We’ll be cheering on our graduating Seeple—and bawling like babies when no one’s looking—so the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid will close early on Thursday, May 21, 2015. If you have any questions or concerns, please stop by the office between 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST this Thursday. We’ll resume our normal business hours…
It’s Graduation Week at Columbia University, and we couldn’t be more excited for SIPA’s Class of 2015! This Thursday, May 21, 2015, our students will graduate from SIPA and will become a part of our 20,000+ outstanding SIPA alumni. And I’m pleased to say that they’ll be in some pretty impressive company.
If you’re interested in learning more about cybersecurity, then tune in today (and tomorrow) for SIPA’s Conference on Internet Governance and Cybersecurity. Hosted in collaboration with the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG), the wide-ranging agenda touches on a series of pressing policy issues that affect Internet governance and cyber-security. Among these are privacy, security,…
Congratulations to John Olderman, MPA ’16, recently selected as a 2015-16 Citizens Budget Commission Public Policy Fellow. The paid fellowship will give the International Finance and Economic Policy concentrator an opportunity to conduct in-depth research and produce a final report on a certain type of post-employment benefits. “I’m really excited about this,” Olderman told…
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Rashid Dar, MIA ’15, who’s concentrating in Economic and Political Development, recently developed a free iOS and Android app, called Musallah (which means “a space for prayer” in Arabic). Musallah makes it easier to find a prayer spot on the go, by mapping out nearby prayer areas for app users. Read why he created the app in an…
