The graduates of the Columbia Postbac Premed Program celebrated Class Day on May 11, 2018 in Low Memorial Library. Faculty, administrators, fellow students, friends, and family honored the 117 graduates for completing this important step on their journey to medical school and beyond.
On the evening of May 1, the School of General Studies celebrated the academic excellence and outstanding leadership of students at the Academic Prizes and Student Leadership Awards Ceremony in Low Memorial Library. Guests of the award winners joined faculty and administrators in recognizing the achievements of more than 100 undergraduate and Postbac Premed students.
Aviva Zablocki comes to GS after spending two years as the Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations for Columbia College.
Alicia Graf Mack ’03 will soon return to New York City from Houston to lead the Juilliard Dance Division, whose programs are widely regarded as the best in the field.
Postbac Premed alumnus Dr. Benson Hsu is one of 24 individuals who has been awarded a 2018 Bush Fellowship. Chosen from an applicant pool of over 750 people, fellows receive up to $100,000 over one to two years to pursue leadership development.
On Wednesday, March 7, the Office of University Life hosted In Conversation: Exploring Race and Whiteness in America Today, a panel discussion featuring award-winning documentarian Whitney Dow ’86 and renowned poet Claudia Rankine ’93SOA, moderated by MSNBC national correspondent Joy Reid.
Commentary by Dr. Lisa Rosen-Metsch ’90, Dean of the School of General Studies, was recently featured in JAMA Internal Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association.
In the Upstate New York farmhouse where he grew up, Michael Wedd was forbidden from watching TV, surfing the internet, listening to most radio stations, or going to school. He taught his siblings and himself subjects like chemistry and biology with textbooks he found around the house, and learned to play piano by listening to a family radio that was always tuned to a classical music station.
On February 23, GS held its annual Mid-Winter Mixer at Upper Story in Manhattan. The event, which featured remarks by the new Dean of the School of General Studies, Lisa Rosen-Metsch ’90GS, is the School’s largest networking event of the year.
On February 20, faculty, staff, friends, and family gathered to celebrate the induction of 94 students into the GS Honor Society at its spring 2018 Induction Ceremony in Low Memorial Library. The GS Honor Society, created in 1997 to celebrate the academic achievement of GS scholars, inducts students who have earned a cumulative GPA of at least 3.8 in more than 30 points of academic coursework at Columbia University.
The Program, which will welcome its inaugural class this fall, transcends traditional study abroad opportunities by providing the opportunity to pursue a rigorous undergraduate liberal arts education spanning two continents. Upon completion of the four-year program, graduates earn two bachelor’s degrees, one from each institution.
On Monday, January 8, the School of General Studies welcomed nearly 230 undergraduate and Postbac Premed Program students at the New Student Welcome, the kickoff event of the New Student Orientation Program (NSOP), held in Roone Arledge Auditorium in Lerner Hall.