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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 <I>Portfolios of the Poor</I>, 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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Events and Traditions | Press Release
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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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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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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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

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