Each summer, hundreds of college and secondary school students from across the city and country fill VP&S classrooms and labs to begin their journeys into STEM careers.
Columbia Nursing's creation of its Doctor of Nursing Practice program was revolutionary in 2004, and their model of doctorate-level clinical education for nurses remains in the vanguard.
Students intrigued by mysteries of the mind and brain spent a day speaking with Columbia neuroscientists at the Zuckerman Institute, sharing research experiences and getting career advice.
Second-year Columbia medical students began the new year at the Steven Z. Miller Student Clinician's Ceremony, marking the start of their patient-centered training in hospital and ambulatory settings.
On her path to medical school, Catherine Jennings taught science to middle school students and more recently completed Columbia’s postbaccalaureate premedical program.
Lindsay Caprio is one of 12 students entering Columbia's MD-PhD program. During college, she worked in a laboratory to conduct research on the mechanism of cellular migration in neuroblastoma.
As a Mexican-American growing up in Texas, Cristian J. Peña developed an identity shaped by his culture. He aspires to make health care more accessible to people from diverse backgrounds.
Through APOYO, an adolescent pregnancy program in Washington Heights, Columbia medical students empower, educate, and offer emotional support to teenage girls on the verge of motherhood.
Meet some outstanding members of the Class of 2019, including a maternal medicine advocate, a leader of the Black and Latino Student Organization, a Lyme disease researcher, and a physician painter.