2009

NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Hosts 42nd Capital Markets in Real Estate Conference November 19, 2009, New York City

Jan 1, 2009
“Field of Dreams: A New Age for Global Real Estate Capital Markets,” the 42nd Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate, hosted by the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (www.scps.nyu.edu/realestate). Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, 301 Park Avenue (between East 49th and East 50th Streets), NYC.
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La Maison FranÇAise Presents Sara Cleary-Burns Collection of French Hand-Painted Photographs, C. 1841-1889

Jan 1, 2009
On Friday, November 13, 2009, New York University’s La Maison Française presents the opening reception for the first U.S. viewing of the Sara Cleary-Burns Collection of French Hand-Painted Photographs. The 6:00 pm reception will take place at New York University’s La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews (corner of University Place).
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Bolivia's Elections Focus of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Panel, Dec. 1

Jan 1, 2009
New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will host “Bolivia—The Elections and Democracy in Historical Context,” a panel discussion, on Tuesday, December 1, 5 p.m., 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets). Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street). The event, which is free and open to the public, comes just prior to Bolivia’s December 6 elections. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc
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New York Times' Abramson to Deliver NYU's Gallatin Lecture, "Why Quality Journalism Matters," Feb. 10

Jan 6, 2009
New York Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson will deliver the Spring 2009 Albert Gallatin Lecture, “Why Quality Journalism Matters,” on Tues., February 10, 6:30 p.m. at New York University’s Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts (715 Broadway at Washington Place/entrance on 1 Washington Place). Subways: R, W (8th St.); 6 (Astor Pl.).
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"Graffiti Lives" - New NYU Press Book Celebrated On Jan. 21 at NYU's Fales Library

Jan 6, 2009
Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground, a new book from NYU Press, will be celebrated on Wednesday, January 21, at 6:30 p.m. at New York University’s Fales Library, 3rd floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. Author Gregory J. Snyder, assistant professor of sociology at Baruch College, CUNY, will be on hand to read and discuss his intriguing look at this urban street art. The event is free and open to the public
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Study Shows Party, Ideology, Religiosity, and Age Drove Vote On California's Proposition 8

Jan 6, 2009
An analysis of California’s Proposition 8 vote shows that party affiliation, political ideology, frequency of attending worship services, and age were the driving forces behind the passage of the measure. Proposition 8, which amended the California constitution to remove the right of same-sex couples to marry, was approved by the state’s voters by 52 to 48 percent on Nov. 4.
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NYU Biologist’s Research Named Among 15 “Evolutionary Gems” by Nature Magazine

Jan 7, 2009
A study on genetic variation authored by biologists at New York University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine has been cited as one of the 15 evolutionary gems by Nature magazine. The publication selected 15 studies published by Nature over the past decade that illustrate the breadth, depth, and power of evolutionary thinking as part of its celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin, who was born on Feb. 12, 1809.
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China's Ambassador to the U.S., Zhou Wenzhong, to Speak On Sino-U.S. Relationship at NYU, Jan. 22

Jan 7, 2009
Zhou Wenzhong, China’s ambassador to the United States, will deliver a public address, “China’s Development and the Sino-U.S. Relationship,” on Thursday, January 22, 1-2:15 p.m., at New York University. The event will be held at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102, 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place).
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The Moral Courage Conversations with Irshad Manji and Salman Rushdie, Jan. 18

Jan 8, 2009
On Sunday, January 18, 2009, please join NYU Wagner visiting scholar Irshad Manji as she launches a series of public conversations about moral courage in journalism, politics, religion and beyond, with her premiere special guest Salman Rushdie<, the celebrated novelist. The conversation will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan - on the 20th anniversary of Iran’s fatwa against Rushdie.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Creative Writing Program Spring Reading Series Opens in January with Francine Prose On Jan. 22

Jan 8, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program Spring Readings Series opens on January 22 with a reading by novelist and essayist Francine Prose. All readings take place in NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted; and are free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8816.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Building Alliances, Forging Friendships Theme of NYU Gallatins 2009 Black History Month Events

Jan 9, 2009
New York Universitys Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host Building Alliances, Forging Friendships-a series of Black History Month events-February 3-17, at the Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway, Main Floor (Enter at 1 Washington Place). Seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Please call 212.998.7375.
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NYU to Host “The Price of Peace: Palestinian Property in Israel and the Peace Process,” Jan. 29

Jan 9, 2009
New York University will host a symposium, The Price of Peace: Palestinian Property in Israel and the Peace Process, on Thursday, January 29, 4-8 p.m. at NYUs Hagop Kevorkian Center (50 Washington Square South [enter at 255 Sullivan Street]). Subway Lines: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street).
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The NYU Center for Dialogues to Host "Muslim European Women: Challenges and Opportunities," Feb. 24

Jan 9, 2009
The New York University Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West will host a roundtable discussion, “Muslim European Women: Challenges and Opportunities,” on Tuesday, February 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at NYU’s Casa Italiana, 24 West 12th S. This event, co-sponsored with the Consulate General of Sweden, is free and open to the public. To RSVP, or for any questions, call 212.998.8693
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NYU's Deutsches Haus Hosts Special Events in January

Jan 12, 2009
Deutsches Haus at New York University will host four special events in January. Most events take place at Deutsches Haus, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), unless otherwise noted. The events are free and open to the public; for further information, call 212.998.8663.
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NYU Conference to Address Accountability for International Aid Agencies in Poverty Solutions, Feb. 6

Jan 12, 2009
New York University will host “What Would the Poor Say: Debates in Aid Evaluation,” a one-day conference with the leading thinkers in development economics about how to best hold aid agencies accountable for effective solutions to global poverty, on Friday, February 6, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 19 University Place (at 8th Street), Room 102. The event is free and open to the public. Call 212.992.7485 for more info.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
"Washington Square" - NYU Literary Magazine - Celebrates Its 14th Year, On Feb. 6

Jan 13, 2009
Washington Square, the literary magazine published by New York University’s Creative Writing Program, will celebrate its 14th anniversary on Friday, February 6, at 7 p.m. The celebration will officially launch the magazine’s new website and takes place at the home of the NYU Creative Writing Program, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th Street. For further information, call 212.998.8850; or 212.992.9685.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Author, Human Rights Activist and Noted Scholars Present Global Treaty to Eradicate Hunger, Jan. 23

Jan 13, 2009
As part of its ongoing event series Conversations in Global Public Health, the New York University Master’s Program in Global Public Health is pleased to present John Teton, founding director of the International Food Security Treaty Campaign, who will speak on “The Treatment Of Paradigm Paralysis: Eradicating Malnutrition with High-Dosage Human Rights Law.” The event Monday, January 23, 2009, marks the first presentation on the International Food Security Treaty (IFST) in New York. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the Lester Pollock Colloquium Room at the NYU School of Law’s Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, NYC.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Anne Fadiman in Conversation with Newjack Author Ted Conover, Feb. 17 at NYU's Journalism Institute

Jan 13, 2009
Anne Fadiman will speak with author Ted Conover on topics ranging from journalists and medicine to the culture of books in a multimedia age on Tuesday, February 17, noon, at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square, between 5th and 6th Streets, 7th Floor). Subways: 6 (Astor Place); R, W (8th Street). The event is free and open to the public. Call 212.992.9842 for more information.
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NYU’s Maison Française Hosts Two Special Events in January

Jan 13, 2009
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host two special events in January. Both events are free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8750.
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Moving Forward: A Renewed Role for American Arts and Artists in the Global Age, Jan. 26

Jan 14, 2009
On Monday, January 26, 2009, New York University’s John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress will bring together leaders of arts and cultural institutions, government, and academia at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at NYU for a colloquium examining how the Art and Artifacts Indemnity Act has been a precedent for federal support of the arts on an international level for more than three decades.
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NYU Steinhardt to Feature "the Telephone" and "Trouble in Tahiti" in Vocal Music Double Bill, Feb. 5-8

Jan 15, 2009
The Program in Vocal Performance at New York University will present two one-act operas in a double bill, Menotti’s The Telephone and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. The production runs February 5 through 7 at 8 p.m. and February 8 at 3 p.m. in the Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street. Tickets are $20 general admission and $5 for students and seniors. For tickets, the public can call 212.868.4444.
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NYU's Richard Sennett Wins Germany's Tessenow Medal for Work On Urban Culture and Public Space

Jan 15, 2009
New York University Professor Richard Sennett has been named the winner of the 2009 Heinrich Tessenow Medal for his work in the areas of urban culture and public space. Since its inception in 1963, the medal had been awarded exclusively to architects and designers. Sennett, a sociologist, is the author of several works, including The Craftsman (2008), which explores artisans across different historical periods.
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Works by 9 Graduating Seniors in the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts to Go On View

Jan 15, 2009
The First of 4 Shows Featuring Thesis Projects from the Class of 2008 Opens January 22
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NYU College of Dentistry Awarded More Than $700,000 for Biomaterials Research

Jan 15, 2009
The New York University College of Dentistry recently received more than $700,000 in new grants to advance biomaterials and biomimetics research.
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College of Dentistry | Press Release
NYU's Center for the United States and the Cold War Hosts Seminar Series

Jan 15, 2009
A seminar series, hosted by New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War, opens on Thursday, January 29, at 5:30 p.m., with a discussion by Andrea Friedman from Washington University on “Bringing Anti-Colonialism Home: Gendering Puerto Rican Nationalism in the Early Cold War.” All seminars take place in NYU’s Tamiment Library, 10th floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. They are free and open to the public. For further information, the public may call 212.998.2471
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NYU Courant Scientist Receives DOE’s Massive Computing Project Award to Develop Magnetic Fusion Energy

Jan 16, 2009
Choong-Seock Chang, a research professor at New York Universitys Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has received a Department of Energy (DOE) award to carry out ultra large-scale computation using the Cray XT supercomputer at the departments Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The awarded 20 million hours of computing time-roughly equivalent to running a single-processor desktop computer for more than 2,280 years-is among the largest awards given to a single project. The computation will be using more than 100,000 processors at a time.
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NYUS Naor Wins 2008 Salem Prize

Jan 16, 2009
Assaf Naor, an associate professor at New York Universitys Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the 2008 Salem Prize for his contributions to the structural theory of metric spaces and their applications to computer science.
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The Explosive Jazz of Hiromi's Sonicbloom at NYU's Skirball Center, Feb. 5

Jan 20, 2009
The jazz quartet Hiromi’s Sonicbloom will perform a program of original compositions and standards from her latest album, Beyond Standard, for one-night only on Thursday, Feb.5 at 8 p.m. at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University. Tickets are $25 and are available at www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu, by phone at (212) 352-3101, or at the box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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NYU Faculty Capture National Jewish Book Award Honors

Jan 20, 2009
K.E. Fleming’s Greece—A Jewish History (Princeton, 2008) won the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture. The work is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States.
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"The Golden Age of Great American Publishers" Al Silverman's "the Time of Their Lives" at NYU, Feb. 4

Jan 20, 2009
The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Writers, the recent book by Al Silverman, will be celebrated by New York University’s Fales Library on Wednesday, February 4, at 6:30 p.m., on the third floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. It is free and open to the public. For further information and to RSVP, call 212.992.9018.
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NYU Hosts Viewing of Presidential Inauguration

Jan 20, 2009
New York University will host a viewing of the Presidential Inauguration for the campus community on Tuesday, January 20 at its Kimmel Center for University Life, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium (60 Washington Square South [at LaGuardia Place], Fourth Floor). Coverage is invited. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
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NYU School of Laws Center On Law and Security Hosts World at Risk? WMDs and the Specter of Future Terror, Jan. 28

Jan 21, 2009
A new report by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism will be discussed at an open forum hosted by New York University School of Laws Center on Law and Security on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, at Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, Rm. 216 (between Washington Square South and W. 3rd Streets). The event is free and open to the public.
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Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck Will Entertain the Whole Family with Music & Dance at NYU's Skirball Center, Feb. 7

Jan 21, 2009
Rebecca Frezza & Big Truck, an eclectic, high-energy presentation of music and synchronized dance movement that will get little feet and big feet alike moving and grooving, will perform for one show only at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University. Tickets are $22 and are available at www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu, by phone at (212) 352-3101, or at the box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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NYU Creative Writing Program Spring Reading Series Continues in February

Jan 22, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program Spring 2009 Reading Series continues in February with a number of special readings and events. All events take place in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8816.
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NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Announces Its February 2009 Events

Jan 22, 2009
NYUs Global Affairs events are free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are required. Register by phone at (212) 992-8380 or e-mail your details to scps.global.affairs@nyu.edu. Your public event registration request will be confirmed via e-mail on the Friday prior to the scheduled event. Unless otherwise indicated, all public events are held at the Center for Global Affairs, Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay Street, 4th Floor (Between Broadway and Church Street).
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU's Glucksman Ireland House Hosts Special Events in February

Jan 22, 2009
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in February. Admission 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.
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NYU Receives Record Number of Freshman Applications

Jan 23, 2009
New York University today announced that it received the largest number of freshman applications in the University’s history. For the second year in a row, over 37,000 high school seniors applied to be NYU freshmen. Some 37,180 men and women applied for NYU’s class of 2013, an increase of 123 applications over last year, the previous record.
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NYU Professor Anna Deavere Smith, Author, Actress, and Playwright, Will Deliver the Annual State of Anti-Semitism Lecture at 92nd Street Y, Feb. 2

Jan 23, 2009
Anna Deavere Smith, author, actress, playwright, and New York University professor will deliver the Annual State of Anti-Semitism Lecture at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on Monday, February 2, 2009. Her unique talk and performance, entitled Hatred Knows No Boundaries, will address the themes of hatred, racial conflict, and genocide.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Nurses with a Second Degree Could Impact Workforce

Jan 23, 2009
Study Compares New Registered Nurses With Second Degree RNs
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College of Nursing, Research | Press Release
New Book by NYU’s Diner Debunks Myth of Holocaust Silence Among American Jews

Jan 26, 2009
Silence about the Holocaust among American Jews is not supported by a trove of religious, cultural, and journalistic archival material, New York University Professor Hasia Diner concludes in her book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU Press, April).
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"Spanish Women Behind the Camera" NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Presents Film Series

Jan 26, 2009
Celebrating the achievements and contributions of Spanish women in the areas of directing, screenwriting, editing, and other film disciplines, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of New York University will present “Spanish Women Behind the Camera,” a film series opening Tuesday, February 3, at 7 p.m., at 53 Washington Square South. The screenings are free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.3650.
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NYU Alumni Snag Six Oscar Nominations

Jan 26, 2009
Alumni of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) and the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development are among the nominees of the 81st Academy Awards. The alumni are nominated in the categories of Actor in a Supporting Role, Art Direction, Film Editing, Best Motion Picture, Achievement in Sound Mixing, and Adapted Screenplay.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Awards, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYU Kanbar Institute's Cary Fukunaga Wins Sundance 2009 Directing Award in the Dramatic Competition for His Thesis Film Sin Nombre

Jan 26, 2009
Cary Joji Fukunaga, a New York University thesis student in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television’s Graduate Film Division in the Tisch School of the Arts, is the winner of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival’s Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic competition for Sin Nombre. His film also received the Excellence in Cinematography Award. The Sundance Festival announced the winners on Saturday (Jan. 24) at its closing awards ceremony hosted by actor Jane Lynch in Park City, Utah.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU to Produce “The Giver,” Play Based on Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal-Winning Novel

Jan 27, 2009
New York Universitys Program in Educational Theatre will present a play adaptation of Lois Lowrys Newbery Medal-winning novel The Giver. The production runs Feb. 20-21 at 8 p.m.; Feb. 22 at 3 p.m.; Feb. 26-28 at 8 p.m.; and March 1 at 8 p.m. in the Players Theatre at 115 MacDougal Street. Tickets are $15 general admission and $5 for seniors and NYU students. For more information and to make ticket reservations, the public can call (212) 998-5281.
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NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Hosts Poetry Reading Series

Jan 27, 2009
A series of three poetry readings will be hosted this spring by New York Universitys King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South. The readings are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.3650.
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NYU's Deutsches Haus Hosts Special Events in February

Jan 27, 2009
Deutsches Haus at New York University, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in February, including a reading on February 17 by best-selling German crime novelist Andrea Maria Schenkel from her new book, Bunker. The events are free and open to the public and take place at Deutsches Haus. For further information, call 212.998.8663
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Festival of Spanish and Latin American Piano Music at New York University, Feb. 20 & 21

Jan 27, 2009
New York University’s program in piano studies, in conjunction with the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, hosts a weekend festival of Spanish and Latin American piano music on February 20 and 21. Featuring a recital by Eduardus Halim, world-renowned pianist and artist faculty member at NYU’s Steinhardt School, the two-day festival will explore the connections between the traditional piano repertoire and contemporary Spanish and Latin American music.
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NYU’s Maison Française Hosts Special Events in February

Jan 27, 2009
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in February, including the Festival of French Writing, a three-day event (Feb. 26-28), with internationally acclaimed French and American writers in conversation. Events are free and open to the public, and take place at La Maison Française, unless otherwise noted. For further information, call 212.998.8750
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“Barcelona and Dublin, Destination Cities? Tourism, Immigration, and Urban Transformations,” February 6-7, at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center

Jan 27, 2009
On Friday and Saturday, February 6-7, Friday, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m., and Saturday, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m, academics, practitioners, social scientists, graduate, and undergraduate students and observers will come together in an attempt to look cross-culturally at a global phenomenon of success that is now reacting in real time to the global recession. This special event takes place at NYUs King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square North. For more information, call 212.998.8255.
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Room to Grow: Envisioning Urban Agriculture, at NYU, Feb. 4

Jan 28, 2009
New York Universitys Community Agriculture Club presents an evening of dialogue on urban agriculture possibilities, February 4, 2009, from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm at the Jerry H. Labowitz Theater, 715 Broadway, NYC. The evenings keynote will be a presentation of the 2008 Gallatin Deans Award research project Room to Grow: Participatory Landscapes and Urban Agriculture at NYU by Adam Brock, Gallatin 08.
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“Darwin’s Legacy: Early Human Evolution in Africa,” International Conference Featuring NYU Anthropologists, at American Museum of Natural History, Feb. 28-March 1

Jan 28, 2009
The conference is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for admission. To obtain a free ticket, email darwin@nycep.org The event is sponsored by the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Biology, which includes New York University, the City University of New York, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Biologists Find Stem Cell-Like Functions in Other Types of Plant Cells

Jan 28, 2009
Ordinary cells have the ability to replace lost organs in plants-a function previously thought to be limited to stem cells-researchers at NYUs Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have found. The findings, which suggest that some roles of stem cells in organ regeneration may be shared by other types of cells, are published in the latest issue of the journal Nature.
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NYU School of Law's Center On the Administration of Criminal Law Files Amicus Brief in Blackwater Case

Jan 28, 2009
New York University School of Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law filed an amicus curiae brief yesterday in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The brief supports the U.S. government’s prosecution of five former Blackwater Worldwide security guards who are charged with voluntary manslaughter and other crimes stemming from their involvement in a 2007 shooting incident in a Baghdad square in which they are accused of killing 14 unarmed civilians.
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NYU's Performance Studies Department and the Polish Cultural Institute Co-Present a Panel Discussion and Screening Devoted to Jerzy Grotowski

Jan 29, 2009
Feb. 6 Event Opens a Celebration Honoring the Work and Legacy of The World-Renowned Polish Theatre Director; The panel, entitled The Theatre of Thirteen Rows (1959) and The Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw (2009), will take place Friday, February 6, 2009, from 7:30 - 11:00 P.M., at the Cantor Film Center, located at 36 East 8th Street, New York. The event is free and open to the public.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU’s 194 Recordings Spins Charity Event to Benefit Notes for Peace, Feb. 4

Jan 29, 2009
194 RECORDINGS, the new record label for New York Universitys Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts, will host its first charity event to benefit the non-profit organization Notes for Peace on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Sullivan Hall in New York. The event will present four bands performing their own music.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU and Yeshiva University Create Partnership to Encourage Math and Science Teachers

Jan 29, 2009
In an effort to increase the number of highly qualified teachers of math and science in middle and high schools, New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and Yeshiva University have created a partnership allowing eligible men and women from its Yeshiva College and Stern College of Women to take undergraduate education courses at NYU Steinhardt during their junior and senior years. Students who complete credits in the program will then be eligible to apply for admission to Steinhardt’s Master of Arts program in math or science education with reduced credit requirements.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
Two NYU Freshmen From Kanbar Institute Named Finalists in mtvU Oscars® Correspondent Contest

Jan 30, 2009
Two freshmen film students from New York Universitys Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in the Tisch School of the Arts have been named one of the top ten finalist teams in the first-ever Oscar Correspondent Contest, giving college journalists nationwide the chance to head to Los Angeles to cover red carpet festivities and backstage celebrations at the 81st Academy Awards. The Kanbar students are Diana Snyder, anchor, and Mike Ren, videographer.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU's Brademas Center Releases Bipartisan Report On How to Enable Congress to Legislate for the Future

Jan 30, 2009
The John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service released today a bipartisan white paper offering recommendations to Members of Congress and their staffs for changing the way Congress operates in order to enable the legislative branch to bring into focus — and tackle — the enormous challenges of the future facing the American people.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
NYU Celebrates Publication of Agha Shahid Alis The Veiled Suite with Special Poetry Readings, Feb. 27

Feb 2, 2009
In celebration of the publication of The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems of Agha Shahid Ali, New York Universitys Creative Writing Program will host the fourth Agha Shahid Ali Memorial Reading on Friday, February 27, at 7 p.m, NYU Silver Center, Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East. It is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by W. W. Norton & Company.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU School of Law's Institute for International Law and Justice and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Host "International Criminal Justice: Does It Work?" Feb. 11

Feb 2, 2009
The lecture, called “International Criminal Justice: Does It Work?” will take place on Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Floor (between W. 3rd Street and Washington Square South). The event is open to the public, who must RSVP to ryank@exchange.law.nyu.edu. To make a press reservation, please contact Jason Casell at 212.998.6849 or jason.casell@nyu.edu.
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NYU Professors Participate in National Teach-In for Climate Change, Feb. 5

Feb 2, 2009
NYU faculty are being asked to participate in the national Teach-In by dedicating class lectures for one day to an environmental issue within their subject matter, in order to foster thinking about practical solutions. Professors from the Environmental Studies Program will also lead an engaging afternoon of panel discussions. For more information please visit http://www.nyu.edu/sustainability
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Top Policy Experts Call for Major Overhaul of Federal Student Aid, Feb. 26

Feb 2, 2009
New York University’s Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy Hosts “Rethinking Student Aid” Policy Breakfast, Thurs. Feb. 26 at 8:30 a.m.. To reserve a seat, interested reporters are asked to call Tim Farrell in the NYU Office of Public Affairs at 212.998.6797 or email at tim.farrell@nyu.edu
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Former Rabin Advisor to Deliver Post-Election Lecture, "New Leadership in Israel and the Peace Process," Feb. 17 at NYU

Feb 4, 2009
Yoram Peri, former political advisor to the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will deliver a public lecture, “New Leadership in Israel and the Peace Process,” on Tuesday, February 17, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at New York University’s Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East, NYC. The lecture, which follows Israel’s February 10 election, is sponsored by NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies. For more information, call 212.998.8981.
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NYU-SCPS to Hold Panel Discussion More Than Comic Books: Graphic Novels and Non-Novels

Feb 6, 2009
As lovers of comic books grow up, they do not face the end of their animated interests, but rather the allure of genre: the graphic novel. In this panel discussion, two leading authors and commentators, Jonathon Ames and Jessica Abel, of the graphic novel world will join Moderator Peter Sanderson of SCPS in a discussion of the graphic novel and non-novels. The event is free and open to the public.
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Photo Exhibition, "Scenes of Bravery and Determination," On View at NYU Through May

Feb 6, 2009
A special photographic exhibition, “Scenes of Bravery and Determination: Walter Rosenblum’s Homage to the Refugees of the Spanish Civil War,” is currently on display at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, located at 53 Washington Square South, through May, 2009. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. For further information, call 212.998.3650 or visit http://www.nyu.edu/kjc
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Works by 10 Graduating Seniors in the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts to Go On View

Feb 6, 2009
Entitled, SHOW II, the exhibition is the second in a series of four that will eventually showcase the work of the entire graduating class. It is installed in the Gulf + Western Gallery (rear lobby) and the 8th Floor Gallery at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). For further information, call 212.998.1930.
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"Hauntings: Memory, Patrimony, and the Contested Past" Lecture Series at NYU in March & April

Feb 6, 2009
“Hauntings: Memory, Patrimony, and the Contested Past,” a special lecture series focusing on the conceptualizations and practices of memory work, takes place in March and April at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South. The series is free and open to the public; for further information, the public may call 212.998.3650.
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NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Hosts “A Conversation with Singer/Songwriter Jovanotti” Feb. 20

Feb 6, 2009
In a special event hosted by New York Universitys Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, popular Italian singer/songwriter Lorenzo Cherubini (aka Jovanotti) will talk about music, videos, and cinema with Stefano Albertini, director of Casa Italiana, and Antonio Monda, NYU Tisch School film professor. A Conversation with Jovanotti takes place at Casa Italiana (24 W. 12th Street) on Friday, February 20, at 6 p.m., following his U.S. debut concerts on February 18 and 19. It is free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8730.
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Hot Peas 'N Butter Performs World Music for Kids at NYU's Skirball Center, Mar. 28

Feb 6, 2009
The sounds of world music for kids will fill the auditorium when the New York-based band Hot Peas ‘N Butter performs for one show only at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 28 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South). Tickets are $22 and are available at http://www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu
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Author, Humanitarian Aid Worker to Present On New Book 'the Thin Blue Line: The Militarization of Humanitarian Aid,' Feb. 12

Feb 9, 2009
NYU’s Master’s Program in Global Public Health will present a discussion of the newly published book “The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War,” by its author, Conor Foley. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 5 p.m. at New York University’s Kimball Hall Lounge, 246 Greene Street, New York, N.Y., concluding at 6:30 p.m. To RSVP, visit www.nyu.edu/mph/events.
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“Food & Celebration: A Long History of What Brings Us Together” at NYU, Mar. 5

Feb 9, 2009
New York Universitys Fales Library will host a panel discussion, Food & Celebration: A Long History of What Brings Us Together, on Thursday, March 5, at 4 p.m. The event takes place at Fales, third floor, NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. It is free for those with an NYU I.D.; for the public, a $10 donation is suggested. For reservations, call 212.992.9018.
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Affirmative Action in the Age of Obama, Feb. 12

Feb 9, 2009
The Women of Color Policy Network, a research center the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, will present a forum entitled “Are We there Yet: Affirmative Action in the Age of Obama,” on Thursday, February 12, 2009, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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The Global Crises in Fuel Prices and Access to Food, Feb. 18

Feb 9, 2009
On Wednesday, February 18, 2009, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University will host four noted experts to discuss the global crises of food access and fuel prices. The forum, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the historic Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street (@ Houston), 2nd Floor, New York, N.Y. To RSVP, please visit http://wagner.nyu.edu/events/globalhealth-02-18-2009
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NYU’s Fusion Film Festival to Celebrate its Sixth Year, Feb 26-28

Feb 10, 2009
New York Universitys Fusion Film Festival, a student-run event in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts celebrating the work of women filmmakers, will mark its sixth anniversary when it unspools from February 26 through 28, 2009. The Festival theme this year is entitled Women Behind the Camera and honors the work of women cinematographers.
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NYU's Mary Schmidt Campbell Elected Trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Feb 10, 2009
Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, was recently elected to the board of trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution based in New York City. She joins the Sloan Foundation’s 12-member board immediately.
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Research Reveals Best Paths for Success as Microfinance Sector Grows

Feb 11, 2009
As the microfinance sector passes the 150 million customer mark, an intense debate continues over the movement toward greater commercialization of an arena once led by nonprofits. Microfinance Meets the Market, just published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, advances the debate, presenting new research from Jonathan Morduch of the Financial Access Initiative, housed at New York Universitys Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Robert Cull and Asli Demirgüç-Kunt of the World Bank. The research reveals complementary paths to a successful expansion of the microfinance industry.
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NYU Symphony Orchestra Presents "Music and the Movies: The Leonard Rosenman Legacy," March 2

Feb 11, 2009
The New York University Symphony Orchestra, under conductor Scott Dunn, will present a musical and film tribute honoring the late Leonard Rosenman, the legendary concert and film composer, on Monday, March 2 at 8:00 p.m. The concert will take place at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South). The event is free and open to the public.
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80 Washington Square East Galleries Presents 32nd Annual Small Works Exhibition, thru March 13

Feb 12, 2009
For over three decades the Small Works show has provided a visual forum for both established and undiscovered artists working in small format. This juried exhibit includes artworks in every medium imaginable, and offers an opportunity to see together in one place in New York City hundreds of artworks selected from thousands of local and international entries. The exhibition is free and open to the public. The gallery is open Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wednesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, the public can call 212.998.5747.
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NYU Hosts “CEOs in the Arts” Event with Emily K. Rafferty and Karen Brooks Hopkins, Feb 27

Feb 12, 2009
New York Universitys CEO in the Arts Series will present two prominent New York City arts leaders, Emily K. Rafferty of the Metropolitan Museum of Art interviewed by Karen Brooks Hopkins of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in a one-on-one dialogue on the challenges confronting arts institutions today. The event, on February 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at NYUs Einstein Auditorium, 34 Stuyvesant Street at E. 9th Street and Third Avenue, is free and open to the public. For more information about the event, contact 212.998.5799.
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Where is Moral Courage in Journalism Today? Irshad Manji Speaks with Christiane Amanpour, Feb. 18

Feb 13, 2009
On Wednesday, February 18, 2009, please join NYU Wagners Irshad Manji as she tackles the need for moral courage in journalism with CNNs Christiane Amanpour. Moral courage is the willingness to speak truth to power for the sake of a greater good, even at the price of personal backlash.. The conversation will begin at 8:00 p.m. at the 92nd Street Y, located on Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan.
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NYU, Nanjing University Chemists Create Two-Armed Nanorobotic Device to Maneuver World's Tiniest Particles

Feb 15, 2009
Chemists at New York University and China’s Nanjing University have developed a two-armed nanorobotic device that can manipulate molecules within a device built from DNA. The device is described in the latest issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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Film Screening: The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality, and Relationships at United Nations, March 6

Feb 17, 2009
The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women will be holding a screening of New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies Professor Chyng Suns film The Price of Pleasure: Pornography, Sexuality and Relationships (2008, 55 mins) on March 6, 2009, at 4pm, 777 UN Plaza, 2nd Floor, NYC. A Q&A session and reception will follow the screening.
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NYU School of Law's U.S.-Asia Law Institute and Columbia Law School's Center for Chinese Legal Studies Host "China's Changing Courts: Populist Vehicle or Party Puppet?" Feb. 19

Feb 17, 2009
New York University School of Law’s U.S.-Asia Law Institute and Columbia Law School’s Center for Chinese Legal Studies will host a panel discussion with leading academics in Chinese law called “China’s Changing Courts: Populist Vehicle or Party Puppet?” on Thursday, February 19, 2008, at NYU School of Law, Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street (between Sullivan and Macdougal Streets).
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Evolutionary Biologist Judson to Deliver Darwin Bicentennial Lecture March 26 at NYU

Feb 18, 2009
Evolutionary biologist Olivia Judson, author of Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation, will deliver a public lecture, “The Art of Seduction: Sex, Evolution, and the Public,” on Thursday, March 26, 4 p.m. at New York University’s Jurow Lecture Hall (Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East [at Washington Pl.], First Floor). NYU ID required for entry.
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NYU's Glucksman Ireland House Hosts Special Events in March

Feb 18, 2009
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in March, including a discussion of the new book, The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and the Irish Revolution, with author and BBC foreign correspondent Maurice Walsh and Pete Hamill, on March 19. Admission 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
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NYU's Center for Global Affairs Announces Its March 2009 Events

Feb 18, 2009
The NYU Center for Global Affairs at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies announces its March 2009 schedule of events and lectures. NYU’s Global Affairs events are free and open to the public. Space is limited and reservations are required. Register by phone at (212) 992-8380 or e-mail your details to scps.global.affairs@nyu.edu Unless otherwise indicated, all public events are held at the Center for Global Affairs, Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay Street, 4th Floor (between Broadway and Church Street).
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NYU Statement on Events at Universitys Kimmel Center

Feb 20, 2009

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2009 Leadership in Transportation Awards Will Be Presented Feb. 24 by NYU Wagner Rudin Center

Feb 21, 2009
On Tuesday evening, February 24, the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, and its Council on Transportation, will honor four transportation leaders and one regional agency with their annual Leadership in Transportation awards. The ceremony will begin at 6:00 p.m. at New York University’s Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion, 60 Washington Square South, New York, N.Y.
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One Oscar and Five Spirit Awards Go to NYU Tisch School of the Arts Alumni and Students

Feb 23, 2009
New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ alumnus Victor J. Zolfo ‘85 won an Oscar for Achievement in Art Direction for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at the 81st annual Academy Award ceremony last night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Zolfo is a graduate of the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television’s Undergraduate Film division.
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NYU’s Maison Française Hosts Special Events in March

Feb 23, 2009
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in March, including screenings of two recent French films as part of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2009 on March 7 and 9, followed by Q&As with the films directors. Events take place at La Maison Française and are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. For further information, call 212.998.8750,
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Festival of New French Writing: French and American Authors in Conversation, Feb. 26-28

Feb 24, 2009
NYU’s Center for French Civilization and Culture, CulturesFrance and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy will host the ” Festival of New French Writing,” a three-day event, February 26-28, 2009, with internationally acclaimed French and American writers in conversation.
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Public Lecture, “A Moment in Time: Radical Feminism and Jewish Women,” by Brandeis Scholar Joyce Antler, March 8 at NYU

Feb 24, 2009
The lecture, sponsored by New York Universitys Goldstein-Goren Center for American Jewish History, is on Sunday, March 8, 3 P.M. at NYUs King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South. The lecture is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to 212.998.8981 or gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu
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NYU to Honor President Emeritus L. Jay Oliva with a 50th Anniversary Celebration

Feb 24, 2009
Appearances of Notable Alumni and Friends On-Stage, Including Performances by Neil Diamond, Elena Shaddow, Peter Lockyer, and Todd Alsup; The Tribute, “NYU Alumni & Friends Salute the Doc,” Will Take Place in The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, March 23
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"Negotiating Peace with Syria-Past Lessons, Future Promise," Former Ambassadors to U.S. And Israel in Public Dialogue, March 12 at NYU

Feb 24, 2009
Martin Indyk, U.S. ambassador to Israel during the Clinton Administration, and Itamar Rabinovich, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States during the Rabin government, will discuss “Negotiating Peace with Syria-Lessons from the Past, Promises for the Future” in a public dialogue on Thursday, March 12, 7:00-8:30 p.m. at New York University (19 University Place, Room 102 [at E. 8th Street]). The dialogue and following book signing, which are free and open to the public; RSVP to fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu or 212.998.8981.
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Jazz Mandolin Project Adds Modern Twist in a Multimedia Performance of Leo Tolstoy's How Much Land Does a Man Need? At NYU's Skirball Center, Apr 24

Feb 24, 2009
The Jazz Mandolin Project, comprising Jamie Masefield and his trio of musicians, utilizes literature, video, and live musical accompaniment in a unique combination to retell Leo Tolstoy’s famous short story How Much Land Does a Man Need? The performance is for one night only Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m. at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University.
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Move Over, Mrs. Markham, the British Farce Filled with Extra-Marital High Jinks, Romps Onto the Stage of NYU’s Skirball Center for Two Nights, April 1&2

Feb 25, 2009
Move Over, Mrs. Markham, written by Ray Cooney and John Chapman, and directed by Erich Rettstadt, will run for two nights, April 1 & 2, the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place. Curtain is 8pm. Tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students with valid ID. For more information, call 212.352.3101 or visit www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu
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NYU Presents 3rd New Writers Showcase. March 2

Feb 25, 2009
One Night Performance Targets L.A. Entertainment Industry for Emerging Alumni Talent; Open to the public, $10 suggested donation; Industry comps available; Not open to review. The one-night showcase is a co-production of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, The Tisch West Alumni Council, the NYU Writers Lab West, and The Tisch Grad Collective.
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Bill T. Jones Celebrates 25th Anniversary at NYU’s Skirball Center, March 10

Feb 25, 2009
Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Bill T. Jones will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in a retrospective dialogue with long-time collaborators at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University.
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NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Announces the 67th Annual First Run Film Festival for March 25-29

Feb 26, 2009
Over 130 Films Competing for $50,000 in Cash Awards; Public Screenings at NYU’s Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street, NYC
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NYU's Deutsches Haus Hosts Special Events in March

Feb 26, 2009
Deutsches Haus at New York University, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in March, including a March 10th panel discussion, “Media Walls - Media Escapes,” remembering the Berlin Wall and East German television 20 years later. The events are free and open to the public and take place at Deutsches Haus. For further information, call 212.998.8663.
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NYU Researchers Question Effectiveness of Surveillance Cameras in Reducing Crime

Feb 26, 2009
Despite the increased use of electronic surveillance devices, including closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, in public and privately owned housing complexes in New York City, there is little evidence that such sophisticated electronic monitoring reduces the incidence of crime, according to an impact analysis by researchers at New York University. The results of the study were published in the February 2009 issue of Evaluation Review.
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NYU’s 2009 Stahl Lecture Series, “Jewish Youth, Cultural Citizenship, and the Post-War Period in the United States,” March 23-April 2

Feb 27, 2009
New York Universitys Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies will host the Benita and Sigmund Stahl Lecture Program in Jewish Studies, March 23, March 26, March 31, and April 2, at venues on the NYU campus. The theme of this years lecture series, which is free and open to the public, is Jewish Youth, Cultural Citizenship, and the Post-War Period in the United States. Call 212.998.8981.
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NYU School of Laws Federalist Society and Templeton Debate and Lecture Series on Law and Wealth Creation Host Tax Provisions in the Stimulus Bill: A Debate, Mar. 2

Feb 27, 2009
The panel, called Tax Provisions in the Stimulus Bill: A Debate, will take place on Monday, March 2, 2009, at NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, Room 216, 245 Sullivan Street (between Washington Square South and W. 3rd Street). The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please e-mail jlb606@ nyu.edu or stimulusdebate@gmail.com
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Mar 1, 2009
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NYUs Gallatin School to Host Two-Day Conference, Darwin and the Boundaries of Knowledge, April 17 & 18

Mar 2, 2009
NYUs Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host Darwin and the Boundaries of Knowledge, a two-day conference examining how Charles Darwin broke previously existing barriers between science and religion, speculation and theory, and the past and the present, on Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18 at NYUs Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, 715 Broadway, NYC.
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Performance Artist Laurie Anderson Will Be Visiting Artist in Residence in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program Fall 2009

Mar 2, 2009
The Visiting Artist Residency will offer Anderson, herself a pioneering artist in multimedia and performance art, the chance to share ideas with ITP faculty and students, and for them to in turn be inspired by her creative process. “Laurie Anderson will bring an extraordinary new dimension to the ITP creative community — we feel very fortunate to have her here” said ITP Tokyo Broadcasting System Chair Red Burns.
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Fifteen NYU and Poly Faculty Collaborations Awarded Research Funding

Mar 3, 2009
NYU Provost David McLaughlin and Poly Provost Erich Kunhardt today announced the first 15 research collaborations between NYU and NYU-Poly faculty to receive “seed” funding from a special competitive research pool established as part of the affiliation between the two institutions. The grants are meant to strengthen collaborations between the schools and serve as a platform for seeking future extramural funding.
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Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Scholars Meet US Ambassador to the UAE

Mar 3, 2009
The 16 students that comprise the inaugural class of the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed University Scholars Program today met with the United States Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Richard Olson, as part of an intensive leadership development course provided under the program. The Scholars Program is a major initiative of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, which was established in the fall of 2008 to jump-start academic and intellectual activities while the NYU Abu Dhabi campus is being developed.
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Sudan’s President Bashir and the International Criminal Court Focus of NYU Roundtable, March 4

Mar 4, 2009
New York Universitys Institute for Public Knowledge will host a roundtable discussion on the International Criminal Court and Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, on Wednesday, March 4, 4-5 p.m., 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Conference Room (between 5th and 6th Streets). The public may call 212.377.2700. The event is co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.
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"Dead Aid," with African Aid Experts Dambisa Moyo and William Easterly, at NYU, March 26

Mar 5, 2009
New York University’s Development Research Institute will host a Templeton Book Forum, “Dead Aid,” with African aid experts Dambisa Moyo and NYU Economics Professor William Easterly on Thursday, March 26, 7-8:30 p.m. at NYU’s School of Law, Furman Hall, Room 216, 245 Sullivan Street, NYC. Please RSVP to bookforum@templeton.org. For more information, call 610.941.4050.
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Conference on Academic Freedom at NYU, Apr. 3

Mar 5, 2009
The second annual conference on academic freedom hosted by New York Universitys Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center will take place on Friday, April 3, at NYUs Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South (at La Guardia Place), room 905/907. Conference sessions are free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, email zk3@nyu.edu; or phone 212.992.7050.
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NYU College of Dentistry Awarded $1.9 Million NIH Grant for HIV Research

Mar 5, 2009
Seeking to shed new light on HIVs ability to survive in the body and cause disease, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH has awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant to an AIDS research team at the New York University College of Dentistry to continue its study of a new mode of HIV replication that involves cooperation between viruses.
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NYU Sociologists Map Trajectory for Gap in Black and White Students' Test Scores to Early Home Environment

Mar 6, 2009
New York University sociologists have mapped out the trajectory for the long-standing gap between black and white students’ test scores. Their findings, which appear in the journal Social Science Research, show that the early childhood home environment accounts for much of this gap that exists before starting school and in early school years-and which becomes more pronounced in later years. The researchers found that the impact of the home environment on test scores diminishes after grammar school.
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Scientists Identify the Neural Circuitry of First Impressions

Mar 8, 2009
Neuroscientists at New York University and Harvard University have identified the neural systems involved in forming first impressions of others. The findings, which show how we encode social information and then evaluate it in making these initial judgments, are reported in the most recent issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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Anthony E. Shorris Named New Director of NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management

Mar 9, 2009
Anthony E. Shorris has been named the new Director of the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. In addition, Shorris has been appointed Professor of Practice at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
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To: All NYU StudentsSafety During Your Spring Break Travels

Mar 9, 2009
Memo to all NYU students: Safety During Your Spring Break Travels from Jules Martin, VP for Public Safety and Linda Mills, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and University Life.
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"Memoria Negra" - Film & Discussion - Examines Colonial Legacy in Equatorial Guinea at NYU, Mar. 31

Mar 10, 2009
A special screening of the 2007 documentary film, Memoria Negra, directed by Xavier Montanyà, will be hosted by New York University’s Catalan Center on Tuesday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m., as part of the Center’s series, “Traveling Shots: Catalan Directors See the World.” The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square North. For further information, call 212.998.8255.
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José Alvarez, Leading Scholar of International Law, to Join NYU School of Law

Mar 10, 2009
Professor José Alvarez, Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and the executive director of the Center on Global Legal Problems at Columbia Law School, will join NYU School of Law as a permanent member of the faculty in the fall.
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NYU Professor Finds Federal Disaster Relief Law Fails to Recognize Modern Threats or Provide Adequate Recovery Aid

Mar 11, 2009
In new research published in the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, New York University Professor Mitchell Moss explains that the cornerstone Federal disaster relief legislation, the Robert T. Stafford Act, is dangerously out of date, and must be reformed to provide for rapid relief after a catastrophe.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
Connectivity in Random Networks Can Be Suppressed, but with Explosive Consequences

Mar 12, 2009
The teams findings-described in a paper with an accompanying commentary in the March 13 issue of the journal Science-could be useful in a number of fields: from efforts by epidemiologists to control the spread of disease to communications experts developing new products.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
Award-Winning Poet Sharon Olds to Read at NYU, Apr. 2

Mar 13, 2009
Sharon Olds, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, former New York State Poet Laureate, and Erich Maria Remarque Professor of English at New York University, will read from her new collection of poems, One Secret Thing (Knopf), on Thursday, April 2, at 7 p.m. The reading takes place at NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall, Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Square South (at MacDougal Street). It is free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8816.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU to Host “Writing Science: Mathematical and Medical Authorship in Ancient Greece,” April 23-24

Mar 13, 2009
New York University will host the 2009 Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies, Writing Science: Mathematical and Medical Authorship in Ancient Greece, on April 23 (5:30-7 p.m.) and April 24 (9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.) at NYUs Hemmerdinger Hall in Silver Center (enter at 31 Washington Place [between Washington Square East and Greene Street]).
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NYU to Produce Candide, April 2 - 5

Mar 16, 2009
New York University’s Program in Vocal Performance will present Candide from April 2 - April 5 at the Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street. Tickets are $20 general admission and $5 with valid NYU ID. For tickets, the public can call (212) 868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com. The show runs April 2 - 4 at 8:00 p.m. and April 5 at 3:00 p.m.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions | Press Release
“Thinking Like a Trader” May Diminish Emotional Reaction and Aversion to Loss

Mar 16, 2009
The late 1990s saw the rise not only of the NASDAQ, the Dow, and the S & P 500, but also of amateur traders-individuals not formally trained to work in the unpredictable world of the stock market-to complement seasoned professionals. Beyond the differences in their credentials, a study led by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and New York University suggests that taking the perspective of a professional trader may alter the emotional reaction to losing money and result in different choices. Their findings appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Liam Clancy Launches “The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem in Person at Carnegie Hall: The Complete 1963 Concert” at NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House, Mar. 28

Mar 16, 2009
Admission is free to this special event n Saturday, March 28, at 7 p.m. . It is expected that full capacity will be reached quickly. RSVPS are required. To reserve a seat, call 212.998.3950 or email ireland.house@nyu.edu.
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NYU Creative Writing Program Spring Reading Series Continues in April

Mar 17, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program Spring Reading Series continues in April with a number of special readings and events. All events take place in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Leading International Law Scholar Ryan Goodman to Join NYU School of Law Faculty

Mar 17, 2009
Professor Ryan Goodman, the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, will join NYU Law as a permanent member of the faculty this fall. He will also be an associated member of the department of sociology and an affiliated member of the department of politics at NYU.
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Traffic and Parking Advisory for March 18-March 21: Street Closures and Parking Restrictions Around Washington Square Park

Mar 17, 2009
On Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20 there will be periodic street closures and parking restrictions as per the New York City Mayors Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting in and around the Washington Square Park vicinity. These closures and restrictions will affect both vehicular and pedestrian traffic during the filming of a motion picture. Additionally, temporary parking restrictions as per the Mayors Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting will be posted in and around Washington Square Park. For any questions on filming, please contact Incantation Productions, Inc./Steiner Studios at 917.671.5387.
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NYU's Deutsches Haus Hosts Special Events in April

Mar 17, 2009
Deutsches Haus at New York University, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in April, including a lecture on April 9 by David Crowley from London’s Royal College of Art. Events are free and open to the public and take place at Deutsches Haus, unless otherwise noted. For further information, call 212.998.8663 or visit www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus
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"Is There a Future for the Literary Novel?" NYU's Fales Library Hosts Panel Discussion, Apr. 14

Mar 17, 2009
“Is There a Future for the Literary Novel?” will be the topic under discussion when New York University’s Fales Library presents its 2009 Fales Lecture in English and American Literature on Tuesday, April 14, 6:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at Fales, 3rd floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. To RSVP, call 212.992.9018 or email rsvp.bobst@nyu.edu.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Small Business Assistance Forum at NYU, March 30

Mar 17, 2009
On Monday, March 30th, 2009, at NYUs Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, between La Guardia Place and Thompson Street, rooms 912 and 914, NYUs Small Business Assistance Forum will offer information on existing resources for small businesses, marketing strategies, business coaching, and policy and legislation to assist small businesses. Registration begins at 9:30 am; speakers begin at 10:00am and continue until 12:30 pm.
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Two Beloved Bedtime Stories, Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, Brought to Life at NYUs Skirball Center, May 9

Mar 19, 2009
The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, known for its innovative puppetry, striking scenic effects, and evocative original music to provide very young audiences with an effortless introduction to the performing arts and the excitement of reading, will bring to life two beloved bedtime stories-Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny-for one show only on Saturday, May 9 at 11 a.m., at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University. Tickets for the show are $22 and are available at www.skirballcenter.nyu.edu, by phone at (212) 352-3101, or at the box office from noon to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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NYU Appoints Patricia Rubin, Italian Renaissance Scholar, as New Director of the Institute of Fine Arts

Mar 20, 2009
New York University President John Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin today announced the appointment of Patricia Lee Rubin as the new Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of NYUs renowned Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), its distinguished center for research and graduate study for the history or art, archaeology, conservation, and museum curatorship. Rubins appointment becomes effective September 1, 2009.
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NYU's Department of Photography & Imaging Announces a New Program in Photography and Human Rights in Partnership with the Magnum Foundation

Mar 20, 2009
The Department of Photography and Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has announced a new partnership with the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting documentary photography, to create a new certificate program in Photography and Human Rights. The new initiative, comprising four courses offered in two successive summers, is designed to explore strategies to create effective documentary projects linked with issues of human rights.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security Hosts “Flash Point: India, Pakistan, and Kashmir” Apr. 1

Mar 23, 2009
New York University School of Laws Center on Law and Security and Asia Society will host Flash Point: India, Pakistan, and Kashmir on Wednesday, April 1, 2009, from 6:00-7:30 p.m. at NYU School of Law, Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street (between Sullivan and Macdougal Streets). The event is free and open to the public.
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Safety of Older Adult Patients Is the Theme of Annual NICHE Conference at NYU

Mar 23, 2009
More than 300 nurses and other health professionals from 92 hospitals attended the twelfth annual conference of NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), held February 23 to 26 in Orlando, Florida. The theme of the conference was Patient Safety: Evidence-Based Solutions for Quality Geriatric Care. NICHE is based at The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing.
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College of Nursing | Press Release
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Speak at NYU’s 2009 Commencement

Mar 23, 2009
NYU President John Sexton and Board of Trustees Chairman Martin Lipton today announced the names of those to be honored at the Universitys 177th Commencement Exercises, which will be held Wednesday, May 13th, in Yankee Stadium.
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NYU's Glucksman Ireland House Hosts Special Events in April

Mar 24, 2009
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in April, including a lecture by Marquette University professor Michael Patrick Gillespie on “The Myth of an Irish Cinema” on April 8. Events take place at Ireland House, unless otherwise noted. Admission 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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NYU’s Maison Française Hosts Special Events in April and May

Mar 24, 2009
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in April and May, including a conference, Land of Refuge, Land of Exile: French Writers and Artists in the U.S. during the Occupation Years, April 16-18, which features a performance, in French, by Olivier Py, director of the Théàtre National de lOdéon. Events are free and open to the public and take place at La Maison Française, unless otherwise noted. For further information, call 212.998.8750
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NYU Tisch School of the Arts Partners with Hallmark Movie Channel to Showcase Student Films

Mar 25, 2009
The Tisch School of the Arts and its Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at New York University have announced that it will partner with the Hallmark Movie Channel to showcase short films from the talented student and alumni filmmakers of the well known school. The films will be selected by a panel of judges. Actor Alec Baldwin 94 (30 Rock), alumnus of the Tisch School and co-chair of the Schools Deans Council, will serve on the panel.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
Neuroscientists Identify Physiological Link Between Trial and Error and Learning

Mar 25, 2009
Learning through trial and error often requires subjects to establish new physiological links by using information about trial outcome to strengthen correct responses or modify incorrect responses. New findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal Neuron, establish a physiological measure linking trial outcome and learning.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
Living Migration: Spanning the Local & Global Divide, Apr. 3

Mar 25, 2009
On Friday April 3, 2009, NYU Wagner’s International Public Service Association (IPSA) Spring Conference will host a panel discussion entitled “Living Migration: Spanning the Local & Global Divide,” from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the 9th floor of Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, New York, N.Y., with a keynote address by Guillermo Linares, Commissioner of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Culture in Community Development: Downtown Brooklyn and Newark, March 30

Mar 25, 2009
On Monday, March 30, 2009, NYU Wagner student organizations The Student Network Exploring Arts and Culture, The Wagner Policy Alliance, and The Urban Planning Student Association will host three noted experts in a panel discussion entitled “Culture in Community Development: Downtown Brooklyn and Newark.” Dr. Robert Curvin, Tamara Greenfield and Katie Dixon will convene at 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Rudin Center for Civic Dialogue, Puck Building 2nd floor, 295 Lafayette St, New York N.Y., following breakfast at 8 a.m.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Mathematician Mikhail Gromov Wins 2009 Abel Prize

Mar 26, 2009
Abel Laureate-Winner of $950,000 Purse-to Be Available to Press at Celebration Today, March 26, 4 p.m. EDT, in His Honor
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NYU Wagner's Research Center for Leadership in Action to Present 'Healing the Trauma of Humanity's Failure: A Way Forward for Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide,' April 1

Mar 27, 2009
The thought-provoking, interactive discussion will be led by Mary Blewitt from 9 a.m. - 11 am. in the Rudin Family Forum at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School for Public Service at New York University, 295 Lafayette Street (at Houston), 2nd Floor, New York, NY.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Wagner to Host the 13th Annual Kovner/Behrman Health Forum: 'Changing the Culture of Large Organizations,' March 31

Mar 27, 2009
On Tuesday, March 31, 2009, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University will host the 13th Annual Kovner/Behrman Health Forum with a discussion entitled “Changing the Culture of Large Organizations.” The prestigious forum convenes at 6:00 p.m. at NYU Wagner, 295 Lafayette Street (at Houston), 2nd Floor, New York, NY.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
"Land of Refuge, Land of Exile: French Writers & Artists in the U.S. During the Occupation Years" at NYU, Apr. 16-18

Mar 27, 2009
New York University’s Center for French Civilization and Culture will host a three-day conference, “Land of Refuge, Land of Exile: French Writers and Artists in the U.S. During the Occupation Years / Terre d’accueil, terre d’exil: Ecrivains et artistes Français aux États-Unis pendant l’Occupation,” on Thursday, April 16 through Saturday, April 18. Most events take place at NYU’s Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews (at University Place) and are free and open to the public; sessions are in both French and English. For more information on the conference, call 212.998.8750.
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Game Center Announces First Series of Lecturers

Mar 27, 2009
The NYU Game Center, an independent multi-school center at New York University for the research, design, and development of digital games, established in fall 2008, has announced its first series of guest lecturers. The lecturers represent scholars, creators, and thinkers in the field of games. The talks will take the format of a discussion and audiences are encouraged to join the conversation.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Luc Sante, Gilles Peress, Lawrence Weschler Respond to David Maisel's "Library of Dust" Photos, April 13

Mar 27, 2009
Luc Sante, Gilles Peress, Lawrence Weschler, and others respond to David Maisel’s stunning photographs of unclaimed remains from an Oregon psychiatric hospital in “Library of Dust,” an event organized by the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, on Monday, April 13, 7 p.m., at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts (172 Norfolk Street, below East Houston Street/between Essex and Suffolk Streets). The event, which will include an appearance by Maisel, is free and open to the public.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
College of Dentistry Awarded $1 Million Grant for Stem Cell Research

Mar 30, 2009
The New York State Department of Health recently awarded an NYU dental research team a three-year, $1 million grant to study the potential use of stem cells to regenerate facial muscles to enable people with traumatic injuries to speak, eat, and smile normally again. The team, led by Dr. Louis Terracio, Associate Dean for Research, plans to extract a small number of stem cells from the facial muscle of a pig, grow the cells into facial muscle on a tissue scaffold to develop a prosthesis, and transplant the prosthesis onto the pig’s face to repair damaged muscle.
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NYU Sustainability Task Force Releases University-Wide Environmental Assessment Report

Mar 30, 2009
The NYU Sustainability Task Force has released its first annual Environmental Assessment, a document which includes reports, evaluations, and recommendations about NYUs environmental impact.
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Keeping Nurses on the Job: Retention is Part of the Answer to the Nursing Shortage

Mar 30, 2009
A new research study, published in the March/April issue of the journal Nursing Economics, has determined what factors can help keep new nurses from leaving their jobs and - in doing so - save health systems money. When nurses leave for another position or retire early, it dramatically affects a hospitals bottom line - as much as 5 percent of a hospitals budget may go to paying for nursing turnover costs.
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College of Nursing, Research | Press Release
NYU Celebrates Earth Day 2009 with a Street Fair, Lectures, and Green Projects

Mar 30, 2009
On April 22nd, New York University will participate in the 39th annual Earth Day celebration with a street fair, lectures, green projects, and an environmental networking dinner. We kick-off the celebration early with a week-long schedule of events, including a lecture by Oxford Universitys climate change expert Cameron Hepburn, Beating Long Odds: A New Global Deal on Climate Change, will be held on Tuesday, April 21, 6:00 pm, at the Gould Welcome Center, 50 West 4th Street, NYC.
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Specialty Nursing Associations Endorse Global Vision Statement On Care of Older Adults

Mar 30, 2009
Twenty-eight national nursing organizations, including twenty-one specialty associations and seven members of the Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations (CGNO), have endorsed the Specialty Nursing Association Global Vision Statement on Care of Older Adults. The statement and a list of its endorsers follow this release.
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College of Nursing, Research | Press Release
4th Annual NYC Oral Cancer Walk on April 18

Mar 30, 2009
On Saturday, April 18, 2009, students from New York University College of Dentistry and from other local chapters of the Student National Dental Association (SNDA), in partnership with the Harlem Hospital Center, the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, NYU, Columbia University, and Renaissance Health Care Network, will lead New York Citys fourth annual Oral Cancer Walk to raise awareness of a disease that kills over 7,000 American men and women each year.
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College of Dentistry, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Conference Explores How Religion and Culture Have Shaped Europe’s Boundaries, April 3

Mar 30, 2009
New York Universitys Center for European and Mediterranean Studies will host The Boundaries of Europe: Religious Identities, State-Church-Party Relations, and the European Project on Friday, April 3, 9:15 a.m. to 6 p.m. (285 Mercer Street [between Waverly Place and Washington Place], 7th Floor Conference Room). The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.3838. Subway: R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place).
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU College of Dentistry's Dr. Donna Shelley, Smoking Cessation Expert, Available to Comment On the April 1st Federal Cigarette Tax Increase

Mar 31, 2009
Get Help to Quit Smoking and Save $2,540.00 Annually, Shelley Says
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College of Dentistry | Press Release
67th Annual First Run Film Festival Winners Announced

Mar 31, 2009
Kanbar Institute of Film & Television Winners Share More Than $50,000 in Cash Awards Finalist and Winning Films to be Screened at DGA in Hollywood, June 2
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU School of Law Hosts The Future of the Russian Justice System: A Talk with Leonid Nikitinsky, Apr. 2

Apr 1, 2009
The talk will take place at NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Floor, 245 Sullivan Street (between West 3rd Street and Washington Square South). If you wish to attend or make a press reservation, please call 212.998.6678 or e-mail nick.robertson@nyu.edu
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Poet Yusef Komunyakaa to Receive Jean Kennedy Smith NYU Creative Writing Award, April 23

Apr 1, 2009
On Thursday, April 23, at 7 p.m., New York University’s Creative Writing Program will host a reading and award ceremony to benefit the NYU/Goldwater Hospital Writing Project. Yosef Komunyakaa, whose poetry collection Neon and Vernacular: New & Selected Poems 1977-1989 won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, will receive the 2009 Jean Kennedy Smith NYU Creative Writing Award of Distinction.
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New Study Finds That White Wine Can Make Tooth Stains Darker

Apr 1, 2009
It has long been known that red wine causes teeth to stain. But white wine? A recent study by NYU dental researchers found that drinking white wine can also increase the potential for teeth to take on dark stains.
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College of Dentistry, Research | Press Release
NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security Releases Report, “Reforming the Culture of National Security: Vision, Clarity, and Accountability”

Apr 1, 2009
The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law today released its latest report, Reforming the Culture of National Security: Vision, Clarity, and Accountability, which provides recommendations for cultural - not structural - reform of the national security establishment to provide effective assessment of and response to evolving, cross-cutting, and interrelated threats.
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School of Law, Research | Press Release
NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Pays Tribute to Italian Novelist, Poet, & Literary Editor Giorgio Bassani

Apr 1, 2009
The writings of Giorgio Bassani are recognized internationally for their memorably elusive characters and their uncanny portrayal of Italian society during the 1940s and 1950s. Lesser known to the public are Bassanis contributions as editor and literary critic. Through the journal Botteghe Oscure, which he edited from 1948 to 1960, he brought to Italy for the first time the work of T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, René Char, Truman Capote, and many others.
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Researchers Find That Well-Timed Timeout is More Effective in Wiping Out Memory Response to Fear Stimulus

Apr 2, 2009
Banishing a fear-inducing memory might be a matter of the right timing, according to new research. The finding is a significant advance in learning how memory can be manipulated in rodents. It also could indicate a potential treatment for humans suffering from anxiety-related disorders.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
"Technologies for Development" to Showcase Research to Improve Rural Healthcare and Education, Financial and Commercial Services, and More, April 10 at NYU

Apr 2, 2009
New York University will host “Technologies for Development,” a showcase of research on technologies intended to aid development in rural areas around the world, on Friday, April 10, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street. The event is free and open to the public, which must RSVP by e-mailing caterworkshop@gmail.com
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU, Harvard Chemists Create Bipedal, Autonomous DNA Walker to Mimic Role of Cell’s Transportation System

Apr 2, 2009
Chemists at New York University and Harvard University have created a bipedal, autonomous DNA walker that can mimic a cells transportation system. The device, which marks a step toward more complex synthetic molecular motor systems, is described in the most recent issue of the journal Science.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU Department of Photography & Imaging Class of 2009 Final Group Show Goes On View

Apr 2, 2009
The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts has announced the dates of its year-end show of works by the graduating class of 2009. Entitled Thesis Exhibition, the show will open on April 28 and be on view through May 16.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security Hosts Open Forum, “Making the National Security System Work,” Apr. 9

Apr 2, 2009
On Thursday, April 9, 2009, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., NYU School of Laws Center on Law and Security will host an open forum, Making the National Security System Work, to discuss issues raised by its latest report, Reforming the Culture of National Security: Vision, Clarity and Accountability. The forum will take place at NYU School of Law, Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South (between Sullivan and Macdougal Streets). The event is free and open to the public.
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School of Law, Research, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Oscar-Winning “Toyland” Tops Screening of Nine German Short Films, April 26 at NYU

Apr 3, 2009
The event is sponsored by NYUs Deutsches Haus and German Films. The evening will include a question-and-answer session with Toyland director Jochen Alexander Freydank. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Deutsches Haus at NYU: 212.998.8663.
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"Meeting the Mayoral Candidates" Series Begins April 8 with Councilmember Tony Avella

Apr 6, 2009
New York University will host “Conversations: Meeting the Mayoral Candidates,” a series of four discussions with candidates for New York City mayor in 2009. The series begins with Councilmember Tony Avella on Wednesday, April 8, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at NYU’s Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts (715 Broadway, 1st floor, at Washington Place). All four conversations are free and open to the public, which must RSVP in advance.
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NYUCD Study Finds Sports Drink Consumption Can Cause Tooth Erosion

Apr 7, 2009
In a recent study, the researchers found that prolonged consumption of sports drinks may be linked to a condition known as erosive tooth wear, in which acids eat away the tooths smooth hard enamel coating and trickle into the bonelike material underneath, causing the tooth to soften and weaken. The condition affects one in 15 Americans and can result in severe tooth damage and even tooth loss if left untreated.
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College of Dentistry, Research | Press Release
Graduating Designers in Set, Costume, Lighting & Film Showcased at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, May 6-13

Apr 7, 2009
The Department of Design for Stage and Film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will feature the work of 19 designers from its MFA graduating class of 2009 in a week-long exhibition. The annual event attracts 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
NYU School of Law and New York City Police Department Establish Law Fellowship

Apr 7, 2009
New York University School of Law and the New York City Police Department have established a fellowship to be awarded annually to an NYU Law graduating student or recent alumnus. Suzanna Publicker ‘09 has been selected as the inaugural NYU-NYPD Fellow.
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School of Law | Press Release
NYUCD Study Finds New Evidence of Periodontal Disease Leading to Gestational Diabetes

Apr 7, 2009
A new study by NYU dental researchers has uncovered evidence that pregnant women with periodontal (gum) disease face an increased risk of developing gestational diabetes even if they dont smoke or drink, a finding that underscores how important it is for all expectant mothers - even those without other risk factors - to maintain good oral health.
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College of Dentistry, Research | Press Release
NYU 2008-2009 Green Grant Projects Showcased at Earth Day 2009 Symposium, April 22

Apr 8, 2009
New York Universitys Sustainability Task Force will hold a symposium on student-and faculty-created environmental projects-showcasing the results of the universitys Green Grants environmental grant program. The Green Grants Project Symposium will be held from 5-8 PM on April 22nd, Earth Day, in the NYU Silver Centers Silverstein Lounge at 100 Washington Square East.
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Reducing Behavior Problems in Head Start, Focus of Steinhardt Study

Apr 8, 2009
The study, the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), was led by C. Cybele Raver, associate professor of applied psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and director of NYU’s Institute of Human Development and Social Change. Raver collaborated with researchers from Loyola University and Harvard.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYU School of Law’s Center on Law and Security Hosts Conference, “the Courts and Terrorism: Transatlantic Observations,” Apr. 15

Apr 8, 2009
On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, NYU School of Laws Center on Law and Security will host a conference, in partnership with the Magna Carta Institute, focused on the courts, national security, and how transatlantic counterparts handle alleged terrorism suspects in the criminal justice system.
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School of Law, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Leith Sharp, Harvard University’s “Green Guru” Gives Workshop at NYU, April 14

Apr 8, 2009
On Tuesday, April 14th New York University will host Leith Sharp, Former Director of Harvards Green Campus Initiative, as she lectures and presents a workshop The Sustainability-Enabled University: Fostering the Capacity for Change. Sharp pioneered and developed Harvards Green Campus Initiative for nine years, and today she is one of the most influential voices shaping the evolving field of higher education sustainability.
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Turning “Animal House” on Its Head: Award-Winners Chosen Among Student Anti-Drinking Films

Apr 8, 2009
Winners Chosen for Responsibility Campaign Public Service Ads; Award Ceremony, Thursday, April 9, 2009, 12:30 pm, Center, 60 Washington Square South (corner of LaGuardia Place), Room 914
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Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Benefit Cancer Patients Undergoing Surgery, Study by NYU Researcher Finds

Apr 8, 2009
New research published in the March 2009 issue of Annals of Surgery points to a potentially significant advance in the treatment of patients undergoing major cancer surgery. A randomized controlled trial showed that oral nutritional supplements with omega-3 fatty acids resulted in the preservation of muscle mass in patients undergoing surgery for esophageal cancer, a procedure normally associated with significant weight loss and quality-of-life issues.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
Chinas First Chief Executive of Hong Kong to Deliver Public Lecture on Sino-U.S. Partnership, April 21 at NYU

Apr 8, 2009
Tung Chee Hwa, Chinas first chief executive of Hong Kong after the 1997 British handover, will deliver a public address, China and the U.S.: Towards a Closer Partnership, on Tuesday, April 21, 11 a.m., at New York Universitys Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place), Rosenthal Pavilion (10th Floor).
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Preserving & Promoting Health in Africa: Reflections From the Only Ophthalmologist for 2 Million People in Northern Ghana

Apr 9, 2009
On Thursday, April 16, 2009, NYU’s Master’s Program in Global Public Health will present “Preserving & Promoting Health in Africa: Reflections From the Only Ophthalmologist for 2 Million People in Northern Ghana,” an informative discussion lead by Dr. Seth Wanye, who is the only ophthalmologist in the northern region of Ghana. The discussion will be moderated by Mark Sherstinsky, O.D. This event is free and open to the public.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Hosts "Writers in Conversation: Zadie Smith Interviewed by Jonathan Safran Foer", Apr. 30

Apr 9, 2009
On Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m., New York University’s Creative Writing Program will host a special event, “Writers in Conversation: Zadie Smith interviewed by Jonathan Safran Foer.” The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at NYU’s Vanderbilt Hall, Tishman Auditorium, 40 Washington Square South (at MacDougal Street). For further information, call 212.998.8816.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Three NYU Professors Awarded 2009 Guggenheim Fellowships

Apr 9, 2009
This year’s NYU recipients, chosen from nearly 3,000 applicants in the United States and Canada, are: Eliot Borenstein, a professor in the Russian and Slavic Studies Department; Kanchan Chandra, an associate professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics; and Leslie Peirce, a professor in the Department of History.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science | Press Release
American Idol Winner David Cook to Perform at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, May 22

Apr 13, 2009
Concert for NYU Community Only Will Feature Special Guest Ryan Star; The concert is only open to members of the NYU community-students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Tickets range from $12-$35 and will go on sale beginning Wednesday, April 15 at noon. Student tickets: $12-$20 (limited number of $12 tickets available); faculty, staff, and alumni tickets: $35. Ticket sales are limited to two per person.
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
Interactive Sight, Sound, and Technology Featured in the Annual Spring Exhibition Organized by NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, May 10 & 11

Apr 13, 2009
Entitled ITP Spring Show 2009, the two-day festival of interactive sight, sound, and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP will be on view May 10 and 11 at the Tisch School of the Arts, located at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), 4th floor. The exhibition is free and open to the public. (A photo I.D. is required to enter the building.) For more information, call 212.998.1880; or visit itp.nyu.edu/show
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Sound-Slides-Test

Apr 13, 2009
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NYU’s 2nd Annual Month-Long Energy Reduction Contest, NYUnplugged, Is Underway!

Apr 13, 2009
The 2nd Annual residence hall energy reduction challenge, NYUnplugged, is taking place this month as part of New York Universitys celebration of Earth April 2009. The contest awards a trophy and a party in the dark to the hall that lowers its electricity use by the greatest percentage against a baseline of historical usage.
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU School of Law's Samuel Rascoff Named a 2009 Carnegie Scholar

Apr 14, 2009
The Carnegie Corporation of New York today named Assistant Professor of Law Samuel Rascoff a 2009 Carnegie Scholar, the fifth academic affiliated with NYU Law in the last seven years to be selected for the prestigious award. Rascoff was selected for his compelling ideas and commitment to enriching the quality of the public dialogue on Islam. His project is entitled “Understanding How the U.S. Government Understands Islam.”
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School of Law, Research | Press Release
NYU School of Laws Center on Law and Security Hosts Conference, Todays Military: Its Challenges, Missions, and Future, Apr. 24

Apr 14, 2009
The conference features a keynote address by Gen. John P. Abizaid, USA (Ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command. The conference will take place at NYU School of Law, Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South (between Sullivan and Macdougal Streets). The event is free and open to the public. To make a press reservation, please call 212.992.8640 or e-mail margaret.mcquade@nyu.edu
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School of Law, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU's Glucksman Ireland House Hosts Special Events in May

Apr 15, 2009
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in May, including a reading by two-time Booker nominee, Sebastian Barry, from his new novel, The Secret Scripture, on May 5. Admission is free to Ireland House members and those with an NYU I.D.; for all others, $10 admission to regular events and $15 for Blarney Star Concert Series events. To reserve a seat, call 212.998.3950.
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NYU's Deutsches Haus Hosts Special Events in May

Apr 16, 2009
Deutsches Haus at New York University, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in May. The events are free and open to the public and take place at Deutsches Haus, unless otherwise noted. For further information, call 212.998.8663.
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NYU Libraries Launches Oral History Project in Food Studies: "James Beard and His Circle"

Apr 16, 2009
The New York University Division of Libraries has received a $100,000 grant from the Leon Levy Foundation for an oral history project that will help document the transformative impact on American food culture of renowned chef James Beard and his circle.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
Supreme Court's Docket Strongly Influenced by Congressional Preferences, NYU Study Finds

Apr 17, 2009
Their research, which examined the Rehnquist Court from 1987 to 2001, showed that the justices were less likely to hear cases involving constitutional challenges to liberal statutes from 1987 to 1994, when the House and the Senate were under Democratic control, than they were from 1995 to 2001, when Republicans had a majority in both chambers. The study, “Ducking Trouble,” appears in this month’s issue of the Journal of Politics.
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School of Law, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
Five From NYU Elected 2009 AAAS Fellows

Apr 20, 2009
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has elected five members from New York University as fellows: Robert Berne, NYUs senior vice president for health and a professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service; Michael John Laver, a professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics; Theodor Meron, a professor emeritus in NYUs School of Law; J. Anthony Movshon, a professor of neural science and psychology; and Matthew S. Santirocco, dean of NYUs College of Arts and Science and a professor of classics.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, School of Law, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
NYU Wagner Presents 'President Obama's First 100 Days -- Implications for Urban America,' April 24

Apr 20, 2009
On Friday, April 24, 2009, the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University will present a daylong conference entitled “President Barack Obama’s First 100 days - Implications for Urban America” with New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter, White House economic advisor Jason Furman, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, political consultant Bob Shrum and other experts.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU School of Law's Karen J. Greenberg, Expert On Issues Relating to Secret Interrogation Memos (and Other Related Issues) Available for Commentary

Apr 21, 2009
Greenberg is the co-editor of The Torture Papers (Cambridge), considered the most important documentation of one nation’s lawlessness ever published. She also has just published, The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days, (Oxford).
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School of Law | Press Release
The Economists' Update at 2009 NYU Hospitality Industry Investment Conference

Apr 21, 2009
On Monday, June 1, 2009, at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York City, Dr. Hanson will present on the economy’s effects on lodging demand, both long- and short-term, and the implications for the future. Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist of The Economic Outlook Group, and David A. Wyss, Ph.D., chief economist for Standard & Poor’s, will provide their perspectives about the economy, trends, and outlook, especially as related to consumers and the lodging industry.
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Events and Traditions, School of Continuing and Professional Studies | Press Release
NYU Creative Writing Program Spring Reading Series Concludes in May

Apr 22, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program Spring 2009 Reading Series concludes in May with several special readings and events. All events take place in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8816.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYC Planning Commissioner Burden Highlights “Which Way Coney Island? A Symposium on Its Future,” at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, April 29

Apr 22, 2009
Moderated by NYU Journalism Professor Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, the symposium will feature the citys proposed comprehensive plan for Coney Island, currently in public review, with a presentation by New York City Planning and responses by the Municipal Art Society and Thor Equities, LLC, a major landowner in the amusements section.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Game Center Announces New Game Design Summer Workshop

Apr 22, 2009
The NYU Game Center, an independent multi-school center at New York University for the research, design, and development of digital games, established in fall 2008, has announced its first summer Game Design Workshop. The Workshop is open to the public, but space is limited, and will begin June 29, 2009. It will meet every Monday and Wednesday from 1 to 4 p.m.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU & Seton Hall University to Document, Preserve, & Make Accessible Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Records

Apr 27, 2009
New York University’s Tamiment Library and Seton Hall University’s Center for Policy and Research have announced a new project to document, preserve, and make accessible the legal records and the human stories of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.
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Research | Press Release
"Cronica D'una Mirada: Clandestine Filmmaking in Franco's Spain, 1960-1975" - Film & Panel - at NYU, May 9

Apr 27, 2009
Following the screening the renowned Catalan filmmakers Antoni Padrós, Marti Rom, and Manuel Barrios will participate in a panel discussion, moderated by Richard Peña, program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The discussion will take place in Spanish with simultaneous translation provided. This special event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.3650.
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NYU School of Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Hosts “Regulation by Prosecutors,” May 8

Apr 27, 2009
NYU School of Laws Center on the Administration of Criminal Law will hold its first major annual conference, Regulation By Prosecutors, focusing on the regulation of private industry by criminal prosecutors. Regulation By Prosecutors includes demands by state and federal prosecutors that companies engage in particular affirmative acts as a condition of sentencing or to avoid prosecution. The event is free and open to the public. A complete schedule, list of participants, and registration information are available at /www.prosecutioncenter.org For more information, call 212.998.6705.
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School of Law, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Dental and Nursing Vans Deliver On-Site Health Services and Education at PS 73 in Brooklyn, June 8th

Apr 27, 2009
On June 8, 2009 from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, at the Thomas S Boyland School (PS 73), 241 Macdougal Street, Brooklyn, NY, the New York University College of Nursings (NYUCN) Feeling Good in Your Neighborhood medical services van will for the first time join Smiling Faces, Going Places mobile dental care program to expand access to primary health services for Brooklyn youngsters.
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College of Nursing, College of Dentistry, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU's Games for Learning Institute Announces May Events

Apr 28, 2009
The Institute’s goal is to identify the qualities of computer games that engage students and develop relevant, personalized teaching strategies that can be applied to the learning process. Admission to the talks is free and open to the public.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Courant’s Deift, Who has Shown a Connection Between Quantum Physics and Solitaire, Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Apr 29, 2009
Percy Deift, a professor at New York Universitys Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington, D.C.-based organization announced today. Deifts work has shown a powerful similarity between a simple form of solitaire and random matrices, a mathematical tool originally developed to decipher the quantum behavior of large atoms.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU Nursing Expert Available to Comment on Swine Flu Outbreak

Apr 29, 2009
Epidemiologist Dr. Ann Kurth has tips on things you can do to reduce risk of acquisition transmission of the influenza virus
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College of Nursing | Press Release
Author of Plague Writing in Early Modern England Available for Comment On Responses to Epidemics

Apr 29, 2009
New York University Professor Ernest Gilman, author of Plague Writing in Early Modern England (University of Chicago Press, 2009), is available for comment on responses to epidemics.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU's Institute of Fine Arts Receives $1 Million From the Levy Foundation for Student Fellowships in Archaeological Conservation

Apr 30, 2009
The Conservation Center at New York University’s Institute for Fine Arts (IFA) has announced that it has received a $1 million grant from The Levy Foundation to advance graduate training in archaeological conservation. The grant creates 15 Leon Levy Fellowships at the Institute to support promising students enrolled in the Center’s four-year training program. It also establishes five Leon Levy Visiting Fellowships, which will be awarded over five years to one individual each year who specializes in the conservation of archaeological materials of the ancient world-western Mediterranean to China.
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Institute of Fine Arts | Press Release
NYU Hosts a Tribute to Poet Jack Gilbert, May 12

Apr 30, 2009
New York University’s Creative Writing Program will host “A Tribute to Jack Gilbert,” celebrating this master poet’s late-in-life poetry collection, The Dance Most of All, published recently by Knopf, on Tuesday, May 12, at 7 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, takes place at the NYU Cantor Film Center, 38 E. 8th Street. For more information, the public may call 212.998.8816.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
New, State-of-the-Science Gerontological Nursing Certification Review Course is Available for Nurses Taking ANCC Certification Exam

Apr 30, 2009
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing has launched a revised gerontological certification review course for nurses who intend to sit for the American Nurses Credentialing Centers Gerontological Nurse Certification Examination. The course is designed for nurses who care for older adults in hospitals, nursing homes, or home care settings and is useful to any practicing nurse, nurse faculty, or student wanting to acquire fundamental knowledge of geriatric nursing care.
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College of Nursing | Press Release
NYU to Host Student iPhone App Show, with Apple Awarding Best App, May 6

May 4, 2009
New York Universitys Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences will host its inaugural Student iPhone App Show, with Apple awarding the best application, on Wednesday, May 6, 5 to 9 p.m., at Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street (at Mercer and West 4th Streets), 13th Floor Lounge (enter on Gould Plaza at West 4th and Greene Streets).
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events and Traditions | Press Release
"Song of the Stars: A Celebration of Catalan Music" at NYU, May 21

May 4, 2009
New York University’s Catalan Center will host a special event on Thursday, May 21, at 6:30 p.m. celebrating the upcoming June release by Naxos of “Song of the Stars-A Celebration of Catalan Music,” the recording of that historic second concert and other Catalan music. The event takes place at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, and is free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8255.
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
Weather & Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications for Climate Change, May 5

May 4, 2009
Is climate change truly a matter of life and death? On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, NYU Masters Program in Global Public Health, NYU Environmental Studies program, and the NYU Steinhardt PRIISM Center will present Weather & Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications for Climate Change, a provocative discussion about the effect of global climate change. The event features the acclaimed economist Dr. Michael Greenstone, and is free and open to the public.
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Research, Events and Traditions, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
College of Arts and Science Announces 2009 Teaching Awards

May 4, 2009
Twelve members of New York University’s Faculty of Arts and Science have been honored as winners of teaching awards, which are given annually by NYU’s College of Arts and Science (CAS). They will be announced to the CAS community at the College’s Baccalaureate Ceremony held at Radio City Music Hall on May 12. The Golden Dozen awards celebrate those faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and service to undergraduates.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science | Press Release
Thirteen Courant Faculty Named Inaugural SIAM Fellows for Contributions to Applied Math and Computer Science

May 5, 2009
Thirteen faculty from New York Universitys Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences are among the inaugural Fellows in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows Program. A SIAM Fellowship is a designation conferred on members distinguished for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU's Experimental Cuisine Collective Hosts Anniversary Symposium, May 18

May 5, 2009
The Experimental Cuisine Collective, an interdisciplinary group founded by chef Will Goldfarb and faculty members of New York University’s departments of chemistry and nutrition, food studies, and public health, is hosting a daylong symposium in celebration of its second anniversary on Monday, May 18, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at NYU. Admission to the symposium is free, but the public is required to RSVP.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYU Hosts Media Conference on Promotional Culture, May 8-9

May 5, 2009
New York Universitys Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) will host a two-day conference, Blowing up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Paradigms, on May 8-9 at 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor. The conference is sponsored by IPK, NYUs Council for Media and Culture, and Drexel University. Admission to conference events is open to the public. For more information, the public can call 212.992.9562.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU College of Dentistry Announces 2009 Graduation Speaker

May 6, 2009
New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) is pleased to announce that Colleen Zenk Pinter will address graduates at the College’s 2009 Graduation ceremony on Tuesday, May 26, 2009, at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, 1 p.m..
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College of Dentistry, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU's "Evolving/Technology" Symposium to Showcase How Darwin's Ideas Are Explored Using New Technologies, May 15

May 6, 2009
New York University’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology will host a day-long symposium, “Evolving/Technology,” on Friday, May 15, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall (Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East [at Washington Pl.], First Floor). For more information, the public may call 212.998.8204.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NY States First Lady Michelle Paterson to Deliver Address at NYU College of Nursing Graduation

May 6, 2009
This year 383 graduating nursing students from the New York University College of Nursing will have the opportunity to hear from an individual who has devoted her entire life to healthcare - First Lady of New York Michelle Paige Paterson. On May 11th, The First Lady will address the 2009 graduating class of the College of Nursing at 11:00 am at the New Amsterdam Theater, 214 West 42nd St., New York, NY.
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College of Nursing, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Wagner Professor Jonathan Morduch Co-Authors Portfolios of the Poor, a New Book Providing a Rare Look at the Surprisingly Complex Financial Lives of the World's Poor

May 6, 2009
Morduch and the researchers spent a year recording biweekly household “diaries” of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India and South Africa, tracking penny by penny how these individuals and families manage their money. Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day, Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven, Princeton University Press, June 2009, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8884.html.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
NYU's Bonfante, Expert in Etruscan Civilization, Elected to American Philosophical Society

May 6, 2009
Larissa Bonfante, a professor emerita in New York University’s Department of Classics, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. Others elected this year include Warren Buffet, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, composer Philip Glass, and University of Miami President Donna Shalala.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science | Press Release
"Schubert & Solitude," an Evening of Music, Conversation, and Art, Features Composer Osvaldo Golijov, May 15

May 7, 2009
“Schubert & Solitude,” an evening of music, conversation, and art, will be held Friday, May 15, 8 p.m. at the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts (172 Norfolk Street, below East Houston Street/between Essex and Suffolk Streets). The event is free and open to the public. For interviews, images, or further information about the event or the NYIH, please contact Stephanie Steiker at 212.998.2101 or nyih.info@nyu.edu
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Awarded Carnegie Corporation Grant for Scenarios Initiative

May 11, 2009
$250,000 Grant will Support Center for Global Affairs Program to Improve the Quality of U.S. Policymaking
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Research, School of Continuing and Professional Studies | Press Release
NYU’s 177th Commencement to Be Held at Yankee Stadium; Secretary of State Clinton to Speak

May 11, 2009
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Tisch School of the Arts Graduating Senior, Rachel Helson, Is Youngest Tony Award®-Nominated Producer in Broadway History

May 12, 2009
Twenty-year-old Graduating Senior is an Above-Title Producer On Neil LaBute’s “Reasons To Be Pretty”
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
New York University Holds 177th Commencement in Yankee Stadium

May 13, 2009
University Bestows Honorary Degrees on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Playwright and Alum John Patrick Shanley, Journalist Helen Thomas, Nobel-Winning Physicist Albert Fert, and Health Advocate Jessie Gruman; NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein Receives Rudin Award for Public Service
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Albert Fert Receives Honorary Doctorate From NYU

May 13, 2009
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on the physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Fert at NYU’s 177th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Jessie Christine Gruman Receives Honorary Doctorate From NYU

May 13, 2009
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on the health and healthcare policy advocate Jessie Christine Gruman at NYU’s 177th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton Receives Honorary Doctorate From NYU

May 13, 2009
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Secretary of State of the United States, at NYU’s 177th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Helen Thomas Receives Honorary Doctorate From NYU

May 13, 2009
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on renowned White House journalist Helen Thomas at NYU’s 177th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein Receives "Rudin Award" From NYU

May 13, 2009
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed NYU’s “Lewis Rudin Award for Exemplary Service to New York City” on New York Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein at NYU’s 177th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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John Patrick Shanley Receives Honorary Doctorate From NYU

May 13, 2009
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on award-winning playwright and NYU alumnus John Patrick Shanley at NYU’s 177th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Hydrogen Fusion and Other Energy Technologies Focus of May 19-20 Conference in Washington

May 14, 2009
As the nation approaches the summer season-and its higher gas prices and steeper electricity bills- scientists will gather at the SEIU Conference Center (1800 Massachusetts Ave., NW [Metro: Dupont Circle]) on May 19 and 20 to focus on current and near-term energy future technologies.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU School of Law’s Convocation to Be Held at Wamu Theater at Madison Square Garden; Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, Former U.S. Ambassador to United Nations, to Speak

May 14, 2009
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School of Law | Press Release
Spanish-Language Spelling Bee for New York State Students, Fourth Through Eighth Grade, Fri. May 29

May 14, 2009
Eighty Spanish-speaking students from across New York City and State, most of them recent immigrants or children of immigrants, will demonstrate their mastery of their native Spanish language by competing in the 2009 New York State Spanish Spelling Bee. The 80 competing students have reached this competition after competing at their schools and in their school districts.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Professor Leads Team of Film Archivists On a Mission to Save Orphan Films at the Museo Del Cine, Buenos Aires

May 14, 2009
A team of film experts and archivists from the United States under the direction of New York University’s Dan Streible, associate professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts and associate director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP), will travel to Buenos Aires this month to help the Museo del Cine preserve its orphan films. A small, under-funded city institution, the Museo holds a large and important collection of rare motion pictures, many in urgent need of preservation.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU Residence Halls Leave It "Green"

May 14, 2009
New York University is organizing the 2nd annual Green Apple Move Out collection project for NYU Residence Halls. Students moving out this spring will be able to drop off their unwanted and gently used items and non-perishable food in designated locations in their residence halls for collection and donation to local non-profit organizations.
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
Second Annual World Science Festival Comes to NYU and NYC, June 10-14

May 14, 2009
NYU is a leading partner in the second annual World Science Festival, a celebration of scientific discovery that will take place in New York City from June 10 to June 14. The Festival will bring together dozens of Nobel laureates, esteemed artists and performers, distinguished researchers and scientists, renowned authors, and top policy makers for a range of events in venues on the NYU campus and throughout New York City.
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"New York Farm Connections: The Five Boroughs As Farmland & Marketplace," at NYU, June 4

May 15, 2009
New York University’s Fales Library, the home of one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious archives in food studies, will host a panel discussion, “New York Farm Connections: The Five Boroughs as Farmland and Marketplace,” on Thursday, June 4, at 4 p.m. The event takes place at Fales, located on the third floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South.
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Researchers Win $2.9 Million NIH Grant to Study Developmental Pathways of Young Gay Men

May 18, 2009
Researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) at New York University are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young MSM. The $2.9 million study is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The research grant will be administered through NYUs Institute of Human Development and Social Change.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
President Obama's Job Creation Efforts Will Pass by Many Blacks and Latinos, Says New Study by Research Center at NYU Wagner

May 18, 2009
A study released Monday, May 18, 2009 by the Women of Color Policy Network, a research center at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, shows that job creation efforts in President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will miss many Blacks and Latinos due to their disproportionately high unemployment rates.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
NYU Scholar Reports Eugenics Part of Psychiatric Practices in Mandatory Palestine, Israel From 1930s Through 1950s

May 18, 2009
Eugenics was among mainstream psychiatric practices in Mandatory Palestine and in the early years of the state of Israel, New York Universitys Rakefet Zalashik reports in her book, Ad Nefesh: Refugees, Immigrants, Newcomers and the Israeli Psychiatric Establishment (Hakibbutz Hameuchad; Hebrew).
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
Widespread “Obama Effect” on African-American Standardized Test Performance Illusory, New Study Suggests

May 18, 2009
Despite anecdotal reports in the media of an Obama effect on African-American student achievement, black students primed to think about Barack Obama prior to taking a standardized test performed no better than white students or black students in a control group.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYU Kanbar Institute Filmmaker Brendan Bellomo Among 2009 Student Academy Award Winners

May 19, 2009
Brendan Bellomo, who graduated in May 2008 from New York University’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Undergraduate Division, in the Tisch School of the Arts, is among the winners of the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The 2009 winners-12 students in all representing eight colleges and universities-were announced May 18 in Beverly Hills, CA by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU’s Bregler Receives $1.47 Million Grant to Enhance Motion Capture Tools

May 19, 2009
New York University Computer Science Professor Chris Bregler has received a $1.47 million grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to enhance his laboratorys previous work on motion capture and computer vision.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU's Grandin Chronicles Henry Ford's Attempt to Bring the American Midwest to the Brazilian Amazon in New Book

May 20, 2009
At a time when Detroit’s status as a hub of the automobile industry is in grave doubt comes a book by New York University History Professor Greg Grandin that chronicles a little-known Henry Ford endeavor aimed at creating a more perfect American company town in the Brazilian Amazon-and, with it, a Midwestern America of the automaker’s imagination.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
Washington Square Park Reopens

May 20, 2009
Washington Square Park - the public park at the heart of NYUs core area - has re-opened. Phase One of the reconstruction project - which began in December 2007, covered the northwest quadrant and the central plaza, and according to the Parks Department involved new and expanded lawns and planting beds, the relocation and conservation of the fountain, conservation of the Alexander Holley Monument, repaved paths, new benches, lighting, and more - has now been completed.
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Names Lynn Videka Social Work Dean

May 21, 2009
NYU President John Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin today announced the appointment of Lynn Videka as Dean of NYUs Silver School of Social Work, effective September 1, 2009. Videka, whose research interests include vulnerable children and families receiving child welfare and mental health services, is currently Vice President for Research at the State University of New York at Albany and a Distinguished Service Professor.
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Silver School of Social Work | Press Release
College Coalition Markedly Improves Detection and Treatment of Student Depression

May 26, 2009
Outcomes of Bold New Model/Practices to Identify and Treat Thousands of College Students to Be Shared at Conference; Henry Chung, M.D., National Project Director of the NCDP and Associate Vice President of Student Health at New York University, said, The gap between what is known about evidence-based treatment for depression and the lack of consistent application of such care is problematic in real world settings; this is the first demonstration of the effectiveness of the collaborative care model for depression in higher education settings with rapid implementation by partner institutions using an innovative and exciting shared learning approach that actively breaks down campus silos so that we can better serve students.
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Photographs by Will Steacy go on View at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts

May 27, 2009
An exhibition of 15 color photographs, entitled Down These Mean Streets, by Will Steacy, the 2008 Tierney Fellowship award recipient from the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University, will go on view June 4 at the Tisch School of the Arts. Steacys photographs, taken at night with a large format camera, examine fear and abandonment in Americas inner cities.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU's New Plays for Young Audiences Presents Three New Plays This June

May 28, 2009
New York University’s New Plays for Young Audiences will present staged readings of three new plays for young audiences on weekends from June 6-21 at the Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East. Following each Sunday performance at 3 p.m., there will be an audience discussion with the playwright, director, and actors of each show. [Subway: A, C, D, E, F (West 4th St.)]
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Hasia Diner, Whose New Book Debunks Myth of Holocaust Silence Among American Jews, at Museum of Jewish Heritage, June 24

May 28, 2009
New York University Professor Hasia Diner, whose We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU Press, 2009) debunks the myth of Holocaust silence among American Jews, will discuss the book at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place, Lower Manhattan) on Wednesday, June 24 at 7 p.m.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Conference Considers How to Bridge the Divide Between the United States and the Muslim World Through Arts and Ideas, June 6-7

May 28, 2009
New York Universitys Center for Dialogues will present Bridging the Divide between the United States and the Muslim World through Arts and Ideas, Saturday, June 6 (9 a.m.-7 p.m.) and Sunday, June 7 (9 a.m.-5 p.m.) at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge (333 Adams Street/Subways: Street A, C, F [Jay Street/Borough Hall]; 2, 3, 4, 5 [Borough Hall]; M, R [Lawrence Street/Metro Tech]).
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU College of Nursing and Tulane Researchers Receive $275k NIH Grant to Study the Epidemiology of Drugs and Hiv Sex Risk Among Latino Migrants

May 28, 2009
Dr. Michele Shedlin, a medical anthropologist and professor at New York University College of Nursing and Dr. Patricia Kissenger, an epidemiologist and professor at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, recently received $275K from NIH for their study: The Epidemiology of Drugs and HIV Sex Risk Among Latino Migrants.
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College of Nursing, Research | Press Release
NYU Creative Writing Program Hosts the Paris Review Salon June 10

May 29, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program will host The Paris Review Salon on Wednesday, June 10, at 6 p.m. in the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th Street, the program’s Greenwich Village home. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU to Create Center for Academic and Spiritual Life

Jun 2, 2009
NYU and the Archdiocese of New York have completed the long-discussed sale of the site of the former NYU Catholic Center. The site, on Washington Square South and Thompson Street, will be home to NYUs Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, which will include spaces for religious observance, offices for NYUs Chaplains Circle, classes, music rehearsals, and conferences, and will include space for an ongoing Catholic presence.
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NYU Workshop On High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies Looks Toward the Future of Investing, June 10-12

Jun 2, 2009
New York University will host a three-day workshop, “High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies,” June 10-12, at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (251 Mercer Street, Room 109 [enter on Gould Plaza on West Fourth Street at Greene Street]). Reporters interested in attending the workshop must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Kanbar Institute Filmmaker Musa Syeed Is Winner of 2008-09 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Production Award

Jun 2, 2009
Filmmaker Wins $100,000 toward Production of a Feature Length Film
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Student Andy Uhrich Awarded F. Gerald Ham Scholarship by the Society of American Archivists

Jun 2, 2009
Andy (Jonathan) Uhrich, a 2nd year graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving Program (MIAP) of the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has been named the 2009 recipient of the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) F. Gerald Ham Scholarship. The award recognizes an individual’s past performance in a graduate archival studies program and the honoree’s potential in the field.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
VA Official Named to NYU Wagner Graduate Schools Robert Derzon Chair in Health & Public Service

Jun 3, 2009
John J. Donnellan, director of VA New York Harbor Health Care System, has been named to the newly established Robert Derzon Chair in Health & Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. His selection as the Robert Derzon Professor of Practice in Health and Public Service provides a new research lens at NYU Wagner on veterans and VA issues as well as medical management and ethics issues.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
NYU Residence Halls Leave It “Green”

Jun 3, 2009
New York Universitys second annual Green Apple Move Out (GAMO) collection project for NYU Residence Halls was a tremendous success. Students moving out this spring were able to drop off their unwanted and gently used items in designated locations in their residence halls for collection and donation to Goodwill Industries. A record 73 tons of material was collected this year.
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County Leaders From Across U.S. Convene for 6th Annual Intensive Leadership Institute at Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University

Jun 4, 2009
Twenty-four county leaders and one state association executive director came to New York City last week from counties as near as Westchester County, N.Y., and as far as Santa Barbara, CA, to complete the 6th Annual County Leadership Institute (CLI). This rigorous four-day program focused on how elected county officials can exercise leadership to address the complex challenges facing counties.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Snakes Use Friction and Redistribution of Their Weight to Slither on Flat Terrain

Jun 8, 2009
Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, researchers at New York University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have found. Their findings, which appear in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU's New Plays for Young Audiences Presents Nasty, a New Play About Adolescence Online

Jun 8, 2009
New York University’s New Plays for Young Audiences will present staged readings of Nasty, a new play that explores the online and offline worlds of adolescent teenage girls, on June 13 and 14 at the Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East. The production runs on Saturday at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 3 p.m. [Subway: A, C, D, E, F (West 4th St.)]
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions | Press Release
U.S. Green Building Council Gives Gallatin School Gold Environmental and Energy Rating for Renovations

Jun 9, 2009
New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study has received a Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for Gallatin’s two-year renovation project. The Gallatin School is the first NYU project to receive the Gold certification from the council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System (LEED).
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study | Press Release
Simulating a Public Health Disaster Using Multiple Variables Can Assist Hospitals and Cities in Preparing for Worst-Case Scenarios, NYU Researchers Find

Jun 10, 2009
A new and novel computer modeling platform developed through intensive, multidisciplinary collaboration at New York University can help hospitals and cities to be more prepared for catastrophic public health scenarios, according to an article published in the American Medical Associations Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal.
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Research, School of Medicine | Press Release
NYUs Nagle to Deliver Public Lecture, How to Love a Landfill, at Fresh Kills, June 20

Jun 10, 2009
Fresh Kills was once the worlds biggest landfill and still qualifies as one of the largest built structures in human history. It was also a torment to Staten Islanders for more than half a century. Can New Yorkers love a geography made of discards that was created despite the passionate objections of its hosts and neighbors?
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
New Issue Paper Describes the Role of Nurses in Nursing Home “Culture Change”

Jun 11, 2009
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing, in collaboration with the Coalition for Geriatric Nursing Organizations (CGNO) and the Pioneer Network, has published an issue paper, Nurses’ Involvement in Nursing Home Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities. The paper, addressed to nursing homes and professional, registered nurses practicing in nursing homes, discusses the move toward culture change—a movement away from institution-driven models of care toward more consumer-driven models that embrace flexibility and patient self-determination.
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College of Nursing, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing | Press Release
NYU's Nissenbaum Releases Study On Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Jun 15, 2009
Helen Nissenbaum, professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, and Lucas Introna, professor of organization, technology, and ethics at Lancaster University (UK) have published a report, “Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues,” to serve as a guide for administrators, policy makers, public interest advocates, and academics.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYU Researchers Create Method to Precisely Glue Particles Together On the Micro- and Nano-Scale

Jun 15, 2009
Researchers at New York University have created a method to precisely bind nano- and micrometer-sized particles together into larger-scale structures with useful materials properties. Their work, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Nature Materials, overcomes the problem of uncontrollable sticking, which had been a barrier to the successful creation of stable microscopic and macroscopic structures with a sophisticated architecture.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU's Fales Library Acquires Gay Cable Network Archives

Jun 16, 2009
New York University’s Fales Library, which houses the Downtown Collection documenting avant-garde New York art since 1975, has acquired the archives of the Gay Cable Network, one of the largest and most important LGBT media collections in existence.
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Cutting a Pie Is Not a Piece of Cake, Researchers Show

Jun 16, 2009
A trio of researchers has mathematically determined that it is much easier to equitably cut up a cake than it is to slice up pie. Their work, Cutting a Pie Is Not a Piece of Cake, appears in the June-July 2009 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly.
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Research | Press Release
NYU to Aid Veterans in Paying for College: University Will Join National Yellow Ribbon Program for College-Bound Post-9/11 Vets

Jun 16, 2009
For more on the Yellow Ribbon program, click here.
New York University will participate in the new federal Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program, under which the University will help cover the cost of tuition for veterans.
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NYU Names Bonnie Brier As General Counsel

Jun 22, 2009
NYU President John Sexton today named Bonnie Brier as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary to the Board of Trustees. Ms. Brier is currently General Counsel and Assistant Secretary to the Boards of The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and The Childrens Hospital Foundation. Her duties will include overseeing the all of the Universitys legal operations, including the Medical Center and its affiliates; her appointment at NYU is effective as of August 2009.
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NYU Steinhardt Launches B.S. Degree in Public Health, Beginning Fall 2010

Jun 24, 2009
New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development will launch a new B.S. degree program in public health beginning in the fall of 2010. In addition to a strong liberal arts component, the program will offer students a broad background in the field of public health, preparing them for careers in local and state health departments, health care organizations, human service agencies, as well as for advanced degree programs in public health and other related areas of graduate and professional study.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
Zadie Smith to Join NYU Creative Writing Faculty

Jun 25, 2009
New York University has appointed Zadie Smith, the prize-winning author of the novels White Teeth and On Beauty, as a full professor in its distinguished Creative Writing Program. She joins other senior tenured faculty members E.L. Doctorow, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sharon Olds, as well as Global Distinguished Professor Breyten Breytenbach.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science | Press Release
NYU Announces Proposal for Mercer Street Landscaping Project

Jul 6, 2009
NYU shares its proposed design plan for the Mercer Street Garden and Greenspace.
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NYU Steinhardt Appoints Beth Weitzman Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Jul 7, 2009
Mary Brabeck, Dean of the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University, has announced the appointment of Beth C. Weitzman as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, effective August 1. Weitzman, a widely published scholar whose research focuses on urban policies affecting poor families, is currently professor of health and public policy at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYU’s Aronson Wins IES Grant on Enhancing Student Performance via Intelligence Theory

Jul 9, 2009
A team of psychologists led by New York Universitys Joshua Aronson has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) to develop teacher-friendly materials for use with 8th and 9th grade students from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The studys aim is to help 8th and 9th grade students, who are notoriously prone to motivation problems, to think, feel, and behave in ways that promote good learning.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYU Reynolds Names Eight Graduate Fellows and Six Undergraduate Scholars for 2009

Jul 13, 2009
The Catherine B. Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University has announced the selection of eight graduate Fellows and six undergraduate Scholars for 2009.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Celebrates Seymour Chwast As Artist of Fall 2009 75th Anniversary Bulletin Cover

Jul 13, 2009
The New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) today unveils the latest addition to its bulletin cover art collection with the Fall 2009 edition, created by renowned New York designer, illustrator, and painter Seymour Chwast for the School’s 75th anniversary. The new bulletin will be available the second week of July and features Chwast’s vision of NYU-SCPS being “in and of the City.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies | Press Release
Stephen Shorb Named Director of the Library at NYU Abu Dhabi

Jul 14, 2009
Carol Mandel, dean of the New York University Division of Libraries, recently announced that Stephen Shorb has been named the Director of the Library at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), effective August 1, 2009. Shorb comes to NYU from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), where he has been Dean of the University Library since 2005.
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Doggy Par-Tay

Jul 14, 2009
Mercer St. Dog Run - Renovated by NYU - Re-opens; Mercer Street Dog Run, corner of Mercer St. and Houston St., Manhattan; Wednesday, July 15, 5:30 pm
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NYU Online Programs Help Adult Learners Complete College Degree

Jul 14, 2009
Two undergraduate programs at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) open new opportunities for adult students with prior college credits to earn a degree online.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies | Press Release
NYU Game Center Announces the Appointment of Game Studies Scholar Jesper Juul as Visiting Professor

Jul 14, 2009
The NYU Game Center, an independent multi-school center at New York University for the research, design, and development of digital games, established in fall 2008, has announced its first visiting faculty appointment, the Danish games studies scholar Jesper Juul. His position as visiting assistant arts professor is effective August 1, 2009. Juul is currently a video game lecturer and researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab.
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Big Day for Downtown Dogs and Their Devotees

Jul 15, 2009
Mercer St. Dog Run Opens after NYU-Funded Repairs
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NYUS Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Announces the 2009/2010 Season of Cultural and Performing Arts Events

Jul 16, 2009
New Season Will Feature Three Theatrical World Premieres
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Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU’s Raymo, Renowned Medieval Literature Scholar and Collector, 84

Jul 17, 2009
New York University Professor Emeritus Robert Raymo, an internationally renowned scholar of medieval English literature, died on July 16 of cancer at New York Citys Calvary Hospital.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science | Press Release
"Biologically Inspired Design" Focus of Polytechnic Institute of NYU Lecture and Workshop, July 20

Jul 17, 2009
Biologically inspired design (BID) uses biological principles in engineering and design with the potential to create more efficient and eco-friendly structures. Polytechnic Institute of NYU will host a one-day workshop and lecture on biologically inspired design on Monday, July 20, 4 to 6:30 p.m., at the institute’s Brooklyn campus (Jacobs Academic Building, Room 474, Six MetroTech Center).
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Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Physicists Find Way to Explore Microscopic Systems Through Holographic Video

Jul 20, 2009
Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has potential to improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoirist and NYU Alumnus, Dies at 78

Jul 20, 2009
Frank McCourt, Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist whose autobiography of growing up poor in Limerick, Ireland captured the imagination of millions of readers, died on July 19 in Manhattan.
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Peter Blair Henry, Renowned Intl Economist, Named Dean of NYUs Stern School of Business

Jul 28, 2009
NYU President John Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin today named Peter Blair Henry - the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Economics at Stanford University - as dean of NYUs Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He will assume the deanship effective January 15, 2010.
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Leonard N. Stern School of Business | Press Release
NYU Abu Dhabi Announces Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Scholars for 2009-10

Jul 29, 2009
NYU Abu Dhabi has announced the 2009-10 class of the Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Program, which recognizes outstanding students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and provides them with special academic and leadership opportunities.
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NYU Researchers Isolate Portion of the Brain Needed to Link Experiences in Forming Memories

Jul 29, 2009
New York University researchers have determined that the brain’s hippocampus is important for linking together individual elements of our experiences in order to form memories. Their study, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Neuron, helps to illuminate how something as complex as our memories arises out of a much more simple process of bridging gaps in experience. It may have implications for treating memory-related dysfunction arising from aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, or amnesia.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU Physicists Show Way to Count Sweets in a Jar-From Inside the Jar

Jul 29, 2009
How many sweets fit into a jar? This question depends on the shapes and sizes of the sweets, the size of the jar, and how it is filled. Surprisingly, this ancient question remains unanswered, until now. Researchers at New York University have now determined how sweets pack from inside the jar, making it easier to more accurately count them. Their findings appear in the latest issue of the journal Nature.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science | Press Release
Report Calls for Greater UK/US Higher Education Collaboration

Jul 29, 2009
A new report on Higher Education and Collaboration in a Global Context has been published by the UK/US Study Group, a group of senior scholars based in the United Kingdom and the United States. NYU President John Sexton was one of the Study Groups two co-chairs
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Research | Press Release
Large Hadron Collider and New Developments in Dark Matter Focus of NYU Workshop, Aug. 3

Jul 30, 2009
New York University will host a public workshop to provide an overview of the Large Hadron Collider, featured in this summer’s “Angels & Demons,” on Monday, August 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium (60 Washington Square South [at LaGuardia Place], 4th Floor).
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program to Mark 30th Anniversary, Oct. 1-3

Aug 3, 2009
New York Universitys Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) will mark its 30th anniversary in October with a weekend of festivities, including a benefit event honoring its chair, Red Burns. ITP is a pioneering graduate center for the design and study of new media forms in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU to Offer Parking Reimbursement Again for Neighbors' Cars Displaced by Incoming Students

Aug 10, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009 is NYU’s annual “Move-In Day,” when freshman class students arrive at NYU residence halls for the start of the fall semester. Because of the volume of arriving students - many of whom are dropped off by car with their belongings - parking is prohibited in front of NYU dorms on that day.
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Dr. Nicola Partridge Named Chair, Department of Basic Science & Craniofacial Biology at NYU College of Dentistry

Aug 10, 2009
Dr. Charles N. Bertolami, the Herman Robert Fox Dean of the New York University College of Dentistry, has announced the appointment of Dr. Nicola C. Partridge as the new Chair of the Department of Basic Science & Craniofacial Biology. Dr. Partridge will formally assume her responsibilities effective September 1, 2009.
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College of Dentistry | Press Release
On Power and Decision-Making: Research by NYU Professors Finds That People in Positions of Power Interpreted 9/11 Attacks Differently Than Ordinary Citizens

Aug 10, 2009
A newly completed New York University study of public reaction to the 9/11 attacks concludes that people in positions of power, from government officials to managers working on Wall Street to military personnel, tended to interpret the events in more abstract terms and with more certainty and positivity than ordinary individuals.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
NYU Chemists Discover Twisted Molecules That Pick Their Targets

Aug 10, 2009
New York University chemists have discovered how to make molecules with a twist-the molecules fold in to twisted helical shapes that can accelerate selected chemical reactions. The research, reported in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could yield valuable methods for making pharmaceuticals and other chemicals that require precise assembly of complex structures.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
NYU Photography & Imaging Department Announces First Fall Exhibition Will Be "Posing Beauty"

Aug 12, 2009
The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced its first fall show will be Posing Beauty, an exhibition of approximately 80 works drawn from public and private collections. The exhibition explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts in a diverse range of media.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Jeremiah Barondess, President Emeritus of the New York Academy of Medicine, Joins NYU College of Nursing's Board of Advisors

Aug 12, 2009
New York University College of Nursing announced today that Jeremiah A. Barondess, MD, is joining the College of Nursing’s board of advisors, which is comprised of local and national leaders in health care who serve as ambassadors for the College to the external community. Board members also support the Dean with long range planning and help increase resources for future development.
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College of Nursing | Press Release
UPDATE—Audio Archive Available: Ambassador Rice to Deliver Public Address on UN, Global Challenges Aug. 12 at NYU

Aug 13, 2009
Susan Rice, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, will deliver remarks on Wednesday, August 12 at 5:30 p.m. at NYUs Greenberg Lounge in Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law (40 Washington Square South/between Sullivan and MacDougal Streets).
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School of Law, Events and Traditions, School of Continuing and Professional Studies | Press Release
NYU Journalism Professor Samuels Named Senior Series Producer of BET’s “Heart of the City”

Aug 17, 2009
New York Universitys Jason Samuels, an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has been named senior series producer of BET News Heart of the City, a new, one-hour, primetime documentary series that will explore the most important issues affecting urban America in the 21st century.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science | Press Release
NYU's Easterly, Roubini Among Top 100 Twitter Users in International Affairs

Aug 17, 2009
New York University Professors William Easterly and Nouriel Roubini are among the top 100 Twitter users in international affairs, according to a ranking by Foreign Policy magazine. The list also included Prime Ministers Stephen Harper of Canada and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, former Vice President Al Gore, Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, and Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Leonard N. Stern School of Business | Press Release
NYU’s Institute for Education and Social Policy Issues Report on NYC Leadership Academy

Aug 24, 2009
Public elementary and middle schools in New York City led by Aspiring Principals Program-trained principals have achieved comparable or higher rates of student improvement than schools led by other new principals, according to a report released today by New York Universitys Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP). These results were obtained even though APP-trained principals were more likely to be placed in chronically low-performing schools.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
Sierra Club Names NYU Among its Most Eco-Enlightened Universities for 2009

Aug 25, 2009
The Sierra Club has recognized New York University as one of the United States eco-enlightened universities, or Cool Schools, in the September/October 2009 issue of Sierra magazine.
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Poet Charles Simic Opens NYU Creative Writing Program Fall 2009 Reading Series, Sept. 10

Aug 25, 2009
Charles Simic, the 15th Poet Laureate of the United States (2007-2008), will open the New York University Creative Writing Program Fall 2009 Reading Series with a reading from his works and a conversation with Alice Quinn, executive director of the Poetry Society of America and former poetry editor of The New Yorker. This event, “The New Salon: Poets in Conversation,” takes place on Thursday, September 10, at 7 p.m.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Institute of Fine Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Tisch School of the Arts to Honor Award-Winning Artists & Philanthropists this Fall

Aug 25, 2009
Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, has announced that the Tisch School will hold its annual gala, This is Tisch!, on Monday, November 2 at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. This is Tisch! will honor Academy Award® winning producer Brian Grazer, two-time Academy Award® winning director Ron Howard, Academy Award® and Tony Award® winning actress and Tisch alumna Marcia Gay Harden, arts philanthropist Diana King, and Academy Award®, Emmy Award® and Peabody Award® winning Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary Films.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Launches Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund to Support Faculty-Initiated Studies

Sep 1, 2009
New York Universitys Office of the Senior Vice President for Health has launched a Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund, which on September 1, 2009 awarded grants of up to $15,000 each to support five faculty-initiated studies of health complexities in a globalized context.
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Exhibition of Groundbreaking Paintings by Indigenous Australian Artists Opens at NYUs Grey Art Gallery

Sep 1, 2009
Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, the first U.S. exhibition devoted to early acrylic paintings by Indigenous Australian artists, opens at the Grey Art Gallery on September 1, 2009.
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Eric Bogosian Reads From New Novel at NYU, Sept. 17

Sep 2, 2009
Author-actor Eric Bogosian will read from his new novel, Perforated Heart, on Thursday, September 17, at 7 p.m. at New York Universitys Cantor Film Center, Theater 101, 36 E. 8th Street.
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Chemists Reach from the Molecular to the Real World with Creation of 3D DNA Crystals

Sep 2, 2009
New York University chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, a breakthrough bridging the molecular world to the world where we live.
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NYUS Glucksman Ireland House Hosts Special Events in September

Sep 2, 2009
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in September, including a September 14 reading and discussion by Donal OKelley of his acclaimed play, The Cambria, which opens at the Irish Arts Center on September 16.
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NYUS Gerson Available for Comment On Forces Affecting New Generations of Parents and Workers

Sep 3, 2009
Economic uncertainty has given Labor Day 2009 a significance not felt in recent years. But underlying these circumstances are social and cultural, as well as economic, shifts that have been occurring for decades.
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NYUS Courant Institute Part of $10 Million NSF Grant to Study Impact of Global Warming in the Antarctic

Sep 4, 2009
New York Universitys Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is part of a $10 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to study the impact of global warming on the Antarctic Ice Sheet, an undertaking that will provide a method for measuring effects of oceanic and atmospheric warming in other regions.
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Alliance Players Present Concert Program to Celebrate Nadia Boulanger’s Birthday, at NYU’s Maison Française, Sept. 16

Sep 8, 2009
The Alliance Players, a chamber music group of prominent soloists and former players of the worlds leading ensembles, will perform a program in celebration of the birthday of Nadia Boulanger, one of the most influential teachers of composition of the 20th century, on Wednesday, September 16, at 7:30 p.m, at New York Universitys Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews.
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NYU’s Maison Française Presents First Public Screening of New Documentary on Chef Daniel Boulud, Sept. 23

Sep 8, 2009
The film traces Bouluds path from his familys farm in the village of St. Pierre de Chandieu to a career as one of Americas most respected chefs and restaurateurs. Following the screening, Dorothy Cann Hamilton, founder and CEO of The French Culinary Institute, will interview Boulud.
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Mario Savio Drew Ire of University Administrators Over Free Speech to the End, NYU's Cohen Recounts in New Biography

Sep 8, 2009
Mario Savio’s three-decade life as an activist ended in much the way it began-aggravating a university administration in his advocacy of free speech. Now. the first biography of the civil rights leader, authored by New York University Professor Robert Cohen, Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s, will be published by Oxford University Press, Sept. 24, 2009.
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NYU to Produce Kiss of the Spider Woman, Oct. 1-5

Sep 8, 2009
New York Universitys Program in Vocal Performance will produce Kiss of the Spider Woman Oct. 1 through Oct. 5, 2009 at the Frederick Loewe Theatre at 35 West 4th Street. Based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña, the show features a score by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Terrence McNally.
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Xavier U. Of Louisiana & NYU Receive $3-Million NSF Grant to Enhance Diversity Among Materials Scientists Through Collaborative Research

Sep 9, 2009
Xavier University of Louisiana and New York University have received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to bolster diversity among materials scientists through collaborative research and curriculum development. The award was one of eight awarded this year under NSFs Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program and funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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Gay Talese-and Others-On Gay Talese at NYU Journalism Roundtable, Sept. 16

Sep 10, 2009
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will host “Taking Talese Seriously,” a conversation that will include Gay Talese, the former New York Times reporter and best-selling author, on Wednesday, September 16, 6-8 p.m. at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square, between 5th and 6th Streets, 7th Floor).
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Anthropology’s Myers to Deliver Dean’s Lecture on the Predicament of Aboriginal Painting, Sept. 17

Sep 10, 2009
The lecture, Showing Too Much, Showing Too Little: The Predicament of Aboriginal Painting in Central Australia, explores a fundamental predicament of indigenous acrylic painting in Central Australia: While the artists seek to present their deep understandings of the world, their own protocols are part of a tradition of restricted revelation.
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Readings by Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award Winners at NYU, Sept. 25

Sep 10, 2009
New York University’s Creative Writing Program’s Fall Reading Series will host the recipients of the 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards at a special event on Friday, September 25, at 7 p.m., at NYU’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, located at 58 W. 10th Street. The winners, six emerging women writers, will read from their works. The reading is free and open to the public; for further information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu
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“Defining French Taste” New Maison Française Series Opens at NYU Sept. 22

Sep 10, 2009
A new lecture series entitled Defining French Taste: Tradition, Quality, and Innovation in the Decorative Arts, organized by renowned French interior designer and decorative arts historian Florence de Dampierre, will open at New York Universitys Maison Française (16 Washington Mews at University Place) on Tuesday, September 22, at 7:00 p.m. The series, in English, is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8750.
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NYU Celebrates Climate Week NY°C with a Public Lecture by Mathis Wackernagel, Executive Director of Global Footprint Network, Sept. 23

Sep 11, 2009
New York Universitys Educating for Sustainability lecture series presents Mathis Wackernagels lecture The Ecological Footprint: A Decision Tool for Facing the Challenges of Climate Change and Building a Sustainable Future, on Wednesday, September 23, 6:00 - 7:30 PM, at Rosenthal Pavilion, Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, 10th Floor, New York, NY.
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NYU-Poly Celebrates “Climate Week NY°C” with a Panel Discussion, “New York City’s Built Environment: Opportunities, Incentives, and the Carbon Challenge,” Sept. 22

Sep 11, 2009
On the occasion of Climate Week NY°C, when New Yorkers from all walks of life will be discussing one of the most important issues of our age, NYU-Poly presents a panel discussion, New York Citys Built Environment: Opportunities, Incentives, and the Carbon Challenge, on Tuesday, September 22, 2009, at 6:00 p.m., at NYU-Polys Varick St. Incubator - 160 Varick St. 12th Floor, NYC.
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NYU's Deutsches Haus Hosts Special Events in September

Sep 14, 2009
Deutsches Haus at New York University, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in September. The events are free and open to the public and take place at Deutsches Haus. For further information, call 212.998.8663 or visit www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus.
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"Legitimating Violence: Execution, Human Sacrifice, Assassination," Hosted by NYU's Center for Ancient Studies, Sept. 24 & 25

Sep 14, 2009
New York University’s Center for Ancient Studies will host a two-day colloquium, “Legitimating Violence: Execution, Human Sacrifice, Assassination,” on Thursday, September 24 and Friday, September 25 at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102, 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place).
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NYU’s Tony Judt to Deliver Public Lecture, “What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy,” Oct. 19

Sep 14, 2009
New York University Professor Tony Judt will deliver What is Living and What is Dead in Social Democracy, the 2009 Remarque Lecture, on Monday, October 19, 6 p.m. at New York Universitys Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South). The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by NYUs Remarque Institute.
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NYU Brademas Center Sponsors Washington Post’s Robert Kaiser on His New Book ‘So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government’ at National Press Club, Sept. 22

Sep 14, 2009
On Tuesday, September 22, 2009 Robert Kaiser, who has monitored changes in American politics for The Washington Post for nearly half a century, will discuss his new book So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government at a National Press Club event sponsored by the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at New York Universitys Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, September 22, 2009.
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Two Lectures by NYU’s Andrés Bello Chair James Dunkerley Reveal “Ideas & Power in Spanish America” This Fall

Sep 14, 2009
James Dunkerley, currently the Andrés Bello Chair in Latin American Cultures and Civilizations at New York University, will deliver two lectures this fall as part of a series of events he is organizing for NYUs King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and the Department of History. The lectures take place at the Center, 53 Washington Square South. They are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc.
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NYU Joins Other Leading Research Universities to Launch Futurity.Org

Sep 15, 2009
A group of leading research universities has launched Futurity www.futurity.org, an online research channel covering the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more. New York University is one of 35 partners supporting the project.
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Big Red Chair Family Series Returns to NYU's Skirball Center for 2009/10 Season

Sep 16, 2009
After the success of the inaugural year for the Big Red Chair Family Series (BRC) last season, New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts has announced the return of BRC for the 2009/2010 season. This year’s series will include Grammy-winning musicians; inventive performances of theater, visual arts, and dance; a visionary variety artist; and a new musical.
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Islamic Center to Host 7th Annual Fast-a-Thon to Raise Money to Fight Domestic Abuse, Sept. 17

Sep 17, 2009
The Islamic Center at NYU (ICNYU) will host its annual Fast-A-Thon on Thursday, September 17, 7 p.m. to midnight, at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium (60 Washington Square South, 4th Fl., at LaGuardia Place). The event encourages attendees to fast for the day to raise awareness and funds to fight domestic violence.
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Senator the Hon. Penny Wong, Australia's Minister for Climate Change and Water to Speak at NYU School of Law, Sept. 21

Sep 17, 2009
Senator Wong will give a brief outline of Australia’s vision for the road to Copenhagen and beyond, including the legal framework of the post-2012 agreement, in which Australia is closely involved as part of the UNFCCC negotiations, before an extended session of Q&A. NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, Pollack Colloquium Room, 9th Floor.
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Over-Reliance on Private Security by Military Forces Harming Stabilization Efforts in Afghanistan, Report by NYU’s Center on International Cooperation Finds

Sep 17, 2009
The Public Cost of Private Security in Afghanistan, authored by New York Universitys Center on International Cooperation, analyzes the negative impact of weak private security oversight in Afghanistan. The report concludes that over-reliance on private security - above all, on local militia groups - by international military forces is harming stabilization efforts.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research | Press Release
President Obama Appoints NYU Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell as Vice Chair of President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities

Sep 17, 2009
New York Universitys Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, has been appointed by President Barack Obama as vice chair of the Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities. The appointment was announced yesterday (Sept. 16) in a press release issued by the White House. At the same time, the President announced that Tisch School of the Arts Deans Council member and theatrical producer Margo Lion would serve as co-chair.
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Common Challenges, Uncommon Cities: A Critical Examination of Mega Urban Transportation Projects, Sept. 21

Sep 18, 2009
On Monday, September 21, 2009, NYU Abu Dhabi and the NYU Wagner Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management will present Professor Harry Dimitrious, Director of the Omega Centre at the University College of London. His remarks will focus on mega-development, an issue of common concern to New York and Abu Dhabi, the anchors of NYU’s Global Network University.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Former President of Ghana to Deliver Public Lecture, "Mobilizing African People for Economic Development," Sept. 22 at NYU

Sep 18, 2009
Former President of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings will deliver an address, “Mobilizing African People for Economic Development,” on Tuesday, September 22, 6 p.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium (60 Washington Sq. South, 4th Floor [at LaGuardia Place]). The event is free and open to the public. Call 212.998.4465.
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Deutsches Haus Presents Screening of Isch Kandidiere! (The Candidate!), Sept. 26 at NYU’s Cantor Film Center

Sep 18, 2009
New York Universitys Deutsches Haus will present a screening of Isch Kandidiere! (The Candidate!), featuring one of Germanys most famous comedians, Hape Kerkeling, on Saturday, September 26, 6 p.m. at New York Universitys Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St. (at University Place). The event is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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NYU Nationally Recognized for Commitment to Sustainability

Sep 21, 2009
New York University has won the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Educations (AASHE) annual Campus Sustainability Leadership Award in the four-year and graduate institutions over 15,000 full-time student category. The award recognized NYU as having made the greatest overall commitment to sustainability as demonstrated in its education and research, campus operations, and administration and finance. The award will be presented at the Greening of the Campus VIII Conference, Sept. 21 in Indianapolis.
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Courant Part of Team to Resolve Ancient Mathematics Problem

Sep 23, 2009
Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia, and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem on congruent numbers. The advance, which included work by David Harvey, an assistant professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, was achieved through a complex technique for multiplying large numbers.
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Editor, Contributors of New Translation of Hellenika Lead NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies’ “Xenophon in a New Voice,” Sept. 30

Sep 23, 2009
The New York University Center for Ancient Studies will host Xenophon in a New Voice, Wednesday, September 30, 5:30 p.m. at NYUs Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102, 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place). Enter at 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible).
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NYU Hosts the First New York Kurdish Film Festival: "A Cinema Across Borders," Oct. 21-25

Sep 23, 2009
The New York Kurdish Film Festival: A Cinema Across Borders, the first-ever film festival of Kurdish cinema in the United States, will take place October 21-25 at New York University. All screenings will be at the NYU Cantor Film Center (36 East 8th Street at University Place) or the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center (50 Washington Square South/enter at 255 Sullivan Street). For more information and a complete schedule of screenings, please visit www.nykff.com.
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Aziz Ansari and John Mulaney Take to the Stage with a Night of Comedy at NYU Skirball Center, Oct. 29

Sep 24, 2009
New York University alumnus Aziz Ansari (‘04) along with John Mulaney bring standup and sketch comedy to NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing arts on October 8, 2009 at 8pm as part of the Project 566: What’s Next series. This eclectic series showcases what’s next in comedy, dance, music and theater.
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NYU Transportation to Restore Off-Peak Hours Stops at 14th Street Beginning Sept. 25

Sep 24, 2009
NYU Transportation will restore service to the Route E bus stop at 14th Street during off-peak hours beginning Friday, September 25. Off-peak service hours are from 8 PM to midnight on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings, and all day on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Buses will stop in the MTA’s bus stop locations that provide service to its Routes M101, M102 and M103.
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NYU's Amodio Explores Neurological Activity That Fuels Racial Bias

Sep 24, 2009
Under a five-year, $834,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award, New York University Psychology Assistant Professor David Amodio is examining the dynamics of unconscious, or “implicit,” racial associations, through research that aims to advance our basic understanding of how neural mechanisms of learning and memory function in social behavior.
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Changing Climate and Water Management: A Perspective on Science and Implementation for Adaptation - Sept. 29 at NYU Wagner

Sep 25, 2009
NYU Wagner welcomes Upmanu Lall Alan & Carol Silberstein Professor of Engineering, Columbia University; Director, Columbia Water Center; Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate & Society at Columbia University - for a compelling discussion of climate change on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Museum of Chinese in America, Co-Founded by NYU's Jack Tchen, Opens New Facility

Sep 25, 2009
The Museum of Chinese in America(MOCA), co-founded by New York University Professor John Kuo Wei Tchen in 1980, opened in its new location, 215 Centre Street-on the cusp of Chinatown and SoHo-on September 22.
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NYU Skirball Center to Present NT Live: All’s Well That Ends Well

Sep 25, 2009
Digital Broadcast from the UKs National Theatre in London, Oct. 9; Directed by Marianne Elliott with a cast led by Oliver Ford Davies and Clare Higgins
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“The Fall of the Wall: A Prism for Looking at Germany’s Recent Past and Future,” Co-Sponsored by NYU’s Deutsches Haus, at Columbia U. Oct. 22-23

Sep 25, 2009
Just weeks before the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, New York University and Columbia University will co-sponsor a two-day conference, The Fall of the Wall: A Prism for Looking at Germanys Recent Past and Future, October 22 and 23 at Columbias Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th Street. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8661.
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NYU’s Class of 2008 Gives Back the Green to Manhattan

Sep 25, 2009
On Saturday, September 26th, in conjunction with the 400th anniversary of Hudsons arrival, New York University will unveil the NYU Native Woodland Garden, the Class of 2008s legacy gift, at Schwartz Plaza, at the corner of Washington Square Park East and West 4th Street, from 1-3pm.
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E. L. Doctorow, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mary Gaitskill Highlight October Reading Series at NYU Creative Writing Program

Sep 25, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Programs Fall 2009 Reading Series continues in October with a number of special poetry and fiction readings and salons. Events are held in the programs Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu
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NYU Biologist Rockman to Study How Genetic Variation Contributes to Aging

Sep 29, 2009
Scientists have long known that genetic variation contributes to differences in aging among individuals, populations, and species. Less clear are the specific genes that drive the aging process. New York University Biologist Matthew Rockman aims to uncover these genes under a $400,000 New Scholar award from the Ellison Medical Foundation.
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Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, Cornel West Featured at Symposium on the Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, Oct. 22

Sep 29, 2009
Philosopher Jürgen Habermas and Princeton University Professor Cornel West will participate in a discussion, Rethinking Secularism: The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, on Thursday, October 22, 3:00-7:30 p.m., at Cooper Unions Great Hall (7 East 7th Street at Bowery)
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Historian Morris to Deliver Two-Part Lecture, "One State/Two States," Hosted by NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies, Oct. 5 & Oct. 12

Sep 29, 2009
Historian Benny Morris will deliver a two-part lecture, “One State/Two States and Resolution of the Israel-Palestine Conflict,” on Monday, October 5 and Monday October 12, with both sessions beginning at 6 p.m. and held at New York University’s Jurow Lecture Hall in Silver Center (100 Washington Square East at Washington Place).
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King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Hosts Fall Art and Photography Talks, Beginning Oct. 1

Sep 30, 2009
New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will host a series of talks on art and photography in Latin America and the United States beginning October 1. All events, which are free and open to the public, take place at the Center (53 Washington Square South, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets) and begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc
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"Wende Flicks: Last Films From East Germany," at NYU's Deutsches Haus, Oct. 16, Nov. 6 & 13

Sep 30, 2009
As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, New York University’s Deutsches Haus will host a fall film series, “WENDE FLICKS: Last Films from East Germany,” comprised of four documentaries portraying life in the German Democratic Republic. NYU’s Deutsches Haus is located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place).
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Motown Artist Development Pioneer Maxine Powell in Oct. 9 Conversation at Gallatin

Sep 30, 2009
New York Universitys Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host Motown artist development pioneer Maxine Powell, in conversation with Gallatin Professor Michael Dinwiddie, on Friday, October 9, 7-9 p.m., at NYUs Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts (715 Broadway at Washington Place/entrance on 1 Washington Place).
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New Webinar Series Addresses Improving the Environment for Older Adult Health Care

Sep 30, 2009
A new, four-part Webinar series for nurses on improving the geriatric care environment in hospitals will be presented during fall 2009 by the NICHE program (Nurses Improving Care for Health-System Elders), based at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing. The monthly sessions take place from October to January, with the first one to be held on October 7, 2009.
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College of Nursing, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Researchers Identify Best Programs for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families

Oct 1, 2009
A new web-based report by researchers at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development identifies an array of innovative programs facilitating the adaptation of immigrant children, youth, and families to new countries. www.academicwebpages.com/preview/pathways
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NYU Conference, "Lost New York, 1609-2009," Oct. 2 & 3, Explores City's Literary and Cultural Roots

Oct 1, 2009
“Lost New York, 1609-2009,” at New York University on Friday, October 2 and Saturday, October 3, coincides with the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage and the 200th anniversary of Washington Irving’s legendary re-imagining of the New World in his Knickerbocker’s History of New York. All sessions are free and open to the public. Call 212.998.8819 for more information. For a complete schedule, go to: http://ahistoryofnewyork.com/
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Glucksman Ireland House Hosts October Series of Screenings, Discussions, and Music at New York University

Oct 1, 2009
Glucksman Ireland House, the center for Irish and Irish-American Studies at New York University, will host a series of screenings, discussions and concerts beginning Thursday, October 1, 2009. The events will take place at the Glucksman Ireland House at 1 Washington Mews in lower Manhattan.
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NYU School of Law Announces New M.S.L. Degree in Law and Jewish Civilization

Oct 2, 2009
New York University School of Law has announced a new Master of Studies in Law degree (M.S.L.) that is focused on law and Jewish civilization. The M.S.L. degree is aimed at those seeking a deep intellectual and academic inquiry into Jewish learning and legal insight. The program will admit 20-30 students and is accepting applications now for the 2010-2011 academic year, with both full and part-time study opportunities.
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NYU Launches McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy, Practice, and Research

Oct 2, 2009
Inspired by a large gift from New York University alumni Constance and Martin Silver, NYU Silver School of Social Work will launch the McSilver Institute of Poverty Policy, Practice, and Research - a major new initiative - with a public conference on Saturday, October 3, 2009. The event, which begins at 2:30 p.m., will take place at NYUs Schimmel Auditorium (40 West 4th Street, New York, N.Y.). The keynote speaker will be Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Childrens Zone, who will illuminate his acclaimed approaches to reducing poverty in Harlem and the United States.
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Newark's Mayor Cory Booker Discusses Justice in Urban Environments - Oct. 8 at NYU Wagner

Oct 2, 2009
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University welcomes Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory A. Booker on Thursday, October 8, 2009 for a one-hour conversation about justice in urban environments, with Ellen Schall, dean of NYU Wagner. Free and open to the public, the discussion begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. at the Wagner school, located in the historic Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 295 Lafayette Street (@Houston), New York, N.Y., and will be followed by a brief reception.
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Food Show: When Performance Becomes Lunch and Why We Finally Have an Appetite for a New Sort of Cooking Show - Thursday, October 15

Oct 5, 2009
The Critical Topics Series at New York University’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library will hold a lively and informative panel discussion on Thursday, October 15 entitled “Food Show: When Performance Becomes Lunch and Why We Finally Have an Appetite for a New Sort of Cooking Show.” The two-hour event, free and open to the public, begins at 4 p.m. at 70 Washington Square South, 3rd Floor, Greenwich Village.
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"Revising Our Logic," a Public Lecture by NYU Philosophy Professor Field, Oct. 21

Oct 5, 2009
Hartry Field, a University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University, will deliver “Revising Our Logic” on Wednesday, October 21, 6 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place]). The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, call 212.998.8000.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Researchers Receive More Than $45 Million in Stimulus Funds to Conduct Research in Climate Change, Develop Low-Cost Wireless Connections for Rural Areas, and Explore the Genetic Causes of Schizophrenia

Oct 5, 2009
New York University researchers have received more than $45 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), or stimulus package, proposed by the Obama Administration and passed by Congress this spring. Additional grant applications, submitted to federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are still under consideration with award decisions expected in the coming months.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | Press Release
NYU Anthropologist to Examine How Human Rights Rankings Are Created Under NSF Grant

Oct 5, 2009
New York University Anthropology Professor Sally Engle Merry will examine how rankings of human rights are created under a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The resulting research is designed to help the public as well as international decision-makers develop a fuller understanding of the kinds of knowledge these rankings provide.
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Demystifying the US Healthcare Reform Debate (Part I) — Wednesday, October 7 at NYU Wagner

Oct 5, 2009
In the first part of a series of discussions entitled Demystifying the US Healthcare Reform Debate, NYU Wagner Professor John Billings will describe the underlying causes of the problems facing the American health care system on Wednesday, October 7. This evening conversation will begin at 6:30 p.m. at Wagner, located in The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street (@Houston), 2nd Floor, lower Manhattan. The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, and RSVP is required.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Deliver NYU’s Gallatin Lecture, “Our Environmental Destiny,” Oct. 12

Oct 6, 2009
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of Waterkeeper Alliance, will deliver the Fall 2009 Albert Gallatin Lecture, Our Environmental Destiny, on Monday, October 12, 7 p.m. at New York Universitys Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts (715 Broadway at Washington Place/entrance on 1 Washington Place). Subways: R, W (8th St.); 6 (Astor Pl.).
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"Walls in Berlin, Europe, and Beyond," a Roundtable Discussion at NYU's Deutsches Haus, Nov. 10

Oct 6, 2009
New York University’s Deutsches Haus will host a roundtable discussion, “Walls of Berlin, Europe, and Beyond,” on Tuesday, November 10, 6-8 p.m., 42 Washington Mews (at University Place). The event, co-sponsored with NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, is free and open to the public. Call 212.998.3838 for more information. Subway Lines: R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place).
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Thinking Globally About Health Literacy at NYU — Oct. 21

Oct 6, 2009
On Wednesday October 21, the NYU Masters Program in Global Public Health will present Thinking Globally About Health Literacy, a panel discussion featuring Gary L. Kreps, Ph.D., Isabel M. Estrada-Portales, M.S., and moderation by Renata Schiavo, Ph.D., M.A., at Vanderbilt Hall, Room 214, 40 Washington Square South. The two-hour program will begin at 6:30 p.m.
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NYU Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund Grant Awarded to College of Dentistry's Dr. Dasanayake

Oct 7, 2009
NYU College of Dentistry Professor Dr. Ananda P. Dasanayake has been awarded a one-year NYU Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund grant to continue his study of how periodontal disease can contribute to gestational diabetes mellitus.
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NYU College of Dentistry Shares $2.8 Million NIH Award to Advance Study of 3-D Bone Tissue Scaffolds

Oct 7, 2009
Two NYUCD professors are partnering with researchers from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University on a $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the NIH, to assess the effectiveness of anti-inflammatory, three-dimensional bone tissue scaffolds in regenerating missing sections of the skull. The study is being led by Dr. Patrick OConnor, an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UMDNJ.
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"Iran in Context: A Roundtable Discussion," Hosted by NYU's Kevorkian Center, Oct. 9

Oct 7, 2009
New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center will host “Iran in Context,” a roundtable discussion on the 2009 presidential election in Iran and subsequent events, on Friday, October 9, 5-7 p.m. (50 Washington Square South/enter at 255 Sullivan Street).
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NYU College of Dentistry’s Dr. Nicola Partridge Awarded $1.5 Million NIH Grant for Craniofacial Bone Research

Oct 7, 2009
The new Chair of the Department of Basic Science & Craniofacial Biology at the NYU College of Dentistry, Dr. Nicola Partridge, has been awarded a two-year, $1.5 million NIH grant to expand research on craniofacial bone biology. Dr. Partridge is a national and international authority on molecular endocrinology and an expert in bone and mineral research.
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NYU Courant Researchers Creating Computer Models of How Cancer Develops

Oct 8, 2009
Researchers from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences are developing cutting-edge computer tools to model the development of pancreatic cancer. The creation of such a model will provide a platform for systematically exploring various cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.
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NYU Historian Captures the Life of Dorothea Lange in New Biography of Depression-Era Photographer

Oct 9, 2009
October 29 marks the 80th anniversary of the stock-market crash that set off the Great Depression-a period captured through the lens of photographer Dorothea Lange. In a new biography, New York University historian Linda Gordon charts Lange’s journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II.
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Thirsting for Social Change: Honest Tea Founder Seth Goldman Leads Off NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurships 2009-10 Speaker Series - October 19

Oct 9, 2009
The NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to inaugurate the 2009-10 Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century Speaker Series on Monday, October 19 at 12:30 p.m. with a fascinating and inspiring talk by Honest Tea President and TeaEO Seth Goldman. The event will be held in the Rudin Forum at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, located in the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street (@Houston), 2nd Floor.
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E.L. Doctorow Reads From New Novel Homer and Langley at NYU, Oct. 22

Oct 10, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program presents the widely acclaimed writer E.L. Doctorow reading from his new novel, Homer and Langley, on Thursday, October 22 at 8:00 p.m., with a special introduction by novelist Jonathan Safran Foer. The reading will be held at NYU Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, 60 Washington Square South. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816
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NYU Conference Weighs the Merits of Experimental Economics, Oct. 23 and 24

Oct 12, 2009
New York University’s Center for Experimental Social Science (CESS) will host “Methods of Modern Experimental Economics,” which will consider the value of experimental science in gauging economic behavior, on Friday, October 23 (NYU’s Casa Italiana, 24 West 12th Street [between 5th and 6th Avenues]) and Saturday, October 24 (NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, 100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place]).
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NYU Reynolds Program Offers Undergraduate Seed Grants to Change the World

Oct 12, 2009
The NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship and the nonprofit Youth Venture will launch their 4th annual Be A Changemaker Challenge with an information Be A Changemaker Bash on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. at NYU Wagner, The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor. This event will provide an opportunity to learn more about the Challenge, meet other prospective changemakers, pitch your idea to recruit teammates, find others with similar interests, and meet past Be A Changemaker teams.
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NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship Announces Application Submission Deadlines for 2010-11 Graduate Fellowships and Undergraduate Scholarships

Oct 12, 2009
The NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship is designed to support and train the next generation of social entrepreneurs who will implement sustainable and scalable solutions to society’s most intractable problems. This cross-university initiative encompasses all 14 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools at NYU. At the core of the program are highly competitive Undergraduate Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships. The program also brings significant social entrepreneurial resources and opportunities to the greater NYU community as a whole.
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Tisch School of the Arts Offers Three Arts Minors to All NYU Undergraduates

Oct 12, 2009
Beginning with the fall 2009 semester, the Office of Special Programs at the Tisch School of the Arts is offering three arts minors-Documentary, Performance Studies, and Producing-to all New York University undergraduates. Each minor consists of 18 points.
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College of Nursing Faculty Members Receive Research Awards

Oct 12, 2009
Gail DEramo Melkus, the Florence and William Downs Professor in Nursing Research in the College of Nursing received the 2009 Distinguished Nurse Researcher Award from the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association, at their annual meeting, October 8, 2009, in Saratoga Springs, NY. Mary Rosedale, assistant professor in the College of Nursing, who also has a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, will receive the Novice Nurse Researcher from the Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association.
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NYU College of Nursing Establishes Doctor of Nursing Practice Program

Oct 12, 2009
New York University College of Nursing is proud to announce the opening of our Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program that responds to the growing complexity of health care delivery systems, increasing educational challenges for advanced practice nurses, and burgeoning demand for clinical leaders. The first DNP cohort will enroll in the spring 2010 semester.
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NYU College of Arts and Science Lecture, “The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine,” Nov. 12

Oct 13, 2009
New York Universitys College of Arts and Science will host a public lecture, The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine, by author James H. Jones, on Thursday, November 12, 4 p.m. at NYUs Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102, 100 Washington Square East (at Washington Place). Enter at 32 Waverly Place or 31 Washington Place (wheelchair accessible).
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Recent "Momentum" Influences Choices of Baby Names, NYU, Indiana Psychology Professors Find

Oct 13, 2009
How do people choose a name for their child? Researchers have long noted that the overall popularity of a name exerts a strong influence on people’s preferences-more popular names, such as Robert or Susan, are more frequent and, by their sheer ubiquity, drive more parents to adopt a similar choice. However, new research by psychologists at New York University and Indiana University, Bloomington suggests that the change in popularity of a name over time increasingly influences naming decisions in the United States. Like momentum traders in the stock market, parents today appear to favor names that have recently risen in popularity relative to names that are on the decline.
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Tony Award-Winner Bill Irwin Headlines Gala Benefit for NYU’s Maison Française, Nov. 9; Honoring Yves-André Istel

Oct 13, 2009
On Monday, November 9, New Yorkers will get the chance to hear Bill Irwin, Tony Award-winning actor for Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf and MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant awardee, present a dramatic reading of a selection of Alexis de Tocquevilles Letters from America at a gala benefit for New York Universitys Maison Française, a major New York forum for French-American intellectual and cultural exchange.
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NYU Wagner Hosts NYC Mayoral Candidates -- Oct. 15

Oct 14, 2009
Four relatively little-known candidates for Mayor of New York City will have an opportunity to weigh in on issues and policies that directly affect the lives of lower-income New Yorkers at a candidate forum Thursday, October 15 at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
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“Reporting Human Rights,” NYU Journalism Panel, Draws New York Times, Bbc News, Al Jazeera, NBC News-Oct. 20

Oct 14, 2009
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University will host Reporting Human Rights, a panel discussion that includes journalists from the New York Times, BBC News, NBC News, and Al Jazeera, on Tues., Oct. 20, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., at NYU Stern School of Business, Schimmel Auditorium, Tisch Hall, UC-50, 40 West 4th Street (at Greene St.).
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Grandin Named National Book Award Finalist for Fordlandia, an Account of Automaker Ford's Attempt to Build a Company Town in the Brazilian Amazon

Oct 15, 2009
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books), by New York University History Professor Greg Grandin, has been named a National Book Award Finalist in the nonfiction category.
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“The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon” at NYU Skirball Center, Nov. 1

Oct 15, 2009
The second season of the Big Red Chair Family Series at New York Universitys Skirball Center for the Performing Arts continues with an Enchantment Theatre Company production of The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon on November 1 at 3:00pm. Based on the beloved Harold book series by Crockett Johnson, the touring production brings the storybook characters to life with life-sized puppets, masks, music, and magic.
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NYU Wagner Launches 'Middle East and U.S. Strategy' Lecture Series - Oct. 21

Oct 15, 2009
The Middle East and United States Strategy Series, moderated by Wagner visiting professor Michael Doran, will address one of the most pressing issues on the U.S. strategic agenda. All events, free and open to the public, will run from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Wagner school, located in The Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 295 Lafayette Street (at the corner of Houston Street), New York, N.Y.
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NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Hosts Lectures On U.S.-Latin American Relations, Spanish Photographer Salgado, Beginning Oct. 20

Oct 15, 2009
New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will host a series of lectures on U.S.-Latin American relations and Spanish photographer Sebastião Salgado beginning October 20. All lectures, which are free and open to the public, take place at the Center (53 Washington Square South, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets) and begin at 6:30 p.m. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc
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Latin America's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Focus of NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Symposium, Oct. 22-23

Oct 16, 2009
New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will host “After Truth: Justice, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, and Related Aftermaths,” a two-day symposium on the impact of Latin America’s truth and reconciliation commissions, on Thursday, October 22 and Friday, October 23 (53 Washington Square South, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets). The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.3650.
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LSE’s Nancy Cartwright to Deliver NYU’s Annual Frumkes Lecture, “Causation: What Can Be the Use of It?”-Nov. 16

Oct 19, 2009
Nancy Cartwright, a professor of philosophy at the London School of Economics, will deliver New York Universitys Annual Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture on Monday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. at NYUs Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place]). Cartwrights lecture is titled Causation: What Can Be the Use of It? The event is free and open to the public, which may call 212.998.8320 for more information.
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Infants Able to Identify Humans as Source of Speech and Monkeys as Source of Monkey Calls, Psychology Researchers Find

Oct 19, 2009
Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides the first evidence that human infants are able to correctly match different kinds of vocalizations to different species.
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Works by Faculty and Staff from the Department of Photography and Imaging go on View

Oct 20, 2009
An exhibition of approximately 70 works created by the faculty and staff of the Department of Photography and Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts will open October 23 and run through November 21, 2009.
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National Book Foundation to Honor NYU Anthropology Doctoral Student As One of "5 Under 35" Top Young Fiction Writers

Oct 20, 2009
Ceridwen Dovey, an anthropology doctoral candidate in New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, has been selected by the National Book Foundation as one of its “5 Under 35” young fiction writers for her inaugural novel, Blood Kin (Viking, 2008).
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NYU Kicks Off the 2009 NYU Combined Campaign to Raise Money for the United Way of NYC and the NYU Community Fund

Oct 20, 2009
The NYU Combined Campaign kicks off this November in an effort to raise financial support from full-time employees for the NYU Community Fund and the United Way of NYC.
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Les Dames dEscoffier New York and NYUs Fales Library Celebrate New Partnership - October 21

Oct 20, 2009
On Wednesday, October 21, Les Dames dEscoffier New York (LDNY) and New York Universitys Fales Library will hold a reception honoring Carol Brock, founder of Les Dames dEscoffier, and celebrating the Les Dames dEscoffier/Carol Brock New Acquisitions Program. The event begins at 6 p.m.
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NYU Neural Scientists Ask "How Does Exercise Change Your Brain?" in Two Lectures, Oct. 28 & Nov. 4

Oct 21, 2009
New York University’s Wendy Suzuki, a professor in the Center for Neural Science, will present two lectures addressing the impact of exercise on the brain: “The Effects of Exercise on Brain Structure” (October 28, 6-7:45 p.m.) and “The Effects of Exercise in Stress, Depression, and Aging” (November 4, 6-7:45 p.m.). Both lectures will take place at NYU’s Palladium Dorm (140 East 14th Street, 3rd Floor).
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU to Present the Third Annual Leon Levy Lecture, Nov. 5

Oct 21, 2009
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University will present the Third Annual Leon Levy Lecture on Thursday, November 5, 2009. This year’s featured speaker will be Nicola Di Cosmo, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. Di Cosmo’s lecture topic will be The Historian in the Future of the Ancient World: A View from Central Eurasia.
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NYU College of Dentistry Professor Awarded NYU School of Medicine Grant for Bladder Cancer Research

Oct 21, 2009
The NYU School of Medicine has awarded a one-year Center of Excellence grant to an NYU College of Dentistry professor to study how bladder tumors progress to invasive cancer. Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men, and the eighth most common in women, with over 50,000 new cases and 14,000 bladder cancer-related deaths reported annually in the United States.
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NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Announces the 2009/10 Schedule for Visiting Research Scholars Lecture Series

Oct 22, 2009
Each year, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University invites a number of research scholars to take up residence at the Institute and join in the intellectual life of the community. The ISAW Visiting Research Scholars program comprises individuals of scholarly distinction who also have a history of interdisciplinary academic exchange in the relevant fields of ancient studies.
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John Wray, Nick Flynn, and Jayne Anne Phillips Featured in November Reading Series at NYU Creative Writing Program

Oct 22, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2009 Reading Series continues in November with a number of special poetry and fiction readings. Events are held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu.
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Mario Savio Biographer at UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement Café, 45 Years After FSM Blossomed on Cal Campus, for Panel Discussion Oct. 28

Oct 22, 2009
New York University historian Robert Cohen, author of the newly released biography of the late Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio, Freedoms Orator (Oxford), will be among the panelists for a discussion on the movement on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 5-7 p.m. at the Free Speech Movement Café, located in the University of California, Berkeleys Moffitt Library.
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NYU Wagner’s International Public Service Association Presents U.S. Movie Premiere of ‘The End of Poverty? Think Again!’-Oct. 30

Oct 23, 2009
NYU Wagners International Public Service Association will present the U.S. movie premiere of The End of Poverty? Think Again! by multi-awarded filmmaker Philippe Diaz on Friday, October 30. The screening will begin at 4:00 p.m. and will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Salo Coslovsky. It all takes place at Wagner, located in the Puck Building, 295 Lafayette St., 2nd Floor. RSVP is required.
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La Maison Francaise at NYU Announces November Lectures, Performances, and Exhibitions

Oct 23, 2009
Through its rich and varied program in the areas of French culture and civilization, La Maison Francaise at New York University has long played a major role in the flow of intellectual currents between France and United States. During the month of November, La Maison Francaise will sponsor a number of distinctive events. Unless otherwise noted, these events take place at its home at 16 Washington Mews in Greenwich Village and are free and open to the public:
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New York Institute for the Humanities’ “Halloween Wonder Cabinet, Curated by Lawrence Weschler” Showcases Multi-Media Presentations From the Intergalactic to the Molecular-Oct. 31

Oct 26, 2009
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU will host Halloween Wonder Cabinet, Curated by Lawrence Weschler, a day-long series of multi-media presentations on everything from the intergalactic to the molecular, on Saturday, October 31, 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at NYUs Cantor Film Center (36 East 8th Street). The event, co-sponsored with the Humanities Initiative at NYU, is free and open to the public. Call 212.998.2101 for more information. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Lt. Gov. Richard Ravitch Discusses New York State's Fiscal Condition at NYU Wagner-Oct. 28

Oct 27, 2009
Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch will offer his take on mass transit and the New York State budget at a morning event Wednesday, October 28, at 8:30 a.m. in The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street (at the corner of Houston), 2nd Floor. The event is sponsored by the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management.
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The Other Halloween Parade

Oct 27, 2009
New York University and Manhattan Community Board 2 will host hundreds of children, moms, and dads at the 19th Annual Greenwich Village Children’s Halloween Parade. Saturday, October 31, 2009; marchers start gathering at 1:00pm; parade begins at 1:15pm; Following the parade, the children will be treated to candy, face-painting, rides and live entertainment, including a special performance by the Off-Broadway children’s smash hit, The Gazillion Bubble Show.
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Fellowship Prepares Recent College Graduates for Public Service Careers

Oct 28, 2009
The Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service (FELPS), now in its fifth year, is sponsored by the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. It receives support both from NYU Wagner and the Altman Foundation and reflects RCLA’s broader work to developing a deep and diverse pool of public service leaders.
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A City of One’s Own: Architecture & Urbanism as Cultural Heritage in Barcelona, with Eulàlia Bosch - Nov 2

Oct 28, 2009
New York Universitys Catalan Center, in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects (AIA-NY), will present a Design Literary Retreat entitled A City of Ones Own: Architecture & Urbanism as Cultural Heritage in Barcelona, with Eulàlia Bosch. The event will be held on Monday, November 2, at 6:30 p.m at the AIA-NY, Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, N.Y.
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Nora Ephron, Spike Lee in NYU’s Journalism Institute’s “Primary Sources” Series, Nov. 10 and 12

Oct 29, 2009
Nora Ephron and Spike Lee will be featured in Primary Sources, a series of conversations at New York Universitys Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square, between 5th and 6th Streets, 7th Floor) on November 10 and November 12. Both events are free and open to the public. Call 212.998.8044 for more information. Photo ID required for entry. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis
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NYU School of Law Hosts Third Annual Global Economic Policy Forum on “The Future of Regulation and the Capital Markets,” Nov. 5

Oct 29, 2009
The Global Economic Policy Forum brings together government, economic, and academic leaders to discuss critical issues of economic policy and the capital markets. Through an open exchange of ideas among policy makers, scholars, and market participants guests get a rare inside look at the future of economic policy, regulation, and capital market activities. The event is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Central Banks and the Law Alumni Association.
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The Evolution of the Food Cognoscenti in America - Nov. 5

Oct 29, 2009
New York University’s Fales Library, the home of one of the nation’s largest and prestigious archives in food studies, will host a discussion entitled “Who’s Who and What’s What: The Evolution of the Food Cognoscenti in America,” on Thursday, November 5, at 4:00 p.m. at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Third Floor, 70 Washington Square South.
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Bolivia’s Elections Focus of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Panel, Dec. 1

Oct 29, 2009
New York Universitys King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will host BoliviaThe Elections and Democracy in Historical Context, a panel discussion, on Tuesday, December 1, 6 p.m., 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets). The event, which is free and open to the public, comes just prior to Bolivias December 6 elections. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc
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The Goldstone Report Focus of NYU Taub Center for Israel Studies Lecture, Dec. 1

Oct 30, 2009
David Kretzmer, a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 1995 to 2002, will deliver a public lecture, The Goldstone Report: Armed Conflict and the Duty to Investigate, on Tuesday, December 1, 6 p.m. at New York Universitys Hemmerdinger Hall in Silver Center (100 Washington Square East at Washington Place). The event is hosted by NYUs Taub Center for Israel Studies.
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Gallatin School to Host “The Trial,” Stage Adaptation of Kafka Novel, Nov. 5-8

Oct 30, 2009
NYUs Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host four performances of The Trial, Stephen Berkoffs stage adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel of the same name, November 5-7 (7 p.m.) and November 8 (2 p.m.), at its Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts (715 Broadway at Washington Place/entrance on 1 Washington Place).
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NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Hosts 42nd Capital Markets in Real Estate Conference November 19, 2009, New York City

Nov 1, 2009
Field of Dreams: A New Age for Global Real Estate Capital Markets, the 42nd Annual Conference on Capital Markets in Real Estate, hosted by the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (www.scps.nyu.edu/realestate). Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel, 301 Park Avenue (between East 49th and East 50th Streets), NYC.
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NYU Dean of Libraries Carol A. Mandel Elected President of Association of Research Libraries

Nov 2, 2009
Carol A. Mandel, dean of the NYU Division of Libraries, has been elected president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), an organization representing 124 of the largest research libraries in Canada and the United States. ARL members include the largest research university libraries, as well as institutions such as the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library.
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Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Historian David Oshinsky to Deliver "Bellevue: A Look Back at America's Most Influential Public Hospital," Nov. 10 at NYU

Nov 2, 2009
Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian David Oshinsky will deliver “Bellevue: A Look Back at America’s Most Influential Public Hospital” on November 10, 5 p.m. at New York University’s Hemmerdinger Hall (100 Washington Square East at Washington Place). The lecture is free and open to the public; RSVP is required. For more information, call 212.998.2264.
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OMB Director Peter Orszag Speaks at NYU on Rescue, Recovery, and Reining in the Deficit - Tuesday, November 3

Nov 3, 2009
Peter R. Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, will deliver a speech at New York University entitled Rescue, Recovery, and Reining in the Deficit on Tuesday, November 3, at 11 a.m. The event will take place at NYUs Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium (at the corner of LaGuardia Place).
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NYU Conference on the Future of Risk Management, Nov. 13

Nov 4, 2009
New York University will host a one-day conference, The Future of Risk Management, Friday, November 13, at NYUs Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (251 Mercer Street, Room 109 [enter on Gould Plaza on West Fourth Street at Greene Street]). Speakers include representatives from the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Freddie Mac as well as Nobel Laureate Robert Engle, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business.
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NYU Professor Amir Pnueli, Turing Award Winner Who Applied Temporal Logic to Computing Systems, Dies at 68

Nov 4, 2009
Amir Pnueli, an internationally renowned pioneer in computer science best known for introducing temporal logic to analyze computer systems, died on November 2 at the age of 68 at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York. In recognition of his fundamental contributions to the field, Pnueli, a professor of computer science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, received the Turing Award, the highest distinction that can be bestowed on a computer scientist.
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NYU Presents Poe and Beethoven a Gothic Music Performance by Outis on Nov. 12, at 6:00 PM

Nov 5, 2009
New York Universitys Poe Room and Office of Government and Community Affairs presents a magical and creative evening of Edgar A. Poes poetry combined with Ludwig van Beethovens music. Dont miss this opportunity to see three members of Outis, Jered Gallagher, Michael Miduski, and Joe Stark perform live. This event is free and open to the public with photo ID. To RSVP, please call 212.998.6943 or email community.affairs@nyu.edu
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Free Speech Movement Leader Savio Fueled by "Religious Sensibility" Despite Rejection of Catholicism, Biography by NYU Historian Finds

Nov 5, 2009
Mario Savio was fueled in by “religious sensibility,” despite his rejection of Catholicism as an adult, New York University historian Robert Cohen recounts in Freedom’s Orator (Oxford), the first biography of the Free Speech Movement leader.
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John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Michael Thomas Highlight December Readings at NYU Creative Writing Program

Nov 9, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Programs Fall 2009 Reading Series continues in December with a number of special poetry and fiction readings. Events are held in the programs Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu
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NYUCD’s Dr. Marcela Romero-Reyes to Study Migraine Treatment to Manage Orofacial Pain

Nov 9, 2009
NYU College of Dentistry Professor Dr. Marcela Romero-Reyes has been selected by the Migraine Research Foundation and the American Headache Society as the first recipient of the Heftler Migraine Research Award for her innovative proposal to investigate whether a treatment for migraine headaches can also be used to manage orofacial pain disorders.
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World Tour of Derek Trucks Band Makes a Stop at NYU Skirball Center for One Night, Dec. 10

Nov 9, 2009
Grammy Award nominated songwriter, record producer, and slide guitarist Derek Trucks and his band will take to the stage of the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University for one night on December 10, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. The group’s 2009 World Tour-featuring the release of Band’s latest album, Already Free-is winding down and has already taken them to more than a dozen countries on four continents.
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NYU's Kolm Available for Comment On High-Frequency Trading

Nov 9, 2009
New York University’s Petter Kolm, co-author of the forthcoming Quantitative Equity Investing: Techniques and Strategies, is available for comment on high-frequency trading and its use of algorithms as well as the practice of quantitative finance and asset management.
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Terry Fulmer, Dean of NYU College of Nursing, is Elected to the Membership of the Healthcare Executive Forum

Nov 9, 2009
Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at New York University, has been elected to the membership of the Healthcare Executive Forum (HCEF), a membership of women executives in healthcare.
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Steinhardt’s Kirch Wins NSF Grant to Study Elementary Science Education

by Timothy Farrell Nov 9, 2009
Susan Kirch, associate professor of teaching and learning at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, has been awarded a $448,800 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how third and fourth grade students understand the nature of scientific evidence.
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Repairing the World for its Own Sake: A Principled View of Service The Opening Reception for NYU Wagners Berman Jewish Policy Archive

Nov 10, 2009
On Wednesday, November 11, 2009, NYU Wagners Berman Jewish Policy Archive (BJPA) will hold its opening reception, with American Jewish World Service president Ruth W. Messinger, Rabbi David Ellenson, and communal leader and philanthropist Bill Berman, the founder and chair of the Mandell L. Berman Institute at the North American Jewish Data Bank. The evening of learning and discussion begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay Street, 4th Floor.
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Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen to Discuss New Media's Present and Future in Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute's "Primary Sources" Series, Dec. 3 at NYU

Nov 11, 2009
Rosen and Shirky will discuss the latest ideas in new media: what’s working, what’s dead, and where the medium is headed. The event is free and open to the public. Call 212.998.8044 for more information. Photo ID required for entry. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
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NYUs Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Offers a Rare Look at Some of Europes Earliest Civilizations in a New Exhibition

Nov 11, 2009
Lost World of Old Europe is on view from November 11, 2009 - April 25, 2010 at ISAW, located 15 East 84th Street in Manhattan. Exhibition hours are: Tuesday - Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Friday 11 am - 8 pm. Closed Monday. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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NYU Museum Studies Director Altshuler Wins Prize for Salon to Biennial-a Chronicle of International Art Exhibitions

Nov 11, 2009
New York University Professor Bruce Altshuler, director of NYU’s Program in Museum Studies, has won the Banister Fletcher Award for the best new book on art or architecture for Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History, Volume 1 (1863-1959) (Phaidon, 2008). The prize, now in its 56th year, is given by the London-based Authors’ Club.
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Ribbon Cutting & Symposium Mark Opening of 19 Washington Square North; Historic Townhouse to Serve as Gateway to NYU Abu Dhabi

Nov 11, 2009
19 Washington Square North, which will serve as New York Universitys gateway to its new campus in Abu Dhabi, officially opened its doors today, following a ribbon-cutting ceremony with dignitaries from the United Arab Emirates and officials from NYU and NYU Abu Dhabi.
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NYU Journalism Institute Launches The Reporting Award for Coverage of Underreported Topics in the Public Interest

Nov 13, 2009
New York Universitys Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has established The Reporting Award to support a work of journalism in any medium on significant underreported subjects of public interest.
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New "Try This:®" Series of Assessment Tools for Older Adults Is Geared Toward Specialty Nurses

Nov 13, 2009
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing has launched a new Specialty Practice series of “Try This:®” assessment tools aimed at specialty nurses caring for older adults in hospitals and other settings. The new “Try This” series was created through the REASN (Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing) initiative, which has brought together 13 specialty nursing associations in a joint effort to improve their members’ knowledge and skills in care of older adults.
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Top Student Geeks Converge On Brooklyn

Nov 13, 2009
NYU-Poly’s 6th Annual Cyber Security Challenges to Draw Hundreds of Student Finalists, Corporate Security Chiefs and Cyber Celebrities to Campus This Friday, Nov. 13
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NYU Among Leading Universities in Attracting International Students and Students Who Study Abroad

Nov 16, 2009
New York University remains one of the top American universities in both attracting international students and in students who study abroad, according to a new study by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
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Philosophy Professor Kitcher to Deliver 2009 Frumkes LectureUnderstanding DarwinNov. 16 at NYU

Nov 16, 2009
Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will deliver New York Universitys Annual Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture on Monday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. at NYUs Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place]).
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The Islamic Center at NYU Launches Harmony NYU, a Campaign Against Hate, with Teach-inNov. 17

Nov 17, 2009
The Islamic Center at NYU and various other clubs and campus organizations will host a teach-in to create a united voice against intolerance on Tuesday, November 17, 12:30 p.m. at NYUs Kimmel Center for University Life.
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NYU Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film Stage the World Premiere of Rift

Nov 17, 2009
New York Universitys Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film in the Tisch School of the Arts have announced the world premiere of the new play Rift, by Caridad Svich.
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NYUS Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film Stage the World Premiere of a New Play

Nov 17, 2009
New York Universitys Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film in the Tisch School of the Arts have announced the world premiere of the new play Wonder: an American hymn to the shimmer of television and the end of history, by Steve Yockey.
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Media Services to Support Emerging Filmmakers at NYUS Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts

Nov 18, 2009
Entertainment Industry Leader Creates $100,000 Endowment for Film Production
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Screening of Documentary On Argentinas Dirty War and Q & A with Director Peter SandersDec. 2 at NYUS Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute

Nov 18, 2009
New York Universitys Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will host a screening of The Disappeared, an award-winning 2007 documentary by Peter Sanders, on Wednesday, December 2, 6-8 p.m., 20 Cooper Square, between 5th and 6th Streets, 7th floor television studio.
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Games for Learning Institute Announces Design Contest for MicrosoftS XNA Game Studio Platform

Nov 19, 2009
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has announced a design contestthe Game Design Challengeto build mini-games for learning on Microsofts XNA Game Studio 3.1 platform.
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New York Premiere of Elliott Carter's Tintinnabulation, Dec. 5 at 8 P.M. At NYU

Nov 20, 2009
The New York University Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Jonathan Haas, will the New York premiere of Elliott Carter’s Tintinnabulation at NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theatre as part of its Masterworks concert series on Saturday, December 5 at 8 p.m. The Frederick Loewe Theatre is located at 35 West 4th Street (at Greene Street) [Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th St)]. The event is free and open to the public.
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New Leadership Training Program Helps Hospitals Improve Geriatric Care a Stepping Stone to the Nationally Recognized NICHE Program

Nov 20, 2009
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing has established a new Leadership Training Program for hospitals that seek to improve the care they provide to older adults. The Leadership Training Program is an entryway to joining the national NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Health-System Elders) program-in which 285 hospitals participate. Beginning in February 2010, hospitals interested in becoming NICHE sites may participate in this rigorous program.
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Ahead of Copenhagen Climate Meetings, NYU Anthropologist Looks Back at an Ancient Civilization's Sustainable Practices in a Complex Economy

Nov 20, 2009
The Indus civilization, a South Asian contemporary with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, was not discovered by scholars until the 1920s. While much of this civilization remains a mystery, many of its economic practices and responses to a changing climate are detailed in The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2010) by New York University Professor Rita Wright.
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NYU Forum On Black and Latino Drop Out Crisis in NYC Schools, Nov. 24

Nov 20, 2009
New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education will host an educational policy forum on New York City’s Black and Latino drop-out crisis on Tues. Nov. 24 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The forum will take place in the Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place). [Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street)]
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NY, NJ Officials Reject Chicago’s Model of Privatizing Public Assets, Agree Public-Private Partnerships Need Better Safeguards

Nov 23, 2009
New York and New Jersey public officials who are exploring new ways to involve the private sector in the delivery of public infrastructure soundly rejected Chicagos model of selling off public infrastructure at a New York University Institute for Public Knowledge forum on November 16.
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Rigid Social and Economic Forces, Not Absence of Family Values, Threaten Vibrant Family and Work Life, NYU's Gerson Concludes in New Book

Nov 23, 2009
Rigid social and economic forces, not the absence of family values, threaten a vibrant family and work life for all Americans, New York University sociologist Kathleen Gerson concludes in her new book, The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America (Oxford University Press)
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Political Views May Skew Perception of Skin Tone, New Study Finds

Nov 23, 2009
Political affinity could influence how some people view the skin tone of biracial political candidates, according to a new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, New York University, and Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
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Climate Change Could Boost Incidence of Civil War in Africa, Study Finds

Nov 23, 2009
Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Works by Two Fellowship Winners to go on View in NYUs Dept. of Photography & Imaging, Dec. 4

Nov 24, 2009
Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship Winner is Ashley Valmere Fischer Leon & Michaela Constantiner Fellowship Winner is Robert Sukrachand
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Ode to Luther Gulick, a Founder of the Field of Public Administration and a Father of the IPA-Dec. 4

Nov 24, 2009
On Friday, December 4, starting at 9 a.m., a three-part symposium will be held at NYU Wagner-The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, N.Y.honoring and highlighting the efforts of Luther Gulick, the work of the IPA, and their contributions to the field of public administration.
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Challenges of Reporting Across Cultures Focus of NYU Journalism Panel-Dec. 1

Nov 24, 2009
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University will host “Cross Cultural Journalism: A Discussion of Bias, Perspective, and Representation,” a panel on the challenges of reporting across cultures, on Tuesday, December 1, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., at the NYU Stern School of Business, Schimmel Auditorium, Tisch Hall, UC-50, 40 West 4th Street (at Greene Street).
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Games for Learning Institute Launches "Game-a-Week" Feature

Nov 24, 2009
In response to President Barack Obama’s national initiative to focus on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), the Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has launched a Game-of-the-Week feature on its web site - http://g4li.org
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NYU Fales Library Announces Art Exhibition-You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): The Work of Robert Blanchon; Opening Reception Dec. 1-World AIDS Day

Nov 24, 2009
Coming 10 years after artist and educator Robert Blanchons death of AIDS, the first New York exhibition of his works, writing and ephemera will be spotlighted in an opening reception scheduled Tuesday, December 1st, World AIDS Day, at the Tracey/Barry Gallery of the Fales Library & Special Collections. The Gallery is on the Third Floor of the Bobst Library at New York University, 70 Washington Square South. The two-hour reception begins at 6:30 p.m.
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NYU Creative Writing Program Presents New Interactive Performance by Anne Carson, Dec. 10

Nov 24, 2009
The New York University Creative Writing Program hosts the widely acclaimed writer Anne Carson in a new interactive performance, “Ghost Parts,” on Thursday, December 10, 2009. Two performances are scheduled at 7:00pm and 8:15pm. Featuring original text, the piece will be performed by Anne Carson along with artistic collaborators Mike Clemow, Robert Currie, Amy Khoshbin, and Adam Soldofsky.
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Games for Learning Institute's Game Developers Expo Draws Field's Top Minds-Dec. 17 at NYU

Nov 25, 2009
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, will host “The Game Developers Expo” on Thursday, December 17, 5-7 p.m. at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South). The event is free and open to the public.
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NYU College of Dentistry Features Global Health Forum On Dec. 3

Nov 30, 2009
34 NY State Professional Schools Collaborate in Global Health Programming Seminar
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The Inimitable Jimmy Breslin and the Columnists He Inspired Dec. 7

Dec 1, 2009
A group of eminent journalists and writers convened by Pete Hamill will discuss the career of Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper columnist, non-fiction author and novelist Jimmy Breslin at New York University on Monday, December 7, 2009.
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Little-Known Aspect of Early Photographic History Exhibited at NYU’s La Maison Francaise: Unique French Hand-Painted Photographs, C. 1841-1889

Dec 2, 2009
The one-of-a-kind Sara Cleary-Burns Collection of hand-painted photographs, produced in Paris in the late 19th century, is on view for the first time in the United States at New York Universitys La Maison Francaise (16 Washington Mews) - through December 18. These images reveal the partnership of French painters and photographers at the beginning of a new art form.
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NYU College of Dentistry Shares $1.63 Million NIH Award for Oral Bacteria Identification Study

Dec 2, 2009
Dr. Deepak Saxena, a NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD) microbiologist and an engineer at Sandia National Laboratories, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, are partnering to develop a technology that will facilitate bacterial identification. Their study was recently funded with a three-year, $1.63 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the NIH.
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Interactive Sight, Sound, and Technology Featured in the Annual Winter Exhibition Organized by NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, Dec. 20 & 21

Dec 3, 2009
The Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), a pioneering graduate center for the design and study of new media forms and applications in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has announced its 2009 winter exhibition of recent works by graduate student artists and innovators will take place on Sunday and Monday, December 20 and 21.
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NYU Abu Dhabi Opens Doors to Downtown Campus

Dec 7, 2009
NYU Abu Dhabi, the first comprehensive liberal arts campus established by a major U.S.research university, officially opened the doors to its Downtown Campus today in a dedication ceremony that featured His Highness Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, His Excellency Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Affairs Authority, NYU President John Sexton and Alfred Bloom, vice chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi. The schools first class of students will arrive in August 2010.
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Two NYU Historians' Books Named Among New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2009"

Dec 7, 2009
Two New York University historians’ books were among the New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2009,” a list published in the December 6 New York Times Book Review: Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits, a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange, by Linda Gordon, and Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, which chronicles Henry Ford’s attempt to create an American company town in the Brazilian Amazon, by Greg Grandin.
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The Future of Investing Focus of NYU Workshop On High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies, Dec. 11-12

Dec 7, 2009
New York University will host a two-day workshop, “High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies,” December 11-12, at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (251 Mercer Street, Room 109. Sessions will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days. Speakers will include: Marco Avellaneda and Petter Kolm, both of the Courant Institute, and Lee Maclin, a founding partner of Pragma Financial Systems.
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NYU Biologists Reveal Novel Way Neurons Combat Viral Infections

Dec 7, 2009
Biologists at New York University have determined how neurons combat viral infections. Their findings, which appear in the journal Viral Immunology, may offer a path for treating viral encephalitis and related afflictions
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NYU Steinhardt Unveils $6.5 Million State-of-the-Art Audio Teaching Facility

Dec 7, 2009
New York Universitys program in music technology unveiled today a new $6.5 million state-of-the-art music technology facility, a 7,500 square foot multifunctional teaching, recording, and research space designed by Gensler and the Walters-Storyk Design Group. One of the most technologically advanced audio teaching facilities in the United States, the new facility greatly enhances the existing 12 studios which house the music technology program of NYUs Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
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Amend Patriot Act to Ease Travel Restrictions for Muslim Artists, NYU's Center for Dialogues Urges in New Report

Dec 8, 2009
The Obama Administration and Congress must alter visa restrictions and elements of the USA Patriot Act that inhibit organizations from bringing Muslim artists to the United States, urges a new report issued by New York University’s Center for Dialogues. The report stems from a center conference, “Bridging the Divide between the United States and the Muslim World through Arts and Ideas,” held this June in New York City.
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Autonomy vs. Independence for Catalonia is Focus of Conversation Hosted by the Catalan Center at NYU, Dec. 10

Dec 8, 2009
New York Universitys Catalan Center will host Thirty Years of Autonomy?: The Catalan Statute of Autonomy, 1979-2009, on Thursday, December 10th, 6:30 p.m., at the King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets).
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Lecture On Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets to Be Given at NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Dec. 16

Dec 8, 2009
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University and the American Research Center in Egypt will present a lecture entitled Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets with speaker Yekaterina Barbash, curator of Ancient Egyptian Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The talk, in conjunction with the current exhibition of the same title now on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, will take place December 16, 2009 at 6 p.m.
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NYU Researchers Develop Non-Invasive Technique to Rewrite Fear Memories

Dec 9, 2009
Researchers at New York University have developed a non-invasive technique to block the return of fear memories in humans. The technique, reported in the latest issue of the journal Nature, may change how we view the storage processes of memory and could lead to new ways to treat anxiety disorders.
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Tisch Dance to Celebrate the Work of Alumni Choreographers for One Night Only at NYU Skirball Center, Jan. 29

Dec 10, 2009
Works by Monica Bill Barnes, Elizabeth Beres and Elliott Reiland, Carolyn Dorfman, Kun-Yang Lin, John-Mark Owen, Trebien Pollard, and Stacy Spence
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NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate Launches Center for Sustainability, to Support Applied Research and Education Programs

Dec 11, 2009
The NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate has launched a new Center for the Sustainable Built Environment (SBE@NYU Schack) to support increased research and education about improved, “evidence-based” industry practices in the area of sustainable real estate development and investment. The Schack Institute, within the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, has been for 40 years NYU’s home for graduate and continuing education and applied research in the fields of real estate and construction management.
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Jean Avnet Morse, Former President of Middle States, Joins NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies As Associate Dean of Academic Affairs

Dec 11, 2009
Jean Avnet Morse, who served for 13 years as president and CEO of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, will become the new Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS), beginning in January 2010.
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Copenhagen in NYC: Food & Climate Policy Conference at NYU, Dec. 12

Dec 12, 2009
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer to Lead Major Food & Climate Policy Conference at NYU Timed to Coincide With UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen
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Study Finds Over 90% of People with Gum Disease Are at Risk for Diabetes; Concludes That at Least Half Could Be Screened in Dental Offices

Dec 14, 2009
The study, led by Dr. Shiela Strauss, Associate Professor of Nursing and Co-Director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYUs Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing, examined data from 2,923 adult participants in the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey who had not been diagnosed with diabetes. The findings, published December 2009 in the online edition of the Journal of Public Health Dentistry, add to a growing body of evidence linking periodontal infections to an increased risk for diabetes.
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Dr. Mathy Mezey Receives the National Gerontological Society of America Gerontological Nursing Research Award

Dec 14, 2009
Dr. Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, nursing professor emerita, senior research scientist, and director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing, was presented with the annual Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award on November 20, 2009, at the Nursing Care of Older Adults Interest Group meeting of the Gerontological Society of America annual meeting in Atlanta.
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Alec Baldwin Donates $1 Million to Alma Mater Tisch School of the Arts

Dec 15, 2009
New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, a premiere institution for the performing, cinematic, and recording arts, has announced that alumnus and actor Alec Baldwin ‘94 has donated $1 million for the establishment of the Alec Baldwin Drama Scholarship Fund.
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NYU Skirball Center to Present NT Live: Nation as Part of the Big Red Chair Family Series

Dec 16, 2009
Digital Broadcast from the UKs National Theatre in London, Jan. 30; Terry Pratchetts latest exhilarating adventure story of survival and self-discovery
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Four Seasons CEO Isadore Sharp Speaking at NYU-SCPS Tisch Center’s 32nd Annual Hospiality Conference in 2010

Dec 16, 2009

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NYU Grey Art Gallery Exhibition Presents Vital Snapshot of the Downtown Scene

Dec 16, 2009
“Downtown Pix: Mining the Fales Archives, 1961-1991”on view January 12 - April 3, 2010
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Alumnus Nyle Emerson's "Let the Beat Build" Video Voted #4 On Spin Magazine's Top Music Videos of 2009

Dec 16, 2009
Nyle Emerson graduated in spring 2009 from NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music(REMU). “Let the Beat Build” was his senior project and was shot in REMU’s studio with his fellow classmates.
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NYU-SCPS and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development Partner for Joint Certificate Program in Higher Education Quality Assurance

Dec 18, 2009
All-online Program Is First of its Kind Offered by an American Institution of Higher Learning
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Diane Birch to Perform at NYU Skirball Center, Feb. 13

Dec 18, 2009
The Singer-Songwriter Is Part of Skirball’s Cutting-Edge Series “Project 566: What’s Next”
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NYU’s Fales Library Acquires Gourmet Library with Gift from Chef and Author Rozanne Gold

Dec 18, 2009
New York Universitys Fales Library, home of one of the nations largest and most prestigious collections in food studies, has acquired Gourmet magazines 3,500 volume library through a gift from Rozanne Gold. Golds gift enabled Fales Library to purchase the volumes from Condé Nast, which bought the influential and widely acclaimed magazine in 1983 and folded it in fall 2009.
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