Latest Impact Stories

Alumni

Executive Director of Hands Across the Sea Amanda Sherlip Advances Youth Literacy in Developing Nations

Columbia’s Master’s in Nonprofit Management gave alumna Amanda Sherlip the ideal mix of science, business, and social good.

Alumni

Bioethics Alumna Shami-Iyabo Mitchell Considers Six Medical School Acceptances

"The Columbia Bioethics program gives students broad exposure to law, medicine, research, and philosophy."

Alumni

Two Artist-Educators, Both Columbia Narrative Medicine Graduates, Turned their Love of Doodling into a New Form of Expression for Physicians and Laypeople

Graduates from Columbia’s Narrative Medicine Master’s and Certification programs create a new healing process through art.

Alumni

How Alumna MinJi Koo Transitioned from Law to Journalism with Columbia’s American Language Program

Now an Associate Producer at VICE, MinJi Koo says Columbia's ALP was a key part of her transition from law to journalism.

Student

Summer Session Student Austin Luo: “I plan to apply the new problem-solving methods and technical skills I learned at Columbia to my upcoming projects at Microsoft.”

Luo is taking what he learned from Summer Session into his brand new role as a program manager at Microsoft.

Alumni

How Columbia's Global Alumni Network Furthered Mingke Du’s Career

“The program has a huge alumni network in China…more than 50 of them are actively involved in our social events.”

Student

Insurance Management Student Michelle Ciancimino: “I was looking for a program that would benefit my job today, rather than 10 years down the line."

The account executive says Columbia’s Insurance Management program provided resources for every insurance-related topic possible

Impacts and Insights, Student

Impact Story: Cameron Morris

Morris is pursuing a Sports Management master’s degree to get his foot in the door and jump-start his career.

Student

Student Erika Dy: "You Cannot Take Enough Classes Here."

Dy enrolled in the Sports Management program for a deeper educational dive into the industry she was already working in.

Alumni

How Alum Lyle Adams Merged His Tech Career with His Passion for Sports

Today, he is the CEO of Spry, a digital platform for the NCAA and student-athletes to work through NIL rights.

Student

Visiting Student Luis Felipe Garcia Aizcorbe: Elevating an Industrial Engineering Degree with Courses in Finance and Marketing with Summer Session

An undergraduate visiting from Mexico, Luis enrolled in a graduate-level Technology Management course that included marketing.

Alumni

Nancy Choe: Discovering the Power of Narrative Medicine After the Loss of her Father

How one psychotherapist used Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Certification to inspire her approach to patient care.