Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Monday, October 24, 2016

Thanksgiving in New York

Planning on spending Thanksgiving in NYC? Why not have Thanksgiving Dinner with a Barnard Alumnae?

Participate in the Student-Alumnae Thanksgiving Program, an exciting initiative that provides students with the opportunity to have Thanksgiving dinner at a Barnard alum's home, in the event that they are not able to go home for the holiday.

If interested, please fill out this Google Form (https://goo.gl/forms/WrOgsGMXev3GeAtP2) by Saturday, November 5th at midnight. Questions? Contact Angela Bea

Friday, October 21, 2016

Want to learn about oral history research
and get a jump start on your master's?

 

Barnard, Columbia, GS, and SEAS juniors
are eligible to apply for our BA/MA Program. 


We invite you to join OHMA for our Fall Open House, 

sit in on a class, meet with our directors, 

or connect with our students and alumni!

ORAL HISTORY MA PROGRAM
BA/MA OPTION
                                                                   
Undergraduate students currently enrolled in Barnard College, Columbia College, General Studies, or the School of Engineering and Applied Science may request early admission to our Oral History MA program (OHMA) through the BA/MA option. By way of this program, students have the opportunity to apply in their junior year to take OHMA's graduate-level coursework during the subsequent academic year.
The deadline and required materials for the BA/MA option remain the same as the standard OHMA application. Interested students are encouraged to contact OHMA Co-Director Amy Starecheski at aas39@columbia.edu and to submit an online application by our priority deadline of March 1, 2017.
Please note that admitted students to the BA/MA option are not formally enrolled in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences until after conferral of their undergraduate degree, but that up to three graduate-level courses (nine to twelve credits) of level-5000 and above and/or one-half Resident Unit taken in excess of their bachelor’s program requirements may be transferred to OHMA.
Nov. 3: FALL 2016
OPEN HOUSE
                                                                   
Please join us for our Fall Open House on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. in Knox Hall 509. 

On the agenda: 
  • Information session
  • Meet and greet with OHMA students & alums
  • Presentation by Nyssa Chow (OHMA 2015)
  • Mini-interviewing workshop, taught by OHMA Co-Directors Mary Marshall Clark & Amy Starecheski
  • Refreshments!
In this open house, Nyssa Chow (OHMA 2015) will be presenting a portion of her thesis, which focuses on the lived experience of history as told by three women born in Trinidad and Tobago in the 1920s. What was life in the British colony like for these women? In "Still.Life.," you will see and hear accounts that are grounded in that time and place, but also stories that are timeless, deeply personal and universally human.
Nyssa is an OHMA student and Teaching Fellow in our Method, Theory, and Interpretation course this fall through Columbia’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Her work with OHMA Co-Director Mary Marshall Clark to transform oral history by teaching visual literacy recently received Columbia’s Faculty Provost Award.

She is also a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, and a recipient of the Hollywood Foreign Press Award, the Women in Film and Television Fellowship, the Toms Fellowship, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Foundation Award. 
Born in Trinidad, Nyssa has a particular interest in multimedia experiments in storytelling, and collaborations that bring oral history and education closer together.

Please RSVP to our Fall Open House Eventbite page here.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INFORMATION SESSION

Learn about graduate program opportunities at Columbia Engineering and MS Express Application for Barnard students.

October 18, 2016.
5:00-6:30pm
LL103 Diana Center

October 21, 2016
3:00-4:30pm
LL103 Diana Center

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

FOR PRE-HEALTH STUDENTS

Are you planning to apply to medical, dental or postbacc record enhancement programs in 2017? 

If so, you are eligible to receive a Cycle 2017 Committee Letter of Evaluation for application medical, dental or postbacc record enhancement master's programs. 

Cycle 2017 officially opens on October 25, 2016
All students (both first time and re-applicants) planning to receive a Committee Letter of Evaluation to apply to medical, dental or postbacc programs in the spring/summer 2017MUST complete Part I: Request for a Committee Letter by November 15, 2016.

To learn more about the Committee Letter of Evaluation process, please visit our website

To complete Part I: Request for a Committee Letter (Opens Oct 25th)
Note: You may begin completing steps 1-3 prior to October 25th
1. If you have not done so already, you must create an AdviseStream account. 

2. In AdviseStream, begin completing your profile and navigate to your Apply widget to indicate your planned matriculation year, which is 2018. 
3. Begin filling in your activities and experiences in the Academics and Engagement Planner.

Beginning Oct 25th
4. In the Apply widget, navigate to your Committee Letter Planner and complete required steps for Part I: Request for a Committee Letter
5. Attend a Cycle 2017 Application Year Overview session. Two sessions will be held the week of October 25th (one evening and one daytime session). To view the event details and RSVP, navigate to your AdviseStream calendar. 
Note: If you are currently outside of the NYC area: we plan to record a webinar and post the recorded version in AdviseStream. Stay tuned for more information. 

Part I: Request for a Committee Letter is due on November 15, 2016

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us at prehealthadvising@barnard.edu

Sincerely,
Dean Cohen