Columbia University School of Professional Studies has launched a new scholarship, supported by the Luksic Scholars Foundation, for students in the M.S. in Sustainability Management program. Learn more.

Senior Vice Dean Steven Cohen: “Public policy must be focused on accelerating the transition to a renewable resource-based circular economy with rules, incentives, and construction of infrastructure. The real work of building this new economy will take place in the private sector, managed by young people who correctly believe that we do not need to choose between the planet and profit.”

Widder, professor of professional practice in the Columbia University School of Professional Studies Sustainability Management program, is the recipient of a grant from the Architectural League of New York that “supports self-generated projects in design practice and research that seek to answer the question: where can design go next?”

“We sell solutions for risks that nobody else wants to take.” That’s what the insurance industry offers the world, according to Teresa Chan, director of the M.P.S. in Insurance Management program. We recently spoke with Chan about the importance of insurance in our daily lives, what makes the future of the industry so exciting, and what advice she’d give someone interested in pursuing a career in insurance management.