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Once a month we share a photo from our archives. Today, we rediscover "The Little Tin Church" that used to sit in Reid Hall's back garden.
Como promover a conscientização e o engajamento de jovens de diferentes culturas para que possam impactar no futuro? Para Baitong Yan, fundadora da organização não-governamental No-Boundaries, a resposta está na arte. Instigar a criatividade e a imaginação de crianças e de adolescentes para retratar seus pontos de vista sob uma questão relevante inspirou a ex-aluna da Teachers College, da Universidade de Columbia, a criar uma plataforma internacional de arte e de educação visando conectar jovens artistas sem fronteiras de nacionalidade, de idiomas ou de cultura. É a arte engajada concebida pelos futuros líderes como ferramenta de reflexão e de transformação.
The Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic and the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies held an interdisciplinary panel discussion at Columbia Global Centers | Amman on the consequences of the conflict in Yemen, and strategies to address mental health in humanitarian and conflict resolution efforts.
The family of Altan Ünver, founder of Development Foundation of Turkey (DFT), has donated his personal archives to Columbia library.
Tonia Casarin holds a Master’s degree in Education from Columbia University, she’s a Lemann Fellow and a Global Salzburg Fellow. Entrepreneur in the area of education, Tonia works with the development of socio-emotional competencies. She is the author of the children's book "I Have Monsters in the Belly", which became a bestseller in Brazil. Tonia was one of the panelists during the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro 5-year celebration event in March 2018.
José Edmilson da Silva holds a Master's degree in Physical Activity Science from Universidade Salgado de Oliveira (UNIVERSO), RJ. A milestone in his career was to implement and direct the first school geared to the sport of Brazil. to E.M. Juan Antonio Samaranch - Olympic Gymnasium Experimental, the GEO of Santa Teresa. Currently serves as Advisor I in the Municipal Department of Education Rio de Janeiro - SME / RJ, Rio de Janeiro City Hall. José Edmilson was one of the panelists during the event celebrating the 5 years of Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro in March, 2018.
Emily Sandford, a graduate student in the Astronomy Department at Columbia University, spent a month in Santiago working with Universidad Católica’s professor Andrés Jordán, an expert in observations of transiting exoplanets. Emily is the fifth Columbia student to participate in the exchange program on astrophysics between Columbia and Universidad Católica, as part of the President's Global Innovation Fund (PGIF).