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Nature’s guide to what’s next was the subject of a bunch of lawsuits
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) responded to lawsuits filed by the state attorneys and scientific body Nature over its decision to cancel research grants. “NIH continues to provide support for biomedical research that has a direct impact on human health,” it said. This comes after President Donald Trump’s administration cancelled $400 million research grant…
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Nature’s guide to what’s next was the subject of a bunch of lawsuits
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) responded to lawsuits filed by the state attorneys and scientific body Nature over its decision to cancel research grants. “NIH continues to provide support for biomedical research that has a direct impact on human health,” it said. This comes after President Donald Trump’s administration cancelled $400 million research grant…
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The students at Georgetown are angry about the professor’s arrest
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its evidence against a student from Columbia University after an immigration judge in Louisiana ordered them to do so. Lawyers for the Department of Homeland Security released their evidence against a student from Columbia University after the judge ordered them to do so. Mahmoud Khalil’s lawyers are challenging…
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Turmoil rocks Columbia University as the Trump administration tries to change it
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is searching the office of US Senator Maggie Hassan, who graduated from Columbia University last year. Earlier this month, ICE detained a Columbia student who protested on campus against the university’s ties to Israel and its support for Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Hassan is a…
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A Palestine activist who helped lead Columbia University protests has been arrested
The White House on Tuesday said the decision to arrest Palestinian-American student Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University for participating in a protest fell in line with US President Donald Trump’s recent executive order aimed at cracking down on antisemitism on US campuses. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the decision fell in line with…
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The Palestine activist who helped lead Columbia University protests has been arrested
A graduate student from Bangladesh has been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New York on Saturday. Khalil, who’s working at Columbia University in the US, was taken into custody for allegedly supporting a terrorist group, his attorney said. Khalil’s wife went to get his green card from their apartment,…
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House Republicans have a plan to avoid a shutdown
The US deported a Columbia University student and Hamas supporter on Saturday over his advocacy against Iran, his lawyer said. Mohammad Khalil was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents while he was at his apartment at Columbia. A Columbia spokesperson said that law enforcement agents must produce a warrant before entering university property.
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The Justice Department believes that Virginia is discriminating against people on voter rolls
US elections are very rare in which voter fraud is found, according to a research by Columbia University’s Brennan Center for Justice and election analyst Matthew Clapman. Clapman said some conservative-leaning groups often lump all cases where a voter thought they were eligible along with cases where someone intended to commit fraud. He said such…
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Student Journalists are at a protest
A student journalist from Columbia University said that student journalists are “covering the protest on campus every day since last semester”. “The student journalists have covered the campus every day since last semester…the big thing is that,” she added. “I think the big thing is that…foreign actors are exploiting the dissent,” the student journalist further…
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The schools that have reached agreements with protesters in Gaza are what we can learn from
Columbia University’s commencement ceremony has been cancelled due to the ongoing student protest over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, the school announced on Monday. It said it will prioritise Class Days and school-level ceremonies, “where students are honoured individually alongside their peers”. The university had earlier issued a “no trespassing” notice to the protesting students after…
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Students have a list of companies that they don’t like
Student protesters at Cornell University are calling for the divestment of the school’s investments in companies that do business with South Africa, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin, because of that country’s apartheid policies. The protests were led by students at Columbia University. “We remain committed to divestment but won’t do it until we have a…
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Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to 4 months in prison
A judge had to consider more than facts of crime in coming to an appropriate sentence for Binance CEO CZ Zhao, a professor at Columbia University said. “It’s an easy comparison…but an imperfect one,” Daniel Silva, an attorney at Buchalter, a law firm, added. Zhao was convicted of not following the law for a financial…
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University leaders are weighing police involvement as pro-Palestinian protests spread
Columbia University has issued a list of deadlines to reach a solution with protesters, who’ve been protesting outside the school’s gates for over a week. The school said it will not allow the protest to continue until students and faculty can be allowed to continue with their classes. It has set several deadlines, including May…
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Student protesters can be banned from campus if they get arrested
Students at George Washington University and Columbia University in the US have been protesting for over a week over the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Protesters at Columbia were arrested last week after police said they were a threat to campus safety. Meanwhile, Berkeley University in the US has been witnessing pro-Palestinian rallies since last…
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The protests of 1968 and 2024 at Columbia University are not the same
Over 300 students of Columbia University in New York City took over the university’s offices and classrooms on Monday in a protest against a proposed gym on the campus. They said the gym would give second-class access to the local community. White and African-American students coordinated a protest against the gym which critics said would…
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There is a doxxing problem at Columbia University
Students who protested against Columbia University over the construction of a gym in New York City’s Harlem agreed to remove a significant number of tents and comply with fire department requirements, officials said on Thursday. The protesters had agreed to remove a significant number of tents and comply with fire department requirements, they added.
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There are deadlines and the risk of arrest for pro-Palestinian campus protesters
Student activists at US’ Columbia University have agreed to remove some of the tents they had set up outside the university to protest Israel-Palestine conflict. The protesters said that the university had threatened to call the National Guard and the New York Police Department if they didn’t remove the tents. The students had set up…
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The U.S. does not have the power to stamp out false information on social media
Jameel Jaffer, Executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said the US government should engage with social media companies about their content moderation decisions and policies. He said this after a judge ruled that government officials can’t ask for information about moderation. The White House had said tech companies are not…
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This platform makes sure that companies keep their climate pledges
Cynthia Hanawalt, a Senior Fellow at Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, said that mandatory disclosure could flush out the true scale of corporate emissions. She found out that companies that wanted to tackle climate change were not always going about it the right way. “It gives us…good opportunity to understand the data…
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The study foundIrregular sleep may be harmful to your heart
The cardiovascular health guidelines are better at predicting a person’s risk of heart disease if they include sleep, a Columbia University study has found. Researchers conducted an at-home sleep study to measure breathing, sleep stages, awakening during the night and heart rate. Poor sleep habits “are ubiquitous” among Americans, the study said, including among the…
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The obstacles to invention were overcome.
An economist from Columbia University in New York City has said the response of researchers and inventors to COVID-19 crisis is similar to the approach taken during the Second World War. He co-wrote a paper that explored the parallels between the two world-altering calamities. Sampat also co-wrote a paper for the US-based National Bureau of…