Welcome back to Columbia and to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. As always, email maggie@bwog.com if you want your event featured, especially if you are part of an undergraduate club!

On Tuesday, February 18, teams of SEAS students competed in the first annual Cardboard Boat Regatta hosted by the Engineering Student Council. Students worked in groups of four to build boats from cardboard and race them in the Uris pool.

SEAS people will wait for anything.

Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will offer the aerospace engineering minor starting in the Spring 2025.

Hear ye, fall graduates and friends of fall graduates. Send in your Senior Wisdom nominations by Saturday, December 7, 11:59 pm EST.

In an email sent to Columbia College and Columbia Engineering students on Sunday, November 3, Dean Shih-Fu Chang announced the passing of SEAS junior Jonathan Nalikka. Barnard students were later notified with an email from Dean Leslie Grinage. Editor’s warning: Student death.

Columbia Engineering students vote in favor of divestment from Israel, joining other colleges in the university-wide movement. 

Columbia School of Engineering has altered Pass/D/Fail academic accommodations and policies for the rest of the Spring 2024 semester in light of protests on and off campus.

On Monday, April 15, Columbia Engineering Dean Shih-Fu Chang announced Professor of Biomedical Engineering Barclay Morrison as the new Vice Dean of Academic Programs.

Congratulations to the Early Decision Class of 2028!

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

Over the last week, Columbia College, GS, and SEAS have all announced substantial changes to their Computer Science majors, an effort to both accommodate the developing academic field and mitigate the department’s years-long issues with over-enrollment.

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.

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!

If I had a hammer and a pointier hammer…