Dec 6, 2013
The NYU University Senate yesterday voted unanimously to endorse a garment industry agreement aimed at making Bangladesh factories safe workplaces. The Senate approved a resolution recommending that the University require its apparel licensees to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.
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Kwame Anthony Appiah, a renowned philosopher whose scholarship spans a range of academic disciplines, will join the NYU faculty in early 2014, holding appointments in the Department of Philosophy and at NYU’s School of Law.
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The Department of Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will present a one-night-only concert of works by female alumni choreographers at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, February 28, 2014.
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Robert Kohn and Louis Nirenberg, professors in NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, have been named winners of the 2014 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.
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Dec 10, 2013
Unique classroom and service-learning exercises teach students to understand the market mechanisms which can effect social change.
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College of Nursing |
Press Release
Dec 9, 2013
Kiah Victoria, a student at the NYU Tisch Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, was selected to receive the prestigious Desmond Child Anthem Award presented annually by the ASCAP Foundation. The award, which recognizes outstanding talent and promise in a young songwriter, was established by Grammy award-winning songwriter and producer Desmond Child. Victoria will be the award’s fifth recipient.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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Dec 9, 2013
Facebook has named Courant Professor Yann LeCun the director of a new laboratory devoted to research in artificial intelligence and deep learning.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research, Faculty |
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Dec 6, 2013
The Department of Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will present a one-night-only concert of works by female alumni choreographers at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, February 28, 2014.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Dec 6, 2013
The NYU University Senate yesterday voted unanimously to endorse a garment industry agreement aimed at making Bangladesh factories safe workplaces. The Senate approved a resolution recommending that the University require its apparel licensees to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.
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University Senate, NYUToday-feature, All University |
Press Release
Dec 6, 2013
Robert Kohn and Louis Nirenberg, professors in NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, have been named winners of the 2014 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research, Faculty |
Article
Dec 5, 2013
States with a higher number of alcohol- and traffic-related laws have a lower proportion of traffic deaths than do states with fewer such laws on the books, a study by researchers at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has found.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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Dec 5, 2013
The use of crack and powder cocaine both varies and overlaps among high school seniors, researchers at NYU Steiinhardt and NYU Langone Medical Center have found. Their findings point to the need to take into account both common and different at-risk factors in developing programming and messaging to stem cocaine use.
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Research, Faculty, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, School of Medicine |
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Dec 3, 2013
Frequent emergency department users have a substantial burden of disease, often having multiple chronic conditions and many hospitalizations, according to the study.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
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Dec 3, 2013
Drug delivery drones, a portable air quality visualization tool, a mobile app for crowdsourcing news video and a kinetic sculpture of computer-controlled mirrors were among the more than 100 projects featured at semi-annual show of the NYU Tisch Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) last spring. On Sunday, December 15 and Monday, December 16, the show returns, giving the public a free peek at the future through projects created by students of the world-renown digital convergence program.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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Dec 3, 2013
The Humanities Initiative at New York University and the New York Council for the Humanities have established the Graduate Student Public Humanities Fellowship for 2014-15.
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Press Release
Dec 2, 2013
Member Hospitals Are Committed to Improving Care of Older Adult Patients
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Article
Dec 2, 2013
NYU has named Ian Bremmer – political scientist, expert on foreign policy and political risk, and president of Eurasia Group – as a Global Research Professor.
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Research, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Nov 26, 2013
The University and the UAW have reached a voluntary agreement to hold an election to be conducted by the American Arbitration Association so NYU and NYU-Poly graduate employees can decide on representation by the Graduate Student Organizing Committee/UAW and Scientists and Engineers Together/UAW (GSOC/UAW and SET/UAW).
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Graduate, NYUToday-feature, All University |
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Nov 26, 2013
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a renowned philosopher whose scholarship spans a range of academic disciplines, will join the NYU faculty in early 2014, holding appointments in the Department of Philosophy and at NYU’s School of Law.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, School of Law, NYU Abu Dhabi |
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