School News
May 17, 2013
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University will celebrate its graduating class this Sunday, May 19 in two ceremonies honoring doctoral and Master's candidates.
Ceremony Details...
April 23, 2013
Karen Singleton has joined the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the role of Associate Dean of Students. As a principal member of the senior administrative staff of GSAS, Karen’s...
October 18, 2012
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek for a panel discussion on Tuesday, October 23 at 6 p.m.
Žižek will discuss his new book, ...
AnnouncementsMay 08, 2013
The DDRA (Fulbright-Hays) Fellowship competition is now open. This fellowship funds research travel for up to 18 months; proposed start and end dates should be within October 15, 2013 – April 15,...
May 15, 2013
Columbia Health, the Health Services office on the Morningside campus, seeks a thoughtful and creative Columbia graduate student to fill the communications coordinator position beginning in early...
May 01, 2013
Job description: The Undergraduate Writing Program is seeking to hire doctoral students in GSAS to serve as writing consultants in our Writing Center. Writing Center consultants help writers develop...
Alumni NewsApril 18, 2013
Sharon Olds, M.A. ’65, Ph.D. ’72, English and Comparative Literature, received the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Stag's Leap, which the Pulitzer committee described as “a book of...
February 22, 2013
In “The Humanities Ph.D. at Work,” written for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Megan Doherty, Ph.D. ’11, History, examines the particular advantages and disadvantages that a doctoral education in...
January 04, 2013
Gerda Lerner, a scholar who helped to establish women's history as a full-fledged academic discipline, died in Madison, Wis. on January 2, 2013 at the age of 92.
Born in Vienna in 1920, she was...
Press ReleasesMay 01, 2013
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University is pleased to announce that Jacqueline Barton and Michael L. Lomax will be honored with the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Achievement...
February 25, 2013
First online classes toward an M.A. in Statistics and M.S. in Actuarial Science scheduled for Fall 2013.
Columbia University will offer online versions of its Master of Arts in Statistics and Master...
January 11, 2013
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce a new initiative to recruit members of underrepresented groups to Ph.D. programs at Columbia. Through the Office of the Provost’s...