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Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2015 and Winter 2016 in the Certificate Program in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. The program will be hosted at Teachers College and will provide state-of-the-art training in Chinese pedagogy.
Ravina Aggarwal will become the new director of Columbia Global Centers | South Asia on April 1, 2015.
A joint team of students from Columbia and Princeton Universities attended a course in Nairobi at Columbia Global Centers | Africa as part of their Sustainable Development in Practice program. The course is designed to give the students a practical but broad-based understanding of sustainable development in East Africa.
Aromar Revi, the Director of Indian Institute for Human Settlements – India’s first prospective National University for Research and Innovation to address challenges of urbanization through an integrated program of education, research, consulting and advisory services.
Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics will return again to China this summer with the Social Science Summer Program at Columbia, in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Teenager Innovation and Challenge Projects. Launched a year ago, this summer program is designed for highly motivated Chinese high school students. The first cohort of participants in 2014 includes the students from Beijing National Day School, Shanghai Foreign Language School, Nanjing Language School, Shenzhen Middle School, etc.
To accommodate a growing influx of international students and prepare them for the rigors of graduate work in the United States, Teachers College will launch a new International Pre-Graduate Program that will run from July 7 to August 17.
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services C. V. Starr East Asian Library is pleased to announce the opening of the online exhibition: Cornelius Vander Starr, His Life and Work.
To view the exhibition, visit
https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/cvstarr
Columbia Global Centers | Turkey is delighted to welcome four Columbia College students and Professors Martha Howell and Karen Van Dyck to Istanbul for a new semester-long course now being taught at Boğaziçi University. The program opened with an orientation given by Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, introducing students to the history of the city through two unique tours and a lecture about getting used to life in Istanbul.
We're delighted to share that the Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing exhibition will be shown in Vienna at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse from March 19-April 3, 2015.
Applications for our 2015 Academy “Global Aging: Danger Ahead?” are now open and online. For members of the press, the Academy is a joint project of the Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Journalism School. The Academy will be held from June 11-13, 2015. More information is below. The deadline to apply is February 6th.
Columbia SEAS and College students and parents attended a cocktail reception on January 15 at our Studio-X location in Istanbul.
The Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) Summer Program is a collaborative certificate training program co-organized by Columbia University’s Teachers College, Department of East Asian Language and Cultures, and Asia for Educators, co-sponsored by Beijing Language and Culture University and Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.
The Office of the University Chaplain’s Kraft Global Fellows Program is an initiative of the Kraft Family Fund for Intercultural and Interfaith Awareness. At designated academic breaks, the Kraft Global Fellows Program will support up to five students who have a clear outlined research proposal to travel to one of the Columbia Global Centers as a team to conduct research for a particular set of questions or inquiries. Generally, Chaplain Davis will serve as Program Director and will be present for some portion of the time.
The Columbia Social Sciences Workshop is a program jointly initiated by Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, and Teenager Innovation and Challenge Projects(ICProjects). This workshop is specially designed for highly motivated Chinese high school students interested in the study of social sciences (economics, sociology, political sciences, psychology, etc.)
This year, Reid Hall is celebrating a very special milestone: 50 years with Columbia University, after Helen Rogers Reid bequeathed to Columbia the property that had meant so much to her family and to the international community in Paris.