On Friday, Events Editor Julia Tolda attended “Building Solidarities: Trans // Racial Architectures,” the first event in the series of virtual conversations focused on institutions and architecture.

This past Thursday, the Columbia School of Nursing’s Center for Research on People of Color (CRPC) hosted Dr. Amadou Gaye, the second speaker of their Anti-Racism Speaker Series, to discuss his research on the relationship between adverse social conditions and gene expression.

A few Bwog staffers met with the Compass team at Hewitt Food Hall for an in-person overview of the new additions to Barnard Dining. All attendees wore masks and distanced themselves from each other.

This Tuesday, Bill Gates Zoomed with Columbia University students to discuss his new book, answer student questions, and, hopefully, solve climate change.

On Monday, Columbia’s COVID-19 vaccine symposium kicked off with a press conference featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, and President Bollinger. Deputy Events Editor Grace Fitzgerald-Diaz and Daily Editor Henry Astor contributed to this report.

Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you notice any events excluded from our calendar or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

As our world simultaneously becomes more unified and more divided over virtual spaces, we must think more critically about the systems that technology operates in, our relationship with technology as consumers, and the responsibilities of big tech companies.

Staff Writer Panu Hejmadi attended a captivating conversation on the ‘White Tiger’ film, between director, Ramin Bahrani (CC’96) and Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, Hamid Dabashi.

On Thursday, the Columbia Public Health Club held its inaugural event, “What’s going on with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout?” featuring Dr. Stephen Morse, a professor of Epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Beyond discussing action items for this limbo between the despair of the pandemic and the hope vaccines offer, he explained why […]

Daily Editor Henry Astor brings you the highlights from the remarks of Sylvia Burwell Mathews and Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, two eminent leaders in American public health, on the American public health system and how we can strengthen it.

Staff Writer Phoebe Lu joins Columbia’s Harriman Institute in a panel featuring leading anti-corruption reformers Adam Stefan and Haykuhi Harutyunyan.

Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you notice any events excluded from our calendar or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

On Wednesday, Staff Writer Phoebe Lu attended a discussion between Professor Lisa Dale and The Tricentennial Project, where she learned about the challenges of managing wildfires in the American West.

Professor Jack Halberstam discussed his latest book on queerness and wildness at an event at the Heyman Center for the Humanities.

Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you notice any events excluded from our calendar or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.