Scientists from CIESIN talk about the climate crisis in a Climate Week Event.

Editors Julia Tolda and Solomia Dzhaman attended the presentation of Prof. Yuri Shevchuk’s Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary.

This past Tuesday, Staff Writer Ava Slocum attended Columbia’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department’s discussion of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Dr. Farah Griffin.

In the midst of New York Climate Week, a group of faculty and students from Columbia, Yale, and Tsinghua universities met online to consider “The Role of Universities in Solving Our Climate Crisis.” New Bwogger Mason Cannon reports.

Staff Writer Sofia Trujillo gets to know the latest facts and stats about the current challenges in Latin American politics.

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The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment contributed to a seminar titled “Fixing The Business of Food: Private Sector Alignment with the SDGs and Accountability to Achieve Food Systems Transformation.” Guest Writer Linus Glenhaber covered Thursday’s 8 am event.

On September 16th, Dr. Waverly Duck gave a lecture on the sociology of tacit racism as part of an ongoing lecture series at the Center for Research on People of Color.

Deputy Science Editor Phoebe Lu learns about African perspectives on climate change policies and offers her two cents on what it means to go to webinars and lectures at Columbia.

The college on a hilltop rang in the new school year at Riverside Church this past Tuesday afternoon.

An email from the Associate Director of Student Engagement offered details on space availability, the reservation process, and more. 

Administrators and public health experts projected confidence and optimism for Columbia’s return to campus this fall in the most recent University Life Forum. 

This Saturday, Staff Writer Samantha Seiff and Daily Editor Rania Borgani attended an event hosted by Barnard College and the organization Damayan entitled “Pandemic Tales: Uplifting the Voices and Organizing of Filipino Migrant Workers.” The event sought to “amplify the disproportionate impact that the pandemic had on the immigrant Filipino community in New York.”

As part of an ongoing podcast series called Black Lives in the Era of COVID-19, hosts Profs. Mabel Wilson and Samuel Roberts joined panelists Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, Prof. Gregg Gonsalves, and Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, on Thursday evening to discuss the impacts of structural racism on COVID-19 outcomes and treatments for Black people. 

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