The Columbia Office of Fellowship Programs is pleased to introduce new team members Assistant Dean of Fellowship Programs Paul Bohlmann and Fellowship Programs Coordinator Therese Workman, who both joined the staff in early January 2012.

Paul Bohlmann is the new Assistant Dean of Fellowship Programs. From 1995 to 2011, Paul was the Director of Fellowships at Harvard, responsible for coordinating educational programs and application/selection procedures for college, national, and international fellowship competitions. He joined its staff in 1990, having been a teaching fellow in the history department and assistant senior tutor at Kirkland House, an undergraduate residence. Co-author of four editions of The Harvard College Guide to Grants, he holds an A.B. degree in history from Washington University in St. Louis and an A.M degree in history from Harvard University. He enjoys exploring urban architecture, discovering new music, fiction, and cuisines, and cheering for certain Boston sports teams. 

Therese Workman is the new Program Coordinator for Fellowship Programs. Therese is excited to return to Columbia to advise on fellowships, having previously worked with CU's Learning & Development team as a learning design specialist. Previously, she was a student and scholar advisor in the Foreign Fulbright Programs Division at the Institute of International Education. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Visual and Environmental Studies and Arts and Cognition from Harvard University. Therese is a musician, grew up eating Jamaican food in central Maine, and is extremely happy to be back in New York City.

Columbia College has announced the names of 22 seniors who will be initiated into Phi Beta Kappa, the national honor society, on February 17. The students were chosen by a faculty selection committee of Phi Beta Kappa members based on the breadth, depth and rigor of their academic programs, as well as recommendations from faculty members who have worked closely them.

Each year, 10 percent of the Columbia College graduating class is elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Two percent (Junior Phi Beta Kappa) is elected in November and the remaining eight percent is elected in the spring

Phi Beta Kappa celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Members receive a distinctive gold key, which symbolizes the core principles of Phi Beta Kappa – freedom of inquiry and liberty of thought and expression.

The Class of 2012 Junior Phi Beta Kappa members are:

Alexander Bedrosyan
David Berke
Zachary Brill
Stephen Chan
Megan Fauci
Alexander Frouman
Mario Gabriele
Matt Getz
Amin Ghadimi
Alexa Goldson
Jonathan Huggins
Kazunari Inoki
Joon Ho Kang 
Ashley Kummerlowe
Sheldon Kwok
Zachary Levine
Elizabeth Munroe
Erik Nook
Tara Pesce
Anthony Testa
Anoushka Vaswani
Qiurui Wang  

Seven Columbia College alumni are presenting films at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this month. These movies will be presented in a variety of festival categories, including “Dramatic Competition,” “U.S. Dramatic Competition,” “American Short Film Competition,” “Premieres,” “Documentary Premieres,” “World Cinema Dramatic Competition,” and “U.S. Documentary.” College alumni who will be presenting include directors, producers, editors, composers and screenwriters.

The Sundance Film Festival is an annual celebration of independent filmmakers sponsored by the Sundance Institute. It provides a platform for independent artists to showcase their work to a global audience and a place for viewers to discover filmmaking’s newest talent. Each year, the festival selects 200 films for exhibition from more than 9,000 submissions, and more than 50,000 people attend those screenings. In recent years, The Sundance Film Festival has featured some of the most influential independent films, including Reservoir Dogs,  American Splendor, An Inconvenient Truth, Little Miss Sunshine, and The Cove. This year’s festival takes place from Jan. 19 to 29.

Below are the Columbia College alumni whose work will be screened at the festival:

Keep the Lights On: Elisabeth Vastola, CC ’07 – Costume Designer
About Face: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, CC ’74 – Director, Producer, and Photographer
Bachelorette: Carley Hugo, CC ’06 – Co-Producer
Celeste and Jesse Forever: Yana Gorskaya, CC ’96 – Editor
The Pact: Ronen Landa, CC ’01 – Composer of Original Score
Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie: Ben Cosgrove, CC ’90 – Executive Producer
Love Free or Die: Macky Alston, CC ’87 – Director and Screeenwriter