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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.
John Tauranac ’63 has redesigned the NYC subway map, adding new symbols, a new typeface, and the planned extensions of the 2nd Avenue subway and the 7th Avenue line. The map will have a better geographic perspective and better descriptions of where the station entrances are located.
GS student-veteran Bill Roberts was selected as a 2013 Tillman Scholar by the Pat Tillman Foundation, which awards $10,000 annually to students in pursuit of completing an undergraduate or graduate degree. He is one of four 2013 Columbia University Tillman Scholars, and the second from the School of General Studies.
Gs alumnus Menachem Kaiser '09 spent the past year and a half developing reVilna, an interactive map modeled after the Vilnius Ghetto of Lithuania during the Nazi occupation of World War II.
From May 31 to June 2, more than 140 GS alumni and guests gathered on campus alongside alumni from Columbia College, the Fu Foundation for Engineering and Applied Science, and Barnard College to celebrate Alumni Reunion Weekend and Dean’s Day.
Diane Falk graduated from GS in 1973 and took a special message from her graduation’s occurrence on Valentine’s Day: the importance of keeping her head and heart together.