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Postbac Premed alumnus and current Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University student Michael Natter '11 recently gained national attention for his medical drawings, successfully combining the worlds of medicine and art, his two passions.
GS students Mayla Boguslav ’15 and Carmen Ervin ’16 have each been awarded a Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Fellowship by ICAP at Columbia University, a fully-funded summer research training program. Both Ervin and Boguslav will be in Swaziland to assist with a research study exploring models of HIV care.
Dean Peter J. Awn announced that Christopher Hood '91, '93BUS, President of Kellogg Europe, will be this year's Class Day speaker. Lindsay Hadad is the valedictorian and Andrew King is the salutatorian of the GS Class of 2015.
Award-winning film editor and Mako Kamitsuna '92 recently edited the new Michael Mann film Blackhat starring Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, and Wang Leehom.
GS alumna and model Cameron Russell '12 is working to transform our conception of the word "beauty."
On Thursday, February 12, the General Studies Alumni Association (GSAA) hosted a reception for alumni at The Attic.
According to Newsday, GS student-veteran Kristofer Goldsmith was a key player in helping to convince lawmakers to pass the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, which will enhance suicide-prevention resources for veterans.
On Monday, January 12 the School of General Studies welcomed more than 160 new students at New Student Orientation. Columbia University Executive Vice President David Madigan and GS Dean Peter J. Awn addressed the assembly of nontraditional students—those who have had a break of a year or more in their educational paths.
Eric Shaw’s ’03 path to becoming an Emmy-winning writer has been a circuitous one. It began in 1994, when he crammed everything he owned into his Toyota Corolla and drove from Jericho, N.Y. to Los Angeles, Calif. to pursue a career in screenwriting.
Despite being the oldest and largest program of its kind in the U.S. and having a placement rate of up to 90 percent in American medical schools, the Columbia University Postbac Premed Program continues to pursue new ways to enhance the support services and opportunities it offers in order to help students succeed in their premedical and prehealth pursuits.
Jason Everman has cultivated a life of adventure. In 1987, Everman, then a commercial fisherman off the coast of Alaska, quit his job and moved to Seattle where he made his mark in the music scene, becoming the second guitarist for the band Nirvana, with whom he recorded and toured the country to promote their Bleach album.
GS has always been a haven for military veterans and retired dancers and performing artists, yet in recent years it has also become a switchyard for entrepreneurs with an intellectual bent.
Before enrolling at the School of General Studies in 2002, the now-attorney was a high school dropout and troubled teen. After a life-altering experience, he sought help, earned his high school diploma at The John Dewey Academy, and found a new path.
GS student Carmen Ervin is one of just five undergraduate Columbia students recently awarded a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and the first to be selected from the School of General Studies. Ervin, who had always dreamed of a career in academia, was not sure it was a realistic goal given that she had started completing her undergraduate degree requirements later than traditionally-aged college students.
Ariel Beery ’05, CEO of MobileOCT, recently won $100K in the Elevator World Tour, which gives Israeli startups the opportunity to deliver an elevator pitch to investors in Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Center.