Category Archives: Other Schools

HIRING: Columbia Student Calling Center

Community Citizenship, Fun Stuff, Other Schools

Dear Students,

Looking for a great part-time job? Well, look no further because the Columbia Student Calling Center is now hiring! Earn some extra money and bulk up your resume by becoming a Columbia student caller. You will have the opportunity to foster long-lasting relationships between alumni and the University, as well as raise funds to support scholarships, faculty and research, and student programming. We offer convenient evening and weekend shifts, bonuses and incentives and tuition assistance, with a starting pay of up to $12.75/hour!

Shifts:

Sunday 2:00-5:00pm & 5:30-8:30pm
Monday–Thursday 6:30-9:30pm

Please visit columbia.thecallingcenter.com to apply today! For more information contact us at 212-851-7997 or e-mail us at st2996@columbia.edu.

Essay Contest: Journal of International Affairs

Fun Stuff, Other Schools, Outside Events, SIPA

Dear Students,

The Journal of International Affairs is seeking student submissions for its semiannual Cordier student essay contest. The author of the winning article will receive $500 and publication alongside noted scholars in the Journal’s forthcoming issue on the Geopolitics of Energy.

Published by Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, the Journal of International Affairs is one of the oldest and most respected foreign affairs periodicals.

Fall 2015: The Geopolitics of Energy

The upcoming issue will explore the problems and solutions that energy strategies add to the geopolitical and environmental problems we face today.

The committee welcomes papers on any energy-related topic. Possible topics may include:

  • The link between oil prices and regime change
  • ISIS and oil theft
  • Shale gas revolution’s effect on US and major exporters to US
  • Latin America’s leap to renewable energy
  • Energy and climate treaties
  • Exploring the Arctic

Submission Guidelines:

  • Essays cannot have been previously published, but need not be written
  • specifically for the contest. Papers submitted for academic credit are welcome, provided they are relevant to the upcoming issue’s theme.
  • Papers should not exceed 4,000 words.
  • Citations should be in the form of footnotes formatted according to the
  • Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition.
  • The Cordier contest is open to all Columbia University students, both
  • graduate and undergraduate.

Submission Deadline:

September 25, 2015 at 11:59pm EST. Interested authors may submit their papers via the online submission form (URL:http://www.jotform.us/JIACordierGPPN/Fall_2015).

For more information about the Journal of International Affairs, visit our website.

Any further questions may be directed to Sophia Barney-Farrar (Cordier Editor) at

s.barneyfarrar@columbia.edu.

Recruitment Announcement – Mailman School of Public Health

Healthcare Issues, Other Schools, Tips, Volunteer

This summer we researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health are conducting a research study to learn about how the environmental conditions in the bedroom – especially heat – affect sleep quality. We are looking for Columbia University faculty, research and administrative staff, and graduate students who do not have or rarely use air conditioning to take part in this study.

The study duration is 20 days. During this time we will monitor your sleep quality as well as the environmental conditions of your bedroom using unobtrusive loggers and surveys.

Participation is voluntary and there is no compensation. But you will receive a summary report and learn about your sleep and the environmental conditions of your bedroom.

Interested? Get in touch with us at ehs.sleep@cumc.columbia.edu<mailto:ehs.sleep@cumc.columbia.edu> or call (212) 305-5342.

INVITE: Screening of No Fire Zone @ SIPA

Fun Stuff, Invitation, Networking, Other Schools, SIPA

Award-winning filmmaker Callum Macrae visits Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) on Monday, February 2, for a screening of his documentary No Fire Zone. His investigation into the final days of the 26-year Sri Lanka civil war sheds light on the government’s brutal military offensive and incorporates direct evidence of war crimes, summary executions, torture and sexual violence via footage recorded from within the zone.

Macrae will also discuss his continuing efforts to raise awareness of these human rights issues—considering the lines between journalism and advocacy. His visit comes against the backdrop of recent elections in Sri Lanka that saw a change in government and an anticipated report due this spring from a UN war crimes inquiry.

No Fire Zone is one of five films to win the 2014 BRITDOC Impact Award, which celebrates standout documentary films that are changing the world. The documentary also was nominated for an International Emmy Award.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Macrae, Pulitzer Center senior editor Tom Hundley, and Kate Cronin-Furman, a human rights lawyer and political scientist whose research focuses on international justice and accountability for mass atrocities.

Reception to follow

“No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka”
Monday, February 2
12:30-2 pm
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Columbia University
420 W. 118th Street
Room 1512
New York, NY 10027

To RSVP, please click here.

Presented by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, the Human Rights Working Group, and the International Media, Advocacy, and Communications program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

INVITE: IAC Presents – Let’s Shake Things Up!

Columbia Events, Fun Stuff, Networking, Other Schools, School of Arts

IAC Presents: Let’s Shake Things Up!

Where: Amsterdam Tapas, 1207 Amsterdam Ave

When: Thursday, December 4th at 9pm

What: The Interdisciplinary Arts Council is throwing a late-night mixer on Thursday, December 4th. Come celebrate the end of semester at Amsterdam Tapas and meet some fellow Columbia students from the School of the Arts, the Music Department, the Architecture Department, and the Journalism School.

Meet your future collaborators, make some friends, or just kick back and unwind after a big semester! No RSVP necessary, but all students must be over 21 and must show their Columbia ID.

INVITE: Ferguson Solidarity Rally and Town Hall

Community Service, Invitation, New York City, Other Schools, SIPA

Columbia Student Groups Invite Community to Join them at Ferguson Solidarity Rally and Town Hall 

Rally: Monday, Sept. 15, 6:30pm

Where: Butler Lawn, Columbia University

Town Hall: Wednesday, Sept. 17, 6:30 pm

Where: Columbia Law School, Room 104

The New York community is invited to attend both events which are open to the public.

Town Hall&Rally

For more details: CU Rally Media Advisory