Apr 1, 2008
Over 105 Films Competing for $50,000 in Cash Awards
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 1, 2008
New York University School of Law and the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund will host a day-long symposium on April 10, 2008, dedicated to the work of NYU School of Law Professor Ronald Dworkin and in celebration of his receiving Norways 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize, which recognizes outstanding scholarship in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law, and theology. The prize includes a $750,000 award.
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School of Law, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 1, 2008
New York Universitys Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response and the Center on Violence and Recovery will present the groundbreaking results of a three-year study on NYPD peer support programs, and the role of such programs in mitigating post-traumatic adjustment among officers, Wednesday, April 16, at 9 a.m., NYUs Lipton Hall, DAgostino Hall, 110 W. 3rd St. at MacDougal St.
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Silver School of Social Work, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 2, 2008
Advice on Going Back to School, Gaining Technical Expertise, and Applying Transferable Job Skills
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Apr 2, 2008
A consortium of researchers that includes New York University Physics Professor Andrew Kent has received a $6.25 million nanotechnology grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to design and develop nano-magnetic materials and devices, including more efficient computers and cell phones.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science |
Press Release
Apr 3, 2008
Margaret Holben Ellis is Named the Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation
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Institute of Fine Arts |
Press Release
Apr 4, 2008
New York University School of Law announced major improvements to its loan repayment assistance program (LRAP), which helps graduates who choose public interest careers. NYU has one of the largest loan repayment assistance programs in the country - last year the school spent more than $4.3 million on LRAP for nearly 500 graduates - and between 10 to 15 percent of each graduating class enters public service.
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School of Law |
Press Release
Apr 4, 2008
This interdisciplinary gathering will explore the relationships among legal institutions, commercial practices and economic development.
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School of Law |
Press Release
Apr 4, 2008
A launch party, featuring many of the New York area’s contributors-from students at NYU and Westchester high schools through contributors of all ages, races, and classes, from all the city’s boroughs-will be taking place at one of the Reef’s two New York sites, the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street (betw. West Street and North End Ave.), on Sunday, April 6, from 3 to 5 p.m. The Reef will continue to reside there through Aug. 31.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 4, 2008
New York Universitys Tamiment Library, an archive devoted to research on labor history and the history of progressive and radical political movements, has acquired the Leo Herskhowitz Library - one of the most extraordinary collections in the city documenting the social, economic, and labor history of New York. Herskhowitz is a long-time professor at Queens College and a recognized expert on New York Jewish history from its earliest origins up to the period before the mass migrations of the 19th century.
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Press Release
Apr 4, 2008
To help fundraisers and grantmakers meet the challenges of the expanding non-profit world, New York University’s George Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising will host an innovative one-day, all-day “Fundraising University” on Saturday, April 26, 2006. Co-sponsored by The New York Observer, this special course will take place at NYU’s Woolworth Center in the historic Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay Street, NYC.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 4, 2008
The Catherine B. Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University, together with the citizen sector organization Youth Venture (YV), has awarded the grand prize in the second annual NYU Reynolds/YV “Be A Changemaker” competition to a team of undergraduate students. The trio of students devised a plan to reduce homelessness and poverty among teenage mothers and their children in New York City.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Apr 7, 2008
Why do rats live faster and die younger than humans? NYU dental professor Dr. Timothy Bromage’s newly discovered biological clock provides tantalizing clues.
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College of Dentistry, Research |
Press Release
Apr 7, 2008
Gallatin will hold its Masters Showcase 2008, “Transcending with Passion and Spirit,” at Gallatin’s new Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway (entrance on the corner of Washington Place). All performances are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.7377.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 7, 2008
Kanchan Chandra, an associate professor in New York University’s Wilf Family Department of Politics, has been named a 2008 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Chandra, whose published works include Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India (Cambridge University Press), will address the effect of the mobilization of Muslim political identities on democracy.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science |
Press Release
Apr 7, 2008
Three New York University professors have been awarded 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation said in announcing 190 fellowship awards totaling $8.2 million. This years NYU recipients are: Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, a professor in the Department of History; Richard Pildes, a professor in the School of Law; and Nancy Ruttenburg, a professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Slavic Literatures and chair of the Department of Comparative Literature.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, School of Law |
Press Release
Apr 7, 2008
Nearly $130,000 to Support a Shared Project with Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College, London
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Press Release
Apr 8, 2008
The 2008 Global Economic Policy Forum will bring together these economic leaders to discuss issues of economic policy and capital markets. This years participants are visiting at the invitation of NYUs Center for the Study of Central Banks and the Global Economic Policy Forum, co-chaired by Professor Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law at NYU, and Alan N. Rechtschaffen, adjunct professor of law at NYU.
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School of Law, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 8, 2008
New York University School of Law Professor Richard Pildes has been awarded a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation said in announcing 190 fellowship awards totaling $8.2 million.
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School of Law, Research |
Press Release
Apr 8, 2008
The screenings and accompanying symposia are free and open to the public. For schedule times and details, visit: www.nyu.edu/kjc/100_Venezuela; or call 212.998.3650.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 8, 2008
Evening Benefits the NYU/Goldwater Hospital Writing Project; the event takes place in NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge, 40 Washington Square South (at MacDougal St.); voluntary donations are requested at the door. For further information, the public may call Danielle Veith at 212.998.8850; email danielle.veith@nyu.edu
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 8, 2008
Third Annual Series Running Through Spring 2008
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College of Nursing |
Press Release
Apr 9, 2008
NYU’s Center on Law and Security Resident Fellow Barton Gellman, national correspondent for The Washington Post, and Dana Priest, Center Alumni Fellow, Board Advisor, and intelligence and national security reporter for The Washington Post, have been awarded 2008 Pulitzer Prizes.
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School of Law |
Press Release
Apr 9, 2008
Gillian B. Anderson Conducts World Premiere Original Score for Clairs 1929 Silent Masterpiece
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 9, 2008
NYU, NYC Dept. of Transportation, and Times Up! Present Cycling in the City: A Forum on Rider Rights and Responsibilities.
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Press Release
Apr 9, 2008
The two-day festival of interactive sight, sound, and physical objects will be on view May 12 13 at the Tisch School of the Arts, located at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), 4th floor (south elevators, from 5 to 9 p.m. both days. The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.1880; or visit http://itp.nyu.edu/show
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 10, 2008
The event will take place at Fales, on the third floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. It is free for those with an NYU ID; for the public, a $10 donation is suggested. For reservations, call 992.9018 or email rsvp.bobst@nyu.edu. Fales Library acquired the James Beard Papers in 2003.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 10, 2008
The New York University Master’s Program in Global Public Health will present a discussion with the primary author of the World Health Organization’s first-ever guide for planning end-of-life care on Friday, April 25, 2008. The event, “Palliative Care: A Global Perspective,” will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, Room 210, New York, N.Y.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 10, 2008
Zalmay Khalilzad, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, will speak at NYU Wagner from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 on the topic, Meeting the Challenge of Promoting Development Amid Conflict. The event will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, The Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 295 Lafayette Street (@ Houston Street), New York, N.Y.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 11, 2008
Inaugural Lecture by Renowned Performance Artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña, April 22
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 11, 2008
The human mind, far from being a highly efficient computer, is in fact the product of a bumpy evolutionary path, serving as a marvelous storage facility but operating as a shaky retrieval system, concludes New York Universitys Gary Marcus in his new book Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind (Houghton Mifflin).
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research |
Press Release
Apr 11, 2008
On Wednesday April 9, 2008 at 6:30 p.m., NYU’s Office of Government and Community Affairs and community director of the Poe Room Lois Rakoff, sponsored a special lecture in celebration of Edgar A. Poe’s life followed by a reception in memory of Adrienne Goldberg, the first community director of the Poe Room.
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Press Release
Apr 14, 2008
The NYU Wagner Criminal Justice Student Group, the Students of African Descent Alliance, and the Correctional Association of New York will host a discussion Thursday, April 17, entitled “Prisons, Police, Race, and the War on Drugs.” The event will be held from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, The Rudin Family Forum for Civic Dialogue, The Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 295 Lafayette Street (@ Houston), Manhattan.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 15, 2008
Glucksman Ireland House of New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host two special events in May. Admission to events is free to Ireland House members and those with an NYU ID; for all others, $10 admission to regular events and $15 for Blarney Star Concert Series events. To reserve a seat, call 212.998.3950 or email ireland.house@nyu.edu
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 15, 2008
At a time when China is very much in the news, Clark T. Randt, Jr., the longest-serving United States Ambassador to the Peoples Republic of China (2001 - present), will speak on The United States and China in an Era of Globalization at NYUs Language and Literature Building, 19 University Place, Lecture Hall/Rm. 102. Ambassador Randts remarks will be followed by a Q & A session.
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Press Release
Apr 15, 2008
New York University’s “Issues in Technology Management” series will feature Steve Yatko, managing director and global head of IT Research and Development at Credit Suisse, on Wed., April 30, 6 p.m., at NYU’s Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 1003 (10th Floor).
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 15, 2008
Winners Share Over $50,000 in Cash Awards; Winners and Finalists Get Their Films Screened at DGA in Hollywood, June 4
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Apr 15, 2008
The panel discussion will present recent strategies that three New York City schools have implemented in response to research on gender and schooling: Young Women’s Leadership Academy (for girls); Excellence Charter School (for boys); and Harvey Milk High School (for LGBT youth). The talk will be held at NYU in Lipton Hall, 108 West Third Street (between Sullivan and MacDougal Sts.) on Fri., April 25 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Apr 15, 2008
New York University’s Program in Educational Theatre will bring together more than 150 educators, artists, and scholars for a three-day conference exploring the performance and teaching of Shakespeare in the 21st century. The conference will take place from Thursday, April 24 through Sunday, April 27 at NYU’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 15, 2008
Deutsches Haus at New York University, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host two special events in May. Both are free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8663 or visit www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 16, 2008
New York, April 16, 2008- NYU Medical Center today announced it will be renamed the NYU Elaine A. and Kenneth G. Langone Medical Center, in honor of the chairman of its board of trustees and his wife, whose unrestricted $200 million gift is the largest in the Medical Center’s history.
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School of Medicine |
Press Release
Apr 16, 2008
The New York University Center on Violence and Recovery released the results of a three-year (2005-2007) study on peer support programs for NYPD officers, the Public Safety Trauma Response Study. The study examined police attitudes and beliefs about help seeking for work-related and other stress, awareness and utilization of the peer programs, and how police officers manage day-to-day stress.
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Research, Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Apr 17, 2008
On Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 6:30 pm, New York Universitys Office of Government and Community Affairs hosted Cycling in the City: A Forum on Rider Rights and Responsibilities, which brought students, staff, community members, and city government together to learn about and discuss bike policy, maintenance, and safety.
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Press Release
Apr 17, 2008
According to New York University journalism professor and author Stephen D. Solomon, the New Jersey ruling was consistent with prior cases saying that school officials participating in devotional activities are violating the First Amendment by appearing to endorse religion.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science |
Press Release
Apr 18, 2008
The New York University Creative Writing Program Spring 2008 Reading Series concludes in May with three events, two of which take place in the programs new home in Greenwich Village - The Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, located at 58 W. 10th Street; the May 2 event is in a different venue. Readings are free and open to the public. For further information, call Danielle Veith at 212.998.8850.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 18, 2008
NYUs Dean Terry Fulmer, Report Committee Member, Available for Comment
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College of Nursing, Research |
Press Release
Apr 18, 2008
A concert featuring this years IBLA competition winners from around the world will be presented by Salvatore Moltisanti, one of the foremost Italian pianists of his generation, at New York Universitys Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, located at 24 W. 12th Street, on Monday, April 28, at 6 p.m. Sopranos, pianists, violinists, flutists, guitarists, and cimbalists will perform prior to their Carnegie Hall debut.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 18, 2008
This event, co-sponsored by Bard College and NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit www.doctorswithoutborders.org or call 800.601.1466.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 18, 2008
Join the New York University community from April 19-29th as we celebrate Earth Week 2008 with 11 days of programming. Community projects, concerts, guest speakers and lectures, and interactive learning opportunities make this one of the most exciting weeks on campus. Visit www.nyu.edu/earthweek for more information on upcoming events, and to RSVP for programs. Most events are free and open to the public.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 21, 2008
The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please call 212.992.8854 or e-mail cls@juris.law.nyu.edu
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School of Law |
Press Release
Apr 21, 2008
The identification of a new class of photoreceptors in the retina of fruit flies sheds light on the regulation of the pigments of the eye that confer color vision, researchers at New York University’s Center for Developmental Genetics report in a new study appearing in the Public Library of Science’s journal, PloS Biology. The findings, they write, may also have implications for the regulating of olfactory receptors, which are responsible for the detection of smells, because both types of receptors belong to the same protein family.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research |
Press Release
Apr 21, 2008
The event will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Square South, New York, N.Y.
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Press Release
Apr 22, 2008
The John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress welcomes United States Senator Chuck Hagel to New York University on Monday, April 28, 2008 to speak about the challenging issues he raises in his new book, “America: Our Next Chapter.”
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 22, 2008
Leading CEOs and Record Attendance Expected in 30th Anniversary Year
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Apr 25, 2008
On Monday, May 22, La Maison Française of New York University, now celebrating its 51st year, will hold a gala benefit to raise funds for its program of lectures, conferences, symposia, art exhibits, films, concerts, theater, and special events.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 28, 2008
New York University will host a public lecture, “German Jews in America (1843-1914),” delivered by Cornelia Wilhelm, who holds positions at the University of Munich and Rutgers University. The event is free and open to the public. RSVP is requested: call 212.998.8981 or email gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 28, 2008
The annual event, organized by the Department, benefits hundreds of producers, directors, established designers, and other entertainment industry professionals who come to view the exhibit looking for new talent.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 28, 2008
New York University will unveil At Home with Their Books, a mural by New York-based Mexican artist Elena Climent, at a ceremony on Thurs., May 1, 5-7 p.m. The mural, which will be on display for 24-hour, street-level viewing on E. 8th St. (at University Place), is part of NYUs newly renovated, six-story Languages and Literature Building.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 28, 2008
New York University School of Law Professor Richard Pildes, the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law and co-director of the School of Laws Center on Law and Security, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy said in announcing its election of 190 new Fellows and 22 Foreign Honorary Members.
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School of Law |
Press Release
Apr 29, 2008
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has elected three New York University faculty as fellows: Richard Pildes, a professor in NYUs School of Law; Elliot Wolfson, a professor in NYUs Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies; and Jorge Castañeda, a Distinguished Global Professor of Politics, who was elected as a foreign honorary member of AAAS.
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School of Law, Graduate School of Arts and Science |
Press Release
Apr 29, 2008
Two New York University professors, Helmut Hofer of NYUs Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Anthony Movshon, director of the universitys Center for Neural Science, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington, D.C.-based organization announced today.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science |
Press Release
Apr 29, 2008
Choreographer Patricia Noworol will present her work in concert for two evenings May 30 and 31, 2008. Entitled Delirium, the concert will feature five works-including Lustra, earlier featured at Dumbo Dance Festival gala, and Classical Mechanics, previously presented at La MaMa Moves Dance Festival. Information and Reservations: (917) 929-5695
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 30, 2008
Dear Friend, We are aware there has been significant public interest in NYU’s plans for the building...
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