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Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps 2014

The Energy and Environment program is representing SIPA proudly in the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps 2014 with seven fellows! The selective summer fellows program places top graduate students from around the United States in leadership-focused companies here and abroad. The Climate Corps projects aim to reduce energy consumption, increase renewable energy production, and help forward-thinking companies prepare…

Posted on June 2, 2014 by Columbia SIPA

Interested in a Columbia University Interschool Fellowships?

Each year, Columbia makes a few scholarships and fellowships available to students from all schools within the University. These awards, known as Interschool Fellowships, are the result of donations from generous supporters of the University and tend to have very specific eligibility criteria. To see if you may meet the eligibility criteria required to apply…

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Columbia SIPA

Yellow Ribbon Program

The Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to announce the application for the Yellow Ribbon Program Scholarship, available to eligible veterans of the US Armed Forces, for the 2014/15 academic year. The Yellow Ribbon Program is an initiative authorized by the Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (the Post-9/11 GI Bill)…

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Columbia SIPA

what’s going on this summer

This weekend I went to Baltimore, MD (nicknamed “Charm City”) for a visit with friends and family. We had beautiful weather and delicious crab (if you like that kind of stuff). But as I was wandering the streets of Baltimore thinking about how to get from one part of town to the next… I remember…

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Columbia SIPA

A sea of blue

A little rain did not stop approximately 600 of our SIPA graduates clothed in Columbia University blue regalia from celebrating the completion of their degree programs this morning. This year’s graduation speaker, Thomas E. Donilon, former National Security Advisor to President Obama provided the new graduates with words of wisdom…

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Columbia SIPA