2026
PRESS RELEASE: Columbia students file legal complaint over oil-funded climate research (April 13, 2025)
‘Academic corruption’: Columbia students call out think tank’s financial ties to Big Oil | Politico E&E News (April 2026)
‘A disturbing lack of integrity’: Columbia students file complaint against energy thinktank taking big oil money | The Guardian (April 2026)
Sunrise Columbia files legal complaint against Center on Global Energy Policy for accepting money from fossil fuel companies | Columbia Daily Spectator (April 2026)
Demonstrators call for solidarity with Lebanon during ‘Week of Action’ amid Israel’s ongoing military operations in the region | (April 2026)
Sunrise Movement holds ‘Hands Off Iran’ protest in response to US military strikes, drawing dozens | Columbia Daily Spectator (March 2026)
Emergency rally to protest ICE detainment of Ellie Aghayeva, GS ’26, draws hundreds of faculty, students, community members | Columbia Daily Spectator (Feb. 2026)
12 Arrested at Anti-ICE Protest Outside Columbia | Inside Higher Ed (Feb. 2026)
2025
Student groups host rally outside Columbia gates during annual Tree Lighting ceremony | (Dec. 2025)
Ben and Jerry’s hosts ‘Party for Protest Rights’ at Harlem Parish | Columbia Daily Spectator (Oct. 2025)
Sunrise Columbia Protests Against Fossil Fuel-Backed University Research | Bwog (Oct. 2025)
2024
Fueling Bias: The Impact of Fossil Money on Columbia’s Climate Research | Consilience (Nov. 2024)
Student Groups Stage Anti-Trump Rally On Low Steps | Bwog (Nov. 2024)
University Faculty And Staff Write Open Letter To Committee On Research Funding From Fossil Fuel Companies | Bwog (Oct. 2024)
Fossil Fuels Fund Academia. Now What? | Drilled (Oct. 2024)
Sunrise Columbia report finds that Columbia took $43 million in donations from fossil fuel companies | Columbia Daily Spectator (Sept. 2024)
Student Researchers Expose Fossil Fuel Ties at US Universities | Common Dreams (Sept. 2024)
Elite US universities rake in millions from big oil donations, research finds | The Guardian (Sept. 2024)
Columbia U. climate research ‘biased’ by fossil fuel funding | Public News Service (Sept. 2024)
Gli studenti della Columbia contro le lobby del petrolio | la Repubblica (Apr. 2024)
Apartheid to fossil fuels: Columbia’s history of divestment before Gaza | Al Jazeera (Apr. 2024)
How divestment became a ‘clarion call’ in anti-fossil fuel and pro-ceasefire protests | The Guardian (Apr. 2024)
An open letter to the fossil-funded Center on Global Energy Policy | Columbia Daily Spectator (Apr. 2024)
A discussion: The Influence of Fossil Fuel Companies on Academia | Panel co-sponsored by Sunrise (Apr. 2024)
2023
Columbia has received funding from fossil fuel companies for decades. That money keeps flowing | Columbia Daily Spectator (Oct. 2023)
Climate Action at Columbia: Divestment and Fossil Fuel-Free Research | Zine (2023)
Welcome, Shafik. It’s time to make a change | Columbia Daily Spectator (Oct. 2023)
‘This will define your administration’: Hadden survivors, postdoctoral union members protest Shafik’s inauguration | Columbia Daily Spectator (Oct. 2023)
NYC climate activists and students protest against Citibank campus recruitment event | Columbia Daily Spectator (Feb. 2023)
2022
Light Dawns on Sunrise Columbia | The Blue and White (May 2022)