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Long Island City resident, Postbac Premed student, and classical violinist Benjamin Robison was granted a $72,000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Knowledge Networking Award for developing Fractor: Act on Facts, a web application that matches news stories with opportunities for social activism and community service.
Over the past ten years, the School of General Studies Student Council has evolved from a small student governing group into an active organization of passionate students focused on community building and campus-wide integration. Achieving greater campus-wide integration has been challenging, but because of previous visionary GSSC leaders, today’s students have a greater sense of community and more opportunities than ever before.
Social gatherings are more than often fraught with cheerful greetings and ice-breaking questions such as: "What do you do?" or "Where do you work?" Gillian Hollenberg '94, known to her GS brethren as Gillian Wachsman, sampled many professions before choosing one tried and true: homemaker, or, to be politically correct, domestic engineer.
Peter Awn, Dean of the School of General Studies (GS), awarded the School's Medal of Distinction to Roger Pilon '71GS, a Constitutional scholar who is the vice president for legal affairs at the Cato Institute.
John Murphy '72, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Just Medicine, an Internet application provider that assists in medical diagnoses, received the School of General Studies's prestigious Medal of Distinction at the GS annual alumni dinner in Low Library on April 11.
On April 8, 1997, more than three hundred supporters of GS gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the School's creation at the Annual Dinner in the Low Library rotunda. The evening, which celebrated the five decades of GS, honored five distinguished alumni—Baruj Benacerraf '42, Mary McFadden '59, R.W Apple, Jr. '61, Jacques Pépin '70, and Boris Kobrinskiy '96—who in a special ceremony that concluded the festivities conveyed to the audience what GS meant to them.