Latest Impact Stories

Student

Tips for Working (and Learning) From Home from a Strategic Communications Student Who Excels At It

Anastasi Sharp ('21SPS, M.S. in Strategic Communication) shares his tips and tricks for effective distance learning.

Alumni

Deana Paradis: Using a Master’s Degree in Nonprofit Management to Improve the Educational Services Sector

Deana Paradis (’20SPS, Nonprofit Management) is an Alumni of the M.S. in Nonprofit Management program.

Office of the Dean

Microsoft’s Melinda Anderson Reflects on Five Years of the Columbia Girls in STEM Initiative in San Francisco

Every year, Melinda Anderson shepherds the Columbia Girls in STEM program in San Francisco. Here's what she has learned.

Alumni

Josefine Carlsson: Combining a Career in Social Work with Study in Human Rights

"The Human Rights program changed the way I look at my future and what I want to do moving forward."

Alumni

Lisa Ehn: Business Certificate Helped Student Snag a Spot on Set at BBC Studios’ ‘Life Below Zero’ in Alaska

"I enjoyed everything about Columbia: the classes I took, the classmates I studied with, and the professors who taught me."

Faculty

An Open Mind—Not Math—Is the Key to Grasping Applied Analytics

IBM researcher and SPS lecturer Dr. Jinjun Xiong believes students don't need to be engineers to understand machine learning.

Alumni

Nathaniel Hill: Idea For Now-Booming Broadway Startup Was Born in Business Certificate Class

Nathaniel Hill ('16SPS, Advanced Graduate Certificate in Business) is the founder and president of Broadway Plus.

Student

Postbaccalaureate Students Present Research Poster at Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention in New Orleans

Their research poster was titled "Assessing the Role of Psychological Reactivity in the Somatization of Stress."

Alumni

Gayathri Ganesh: From Software Development to Operations Management with Applied Analytics

The graduate says the program helped her to better understand customer response and become a more well-rounded professional.

Sam Engelberg: Bridging Marketing and Business Intelligence with Applied Analytics

Sam Engelberg gained a new lens witnessing data and community unite as an Applied Analytics student at Columbia.

Alumni

Constantin Brandt: Business Courses Offered A Leg Up for HEC Paris Business School Application

Constantin Brandt was a visiting student at SPS for a semester, but he says the business lessons learned will last a lifetime.

Alumni

Daniel Rieger: Modern Knowledge Leader in the Public Sector

"Modern knowledge workers need leaders who empower, align, and guide them."