Application for Obama Foundation Scholars Program Now Open
Since 2018, the Obama Foundation Scholars Program at Columbia University has welcomed 58 rising leaders from 47 countries who are addressing a range of challenges, including strengthening governance, increasing access to high-quality healthcare, promoting environmental sustainability, advancing women’s rights and ending gender-based violence.
The Obama Foundation Scholars Program is accepting applications for the 2023-2024 program until January 19, 2023 at 5pm ET.
The Obama Foundation Scholars Program is accepting applications for the 2023-2024 program until January 19, 2023 at 5pm ET.
Early Career Faculty Impact Fellowship
The Fellowship aims to assist early-career faculty in deepening their expertise in how to take their research and scholarship to the next step, advancing policy or programs. This is a part-time, year-long program for faculty seeking to advance their research into action.
Announcing the Recipients of the Inaugural CWP Impact Awards
Columbia World Projects (CWP) launched the CWP Impact Awards in 2022. The inaugural impact awards focused on one of CWP’s four themes, Supporting Generations, which encompasses efforts to decrease inequality and improve health and well-being specific to particular stages of life. The three selected proposals will be implemented in New York City, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.
With $10 Million Gift CWP Launches the Center for Political Economy
The center is led by Kate Andrias, Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Constitutional Governance, Columbia Law School; Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and deputy director at Columbia World Projects; Suresh Naidu, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; and Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law and Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation, Columbia Law School.
CWP Director Wafaa El-Sadr to Serve as Executive Vice President for Columbia Global
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger shared that CWP Director Wafaa El-Sadr will become the new Executive Vice President for Columbia Global.
