Researchers and research centers across Columbia have had to navigate unprecedented funding cuts in recent weeks and create contingency plans for long-term projects. One member of the CIESIN research team shares their story.

Beginning in Fall 2025, the Columbia Climate School, in collaboration with Columbia Business School, will launch the nation’s first Master’s in Climate Finance program. The degree will explore how financial tools can be leveraged to develop innovative solutions for mitigating the effects of climate change.

In February, CU Student Union launched its first mass meeting as a coalition of students seeking to represent student interests to administration.

Now in the second half of the fall semester, the new security measures from the start of the year haven’t gone anywhere. Students report feeling isolated and exhausted by the feeling of added surveillance on campus after the Spring 2024 protests. 

Celebrating and honoring the accomplishments of Erika Avallone (BC ‘26) and Valerie Hsieh (GSAS ‘25) for completing the 2024 NYC Marathon!

For more than two years, the student-led Reproductive Justice Collective (RJC) has been urging Barnard and Columbia to provide medication abortion on campus. Abortion is still not available at Barnard except through referrals after the college first promised it on campus in 2022. In the meantime, students from RJC have taken it upon themselves to […]

Frederick Neuhouser, Barnard Philosophy Professor and President of the College’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, spoke with Bwog regarding student protests in 1968 versus 2024. 

Columbia University has been subject to much media attention regarding its pro-Palestine protests and Encampments over the past several months. Bwog reported on the protests first-hand and provided live updates throughout the duration of the Encampment. Read for a summary of Bwog’s coverage of the protests during the 2023-2024 academic year. Content warning: violence, discrimination, […]

Bwog spoke to the president and a fellow of Gourmand, a culinary club at Columbia, regarding the new Gourmand Fellowship Program.

After a Columbia student passed away during a Kayaking Club trip, new travel policies have been implemented for all Club Sports. Many students claim these policies are unrelated to student safety, but instead put a damper on Club Sports operations, which is further exacerbated by recent funding restrictions. Content warning: Graphic descriptions of death 

On Wednesday, Columbia once again closed its gates to non-affiliates as students from across campus gathered at Low as part of a National Walkout for Gaza. At the same time, so-called “doxing trucks” appeared on campus, bearing the names and faces of current students. Later that day, a second protest, “End Jew-Hatred on Campus,” mounted […]

After several days of rising tensions, Thursday October 12 saw Columbia’s campus closed to visitors and guarded by NYPD as the Call to Action for Palestine protest and a simultaneous protest by Students Supporting Israel (SSI) mounted on Butler Lawns.

Campus organization Students Supporting Israel (SSI) held a large gathering on Tuesday as a response to the recent actions by militant group Hamas in Israel.  Content warning: Mentions of violence and death.  Editor’s note: This article is composed of individual statements from attendees of the Tuesday gathering; these statements do not reflect the united views […]

Bwog News Editor Paulina Rodriguez and Deputy News Editor Emma Burris spoke with new Barnard President Laura A. Rosenbury about her first few months in her position. 

Editor’s warning: Mentions of sexual assault  In July, former Columbia OB-GYN Robert Hadden was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on four counts after hundreds of former patients came forward with accounts of sexual abuse at his hands. On Wednesday, protestors demanded that Columbia take responsibility for its failure to cooperate with investigators in […]