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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.
The new GS Academic Resource Center on the northwest corner of Broadway and West 111th Street is now open. All tutoring, coaching, and academic support sessions are taking place in the new location beginning today.
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.
The IDF Veteran Mentoring Program is peer-to-peer mentorship designed to support IDF veteran students through academic life at the School of General Studies and help in focusing to complete goals in the most efficient manner. We recognize there are many resources designed to assist students at Columbia University but that it may be difficult and overwhelming to navigate; however, the questions you have are neither unusual nor uncommon. IDF Veteran mentors each have a diverse background and set of interests and are selected and trained to answer your questions and share with you their perspective and experience as a student at Columbia.
Please register by Thursday, January 30 at 11:59 p.m. for an IDF Veteran Mentor, and you will be sent a short questionnaire to best match you with a mentor.
For any questions, please email Senior Assistant Dean David Keefe at [email protected].
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.
If selected, you will have the opportunity to facilitate both the Responsible Community at Columbia (RC@C) and Live Well | Learn Well programs during New Student Orientation Programs (NSOP). This training and facilitation offers an opportunity to learn about alcohol and other drug issues, stress management and healthy lifestyle behaviors, to speak to incoming first-years about managing their choices as they transition into the Columbia community, and to participate as a campus leader throughout the year on outreach initiatives to create a smart, safe, responsible, and well community at Columbia.
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.
The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies is launching a Holocaust Study Fellowship this spring. IIJS Fellows in Holocaust Study will have the opportunity to receive funds for study, independent research, and to support student-initiated programming as a supplement to approved courses teaching the history, culture, and literature of the Holocaust. In addition, GS students may be additionally eligible for full tuition support for the related courses.The application deadline is Friday, January 31.
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.
The GS Student Lounge will be closed Sat., Dec. 21 - Sat., Dec. 28. Learn more about additional on-campus study spaces.
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.
Stephanie Hart '12CC, ’15PBPM is now a third-year medical student at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and is planning on pursuing a career in pediatrics. But medical school wasn’t always the plan.