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The incoming Fall 2020 class comprises a diverse group of students.
Jarrell Daniels, a sociology undergraduate student who enrolled at GS last fall, began working with the SAFE Lab on the Digital Arrest project over two years ago. Daniels has played an integral role in the project, which aims to address commonly-misunderstood social media use by gang-involved youth, sharing his personal experiences with the criminal justice system while advocating for change in how the digital landscape is used to target black and brown communities.
For the fall 2020 semester, the Columbia University School of General Studies—dedicated to serving nontraditional students and one of three undergraduate colleges at the University—saw a 20% increase in applications, receiving its highest number in over a decade.
Earlier today, Dean Rosen-Metsch sent the following message to GS students regarding the fall 2020 semester.
As Andrew Goulian '19GS was finishing up courses at community college, he noticed that an “alarming” number of people around him were developing opioid use disorders. At Mailman School of Public Health, Goulian currently leads a team of 92 Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) students who served New York-Presbyterian during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.
All School of General Studies offices will close Thursday, July 2 at 2 p.m. and will re-open on Monday, July 6 at 9 a.m.
Postbac Premed Program alumnus Ben Oseroff '20, currently a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, recently published an article in Harvard Medical School Review about hospital delirium during COVID-19.
The Academic Resource Center is seeking students to work as tutors (namely for Biology, Physics, Economics, Advanced Calculus, and Spanish, but the ARC will consider applications for all subjects).
This year’s first ever virtual Reunion Weekend drew more than 300 GS alumni and guests from all over the world together to reconnect, celebrate, and enjoy new and exciting events.
Dean Lisa Rosen-Metsch, Ph.D. co-authored an article in The International Journal of Drug Policy titled, "Syringe Services Program (SSP) Operational Changes During the COVID-19 Global Outbreak."
Kikka Hanazawa ’00 has built a unique career as a fashion investor and non-profit founder. Now, through Fashion Girls for Humanity, an award-winning non-profit humanitarian organization she founded, Hanazawa is making open-source resources available to companies and individuals who want to help during the pandemic by producing personal protective equipment (PPE).
The Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition will conduct their MS program remotely for fall 2020 and the remote term extended application deadline is Saturday, August 15, 2020.
Dean of the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, James Colgrove Ph.D., M.P.H., Published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine titled, "The Vaccines for Children Program at 25 — Access, Affordability, and Sustainability."
Students are invited to apply for Columbia University Interschool Fellowships -- funds that are not limited to specific schools or colleges, but have been donated to support students who meet specific criteria. The deadline to apply is Friday, July 31.
On Thursday, May 21 and Friday, May 22, The School of General Studies welcomed 100 students from the incoming cohort at the Summer New Student Welcome event.