic enrichment and mentorship programs, from teaching math courses on campus to helping students write their college essays.

When Katrina Dzyak, a postdoctoral Core Curriculum lecturer, teaches Homer’s “The Iliad” in her Literature Humanities class, she resists centering discussion around male glory and honor. Instead, she said that “the center of the Iliad” lies in the intimacy between the Greek warriors Achilles and Patroclus.

Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor, spoke alongside Jon Finer, principal deputy national security adviser under former President Joe Biden, at a virtual fireside chat on Tuesday. The event was hosted by the Institute of Global Politics and moderated by School of International and Public Affairs Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo.

Barnard mathematics professor Dusa McDuff received the 2025 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society in January.

The Office of Institutional Equity launched a new mandatory online training module titled “Anti-Discrimination and Discriminatory Harassment Policy and Procedures for Students” for all Columbia students in a Thursday email to the Columbia community.

Many of Columbia’s Black student organizations came together to organize programming for incoming Black Barnard and Columbia first-years for the 2024-25 academic year, creating the Black Student Orientation Program. BSOP comes after the historic overturning of race-conscious admissions in 2023 and seeks to provide an inclusive space for incoming Black students.