Luiza Diniz Vilanova (CC ‘24) becomes the first Brazilian citizen in history to be selected as a Rhodes Scholar. But with her, it is so much more than titles and academics.

CC Dean Josef Sorett and GS Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch announced new academic policies for the Spring 2024 semester after recent events surrounding the Encampment and related protests.

Congratulations to the 26 Columbia College seniors who make up Phi Beta Kappa’s Junior Initiates this fall! 

Samuel Terblanche, a CC junior majoring in Sustainable Development with a concentration in Economics, passed away after a recent illness.

In a new email, Columbia College Dean Josef Sorett and Dean of Academic Affairs Lisa Hollibaugh announced that Columbia College and General Studies will introduce minors and phase out concentrations. The change will go into effect in Fall 2024. 

Organizing your schedule, core and major requirements, GPA, credits, and the classes you want to take has now been made ridiculously easy!

Conor Skelding, former Editor-in-Chief of The Blue and White and frequent contributor to Bwog, passed away last Friday. Content warning: Mentions of death, illness

Congratulations to the 102 Columbia seniors inducted into Phi Beta Kappa this spring!

This afternoon, Columbia College and SEAS announced that their Class Day speakers will be playwright Katori Hall, CC ’03, and EpiBone CEO Nina Tandon, SEAS ’09, Columbia Business School ’12, respectively.

CC student McLeod Buckham-White passed away, according to an email that Josef Sorett, Dean of Columbia College, sent to the Columbia community this morning. Editor’s warning: Mentions of death

This week’s events include a faculty roundtable, a climate science colloquium, film screenings, Dog Therapy with Alice! and Active Minds, Latin Jazz Night, and the Dr. Saul and Dorothy Kit Noir Film Festival!

Congratulations to the 25 new Columbia College Junior Phi Beta Kappa inductees of Fall 2022!

Sophie A. Bryant, Astrid M. Liden, and Ilina Logani were announced as winners of the postgraduate scholarship to study at the University of Oxford beginning in 2023.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. CC ’73, LAW ’76 spoke to Columbia students about his new book Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote in an event alongside Professor Frank A. Guridy at Low Library on Thursday evening.

Fahad Alowaidah, SEAS ‘26, recently passed away in a plane crash in his home country of Saudi Arabia, according to an email sent to students by Deans Chang and Sorett.