Updated: 12:32am July 2, 2009

New month, new faces—today, July 1, Michele Moody-Adams and Feniosky Peña-Mora officially join Columbia’s undergraduate academic administration.

Updated: 1:27am June 30, 2009

Thanks to the economy, those averse to long Butler evenings will soon have one fewer option, as Lerner Hall is slated to reduce its hours of operation. See full story for the original announcement from the Executive Director of Lerner Hall Operations.

Updated: 5:27pm June 26, 2009

A small fire scorched a worker at the Columbia University Medical Center Friday morning, burning over 70 percent of his body. Following the incident, he and two other injured workers were rushed to the nearby Harlem Hospital, which has a burn center.

Updated: 5:42pm June 19, 2009

In an e-mail message addressed to Barnard College students on Thursday, Director of Career Development Robert Earl announced that Rachel Tannebaum will join his office as a career counselor.

Despite support of locals upset over the closing of Morningside Bookshop—neighborhood residents pledged a sum of $95,000 to help keep the doors open—owner Peter Soter determined officially that his independent store must go out of business.

Updated: 7:15am May 29, 2009

Federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor—a lecturer at Columbia Law School—made history when President Barack Obama, CC ’83, announced Tuesday morning that he will nominate her to the Supreme Court, making her the nation’s first Hispanic justice.

Manhattanville property owners who have not struck deals with Columbia over land use in the University’s 17-acre campus expansion site fought eminent domain in court on Thursday afternoon.

Updated: 2:38am May 21, 2009

New York State gave its final approval on Wednesday for Columbia's General Project Plan for the University's 17-acre campus expansion into Manhattanville.

Updated: 9:24pm May 23, 2009

WEB EXCLUSIVE. On Wednesday, Columbia University’s class of 2009 officially graduated in a storm of flying fake apples, gummy bears, blow-up hammers, newsprint, and inflated condoms.

Updated: 7:38pm May 19, 2009

Columbia may be facing budget cuts, wage freezes, and losses on its investments. But, then again, we’ve got Obama.

Updated: 8:17am May 20, 2009

Columbia College’s Class Day on Tuesday had an inward focus. The speaker, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, CC ‘73 and Law ‘76, described his elated return “home.”

Updated: 7:36pm May 19, 2009

Slightly over 300 students—spanning nearly two generations and representing a myriad of professions and backgrounds—attended the School of General Studies Class Day on Monday, where speakers lauded the completion of their “nontraditional education.”

Updated: 7:07pm May 19, 2009

Claude Steele is a very practical man. University President Lee Bollinger announced that Steele would be the University’s next provost, or chief academic officer, in an e-mail to Columbians earlier this month. In this post, Steele’s characteristic calmness and practicality may help as he tries to navigate Columbia’s sprawling bureaucracy in a time when the University is tightening resources.

While he may have spent his high school years on the football and wrestling teams, Sam Rennebohm acquired a decidedly different set of extra-curriculars when he arrived at Columbia.

Updated: 5:34pm May 19, 2009

Anne Epstein, a senior in Barnard College, can tell you all about the fire hydrant Barack Obama, CC ’83 used to wash himself after being locked out of his apartment his first few days at Columbia. After all, she wrote his encyclopedia entry.

Well before she arrived as a transfer student in fall 2006, Alexandra Loizzo knew two things: She wanted to study English, and she wanted to do it at Barnard.

Updated: 6:37pm May 19, 2009

You may have seen Alexandra Dalferro behind Thai Market’s counter, taking orders and conversing in Thai with the waiters and cashiers. The Columbia College senior developed an interest in Thailand when a Thai exchange student stayed with her family in Massachusetts during high school, and has since studied abroad and conducted summer research there.

Like all neuroscience and behavior majors, Kathleen Goble racks her brain with questions on, well, the brain. But Goble, unlike most others, can do it all in Spanish.

Updated: 6:51pm May 19, 2009

Campus activist Jacob Matilsky has had to deal with his fair share of political fires at Columbia. But fires are nothing for him.

Updated: 6:39pm May 19, 2009

He may be smoking a cigarette outside of Butler Library, but Joseph Daniels isn’t resting on his laurels.

Updated: 7:09pm May 19, 2009

Michael Novak started dancing when he was 11 years old.

Updated: 6:53pm May 19, 2009

If you’re a graduating computer science major, there’s a good chance that Tristan Naumann was your teaching assistant at least once.