Beginning this spring, School of General Studies and Postbac Premed students will have the opportunity to enrich and diversify their educations through collaboration with the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
GS students Mahunan Agblonon and Yong Choi spent six weeks over the summer in Beijing, China and Santiago, Chile as part of the 2013 Global Scholars Program.
Adam Weinstein ’02, '08JRN has been hired as a staff writer for Gawker Media. He is an investigative reporter who currently lives in Tallahassee, FL.
INSECURITY, a short film written and directed by Robert Brink ’08, premiered in Detroit, MI at the opening night ceremony of the Trinity International Film Festival, where it was awarded "Best Short Film."
Congratulations to Christine McHone ’11, who was recently awarded a Graduate Scholarship by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for her studies in anthropology at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
Postbac Premed student Stephen Petro '14 is a born philosopher, and at only 24 years of age is publishing his first book, Rationality, Virtue, and Liberation: A Post Dialectical Theory of Value, which sets out to challenge and reorient the philosophical debate surrounding the theories of Gewirth, Habermas, and others.
Over the summer, students at Berkshire School in Sheffield, MA were required to read Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder. The book tells the story of Deogratias "Deo" Niyizonkiza ’01 who escaped from Burundi to the United States.
The Seniors Orchestral Society of New York City, founded by Elliot Levioff ’60, is the first permanent symphonic ensemble in the city composed of senior citizens.
The School of General Studies welcomed more than 430 new students at New Student Orientation on August 26 in Alfred Lerner Hall.
Alumnus and former professional ballet dancer Kyle Bukhari '12 was recently awarded a Fulbright scholarship for the 2013-2014 academic year, which he will use to pursue an M.A. in dance studies with a focus on philosophy, history, and anthropology at the University of Roehampton in London, England. Bukhari is one of more than 1,700 U.S. citizens selected for this year's Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
With the expansion of the General Studies New Student Orientation program, more alumni are coming back to campus to welcome incoming students. This fall alumni participated in five different events.
Brent Weingard ’83 founded his company Expert Window Cleaners while a political science student at the School of General Studies at Columbia University. He was first interested in the craft when his father, who worked for I.B.M., moved the family to Holland and Brent would watch the window washers as they worked. Years later, he works in nearly 1,000 buildings a year keeping the windows squeaky clean.