On Saturday, February 8, around 600 prospective medical students and 32 volunteers gathered in Lerner Hall for the 2020 Medical School Fair. Hosted by the Columbia University Premedical Association and the Columbia University Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, the fair welcomed 162 representatives from medical, dental, veterinary, and allied health graduate schools.
After an almost ten-year career as a makeup artist and stylist, alumna Yasmeen Ibrahim ‘19 began to feel a shift in the beauty industry and within herself. She decided to return to school, first attending community college and then transferring to the School of General Studies, where she thrived. Now, as an analyst for Accenture, Ibrahim reflects on her academic and career path thus far.
Kaja Grujic and Runnie Exuma, two students in the Dual BA Program with Sciences Po, share their experiences combining a passion for the social sciences with a love for the fashion industry.
The 2020 Columbia University Medical School Fair will take place on Saturday, February 8 from 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. in Roone Arledge Auditorium in Lerner Hall. Organizers anticipate over 500 students from Columbia and Barnard to attend, in addition to representatives from over 50 medical schools.
After being outed by another student during his final year of medical school at the University of Tripoli in Libya, Hasan Agili was forced to flee from his home and eventually became a refugee in the United States. Since arriving in New York in 2017, Agili has become an outspoken activist for LGBTQ+ and refugee rights, appearing on major national networks and speaking in communities. Now, he joins the incoming Spring 2020 class of students at the School of General Studies to begin his education again.
Earlier this week, more than 200 incoming GS undergraduate and Postbac Premed students, along with GS staff and Orientation Leaders, convened in Roone Arledge Auditorium in Lerner Hall to usher in the beginning of the spring semester and begin the weeklong New Student Orientation Program
The incoming Spring 2020 class comprises a diverse group of students, boasting 52 U.S. military veterans, 19 veterans from foreign militaries, and international students representing 25 countries.
Pralaya Cuomo, a ballet dancer majoring in sustainable development, was recently recognized for her public speaking talent with the Best Speaker Award at the Global Retail Challenge (GRC). Cuomo competed alongside four of her peers at this sustainable retail competition, presenting their project designed to make use of discarded furniture items titled Interlock-It.
Earlier this month, three GS alumni were selected to join the highly-selective Schwarzman Scholars Class of 2021. Only around three percent of this year’s applicants, which include students from 41 countries and 108 universities, were accepted to the graduate fellowship program.
From the farmlands of Maryland to the research labs at The Earth Institute, Sepp Panzer has found his home at GS. He now seeks to make the world a more inhabitable place for all forms of life, working on carbon sequestration, negative emission tech, and oceanic nutrition and fertilization.
On Tuesday, December 10, students, alumni, family, faculty, staff, and friends gathered at Faculty House to celebrate the accomplishments of 120 students who will graduate from the School of General Studies this February.
The On the Frontlines: Nursing Leadership in Pandemics working group, sponsored by the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference, is an interdisciplinary research group that seeks to address the reasons nurses have been systematically left out of conversations for planning responses to global epidemics. After proving his dedication to the research, Orloff was promoted to Program Coordinator and invited to participate in the group’s first project––a research trip to gather the oral history on nursing leadership experiences during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa…