Senior profiles

Senior Profile: Sam Rennebohm, GS

While he may have spent his high school years on the football and wrestling teams, Sam Rennebohm acquired a decidedly different set of extra-curriculars when he arrived at Columbia.

By Sadia Latifi | May 19 05:05 pm ET

Senior Profile: Alexandra Loizzo, BC

Well before she arrived as a transfer student in fall 2006, Alexandra Loizzo knew two things: She wanted to study English, and she wanted to do it at Barnard.

By Ray Katz | May 19 04:57 pm ET

Senior Profile: Alexandra Dalferro, CC

You may have seen Alexandra Dalferro behind Thai Market’s counter, taking orders and conversing in Thai with the waiters and cashiers. The Columbia College senior developed an interest in Thailand when a Thai exchange student stayed with her family in Massachusetts during high school, and has since studied abroad and conducted summer research there.

By Sandeep Soman | May 19 04:56 pm ET

Senior Profile: Katie Goble, BC

Like all neuroscience and behavior majors, Kathleen Goble racks her brain with questions on, well, the brain. But Goble, unlike most others, can do it all in Spanish.

By Scott Levi | May 19 04:54 pm ET

Senior Profile: Jacob Matilsky, GS

Campus activist Jacob Matilsky has had to deal with his fair share of political fires at Columbia. But fires are nothing for him.

By Scott Levi | May 19 04:47 pm ET

Senior Profile: Joseph Daniels, CC

He may be smoking a cigarette outside of Butler Library, but Joseph Daniels isn’t resting on his laurels.

By Sadia Latifi | May 19 04:43 pm ET

Senior Profile: Michael Novak, GS

Michael Novak started dancing when he was 11 years old.

By Tabitha Peyton Wood | May 19 04:41 pm ET

Senior Profile: Samantha John, SEAS

When asked about her peculiar cours of study, Samantha John, a senior in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences majoring in applied mathematics and minoring in English, calls them “actually complementary.”

By Amber Tunnell | May 19 04:40 pm ET

Senior Profile: Jonathan Berliner, CC

When Columbia College student Jonathan Berliner graduates, the former president of Orthodox Jewish group Yavneh will be leaving a legacy of creative Shabbat dinners and innovative programming for the group—interests that may have nothing to do with class, or ... beer brewing?

By Alix Pianin | May 19 04:39 pm ET

Senior Profile: Anne Epstein, BC

Anne Epstein, a senior in Barnard College, can tell you all about the fire hydrant Barack Obama, CC ’83 used to wash himself after being locked out of his apartment his first few days at Columbia. After all, she wrote his encyclopedia entry.

By Alix Pianin | May 19 04:35 pm ET

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