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Military veteran, rock guitarist and monk, Jason Everman raises the bar for the modern Renaissance man. In 1987, Everman—a commercial fisherman off the coast of Alaska—quit his job and moved to Seattle where he became the second guitarist touring worldwide and recording with Nirvana to promote their “Bleach” album and a bassist with Soundgarden on their “Louder than Love” tour.
GS student and New York Post staff writer Pedro Oliveira Jr. was recently awarded the highly-selective Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, which is given to only ten American and ten German journalists each year and places fellows in part-time positions for two months at host newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations abroad.
Donald Judd’s family is preparing their former home as a museum of art and ephemera.
Dean Peter J. Awn announced that there will be four featured speakers at the Columbia University School of General Studies Class Day ceremony on Monday, May 20, including keynote speaker Professor Nicholas Dirks.
On April 2, James Braley '86 will publish Life in a Marital Institution: 20 Years of Monogamy in One Terrifying Memoir a darkly humorous story of love, lust, greed, and fear.
Carolyn Castro ’05GS, ’09SIPA, Executive Director of the Livery Roundtable, was recently interviewed by El Taxista News.
Niyizonkiza's life journey has taken him from medical student in Burundi to a struggling immigrant in New York City and a global health practitioner and doctor-in-training. In May 2013, he will receive an honorary degree from Williams College.
Melissa Muller Daka '09 is set to open her new restaurant Pastai in March 2013, and was recently featured in the New York Times.
On Thursday, February 7, the Recent Alumni Leadership Committee (RALC) hosted a reception for alumni from the School of General Studies at Pulse, a restaurant in Rockefeller Plaza. More than 180 GS alumni, students, and friends reconnected and networked.
On Thursday, February 7, the Columbia University School of General Studies Recent Alumni Leadership Committee (RALC) hosted a reception for alumni at Pulse, a restaurant in Rockefeller Plaza.
At this year's Sundance Film Festival over 30 Columbians presented a variety of films, including two GS alumni.
Anouk Markovits ’76 is the author of I Am Forbidden, an emotionally gripping story of what happens when unwavering love, unyielding law, and centuries of Jewish tradition collide.
After battling severe arthritis, Alicia Graf Mack ’03 left her dance career to pursue a BA at Columbia GS. When her arthritis subsided, she was encouraged to return to the stage.
Ask Luis Felipe Morgado '12 about life as a student at Columbia, and he sounds much like any other undergraduate: enthusiastic, slightly overwhelmed, and already thinking about life after graduation. An economics and math major, Morgado says confidently, "I'll probably try to work for two or three years in finance, and after that I want to go to grad school." It's only when you ask Morgado about his past, and the path he took to Columbia, that the conversation takes an unusual turn.
When John Cerrato '76, DMD, then 16, was serving as an orderly at Westchester Square Hospital, he watched a two-and-a-half-year old die in his arms, which was a serious blow to his thoughts of becoming a physician like his father and great uncle. Despite this traumatic experience, today, Cerrato is a top dentist in his field.