In honor of Veterans Day, the School of General Studies celebrates the service of U.S. military veterans in a variety of events leading up to and on Veterans Day, including sponsoring a float representing GS in the New York City Veterans Day Parade.
Around the world, Columbians came together on October 29, 2014 to give back and pay it forward on Giving Day, raising a record-breaking $250,779 for the School of General Studies.
More than 100 guests gathered to celebrate the induction of 42 students into the Honor Society of the School of General Studies at its Fall 2014 Induction Ceremony on Tuesday, September 30 in Buell Hall's East Gallery. Fewer than five percent of GS students are inducted into the Honor Society.
Alicia Graf Mack ’03, recipient of the 2008 Columbia University Medal of Excellence, recently spoke with the Columbia Daily Spectator about her dance career and Columbia's influence on her life.
Neil Shahrestani ’11 was recently interviewed on CNBC to discuss stocks for biotech companies that are working on drugs to fight the Ebola virus.
On Monday, August 25, 2014 the School of General Studies welcomed more than 486 new students at New Student Orientation.
GS alumna and Special Advisor to Columbia University President Bollinger Susan K. Feagin '74 was recently awarded the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s E. Burr Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award.
GS alumni, alongside several fellow Columbians, recently founded an artist space and printmaking workshop called Shoestring Press in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Michael Taylor '12, an archaeologist who founded NWB Environmental Services, is working in collaboration with Chambers Group, Inc. to complete the first-documented conservation and curation of a 1833 Dragoon officer's dress uniform, once owned by Second Lt. James Clyman, for California State Parks.
GS student Jennifer Ham has been selected as one of 20 recipients of the 2014 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, a program that academically and professionally prepares outstanding students to represent the United States as Foreign Service Officers.
Katie Naum ’14 was recently interviewed by HuffPost Women about her story of becoming motherless by choice.
Graduates celebrated the completion of the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program at Class Day on Friday, May 16 in the Low Memorial Library Rotunda.