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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.
For the first time since 1973 and since the return of the NROTC to campus, GS graduate and NROTC cadet Abigale Marie Wyatt '14 was commissioned as a U.S. Navy officer on May 22 in Low Memorial Library Rotunda at Columbia University in the City of New York.
The School of General Studies celebrated the Class of 2014 at its Class Day ceremony on Monday, May 19. More than 1,500 guests joined faculty and administrators in recognizing the accomplishments of the 493 members of the graduating class, 71 of whom are U.S. military veterans, more than any other Ivy League university and the most to graduate from GS since the post-WWII era.
After becoming a pro-surfer out of high school, Will Tant has spent most of his life hitting the waves. In 2011, he decided it was time to focus on his academic pursuits. Three years later, the 37-year-old surfer, model, philanthropist, and survivor will graduate Phi Beta Kappa from the Columbia University School of General Studies
Few people would think to digitally replicate the intricacies of fetal pig dissection for smartphone users, let alone expect to make any money from it. But that's just what Postbac Premed student Andrew Meyerson '14 did recently when he created Dig a Pig, an app designed to help biology students in their study of fetal pig anatomy.
The School of General Studies has announced the names of 39 students who will be initiated into the New York Delta chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society for 2014.
On Oct. 2, 1992, with his brother on his shoulder and mother and sister close behind, Umaru Jalloh ran for his life as grenades exploded and bullets screeched by his head. Twenty-two years later, Jalloh, a 42-year-old Sierra Leonean refugee who has endured personal tragedies such as homelessness and triumphs as a dean’s list student, will graduate from the Columbia University School of General Studies on May 19.
27th Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer will address the Class of 2014 at the Columbia University School of General Studies graduation May 19 at 9 a.m. in New York City. Brewer, who graduated from Columbia GS in 1997, has served New Yorkers since the Lindsay administration.
Ten GS students—out of an overall group of 12 students from Columbia University—were recently selected to receive summer 2014 scholarships from the Gilman International Scholarship Program, out of a pool of more than 3,000 applicants nationwide.
On Friday, April 25, students and administrators from the School of General Studies (GS) were honored at Lavender Graduation, a ceremony that celebrates graduating LGBTQ and allied students. First started at the University of Michigan in 1995, the ceremony is now conducted at hundreds of universities nationwide.
Dean Peter J. Awn announced that there will be three featured speakers at the Columbia University School of General Studies Class Day ceremony on Monday, May 19.
School of General Studies (GS) first-year student Michael Vorselen has been selected as one of twelve recipients of Columbia University’s inaugural Presidential Global Fellowships.