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Facebook gives grad student full one-year scholarship

Facebook announced last week that Jeremy Andrus, a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, is one of 12 winners of the 2012-13 Facebook Fellowship.

By Jeremy Budd | Feb 22 05:31 am ET

Admins denounce police monitoring of Muslim students

University President Lee Bollinger and Barnard President Debora Spar both expressed opposition Tuesday to the NYPD’s reported monitoring of Muslim students.

By Jessica Stallone | Feb 22 05:30 am ET

Construction firms looking for summer work in M'ville

Construction firms met with Columbia administrators and local government representatives, in an event that gave firms the chance to pursue the possibility of working in Manhattanville this summer.

By Miles Johnson | Feb 22 05:11 am ET

Business owners get advice on finding loans

The Columbia-Harlem Small Business Development Center held a workshop Tuesday morning to inform Harlem small-business owners about ways to access loans and credit.

By Gina Lee | Feb 22 05:08 am ET

St. John releases plans for residential development

At a community forum on Tuesday night, about 50 people debated the cathedral's proposed residential development.

By Casey Tolan | Feb 22 05:03 am ET

Supreme Court to revisit landmark affirmative action decision

The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case concerning affirmative action at universities, putting the landmark 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger at risk of being overturned.

By Margaret Mattes | Feb 21 07:25 pm ET

Linda Bell named Barnard provost

Bell, an economics professor and the provost at Haverford College, will begin her tenure Oct. 1.

By Margaret Mattes and Finn Vigeland | Feb 21 02:06 pm ET

Former gang members work to stop gun violence among youth

Former gang members working with Operation S.N.U.G., headquartered in north Harlem, work to get guns out of the hands of young people early.

By Luke Barnes | Feb 21 05:53 am ET

Dirks talks academia, spies at University Lecture

Dirks spoke about professors of area studies who were recruited as spies post-World War II.

By Jeremy Budd | Feb 21 05:45 am ET

Econ department makes course evaluations public

The Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate is planning to present a resolution this year to publish course evaluations, but the economics department is one step ahead.

By Lillian Chen | Feb 21 05:43 am ET

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