Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
After four years of passing out condoms and getting hit on by guys, Maris Goodstein is giving up sex-but not for good.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
Beyond being valedictorian of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Isaac Greenbaum has three things going for him: notes, nunchakus, and numbers.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
Alison Kay has always been a bit of a paradox.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
The aspirations of childhood can be daunting. Yet this fall, in Stanford's astronautics and aeronautics graduate program, Columbia College senior Mike Emory plans to make his kindergarten dreams come true.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
Sarabeth Berman can truly say that all the world's a stage.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
Lillian Forsyth can cite professors who were personable and classes that helped shape the way she approached both her academic studies and her understanding of the world at large, but much of what she learned came from outside of the classroom and outside of the University gates.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
It wasn't your typical midlife crisis.
When Amittai Aviram, a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and a 1978 graduate of Columbia College, decided he'd had enough of the dogmatism of some of his colleagues, he didn't buy a sports car or a fancy house.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
"I think I'm probably the luckiest person I know," says School of General Studies valedictorian Eleena Melamed. The 28-year-old Israel native has worked with choreographers Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, and Mikhail Baryshnikov as a professional ballet dancer.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
The number of jokes about the School of Engineering and Applied Science bandied about at Columbia gives rise to a certain impression of the average engineering student-but DJ Park, computer engineer and jazz violinist, will not be pigeonholed.
Wed, May 17, 2006, 12:00am
Three of the past four years, the Columbia College valedictorian has been a Rabi Scholar-an undergraduate science fellow-and this year's valedictorian Jaehee Kim is no exception to this trend.
