Amar Bhardwaj, SEAS ’20, and Young Joon Kim, CC ’20, were awarded the Marshall Scholarship on Monday. They are the first Columbia students to win the prestigious award since 2013.

Students, alumni, and faculty debated the tension between the intended universality of Core texts and the individualized relationships students of different identities may form with those texts in a panel event on Diversity in the Core on Friday.

The percentage of female graduate students in science and engineering fields at Columbia has remained virtually unchanged since 1998. However, this stagnation shrouds a more complicated picture underneath.

The amount of financial aid Columbia offers its incoming undergraduates has nearly doubled since the University adopted a “need-based, need-blind, full-need” approach for Columbia College and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences students in 2008, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.