Jan 4, 2010
New York University will host the second annual Algorithmic Trading Conference on Friday, February 5, 8:30 a.m.—6 p.m., at NYUs Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place [at Washington Square South]).
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events and Traditions |
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Jan 5, 2010
Shakespeare to Go, the touring company of New York Universitys Steinhardt Program in Educational Theatre, is partnering with the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts to present A Midsummer Nights Dream, by William Shakespeare, as a part of the Skirball Centers Big Red Chair Family Series on February 27 at 11:00 a.m.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
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Jan 6, 2010
An exhibition featuring approximately 50 works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia by 11 graduating seniors from the class of 2010 in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television will open January 21. It will remain on view at New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts through February 13, 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 6, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Programs Spring 2010 Reading Series begins in January with events featuring authors C. K. Williams (January 22), Lydia Davis (January 28), and Jonathan Lethem (January 29). 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.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
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Jan 6, 2010
Internationally renowned South African artist William Kentridge will deliver a public lecture, A Universal Archive
with Some Remarks on Black Holes, on Tues., Feb. 9, 8 p.m., at Cooper Unions Great Hall (7 East 7th Street at Bowery). Subways: 6 (Astor Place), R, W (8th Street).
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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Jan 7, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Programs Spring 2010 Reading Series continues in February with events featuring author Myla Goldberg, author of the best-selling Bee Season (February 5). All events, with the exception of the February 6 Washington Square launch party ($5), are free and open to the public.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 7, 2010
New York University today announced that it has completed the purchase of the 122,500 square foot Forbes Buildinglocated on Fifth Avenue and 12th Street, just north of NYUs Washington Square homefor academic uses.
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All University |
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Jan 7, 2010
The student film Hot Dogs for Gauguin (1972) by NYU Tisch School of the Arts alumnus Martin Brest 73 has been selected for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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Jan 11, 2010
The NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship is fielding applications for up to $45,000 in scholarship aid from students at all New York University schools who will be full-time juniors in September, 2010. The application deadline is Friday, January 22.
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Entrepreneurship, Awards, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
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Jan 11, 2010
Sam Tanenhaus, the author of The Death of Conservatism, will deliver the 11th annual Irving H. Jurow Lecture, The Fate of Conservatism, on Monday, February 1, 5:30 p.m. in NYUs Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East). The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.998.8100 for more information.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 12, 2010
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will host a panel discussion-“Talking to the Taliban: How Well Has the West Understood Its Enemy in Afghanistan?”-on Thursday, February 18, 6:30 p.m. (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, but an RSVP to andrea.rosenberg@nyu.edu is required.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 12, 2010
Efraim Inbar, a professor in political studies at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, will deliver a public lecture, “Israel and Turkey: The End of a Strategic Alliance,” on Tuesday, February 2, 6 p.m. at New York University’s King Juan Carlos Center [screening room] (53 Washington Square South, between Sullivan and Thompson Streets). The event is hosted by NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 12, 2010
New York Universitys Fales Library presents You Are Cordially Invited: The Art and Influence of Robert Blanchon, Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 6:30pm to 8:00pm, in the Fales Library, third floor of the Bobst Library at New York University, 70 Washington Square South, NYC.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 13, 2010
New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host “Living in America: Culture. History. Politics”-a series of Black History Month events-February 4-25, 1 Washington Place (at Broadway). Admission is free to all events, but seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Non-NYU guests must show a valid photo I.D.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 14, 2010
NYU Wagner’s Rudin Center will convene current and federal and state officials and other thought leaders for an extended discussion on the future of U.S. transportation policy on Monday, January 25 at New York University.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 15, 2010
NYU is very pleased to report that we have been in touch with one of the two missing graduate students who were in Haiti. They are together and safe and well in the Dominican Republic en route back home to the US. Details of their experience are still emerging, but our understanding is that they were flown out of the airport near Port-au-Prince by the Coast Guard, whose men and women we thank for their courage and perseverance.
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All University |
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Jan 19, 2010
Applications are available now for the New York University Reynolds Graduate Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. The goal of the NYU Reynolds Program fellowship is to attract, train and encourage the next generation of social entrepreneurs. Each year the Reynolds Program offers up to 20 graduate fellowships from across all fields of study who posses the vision and passion to create pattern-breaking solutions to long-intractable social problems in sustainable and scalable ways.
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Entrepreneurship, Awards, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Jan 19, 2010
The Golden Globe Award winners from the Tisch School are: Alec Baldwin 94 (BFA, Drama) Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical for 30 Rock; Michael C. Hall 96 (MFA, Acting) Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for Dexter; Todd J. Phillips 94 (BFA, F&TV) Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical for The Hangover; and Martin Scorsese 64/68/92 Cecil B. DeMille Award.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Jan 19, 2010
Yasuní National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters a range of world biodiversity records-from trees to amphibians to insects to mammals and an array of other plant and animal groups-new research from U.S. and Ecuadorian scientists shows.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research |
Press Release
Jan 20, 2010
Dr. Cortes is the first Mathy D. Mezey Visiting Professor of Geriatric Nursing. She will be working with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing and the Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) Program, which imports principles and tools to stimulate a change in the culture of healthcare facilities to achieve patient-centered care for older adults.
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College of Nursing |
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Jan 20, 2010
New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host “Eco-Fashion Week,” January 25-27, to highlight trends emerging throughout the world of eco-fashion. The event will feature work by members of Gallatin’s community-from notable designers to renowned scholars. For more information, call 212.992.7762 or e-mail jal507@nyu.edu
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 21, 2010
The lead article in the February issue of Journal of Marriage and Family challenges the idea that fatherless children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research |
Press Release
Jan 21, 2010
The two-day conference “Building Momentum in Mainstream Culture,” is designed to engage American Muslims in conversations bridging Islam and mainstream American culture. For a complete schedule of sessions and speakers, go to: www.icnyu.org/conference. Registration fee is $60.50. For more information, call 212.998.4712. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Islamic Relief’s $1 Million Dollar Campaign for Haiti Relief.
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All University, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 21, 2010
Participants Include NYU President John Sexton; NASA Astronaut Lee Morin; Cisco Senior VP Carlos Dominguez; NY Hall of Science CEO Margaret Honey and more
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 22, 2010
New York University will host a panel discussion on the changing ways families are negotiating work and gender issues on Thursday, February 25, 5 p.m. in NYUs Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, NYC. The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.998.8365 for more information.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 25, 2010
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in January and February, including a round table discussion, Célines Forbidden Writings: Madness or Method, which examines critic Wyatt Masons recent article on French writer Céline in the New York Review of Books, on February 18. All 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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International Houses, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 25, 2010
Video game pioneer Will Wright, the creator of “SimCity” and “Spore,” will lead “Why Games are (Good) for Learning,” a discussion on how digital games encourage learning, on Wednesday, February 17, 6 - 7 p.m. at the Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place, NYC. For more information, call 212.998.3342.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 25, 2010
The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Rabhan as associate arts professor and chair of the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. Rabhan is an experienced artist manager and music industry executive. His appointment took effect January 1, 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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Jan 26, 2010
New York University today announced that it received the largest number of freshman applications in the Universitys history. For the first time, over 38,000 high school seniors applied to be NYU freshmen. Some 38,037 men and women applied for spots in NYUs class of 2014, exceeding last years record by 857 applications.
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All University |
Press Release
Jan 27, 2010
Our memories are strengthened during periods of rest while we are awake, researchers at New York University have found. The findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal Neuron, expand our understanding of how memories are boosted-previous studies had shown this process occurs during sleep, but not during times of awake rest.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Research |
Press Release
Jan 27, 2010
Antonio Muñoz Molina, renowned Spanish novelist and author of the acclaimed novels Sepharad and Manuscript of Ashes, has been named King Juan Carlos I of Spain Chair in Spanish American Culture and Civilization at New York University. During his semester-long appointment, Muñoz Molina will present two public lectures and moderate a series of roundtable discussions at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South. For more information, call 212.998.3650
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International Houses, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 28, 2010
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in February, including a reading, on Feb. 18, by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. Admission is free to members of Ireland House and those with an NYU ID; for all others, $10 admission to regular events and $15 for Blarney Star Concert Series events. Since seating is limited, advance reservations are required. To reserve a seat, call 212.998.3950.
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International Houses, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 28, 2010
Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association and the American Holistic Nurses Association First recipients of Award
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College of Nursing, Awards |
Press Release
Jan 29, 2010
Helen Graham, visiting professor in the department of history at New York University and King Juan Carlos I of Spain chair of Spanish American Culture and Civilization, will offer two public lectures in addition to a film series and round table on The Afterlife of Violence this spring. The events, which will take place at NYUs King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.3650.
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International Houses, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jan 29, 2010
New York University’s Richard Schechner, University Professor and professor of performance studies in the department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, has been named the 2010 Thalia Award winner by the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC). The award ceremonies will be in Yerevan, Armenia June 16-20, 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Awards |
Press Release
Feb 1, 2010
The Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing in the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced that it will hold two concert readings of May the Devil Be Kinder by Alex Davidson, winner of the 2010 Rita and Burton Goldberg Prize Play Award for his play.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 1, 2010
Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technologies and digital media. In her new book, Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford UP), Helen Nissenbaum argues that what people really care about is not that information about them is shared - this is crucial for social life — but that it is shared inappropriately. Her book develops a theory of appropriate sharing and explains some of the ways digital technologies have threatened this.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Feb 1, 2010
NYU Dining Services has just launched a reusable Meals-2-Go container program to decrease the number of disposable containers used in campus dining facilities. The program is being piloted in Hayden Dining in the Spring 2010 semester. NYU Dining Services is giving out 300 reusable containers to students, faculty, or administrators willing to participate in the pilot.
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All University |
Press Release
Feb 1, 2010
The 26th Sundance Film Festival presented the 2010 Jury and Audience Awards on Saturday (Jan. 30) in Park City, Utah. Four alumni for the Tisch School of the Arts-three from the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television and one from the Graduate Acting Program-were big winners when they walked away with awards. In all, there were six winning films that had alumni and students from the Tisch School attached.
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Tisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature, Awards |
Press Release
Feb 1, 2010
New York Universitys Development Research Institute (DRI) has been recognized by Spains BBVA Foundation for its innovative scholarship on the impact of foreign aid. In selecting DRI for its 2009 Frontiers of Knowledge Award, which carries a cash prize of 400,000 (approximately $560,000), the foundation also noted the institutes challenge to the conventional wisdom in development assistance.
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Research, All University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Awards |
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Feb 1, 2010
The New York University College of Dentistry, in conjunction with the New York County Dental Society and the American Dental Association (ADA), are joining forces on a volunteer initiative to Give Kids a Smile by providing free educational, preventive, and restorative services to children, Friday, February 5, 2010. The services are part of a larger nation-wide initiative to raise awareness and access to dental care for all children.
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College of Dentistry, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 2, 2010
Five alumni of New York University’s Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts are among the nominees of the 82st Academy Awards. The alumni are nominated in the categories of Best Motion Picture, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Achievement in Film Editing, Achievement in Sound Editing, and Foreign Language Film.
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Tisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature |
Article
Feb 5, 2010
New York University’s Fales Library presents “Art or Archive? What Matters To Artists’ Estates?,” Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 6:30 -8:30 p.m., in the Fales Library, third floor of the Bobst Library at New York University, 70 Washington Square South, NYC.
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Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Feb 5, 2010
New York University’s Development Research Institute will host “The Best and Worst of Aid,” a one-day conference with the leading thinkers in development economics that will address how to best hold aid agencies accountable for effective solutions to global poverty and highlight which organizations are the best and worst in aid spending.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 8, 2010
Two Week Program at the Adirondack Medical Center Offers Insight into Providing Care in Rural Setting
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College of Nursing, student |
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Feb 10, 2010
A series of three poetry readings will be hosted this spring by New York University’s 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 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc.
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international houses, kjc, events |
Article
Feb 10, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2010 Reading Series continues in March with events featuring author Sharon Olds (March 4), Lewis Lapham (March 24), who leads a roundtable discussion on creativity, and poet Elizabeth Alexander, who composed and recited “Praise Song for the Day” at the inauguration of President Barack Obama (March 31). Events are held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. Subways: F, L, V (6th Avenue); 1 (Christopher Street); A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street). All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu.
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James Devitt, Arts and Science, creative writing |
Press Release
Feb 10, 2010
Students, teachers, parents, and education administrators will come together on Sat., Feb. 20, 2010 for LinkEducation’s K-12 Education Expo, held at New York University’s Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place). The Expo runs from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m..
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Events, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Feb 11, 2010
Projects Developed by Students, Faculty and Staff Reduce Environmental Impacts and Contribute to Public Engagement on Sustainability Issues
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Sustainability |
Press Release
Feb 11, 2010
Immediately after a performance of the show “Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers” at the New York Theater Workshop in lower Manhattan on Thursday, February 25, the Democratic political consultant and NYU Wagner senior fellow Bob Shrum will take to the stage to discuss national security and the public’s right to know with the playwright, Geoffrey Cowan.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 11, 2010
Mohsen Sazegara, prominent co-founder of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a former Deputy Prime Minister in the Islamic Republic of Iran, will deliver a lunchtime lecture at NYU Wagner on Monday, February 22.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 12, 2010
NYU remains one of the top American universities in both attracting international students and in students who study abroad, according to a study released this fall by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
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Article
Feb 12, 2010
Discover magazine has named a research finding by New York University physicists one of the top 100 stories of 2009. In the study, which first appeared in the journal Nature, NYU scientists determined how to count different-sized spheres packed in a container.
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Press Release
Feb 12, 2010
Yasuní National Park, located in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters a range of world biodiversity records—from trees to amphibians to insects to mammals—according to new research from U.S. and Ecuadorian scientists.
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Article
Feb 12, 2010
John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, will be the featured speaker in “A Dialogue on Our Nation’s Security,” co-sponsored by the Islamic Center at New York University, the Islamic Law Students Association at NYU, and the White House Office of Public Engagement.
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Islamic Center, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 12, 2010
An exhibition featuring approximately 50 works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia by 10 graduating seniors from the class of 2010 in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television will open February 18. It will remain on view at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts through March 13, 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts, student |
Press Release
Feb 12, 2010
Readers of Risk magazine have voted Marco Avellaneda, a professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, “Quant of the Year” for 2010 for his ground-breaking work on the effect of short-selling restrictions on stock prices. Quantitative analysts, or “quants,” employ numerical techniques to gauge financial markets.
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NYUToday-feature, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty |
Press Release
Feb 16, 2010
New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge will host a panel discussion, “Growing Our Way Out of Crisis: Private Perspectives on Public Works,” which will consider the merits of the “Build America Bond,” on Wednesday, February 17, 4-6 p.m. at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor Conference Room (between 5th and 6th Streets). Subways: 6 (Astor Place); R, W (8th Street). The event comes on the one-year anniversary of the signing of the U.S. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Institute for Public Knowledge, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 16, 2010
Christopher Jordan, a former corporate attorney turned internationally acclaimed photographic artist and cultural activist, will deliver a talk at New York University on Wednesday, March 3 about his exploration of the frightening volume of waste generated by American consumerism.
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Entrepreneurship, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Feb 16, 2010
Internationally acclaimed theater ensemble Mabou Mines celebrates 40 years of creating groundbreaking theater with the world premiere of FINN, a digital and live-action adventure based on the ancient Celtic legend of Finn McCool opening on Thursday, March 4 at 8 p.m. at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place).
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Skirball Center |
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Feb 16, 2010
The NYU Master’s Program in Global Public Health will hold a panel discussion on “Global Mental Health: A Discipline Comes of Age” on Friday, March 5, including a keynote presentation by Vikram Patel, professor of international mental health at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 17, 2010
The John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at New York University will host a timely lecture by Jim Leach, chairman of The National Endowment for the Humanities, on the need to foster public civility in American politics and public life.
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Brademas Center, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 17, 2010
Acclaimed lyricist and songwriter Hal David will present a master class at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development on Monday, February 22 at 6:45 p.m. in the Frederick Loewe Theatre, 35 West 4th Street. Admission is free. Reservations can be made by emaling steinhardt.boxoffice@nyu.edu.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 18, 2010
Mark Tygert, an assistant professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has won a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to continue his research in applying computing methods to advance science and engineering.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Full-Time |
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Feb 18, 2010
Nyle, Katia Cadet, and Blitz the Ambassador will be among the featured performers at a benefit concert presented by New York University’s Student Senators Council on Tuesday, February 23, 8 p.m. at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South). Proceeds from the event will go to UNICEF’s “Haiti Relief Fund.”
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Current, Skirball Center, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 18, 2010
Despite the ongoing recession, 90 percent of students from the Class of 2009 report that they are either employed or in graduate school
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Article
Feb 22, 2010
Counterterrorism expert outlines how the work of Muslim Americans can "help keep our nation safe."
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Events |
Article
Feb 22, 2010
The University of California, San Diego; New York University; and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries are teaming up to develop a next-generation archival management tool, thanks to a grant in the amount of $539,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Feb 22, 2010
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University will present a lecture entitled Rediscovering the Inscriptions of Campa (Vietnam) to be given by Arlo Griffiths, professor of Southeast Asian history at the French School of Asian Studies [École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO)]. The talk will take place Monday, March 8, 2010 at 6 p.m.
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 22, 2010
The New York Times and New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute have formed a collaborative agreement to cover New York City’s East Village under The Local, The Times’s network of community web sites. The site will be the first devoted exclusively to covering a Manhattan neighborhood.
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Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Feb 22, 2010
Lalia Rach, divisional dean and HVS professor of the NYU Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, will step down from the dean’s role at the end of the 2009-10 academic year and return to teaching full-time, conducting research, and mentoring students at the Tisch Center.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Feb 22, 2010
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host several special events in March, including a preview of New York City Opera’s production of Chabrier’s “L’Etoile,” on Tues., March 2 at 7 p.m. All events are free and take place at La Maison Française, unless otherwise noted. For further information, call 212.998.8750 or visit www.nyu.edu/maisonfrancaise.
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Events and Traditions, International Houses |
Press Release
Feb 23, 2010
NYU and Columbia Dental Students, Harlem Hospital Center, Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, and Renaissance Health Care Network Team Up to Stamp Out Oral Cancer
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College of Dentistry, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 23, 2010
Lynn Videka, dean of the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, will deliver a talk on Wednesday, February 24 entitled “Women and Leadership: Science Findings and Personal Choices.”
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Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Feb 23, 2010
Peter Mandelson, the United Kingdom’s Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills, will discuss “Is the Banking Crisis a Failure of Globalization?” on Wednesday, March 3, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., at New York University’s D’Agostino Hall-Lipton Hall, 108 West 3rd Street (between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets). Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street).
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All University, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 23, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2010 Reading Series continues in April with events featuring André Aciman (April 1) and Tom Perrotta (April 23). Events are held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. Subways: F, L, V (6th Avenue); 1 (Christopher Street); A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street). All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu.
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Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 23, 2010
The University of California, San Diego; New York University; and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Libraries are teaming up to develop a next-generation archival management tool, thanks to a grant in the amount of $539,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Feb 23, 2010
Researchers from the College of Dentistry and the Polytechnic Institute of NYU have been awarded a one-year NYU-Polytechnic Institute Seed Grant for Collaborative Research to develop a new weapon against oral bacteria that cause dental caries and adhere to dental restorations, causing them to fail.
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Research, Research News, College of Dentistry |
Press Release
Feb 23, 2010
Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. will deliver the Spring 2010 Albert Gallatin Lecture, “Genealogy, Genetics, and African American History,” on Tues., March 2, at 6 p.m. in NYU’s Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts
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Article
Feb 23, 2010
The New York City Board of Standards and Appeals has approved NYU’s proposed variance for its new Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, which will be built at 58 Washington Square South, at the corner of Thompson Street.
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NYUToday-feature, Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, Planning & Construction |
Press Release
Feb 24, 2010
A study in the March edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry senior-authored by Jerome C. Wakefield, a professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University with Mark Schmitz of Temple University and Judith Baer of Rutgers University, empirically challenges the effectiveness of psychiatrists’ official diagnostic manual in preventing mistaken, false-positive diagnoses of depression.
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NYUToday-feature, Research, Research News, Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Feb 24, 2010
Free dental screenings will be available on March 30th, March 31st, and April 1st, at the NYU College of Dentistry, 345 E. 24th Street (corner of First Avenue) from 8:30 am - 7:00 pm.
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College of Dentistry, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 24, 2010
The Second Avenue Dance Company/2010 (SADC) will present its spring concert series March 31- April 5 and feature the work of four noted guest choreographers— Diane Coburn Bruning, Alwin Nikolais, Stacy Spence, and Doug Varone. The series will also include work in rotating repertory by five student choreographers (four dances of which one is a co-choreographed duet).
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Tisch School of the Arts, dance, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Feb 25, 2010
The three projects, spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, will be based in Abu Dhabi and will cumulatively receive some $20 million over five years.
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Research News, Research |
Press Release
Feb 25, 2010
The Corporation for National and Community Service today named NYU to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction.
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All University, Awards |
Press Release
Mar 1, 2010
New York University will host “Between Hope and History: When Disaster Strikes,” a day-long symposium reflecting on recent and continuing calamities, both man-made and natural, on Saturday, March 13, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., at NYU’s Cantor Film Center (36 East 8th Street/between University Place and Greene Street). The event, co-sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU, is free and open to the public.
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Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 1, 2010
New York University Professors David Levering Lewis and Philippe de Montebello are among the eight recipients of the 2009 National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama presented the medals at a Feb. 25 ceremony in the White House’s East Room.
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Arts and Science, Institute of Fine Arts, Awards |
Press Release
Mar 1, 2010
At the 41st NAACP Image Award ceremonies in Los Angeles on Friday (Feb. 26) it was announced that the Tisch School’s own Deborah Willis, University Professor and chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, won for Outstanding Literary Work - Biography/Autobiography for her book Michelle Obama (W.W. Norton). Willis beat out four others in the category.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Awards |
Article
Mar 1, 2010
The Graduate Tax Program at New York University School of Law will present a discussion, “Checking Up on Health Care Tax Reform.” The discussion will provide an overview and critique of the tax and non-tax aspects of current health care legislative proposals, and will also discuss the fiscal implications of our current health care regime.
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School of Law, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 1, 2010
The Education Policy Breakfast series, presented by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, continues a three-part series on educational transitions with a panel discussion on adolescence on Thursday, March 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place).
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 1, 2010
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in March. Admission is free to members of Ireland House 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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International Houses, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 2, 2010
Entitled SHOW THREE, it is the third in a series of four exhibitions that will eventually showcase the work of the entire graduating class in a BFA exhibition. It is installed in the Gulf + Western Gallery (lobby) and the 8th Floor Gallery at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Photo identification is required for access to the building. For further information call 212.998.1930 or visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Mar 3, 2010
New York University’s 80WSE Gallery presents DENIM, an exhibition curated by David Rimanelli, visiting assistant professor of art history and Artforum contributor. Featuring an eclectic mix of historical and contemporary artists—including Knut Åsdam, Tom Burr, VALIE EXPORT, K8 Hardy, Hanna Liden and Klara Liden, Jack Pierson, Rob Pruitt, Michael Smith, Andy Warhol, and Karlheinz Weinberger—the exhibition is on view until March 12 at the gallery, located on Washington Square East (between Washington Place and West Fourth Street).
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exhibit, NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Mar 4, 2010
Colleen Zenk Pinter, Oral Cancer Survivor, “As the World Turns” Star, to Speak and Participate in the Walk with NYU and Columbia Dental Students, Harlem Hospital Center, Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, and Renaissance Health Care Network
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College of Dentistry, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 4, 2010
Honorary Degree Recipients Also Include Educator Berdahl, Xerox CEO Burns, Social Entrepreneur Drayton, Musician/Composer Shorter, and Sociologist Wilson; Entrepreneur/Philanthropist /Alum Milstein to Receive Gallatin Medal; Regents Chancellor Tisch to Receive Rudin Award
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Events and Traditions, All University, commencement |
Press Release
Mar 4, 2010
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today, NYU historian Tony Judt maintains in Ill Fares the Land (Penguin Press, March 2010).
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science |
Press Release
Mar 8, 2010
Precious writer Geoffrey Fletcher Takes Home Oscar for Adapted Screenplay
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Mar 8, 2010
NYU, U. of Würzburg Scientists Shed New Light on How Retina’s Hardware is Used in Color Vision
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Research, Arts and Science, Research News |
Press Release
Mar 8, 2010
NYU Dental Professor Dr. Timothy Bromage Selected to Receive the 2010 Max Planck Research Award
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Research, College of Dentistry, Research News, Awards |
Press Release
Mar 8, 2010
**MEDIA ADVISORY**
Author Chris Hedges will deliver “Empire of Illusion,”...
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Liberal Studies Program, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 8, 2010
New York University’s Center for French Civilization and Culture will host “Camus Now,” a three-day conference celebrating the works and life of existential philosopher and author Albert Camus, April 8-10, at NYU’s La Maison Française (16 Washington Mews [at University Place]/below 8th Street). The events, which are in English and French, are free and open to the public. Call 212.998.8750 or email maison.francaise@nyu.edu for more information.
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NYUToday-feature, Events and Traditions, International Houses |
Press Release
Mar 9, 2010
Subhash Khot, associate professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, received the 2010 Alan T. Waterman Award, given to outstanding young researchers in any field of science and engineering supported by the NSF.
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College of Arts and Science, Research, Awards |
Press Release
Mar 9, 2010
Kelley Newlin, DNSc, ARNP-C, CDE, assistant professor of nursing at NYU College of Nursing, has received the new Clinical Science Translational Institute “K” grant in the amount of $268,250 from the National Institutes of Health, funded through NYU School of Medicine to support her study “Translating the Diabetes Prevention Program and Diabetes Self-Management Education into a Black American Faith-Based Setting.
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College of Nursing, NYUToday-feature, Sponsored Awards |
Press Release
Mar 9, 2010
The event has been organized by University College London’s Carbon Capture Legal Programme, in conjunction with the NYU School of Law Guarini Center on Environmental and Land Use Law and the Global CCS Institute of Canberra, Australia.
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School of Law, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 9, 2010
New York University’s Office of Government and Community Affairs and Office of Civic Engagement will host a free forum for local nonprofits to build effective strategies to weather the current economic climate.
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Events and Traditions, Community Service |
Press Release
Mar 9, 2010
Wendy Budin, PhD, RN-BC, and Maria Dolce, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, have been elected by member votes to the 2010 Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) leadership team. Dr. Budin has been elected to the Board of Directors position of member at large, and Dr. Dolce has been elected to the Organizational Development Committee. Both will be presenting their research at the society’s annual scientific sessions March 24–26, 2010.
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College of Nursing, Awards |
Press Release
Mar 9, 2010
On March 11, the U.S. Government will release its annual Country Reports on Human Rights. On March 12 (4:00 pm – 6:00 pm), Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, will participate in a panel discussion on the trends in human rights for the year 2009.
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School of Law, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 11, 2010
Expectant mothers who were exposed to the 2005 Tarapaca earthquake in Chile were more likely to give birth prematurely than were pregnant women in the nation’s unaffected regions, research by New York University sociologist Florencia Torche has found.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Mar 11, 2010
The Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts hosts the 68th annual First Run Film Festival, New York’s oldest continuous film event, April 8-11.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 11, 2010
This conference will take place on Friday, April 16th, at NYU’s Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th Street, Theater 102 (between University Place and Greene Street) from 9:30 am – 4:30pm. Following the conclusion of the last panel, a reception will take place at the Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South (between LaGuardia and Thompson), 2nd Floor commuter lounge.
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Division of Libraries, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 12, 2010
NYU recently released its Climate Action Plan (CAP), a comprehensive approach to reducing the University’s carbon footprint and enhancing its overall sustainability.
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Sustainability |
Press Release
Mar 12, 2010
Organizers of the 2010 Fusion Film Festival were not going to let a record snowfall in New York City stop them from holding the final and arguably the most important night of the Festival. Although forced to postpone the closing night screenings and announcement of the winners, the Festival was reconvened a week later (March 5). The Fusion Film Festival is a student-run event at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and celebrates the work of women filmmakers.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Mar 15, 2010
The New York Times’ “A Nation Challenged” section published after September 11, 2001, is among the 80 nominees for the “Top 10 Works of Journalism of the Decade in the United States.”
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Arts and Science, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Awards |
Press Release
Mar 15, 2010
NYU's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and the Euroamerica Foundation will present a two-day conference, “USA-European Union Forum: Looking Towards the Future,” on March 22 and 23.
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NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Events and Traditions, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Mar 16, 2010
New York University’s Center for Dialogues will present “The Role of Art and Culture in Bridging the Divide Between the United States and the Muslim World,” a roundtable discussion, Wednesday, April 14, 6:30-9 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East).
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events |
Press Release
Mar 16, 2010
Terry Fulmer, dean of NYU College of Nursing, recently participated in a panel discussion titled “What We Should Teach” at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing.
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College of Nursing |
Article
Mar 16, 2010
On March 12, Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, headlined a panel discussion at the School of Law on trends in human rights law.
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School of Law |
Article
Mar 17, 2010
New York University Historian Linda Gordon has been named a winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (W.W. Norton & Company, 2009), a biography on the Depression-Era photographer.
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Sponsored Awards, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Mar 17, 2010
New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts will present the juggler extraordinaire Michael Moschen for one-night only on April 17, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. Part of the Skirball Center’s Big Red Chair Family Series, his performance promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Moschen’s distinctive artistry combines the magic of light and movement to transcend object manipulation from novelty into a true art form.
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Around the Square, Skirball Center, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 18, 2010
The 7th Orphan Film Symposium opens April 7 with a culturally diverse group of international films, artists, archivists, and professionals from 17 countries in attendance. Hosted by NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and its Department of Cinema Studies, the biennial gathering will meet at the newly renovated SVA Theatre, located at 333 West 23rd Street, through April 10.
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Tisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 18, 2010
Directed by Nicholas Hytner, and Featuring Frances de la Tour and Richard Griffiths
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Mar 18, 2010
The graduating seniors in the Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will exhibit a selection of their senior thesis projects at the Calumet Gallery in New York. Entitled Twenty-Ten, A Myriad Effect, the show will open April 1 and remain on view through April 22.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Students, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 18, 2010
The Brademas Center for the Study of Congress, part of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, will explore the heightened potential for diplomacy and exchange in this new context, hosting a discussion entitled “Culture as a Tool” on Thursday, March 25, cosponsored by S.N.E.A.C., Student Network Exploring Arts & Culture.
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Brademas Center, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Mar 19, 2010
The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University has been selected to participate in the Higher Education Scholarship Program of Sony Electronics, with the support of Intel. Sony’s program is designed to provide the latest technology to help students and faculty at 30 universities and colleges across the country. The five-year initiative recognizes five students for outstanding academic and artistic achievement as well as two faculty members each year.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Mar 19, 2010
Dr. Brian L. Schmidt, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon specializing in oral cancer, pain, and genomics, has been named Director of the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research at the NYU College of Dentistry. Dr. Schmidt’s appointment, effective July 1, 2010, was announced by Dr. Charles N. Bertolami, the Herman Robert Fox Dean of the NYU College of Dentistry. Dean Bertolami also announced Dr. Schmidt’s appointment as a tenured Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
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College of Dentistry, Research |
Press Release
Mar 19, 2010
PRWeek magazine gave its inaugural PR Education Program of the Year award this year to the Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communications program at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) for the second year in a row.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Awards |
Press Release
Mar 19, 2010
"The United States and the International Criminal Court" presents a panel of diplomats and legal experts to discuss the latest developments in the relationship between the ICC and the United States. The event is organized by the Permanent Mission of Slovakia to the United Nations and the NYU Center of Global Affairs at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
by Ami Finkelthal
Mar 19, 2010
Do frequent arguments between parents and an unstable home environment contribute to oral and systemic health problems, as well as to psychological stress? Researchers from the NYU College of Dentistry and Stony Brook University are examining this question with the help of a two-year, $1 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of NIH.
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Research, NYUToday-feature, College of Dentistry, Sponsored Awards |
Article
Mar 19, 2010
New York University today named David J. Shea, Chairman and CEO of Bowne & Co., the winner of the 2010 Prism Award. The Prism Award is presented annually in recognition of distinguished leadership in the graphic communications media industry.
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Press Release
Mar 22, 2010
NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has named Sarah Stillman, a freelance journalist who was an embedded journalist in Iraq, the inaugural recipient of The Reporting Award.
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Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute |
Press Release
Mar 22, 2010
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 the year-end show of works by the graduating class of 2010 will be April 27 – May 15. Entitled Photography & Imaging BFA Exhibition, the show will feature approximately 200 works selected from the students’ thesis projects, representing the visual and conceptual diversity of the 31 members of this year’s graduating class.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 22, 2010
A report entitled “China 2020,” was recently released by the NYU Center for Global Affairs, presenting three scenarios based on different trajectories China might follow.
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Research, School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Mar 23, 2010
Wyclef and Melky Jean, pictured l to r, performed at a March exhibition opening of photographer Elizabeth Jordan’s “Strength and Balance” at the Gallatin Galleries. The evening was co-hosted with Gallatin alumna Christy Turlington Burns, ’99.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study |
Article
Mar 24, 2010
Physicists at New York University have created “handshaking” particles that link together based on their shape rather than randomly, marking the first time scientists have succeeded in “programming” particles to join in this manner.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, Faculty |
Press Release
Mar 25, 2010
a 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—Camus Now—marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus.
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Press Release
Mar 25, 2010
On Friday, March 12, NYU Tisch Asia’s Graduate Film program celebrated a momentous day when the first stereoscopic 3D film-shoot on Tisch Asia’s three-year old campus took place. It was also the first in the history of NYU and the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Tisch Asia |
Article
Mar 25, 2010
Thais Francis, a sophomore at the Tisch School of the Arts, has been chosen to read her paper at the 2010 Undergraduate Ethics Symposium at DePauw University’s Prindle Institute, April 8-10.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Mar 25, 2010
New York University’s Program in Vocal Performance will produce The Light in the Piazza, April 1-3, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 4 at 3 p.m. at the Frederick Loewe Theatre at 35 West 4th Street.
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Press Release
Mar 25, 2010
On Wednesday, April, 14, Arthur R. Miller will be honored by the Annual Survey of American Law, a student-edited journal at the New York University School of Law. Each volume of the Annual Survey is dedicated to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to American law. Examples of prior dedicatees include Thurgood Marshall, Martin Lipton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Antonin Scalia, and Stephen Breyer.
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School of Law |
Press Release
Mar 26, 2010
Christopher Hitchens, a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly and Vanity Fair, will be among the speakers at “Take Action Now,” an event to promote action against genocide and other human rights violations, on Thursday, April 1.
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Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Mar 26, 2010
Join the NYU Office of Government and Community Affairs as we share our long-term, citywide strategy for future growth, NYU 2031: NYU in NYC.
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university relations, Community, NYU 2031 |
Article
Mar 29, 2010
A new phase of renovation for the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library at New York University will transform floors four and five into a research commons for 21st century scholarship. This renovation is to begin immediately after Commencement in May 2010. Work is scheduled for completion in November 2010.
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Planning & Construction, Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Mar 29, 2010
In January, Grettel Batoon, ’09 alumna from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television’s Animation program, began a 12-week production internship at Pixar Animation Studios in California.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Mar 29, 2010
New York University’s Kimmel Center will display "Last Address," an exhibition eulogizing a generation of New York City artists who died of AIDS, by the New York-based brother and sister filmmakers Ira Sachs and Lynne Sachs, with designer Bernhard Blythe, Sofia Gallísa, and Andrei Alupului.
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All University |
Press Release
Mar 30, 2010
Mark K. Shriver, who leads Save the Children’s U.S. programs, will deliver a public lecture, “Making Service Part of the American DNA,” on Wednesday, April 7, 6 p.m., at NYU's Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor, Kimmel Center for University Life.
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Press Release
Mar 30, 2010
Congratulations to the winning directors of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Contest—Michael Chiboucas ’13 (Irvine CA); Sanjay Singh ’13 (Middle Island, NY); and co-directors Kylie Condon ’12 (Chicago, IL) & Stacey Greenberger ’12 (West Windsor, NJ). The undergraduates from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television will appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and have their short videos screened. The episode will air Wednesday, March 31 at 11:35p.m. ET.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Mar 30, 2010
College students will race to create computer programs at the inaugural, 24-hour “Hackathon,” April 2-3 (7 p.m.-7 p.m.) at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events |
Press Release
Mar 31, 2010
The NYU College of Nursing and the School of Medicine have been selected to participate in the Educating Nurses and Physicians: Toward New Horizons conference Hosted by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
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College of Nursing, School of Medicine |
Press Release
Mar 31, 2010
The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour and VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, come to NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts with the touching new family musical Nobody’s Perfect on May 8 at 2:00 p.m.
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Press Release
Apr 1, 2010
Celebrated artist William Wegman has placed his iconic stamp on the cover of the Summer 2010 course bulletin from the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (www.scps.nyu.edu). In Wegman’s new composition—his third for NYU-SCPS—Bobbin, one of Wegman’s famed Weimaraners, is imagined as an NYU-SCPS student examining his course options beneath New York City’s fabled Washington Square Arch.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Apr 2, 2010
The brain is capable of holding and retrieving memories for specific fears, revealing a more sophisticated storage and recall capacity than previously thought, neuroscientists have found.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Apr 2, 2010
Irshad Manji and Harold Ford, each of whom teaches at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate of Public Service at N.Y.U., are among the top 25 “most influential voices of the American center,” according to the online magazine The Daily Beast.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Article
Apr 5, 2010
Ten works of journalism have been named the decade’s top works of journalism in the United States by NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and a panel of distinguished judges.
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Arts and Science, Awards |
Press Release
Apr 5, 2010
Tisch New Theatre will present the musical "The Cradle Will Rock," by Mark Blitzstein, for five performances beginning April 28 and running through May 1 at New York University’s Atlas Theatre.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Apr 5, 2010
In Harry Potter speak a Muggle is an ordinary human being, or non-member of the magical community, and Hogwarts is the fictional boarding school for witches and wizards. Recently, two third year MFA students from the Department of Design for Stage & Film at the Tisch School of the Arts proved that Muggles can work magic.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Apr 5, 2010
The forum will be moderated by Professor Anthony Kovner, with speakers Ronald A. Paulus of Geisinger Health System and Professor John Billings. It begins at 6:00 p.m. at NYU Wagner, located in the Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 295 Lafayette Street, concluding at 8:00 p.m. (with a pre-event reception at 5:30 p.m.):
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 6, 2010
College students will present several web-based demos that gauge influence, allow users to search and download music, and exchange gag images on Tues., April 6, 7 p.m. at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events |
Press Release
Apr 6, 2010
The Department of Design for Stage and Film at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will feature the work of 20 designers from its MFA graduating class of 2010 in a week-long exhibition.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Apr 6, 2010
The NEH has awarded an $800,000 grant to the Aquila Theatre, the professional company-in-residence at NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies, to launch its newest program, “Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives: Poetry-Drama-Dialogue."
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Arts and Science, Awards |
Press Release
Apr 7, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2010 Reading Series continues in May with events featuring writer Colum McCann, poet Sharon Olds, and, in a tribute to Dan Halpern, founder of Ecco Press, authors Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates.
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Arts and Science, event, creative writing |
Press Release
Apr 7, 2010
Ada Yonath, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver a public lecture on Wednesday, April 7, 3:30 p.m. at New York University’s Kimmel Center for University Life, Room 914 (60 Washington Square South at LaGuardia Place). Subway Lines: R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place); A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street).
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Arts and Science, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 8, 2010
Two leading researchers on human attachment theory, Drs. Allan N. Schore and Judith Schore, will discuss their most recent findings at a conference Tuesday, April 13, sponsored by the New York University Silver School of Social Work’s Division of Lifelong Learning and Professional Development.
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Press Release
Apr 8, 2010
NYU Wagner and New York University’s Division of Student Affairs will advance the critically important discussion of rebuilding earthquake-devastated Haiti at a public forum Monday, April 19 – with an eye toward ways to address the issue in an ongoing way and over the long term.
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Press Release
Apr 8, 2010
Harvard University economist and New York Times “Economix” blogger Edward L. Glaeser will be the featured lecturer on Wednesday, April 28 at the 2010 Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum at NYU Wagner.
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Press Release
Apr 8, 2010
The NYU Reynolds Program in Social Entrepreneurship and the nonprofit group Youth Venture announced the selection of NYU College of Arts and Science students Michelle Dugan and Ashley Seiver as joint recipients of the $10,000 Grand Prize Award in the 2009-2010 “Be a Changemaker” Challenge. Ms. Dugan and Ms. Seiver provided the “Best Overall Venture” among the hundreds of participating New York University undergraduates. The two honorees created “Cycles,” a bicycle-run delivery service for farmers markets located in urban areas. They plan to set up the initial phase of operation at the Union Square green market in Manhattan.
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Entrepreneurship |
Press Release
Apr 9, 2010
New York University’s China House, in collaboration with Polytechnic Institute of NYU, will host an address by Lien Chan, Honorary Chairman of the Nationalist Party (KMT) in Taiwan and former Vice President of the Republic of China on Taiwan, on Tuesday, April 13 from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, which must RSVP at: http://www.nyu.edu/rsvp/event.php?e_id=2417.
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Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 9, 2010
New York University Professor Adam Przeworski has been awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for his scholarship examining the interplay among democracy, capitalism, and economic development.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Faculty, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Apr 9, 2010
NYU Wagner and the New-York Historical Society sponsored a conversation with Dr. Henry A. Kissinger on Wednesday, April 7th, with Wagner visiting professor Michael Doran (interviewer).
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Article
Apr 9, 2010
“Politics and Scandal,” “Bacteria, Viruses, and Immunity,” and New York City’s Challenges and Changes will be among the sessions at the CAS research conference on Friday, April 16.
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College of Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, conference |
Press Release
Apr 9, 2010
New York University’s Taub Center for Israel Studies will present “Israel and America: The Special Relationship,” a lecture series, April 15 and April 22.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, event |
Press Release
Apr 12, 2010
Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut will deliver the 4th Annual Bernard and Irene Schwartz Lecture on Congress on Monday, April 19th at the Library of Congress. Entitled “The Health Care Debate: A Look at Policy and Process,” the event is presented by the John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress at New York University.
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Press Release
Apr 12, 2010
Drawing upon decades of experience, leaders in public service have announced their intent to establish the Campaign for High Performance Government, a non partisan working group to encourage urgently needed reform of the federal government’s administrative practices. Economist and former chair of two national commissions on public service reform, Paul A. Volcker made the announcement at the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) as part of the Elliot Richardson Lecture series. “We must place public service reform squarely on the federal agenda.Too much of what government achieves is at risk without wide-ranging changes to improve performance and restore trust.”
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Press Release
Apr 12, 2010
Federal, state and local education policy seem to be aligning behind the goal of “college for all.” This...
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Apr 13, 2010
On April 22nd New York University will participate in the 40th annual Earth Day celebration with street fair, film & lectures, green projects, and an environmental networking dinner. We kick-off the celebration early with a week-long schedule of events, including a public panel discussion with NYU’s Global Distinguished Professor Sophia Kalantzakos on the EU Sustainable Agenda, Monday, April 19, 2010, 6:15 pm at NYU’s Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 713, NYC.
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NYUToday-feature, Sustainability, All University, Events and Traditions |
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Apr 13, 2010
Social Impact Club Looks to Bring 25+ Water Bottle Refill Stations to Locations around Campus
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Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Sustainability |
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Apr 13, 2010
After a three-year dialogue with its neighbors, NYU is now presenting its strategy—NYU 2031: NYU in NYC—to ensure that its facilities keep pace with its academic aims.
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buildings, All University |
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Apr 13, 2010
3rd Annual “Green Apple Move Out” Collection Drive Organized During Annual Dorm Move-Out, April 21st –May 12th
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NYUToday-feature, Sustainability, All University, Resident |
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Apr 13, 2010
The NYU Langone Medical Center Blood Program will host a blood drive at the Kimmel Center for Life on Tuesday, April 27th, on the 9th floor, from 10:00 am -4:30 pm.
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Langone Medical Center |
Article
Apr 14, 2010
The winners of New York University’s 68th annual First Run Film Festival, which premieres the work of some of the country’s top student films from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, were announced at a ceremony and screening at the Regal Union Square Theatre in New York City last night (Apr. 13). The event was presided over by Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Apr 14, 2010
New York University’s Deutsches Haus will present a roundtable discussion with experts on the radical right in Alpine Europe on Friday, April 23 from 4 to 7 p.m.
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event, International Houses |
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Apr 14, 2010
On Thursday, May 20, a benefit event for La Maison Française of New York University will feature a screening of a new documentary about the making of Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad at NYU Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, at 6:30 p.m. This will be the only New York showing of the film. The screening will be followed by a reception at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio, 440 West 14th Street, from 8:15 to 9:45 p.m.
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benefits, film, International Houses |
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Apr 14, 2010
Two New York University professors have been awarded 2010 Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation said in announcing 180 fellowship awards.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty, Faculty, Awards |
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Apr 14, 2010
On April 23, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will unveil the Tisch West Web Series Showcase, a new initiative presenting winning projects that were developed from conception to completion in a series of industry-run workshops, and launched to a global audience.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Apr 15, 2010
In his latest book, David Irving, an associate professor of film production in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television and chair of the graduate film program at Tisch School of the Arts Asia, has focused his attention on current and aspiring film directors who want to make their job easier by outlining in detail 10 directing fundamentals to follow.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Tisch Asia |
Article
Apr 16, 2010
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of New York, edited by New York University English Professors Cyrus R.K. Patell and Bryan Waterman, is the first large-scale consideration of New York City’s legacy in American literature.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Apr 16, 2010
New York University hosts “The History of the Telescope: Exploring the Boundaries Between Science and Culture,” a conference celebrating the 400th anniversary of its invention, on Friday, April 16 and Saturday, April 17 at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Humanities |
Press Release
Apr 19, 2010
New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux and Lenny Kaye, the lead guitarist of the Patti Smith Band, will discuss how fear is registered in the brain on Monday, April 19, 7 p.m., at the Rubin Museum of Art.
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Arts and Science, event |
Press Release
Apr 19, 2010
How cities handle their huge volume of garbags, and how they might do it differently, will be considered on Thursday, May 6, 2010 by New York City sanitation practitioners and their counterparts from urban centers around the world at a symposium entitled “Fast Trash” at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University.
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Article
Apr 19, 2010
Jeane W. Anastas, a professor of social work at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, has written a new book entitled "Teaching in Social Work: An Educator' Guide to Theory and Practice." The volume focuses specifically on teaching within the field of social work, identifying the factors that result in effective educational outcomes.
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Article
Apr 19, 2010
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University will host the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) event, Popular and Profane Experiences: the ARCE Spring Lecture Series at ISAW.
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World |
Press Release
Apr 19, 2010
The theory and practice of guerrilla theater, folk music traditions from the Balkans to Appalachia, and an “Art as Survival” workshop are among the events at the 2010 Gallatin Arts Festival, which will take place from Tuesday, April 20 through Friday, April 23.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, event |
Press Release
Apr 20, 2010
The NYU Game Center will exhibit four games starting May 7—and challenges the public to give them a try.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Apr 21, 2010
With a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grant, primatologist Anthony Di Fiore and Andres Link, a doctoral candidate in GSAS, will study aggression in spider monkeys. The researchers hope to better understand the factors that lead to group conflict in humans as well as in non-human primates.
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Research, College of Arts and Science, Faculty, Faculty |
Press Release
Apr 21, 2010
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has elected five New York University faculty as fellows: Philosophy Professor Don Garrett, Economics Professor Mark Gertler, History Professor Greg Grandin, as well as Andrew Majda and Jalal Shatah, professors in NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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NYUToday-feature, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Arts and Science, Faculty, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Apr 21, 2010
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences will host “Games for Learning: Research and Design Innovation” on Thursday, May 27, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. at 251 Mercer Street as part of the 7th Annual Games for Change Festival.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Apr 21, 2010
One recent alumnus and one student, both from Tisch's Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, have been honored by The Michael Kanin Playwriting Awards Program, which supports student-written plays at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
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Tisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature |
Article
Apr 21, 2010
NYU Student dorms kick off 3rd annual year-end drive to donate goods to Goodwill, the “Green Apple Move Out"
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Sustainability, Sexton |
Press Release
Apr 22, 2010
NYU edged Harvard in the nail-biting final round of the American Mock Trial Association's (AMTA) 26th National Championships on April 18 in Memphis, Tenn.
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Student Life |
Article
Apr 23, 2010
Panel discussion on women in the culinary arts followed by a post-panel networking reception catered by the students of the Steinhardt Food Studies and Food Management Program
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Division of Libraries, Alumni, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 23, 2010
Commencement Portrait Sessions will run Tuesday, May 4 - Thursday, May 6, from 12 p.m. – 8 p.m.; and Friday, May 7, from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m., in the Kimmel Center, Rm 406.
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NYUToday-feature, Around the Square |
Article
Apr 26, 2010
NYU/BISG event at BookExpo America 2010 showcases NYU graduate publishing students discussing Millennials’ impact on the industry, May 27, 2010 in NYC
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 26, 2010
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), the largest national program designed to help improve care of hospitalized older adult patients, announces the introduction of the “Online Connect” webinar series. The initial spring series of five webinars focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration approaches for practice innovations. The series is based in part on requested “high risk” topics from NICHE program participants.
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College of Nursing, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Apr 27, 2010
Letters to Juliet, co-authored by sisters Lise and Ceil Friedman, inspired the idea behind “Letters to Juliet” (Summit), starring Amanda Seyfried (“Big Love”), Gael García Bernal (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), and Vanessa Redgrave, which opens May 14.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study |
Press Release
Apr 27, 2010
At a symposium on Thursday, April 29, researchers from NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education will release findings from a three-year national study of single-sex schools, Is All Male Alright?: An Intervention Study of Schools for Black and Latino Males.
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Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Apr 28, 2010
Tisch New Theatre has announced that the run of its sold-out production of the 1937 Mark Blitzstein musical, "The Cradle Will Rock" (Apr. 28-May1 at the Atlas Theatre) will be extended for one night with a 90-minute concert version in Washington Square Park’s Arch Plaza, Friday, May 7 at 6 p.m.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Apr 28, 2010
The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts has announced it will begin offering a new Master Class Series in music production, business, and image-making for college students, high school students, working professionals, as well as the general public.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Apr 30, 2010
NYU's School of Continuing and Professional Studies announced that it is uniting its Washington Square academic programs and services into a single NYU building at 7 East 12th Street.
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NYUToday-feature, buildings, School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
May 3, 2010
Islamic societies are capable of embracing democracy, New York University Professor Ali Mirsepassi maintains in his forthcoming Democracy in Modern Iran (NYU Press, May).
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
May 3, 2010
More than 400 nurses and other health professionals from the U.S. and Canada attended the thirteenth annual conference of NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), held April 21 to 23 in Baltimore, Maryland. The theme of the conference was “Collaborate! Interdisciplinary Paths to Improved Geriatric Care.”
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College of Nursing, conference |
Press Release
May 3, 2010
The Silver School of Social Work at NYU has launched a new website celebrating the School’s 50th anniversary.
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Press Release
May 5, 2010
New York University Sociologist Patrick Sharkey will examine how neighborhood violence affects adolescents’ cognitive functioning and school performance as a William T. Grant Scholar.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
May 6, 2010
Bacterial spores, the most resistant organisms on earth, carry an extra coating of protection previously undetected, a team of microbiologists reports in the latest issue of the journal Current Biology.
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Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
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May 6, 2010
Gloria Coruzzi has received the Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Award for “her pioneering work in plant systems biology."
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Research, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
May 7, 2010
New York University's College of Nursing announced that it has a received a profoundly generous grant of $300,000 from the Brookdale Foundation to support scholarships for geriatric nurse practitioners who seek to enroll in the College’s Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree program. The DNP program, introduced in the spring of 2010, prepares advanced-practice nurses to become leaders in clinical care and in academia.
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College of Nursing, NYUToday-feature, Sponsored Awards |
Press Release
May 7, 2010
Researchers have found that a powerful carcinogen in tobacco smoke can be used for oral cancer research in experimental animals, thus providing a new, more relevant research model with which to understand the initiation, progression, and, ultimately, the prevention of oral cancer.
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College of Dentistry |
Article
May 7, 2010
On Monday May 10, 2010 at 11am, 455 students will graduate from The New York University College of Nursing at the New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street). Dr. Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami and former Secretary of Health and Human Services, will address the graduating class and receive the Helen Manzer Award for her exemplary leadership for the health of the nation.
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College of Nursing, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
May 10, 2010
Nature and technology may seem worlds apart, but NYU Computer Scientist Dennis Shasha maintains that the natural world can bolster the capacity of today’s most sophisticated machines in his co-authored Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines.
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Research, Faculty |
Press Release
May 10, 2010
More than 70 outstanding Reynolds Foundation Fellows in Social Entrepeneurship from both NYU and Harvard University met in Washington, D.C. to exchange ideas with 30 leaders in government, business, and medical research.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Article
May 10, 2010
"Lil Picard and Counterculture New York" comprises over 70 works by a pioneering feminist artist who played varied and vital—but under-acknowledged―roles in the New York art world during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.
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NYUToday-feature |
Article
May 10, 2010
On April 30, the winners of NYU Stern’s 11th Annual New Venture Competition and 6th Annual Social Venture Competition received more than $175,000 in seed money and in-kind support. After pitching their venture ideas, the three winning teams, each led by NYU students and alumni, were chosen by a panel of investors and business owners in the social enterprise and for-profit sectors.
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Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Entrepreneurship |
Article
May 11, 2010
Each year, NYU students receive some of the most distinguished scholarships and fellowships in the nation.
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Student Life |
Article
May 12, 2010
University Bestows Honorary Degrees on Actor Alec Baldwin, Educator Robert Max Berdahl, Xerox CEO Ursula M. Burns, Social Entrepreneur Bill Drayton, Jazz Musician and Alum Wayne Shorter, and Sociologist William Julius Wilson
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Events and Traditions, commencement |
Press Release
May 12, 2010
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on award-winning jazz saxophonist, composer, and NYU alumnus Wayne Shorter at NYU's 178th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Events and Traditions, commencement |
Article
May 12, 2010
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on social entrepreneur Bill Drayton -- the founder, chair, and chief executive officer of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public – at NYU's 178th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Events and Traditions, commencement |
Press Release
May 12, 2010
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on historian and educational leader Robert Max Berdahl, the president of the Association of American Universities, at NYU’s 178th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Events and Traditions, commencement |
Press Release
May 12, 2010
A team of neuroscientists has found that the mirror neuron system, which is thought to play a central role in social communications, responds normally in individuals with autism.
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Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
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May 12, 2010
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on the renowned sociologist and author William Julius Wilson at NYU’s 178th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Events and Traditions, commencement |
Press Release
May 12, 2010
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on NYU-Poly alumna and Xerox chief executive officer Ursula M. Burns at NYU's 178th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Events and Traditions, commencement |
Press Release
May 12, 2010
New York University President John Sexton today bestowed an honorary doctorate on award-winning actor and Tisch School of the Arts alumnus Alec Baldwin at NYU’s 178th Commencement Exercises in Yankee Stadium. Over 25,000 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests attended the morning ceremony.
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Events and Traditions, commencement |
Press Release
May 12, 2010
Chemists at New York University and China’s Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line...
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Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
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May 13, 2010
The Tisch School of the Arts has announced that ARRI, the largest manufacturer of professional motion picture equipment in the world, has given $50,000 towards the establishment of a fund to support cinematographers in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
May 17, 2010
The NYU Silver School of Social Work is hosting a training program for 25 Taiwanese social workers from the nonprofit organization Taiwan Fund for Children and Families as part of the 2010 Sino-American Cross-Cultural Training Project. The program starts this week.
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Press Release
May 17, 2010
Once slated for demolition, the High Line is born again—thanks to a perfect storm of public will, private interests, and (uncharacteristic) city cooperation
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nyu alumni magazine |
Article
May 18, 2010
International responses to rebuild Haiti after the January earthquake are unlikely to successfully transform the country, says NYU’s Millery Polyné, author of From Douglass to Duvalier.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
May 18, 2010
Visionary Leadership Award from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recognizes significant contributions that influence acute/critical care nursing and support association’s mission, vision and values
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College of Nursing, Sponsored Awards |
Press Release
May 18, 2010
NYU's Class of 2010 celebrated Commencement at Yankee Stadium on May 12. They join an alumni community that now totals more than 380,000.
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Article
May 19, 2010
New York University College of Nursing announced today that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research study titled “Enhancing Innate Vaginal Defenses to Reduce the Risk of HIV.” The research will be conducted by Professor Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, Director of Global Health Initiatives, at a clinic that NYU supports in Mombasa Kenya.
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College of Nursing, NYUToday-feature, Research |
Press Release
May 19, 2010
An exhibition of seven color photographs of sculptures by David Gilbert, the 2009 Tierney Fellowship award recipient from the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, will go on view June 3 at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
May 20, 2010
The NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD) has received a one-year grant from the United Hospital Fund that will involve dental, dental hygiene, and nursing students and faculty in developing and assessing a collaborative oral healthcare referral model whose goal is to provide community dwelling, underserved older adults in New York City with better access to dental care.
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College of Dentistry, Research |
Press Release
May 20, 2010
NYU will be among the hosts for the 2010 World Science Festival, the highest-profile event of its kind in the United States--June 2-6.
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NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Events and Traditions, Washington Square Park |
Press Release
May 25, 2010
The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) at New York University has established the Poiesis Fellowship, an international, interdisciplinary research program that aims to understand the forces that shape everything from the design of consumer products to complex social institutions.
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Research, Arts and Science, Full-Time |
Press Release
May 25, 2010
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study’s Writing Program published two annual books at the end of the 2010 spring semester: the 25th volume of the Gallatin Review, the student literary and visual art journal, and the 8th volume of the Literacy Review.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events and Traditions, Student Life |
Article
May 26, 2010
The Center for Publishing at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies and KITAB—a joint venture company between the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) and the Frankfurt Book Fair—today announced their intention to collaborate on a new executive training program, to be hosted at the newly opened temporary NYU Abu Dhabi campus, beginning in fall 2010.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
May 27, 2010
New York University Colleges of Dentistry and Nursing researchers were awarded a $5K grant from the American Dental Association’s Samuel D. Harris Fund for Children’s Dental Health Grants Program. The researchers developed a proposal entitled: “Interdisciplinary Strategies to Reduce the Risk of Early Childhood Caries: Implementation of a Postnatal Educational Program and Follow-up Interventions to Establish a Dental Home in the First Year of Life.”
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College of Nursing, College of Dentistry, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Jun 2, 2010
NYU Wagner will unveil "Gotham: Graphic New York" on June 10 at the free, publicly accessible Gallery Space at Wagner. This summer exhibit features visually arresting photographs and typographical posters by graphic designer Jeffrey Garofalo, a Wagner alumnus. It will run through September 3, in partnership with NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development.
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Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Jun 3, 2010
New York University Chemist Nadrian Seeman has been awarded the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for his creation of robotic devices that have the potential to create new materials a billionth of a meter in size.
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Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Jun 3, 2010
The New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies today announced a new professional Certificate in Global Philanthropy, designed to deliver a focused education in fundraising and global affairs to NGO programming and development professionals. The program will begin in the fall 2010 semester.
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Around the Square |
Press Release
Jun 3, 2010
New York University’s Fales Library, the home of one of the nation’s largest and prestigious archives in food studies, will host a panel discussion entitled “Secret Gardens: Powerful Plots in Surprising Places,” on Thursday, June 17, 2010 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Fales Library, third floor, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, (at LaGuardia Place). [Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F (West 4th Street)]
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NYUToday-feature, Division of Libraries, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jun 3, 2010
The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will host a panel discussion entitled Photography & Human Rights: What Works? The panel is presented in collaboration with the Magnum Foundation as a part of a summer program designed to explore strategies to create effective documentary projects linked with issues of human rights.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Around the Square |
Press Release
Jun 7, 2010
Dean Robert Lapiner of the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) has announced the appointment of Bjorn Hanson as the new divisional dean of the School’s Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management, beginning with the fall 2010 academic semester.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Jun 7, 2010
Researchers at India’s National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) and New York University’s Center for Neural Science have identified novel synaptic defects in an area of the brain that is involved in the debilitating emotional symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome (FXS).
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Research, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
Jun 8, 2010
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), the national program designed to help improve care of hospitalized older adult patients, announces the addition of Introduction to Gerontology educational modules to the new, online NICHE Knowledge Center.
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College of Nursing, NICHE |
Press Release
Jun 10, 2010
A team of biologists has isolated genes that regulate the sleep-feeding conflict. The study, which...
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Research, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
Jun 11, 2010
Jihun Yu, a doctoral candidate in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to participate in a summer internship program.
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Research, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Students |
Press Release
Jun 11, 2010
J. Anthony Movshon, director of NYU’s Center for Neural Science, has been named the recipient of the 2010 António Champalimaud Vision Award for his work on how the brain reconstructs images.
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Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Jun 14, 2010
Two recent alumni from NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Graduate Division, at the Tisch School of the Arts won the Gold and Silver awards in the Narrative category at the 37th Annual Student Academy Awards competition.
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Tisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Jun 14, 2010
The Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management at NYU Wagner will present a forum Wednesday, June 16, about federal funding for the development of high-speed rail systems -- and how local regions can leverage those investments strategically.
The event, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at NYU Kimmel Center (60 Washington Square South, New York, N.Y.), is ttled “Leveraging Federal Investment Locally.” It includes a keynote address by Polly Trottenberg, assistant secretary for policy at U.S. Department of Transportation.
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Around the Square |
Press Release
Jun 14, 2010
Children living in areas where homicides are committed have lower reading and verbal test scores, a study by NYU Sociology Professor Patrick Sharkey shows.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Jun 15, 2010
New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences will host “Recent Developments in Derivatives Pricing” on Saturday, June 19 and Sunday, June 20 (251 Mercer Street [at West 4th Street], Room 109).
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Jun 15, 2010
The New York University College of Nursing today announced a $78,000 grant to the College to support the JFEW Palliative Care Scholars Program. The grant period will run from September 2010 through June 2013.
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College of Nursing, Sponsored Awards |
Press Release
Jun 15, 2010
Campaigns on ballot measures pertaining to the legal status of same-sex couples, including gay marriage, have minimal impact on voters, a study conducted by NYU's Patrick Egan has found.
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Research, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
Jun 16, 2010
Public service organizations have an unprecedented opportunity to harness the experience and expertise of Baby Boomers, as great numbers envision themselves working in paid or voluntary public service positions between the age of 60 and 80, according to a study by researchers at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. But the just-completed report, entitled “Baby Boomers, Public Service, and Minority Communities,” also finds that there is scant understanding of this impending influx of aging Americans into the labor force – or of what ethnic and religious communities and voluntary institutions can do to mobilize, train, and absorb them.
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NYUToday-feature, Research, map, Research News, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Jun 17, 2010
NYU today shared its design plans for a new building for faculty residential and university hotel space to be added to the University Village (Silver Towers) complex.
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NYU 2031 |
Press Release
Jun 18, 2010
The New York University Fales Library and Special Collections presents “Where is Ana Mendieta? Donde esta Ana Mendieta? 25 Years Later - An Exhibition and Symposium,” opening August 1, 2010, and running through October 8, 2010 at NYU Bobst Library, 3rd Floor, 70 Washington Square South, NYC. The Symposium will take place on October 7, 2010 at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Around the Square, Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Jun 21, 2010
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) announced today that 150 students from 39 countries on six continents are expected to make up its first freshman class, which will begin studies this fall. The admissions process was highly competitive, and yielded a class with exceptional academic qualifications, with SAT scores that rank the school in the top six of US Universities.
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NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Jun 22, 2010
New York University College of Nursing is pleased to announce the appointment of Tara Cortes, PhD, RN, FAAN, as executive director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Now in its 14th year, the Hartford Institute has become a global resource for best practices in nursing care of older adults. Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, director since the Hartford Institute’s inception in 1996, will oversee national initiatives to improve geriatric nursing education and long term care. Professor Elizabeth C. Capezuti will direct practice and research initiatives. College of Nursing Dean Terry Fulmer will direct interdisciplinary initiatives.
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College of Nursing |
Press Release
by CourteneyRae J Palis
Jun 22, 2010
NYU students spend a week in the classrooms working with the freshmen class of Ball Prep to help them move past the tragic experiences of Hurricane Ike and use the lessons learned to better themselves and their community.
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Students, Community Service |
Article
Jun 23, 2010
Researchers at Virginia Tech, New York University, and Italy’s University of Milan have created a data mining algorithm they call GOALIE that can automatically reveal how biological processes are coordinated in time.
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NYUToday-feature, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, School of Medicine |
Press Release
Jun 24, 2010
On Saturday June 12, 2010, Terry Fulmer, Dean of NYU College of Nursing was the Keynote speaker at the UCLA School of Nursing’s graduation ceremony. Dean Fulmer addressed 240 students, proud families and friends. For 61 years, the UCLA School of Nursing has been educating nurses to care for patients in a variety of settings and specialties“These graduates are the leaders of tomorrow and the future of healthcare; I, along with the NYU College of Nursing, know they will exceed our expectations,” said Terry Fulmer, Dean of the NYU College of Nursing.
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College of Nursing |
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Jun 24, 2010
The New York University College of Nursing celebrated the 5 year anniversary of its World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Collaborating Center with a symposium at the Manhattan Penthouse.
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College of Nursing |
Press Release
Jun 24, 2010
New York University has signed a letter of intent with Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) to create a formal affiliation between the two institutions.
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College of Nursing, College of Dentistry, School of Medicine, Research, NYUToday-feature, Teaching and Learning, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Jun 28, 2010
NYU has announced its plans to create a $20 million venture fund to spur the commercialization of select technologies developed at NYU and to provide “seed” funding for startup companies based on those technologies.
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Research, NYUToday-feature, New York City, Around the Square, Entrepreneurship |
Press Release
Jun 29, 2010
NYU researchers have identified a mechanism the brain uses to help process sound localization. Their findings focus on how the brain computes the different arrival times of sound into each ear to estimate the location of its source.
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Research, Arts and Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty |
Press Release
Jun 30, 2010
The planned nationwide implementation of institutional bonuses mandated under federal health care reform threatens to act as a “reverse Robin Hood,” potentially causing hospitals in less-advantaged regions to lose funds to health care facilities in more affluent areas of the country, according to a study published in the academic journal PLoS Medicine.
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Research, NYUToday-feature, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, School of Medicine |
Press Release
Jul 1, 2010
NYU’s Movement Laboratory has reconstructed Yankee closer Mariano Rivera’s pitching motion to offer an animated three-dimensional look at how he appears before hitters.
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Research, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
Jul 2, 2010
NYU Press has been named one of "15 Feisty Small Presses" by the Huffington Post. Writer Anis Shivani observes, "NYU Press consistently publishes scholarly, yet accessible books."
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NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Division of Libraries |
Article
Jul 8, 2010
Jeane W. Anastas, a professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work, has been elected as president-elect of the National Association of Social Workers by NASW members. Anastas's term as president-elect, which she will serve under current NASW President James J. Kelly, began July 1, 2010, and will end June 30, 2011. From July 1, 2011, through June 30, 2014, She will lead the Washington, D.C.-based association as president.
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NYUToday-feature, Silver School of Social Work, Around the Square, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Jul 9, 2010
With Stories of the Babylonian Talmud (Johns Hopkins University Press), Jeffrey Rubenstein, the Skirball Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Literature in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, continues his exploration of the ancient rabbinic tradition of the Talmudic sages.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Article
Jul 13, 2010
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has received two grants as part of the Innovation Generation grant program from the Motorola Foundation, the charitable arm of Motorola Inc.
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NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Jul 14, 2010
Bodies in Question, an exhibition featuring works by 14 photographers, considers the ways bodies are placed into question as humans become virtual and under constantly increasing surveillance today.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Jul 16, 2010
Chemists from New York University and Russia’s St. Petersburg State University have created crystals that can twist and untwist, pointing to a much more varied process of crystal growth than previously thought.
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Research, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
Jul 19, 2010
Ted Conover's The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World reveals the costs and benefits of being connected by roadways, demonstrating that roads have played a crucial role in human life.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Article
Jul 20, 2010
Robin Nagle, the director of NYU’s Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program and the New York City Department of Sanitation’s anthropologist-in-residence, will deliver a lecture titled “How Street Cleaners Saved the City: Garbage, Government, and Public Health in New York,” on Monday, July 26, 5:30 p.m. at NYU School of Medicine.
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Research, Arts and Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Around the Square |
Press Release
Jul 21, 2010
The College of Dentistry held its annual Donor Recognition event at the New York Stock Exchange on June 30, 2010.
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College of Dentistry |
Article
Jul 22, 2010
The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences has received a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a Center for Mathematical Talent that will discover and support high-school and middle-school students with exceptional potential in the New York City area.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty, Teaching and Learning, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Jul 22, 2010
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), announced its partnership with the AARP Foundation and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) in the recently launched project to help health professionals work more effectively with family caregivers. Spearheaded by the AARP Foundation and funded by a grant from the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation, the new effort will create educational materials and toolkits to help nurses and social workers provide more effective support for family caregivers.
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College of Nursing |
Press Release
Jul 26, 2010
In Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception, Charles Seife shows how numbers can be a powerful rhetorical weapon, but warns that “in skillful hands, phony data, bogus statistics, and bad mathematics can make the most fanciful idea, the most outrageous falsehood seem true.”
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Jul 27, 2010
New York University’s Program in Vocal Performance will produce "The Fix," Sept. 30 through Oct. 4, 2010 at the Frederick Loewe Theatre at 35 West 4th Street.
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performance, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions, music |
Press Release
Jul 27, 2010
Stop Overreacting: Effective Strategies for Calming Your Emotions, by Judith P. Siegel, an associate professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University, has just been published by New Harbinger Publications (Oakland, CA). The book is designed to help readers identify their emotional hot-buttons, find new ways of processing impulsive thoughts and feelings, and feel more collected and in control in moments of crisis and stress.
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Professional, Health and Wellness, Silver School of Social Work, Full-Time |
Press Release
Jul 27, 2010
The Russia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, co-edited by NYU anthropologist Bruce Grant, aims to capture its subject as not merely a place, but also as a set of ideas to shed light on what Russia was under both the tsars and Soviet rule and what it is today.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Jul 27, 2010
The NYU College of Dentistry has received an anonymous gift in the amount of $3.5 million to support the oral cancer research, treatment, and training initiatives of Dr. Brian L. Schmidt, the newly appointed Director of the Bluestone Center for Clinical Research.
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College of Dentistry, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Jul 28, 2010
The Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) will launch an innovative graduate education program to educate scientists and engineers to address the increasingly complex issues surrounding information security and privacy.
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Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Federal Grants, Research, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Teaching and Learning, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Jul 29, 2010
David Savran, a professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), has won the Joe A. Callaway Prize for 2008-9 for the best book on drama or theatre. The award is presented by New York University’s Department of English.
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Sponsored Awards, Arts and Science, Awards |
Press Release
Aug 3, 2010
NYU dental researchers have found the first long-term evidence that periodontal (gum) disease may increase the risk of cognitive dysfunction associated with Alzheimer’s disease in healthy individuals as well as in those who already are cognitively impaired. The NYU study offers fresh evidence that gum inflammation may contribute to brain inflammation, neurodegeneration, and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Research, College of Dentistry |
Press Release
Aug 4, 2010
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP) in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in collaboration with the Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR) at the University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu (UHWO) have announced a MIAP student has been placed in a UHWO summer internship working with audiovisual materials in library collections.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Aug 6, 2010
Web-based program is first step toward attaining designation as a NICHE hospital
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NICHE, College of Nursing |
Press Release
Aug 6, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2010 Reading Series commences in September with events featuring author Jonathan Safran Foer (September 16) and Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein (September 23).
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Arts and Science, event, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Aug 6, 2010
Demetris Christofias, the President of the Republic of Cyprus, will address the opening of NYU's Center for Ancient Studies conference, “Archaeologies of Yeronisos off Cyprus: The Island Beyond the Island,” on Sept. 24.
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Arts and Science, Research, College of Arts and Science, Around the Square, event, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Aug 9, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010 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. The University recognizes that this can be a significant inconvenience for its neighbors. So, NYU will reimburse the parking costs of local residents living between Houston St. and 14th St between, from 2nd Avenue to 6th Avenue who need to use a garage.
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NYUToday-feature, Government Affairs, Student Life |
Press Release
Aug 9, 2010
NSF has awarded New York University’s Department of Anthropology and its institutional partners a five-year, $3.2 million grant to support a graduate student training program, the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP).
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Research, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Aug 9, 2010
Storytelling at the Provincetown Playhouse, a professional storytelling series featuring nationally and internationally renowned performers, returns to its home in the Provincetown Playhouse this fall. Programs are appropriate for adults and children 8 years of age and older.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Aug 9, 2010
New York University will be an official university partner with Ohio State University on a $46 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to improve literacy among struggling first-grade students. The $46 million grant, part of a $650 grant initiative known as Investing in Innovation, or i3, was announced last week by the Department of Education.
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Research, Teaching and Learning, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Aug 11, 2010
Bassist, vocalist, and composer Esperanza Spalding will perform her new album Chamber Music Society at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m.
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Press Release
Aug 12, 2010
The ever-popular Big Red Chair Family Series, a program of live performances for young people and families, returns for a third season to New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
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Press Release
Aug 16, 2010
NYU Ranked in the Top 20 “Cool Schools” list for the second year in a row. It was recognized for its efforts across eight categories: efficiency, energy supply, food, academics, purchasing, transportation, waste management, and administration.
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All University |
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Aug 18, 2010
Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will be honored by the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY with its second annual Himmel Award, celebrating leaders in the world of the arts for their significant achievements and innovations.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Aug 20, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2010 Reading Series will feature author Jonathan Safran Foer on Thursday, September 16, 7 p.m. at NYU’s Rosenthal Pavilion.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, College of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Events, Around the Square |
Press Release
Aug 20, 2010
The American Psychological Association (APA) has awarded New York University neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux a Distinguished Scientific Award for “his success in reinvigorating the field of emotion by uncovering the neural mechanisms of emotional learning.”
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Aug 20, 2010
New York University College of Dentistry researchers have identified a promising new approach for treating tooth hypersensitivity, while simultaneously preventing bacteria from causing further harm.
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NYUToday-feature, Research, College of Dentistry |
Press Release
Aug 23, 2010
Louis Nirenberg, a professor emeritus at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the inaugural Chern Medal for his contributions to the basic mathematical tools of modern science.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Aug 23, 2010
Author Peter Beinart will deliver a public lecture, “The Failure of the American-Jewish Establishment,” hosted by New York University’s Taub Center for Israel Studies, on Tuesday, September 21, 5:30 p.m. at King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Aug 24, 2010
Recognizing that a mixture of old and new buildings makes a city vibrant, New York University has launched a masters degree program in London focusing on the creative reuse of older buildings as a method for bolstering urban design.
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The Global Network, Arts and Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Aug 24, 2010
NYU’s Creative Writing Program will host the 2010 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards Reading on Friday, September 24, 7 p.m. at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, located at 58 W. 10th Street (between 5th and 6th Aves.).
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Arts and Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, College of Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Aug 24, 2010
New York University Professor Kenneth Carr has received a $100,000 grant from NARSAD, a charity which supports mental health research, to conduct research on brain circuitry related to addiction.
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Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, School of Medicine |
Press Release
Aug 25, 2010
The New York University College of Nursing is pleased to announce the appointment of Joyce K. Anastasi, Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing and Founding Director of the Division of Special Studies in Symptom Management, to the NIH permanent study section. Dr. Anastasi will serve as a member of the Nursing Science: Adults and Older Adults Study Section (NSAA), Center for Scientific Review, for the term beginning July 1, 2010 and ending June 30, 2014.
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College of Nursing |
Press Release
Aug 25, 2010
New York University College of Nursing is pleased to announce that Mathy Mezey, Associate Director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the College, was the recipient of the American Geriatrics Society Nasher/Manning Award for her teaching, leadership and life-long achievement in clinical geriatrics.
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College of Nursing, Sponsored Awards |
Press Release
Aug 25, 2010
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the University of Arizona’s School of Journalism will collaborate on a cross-cultural reporting project bringing students to the Arizona-Sonora border to report on issues facing both Americans and Mexicans in the region and to New York City to cover local Latino communities.
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Arts and Science, Students |
Press Release
Aug 25, 2010
NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies will present “Israel-India Relations,” a lecture by P.R. Kumaraswamy, on Thursday, September 16, 6 p.m. at NYU’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Aug 25, 2010
The NYU Game Center, an independent multi-school center at New York University dedicated to the research, design, and development of digital games, has announced the appointment of renowned game designer and scholar Eric Zimmerman as visiting assistant arts professor.
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Tisch School of the Arts, All University |
Press Release
Aug 27, 2010
Researchers at New York University have developed an innovative way to look at the development of osteoarthritis in the knee joint—one that relies on the examination of sodium ions in cartilage. Their work, which appears in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance, may provide a non-invasive method to diagnose osteoarthritis in its very early stages.
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Research, NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, School of Medicine |
Press Release
Aug 30, 2010
“Escape to Life: German Intellectuals in New York,” a symposium sponsored by a consortium of cultural and educational institutions, will take place September 29-October 1 at the German Center for Research and Innovation and NYU's Deutsches Haus.
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Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Aug 30, 2010
Performances by the Amygdaloids, lectures on the neuroscience behind the band’s music, and magic tricks by Mark Mitton are among the acts in “The Brain in Words and Music,” to be held Wednesday, September 29, 7 p.m. at Don Hill’s.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Aug 31, 2010
New York University’s Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts will feature an exhibition of 33 color photographs by National Geographic photographer and author Alexandra Avakian.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Sep 1, 2010
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host a number of special events in September and October, including a reading from Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past by renowned French actor Guillaume Gallienne on Sept. 20, a day-long conference exploring the work of French feminist Hélène Cixous on Sept. 24, and the return of “French Literature in the Making” with host Olivier Barrot with two events on Sept. 27 and Oct. 25.
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Press Release
Sep 1, 2010
Pete Hamill will be the featured speaker in “Down the Block: Time and Place in the East Village” on Thursday, September 23, 6-8 p.m., at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 1, 2010
NYU will host “The Medusa Project: Celebrating the Laugh of the Medusa by Hélène Cixous,” a one-day conference on Cixous’ 1975 feminist essay, on Friday, September 24, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at NYU’s La Maison Française.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 2, 2010
Hailing from Brooklyn, NY, PROJECT Trio is the chamber music ensemble whose creative style has reinvigorated classical music. The group will perform at New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Big Red Chair Family Series on October 16, 2010 at 7 p.m.
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Press Release
Sep 2, 2010
What impact will the coming Baby Boomer retirement wave have on public service organizations? On Tuesday, September 21, NYU Wagner will host a lively discussion of a national survey demonstrating the huge demands that Baby Boomers – intent on working and volunteering in their so-called golden years – are likely to exert on institutions, agencies, and federations of the Jewish community across North America in the years to come.
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Research, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Around the Square, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 2, 2010
President John Sexton and Senior Vice Provost Ron Robin recently honored the 2010 New York University...
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Article
Sep 2, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2010 Reading Series continues in October with events featuring Nicole Krauss (October 7) and Zadie Smith (October 29).
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 3, 2010
NYU's Humanities Initiative welcomes its fourth class of faculty and graduate student research Fellows...
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Around the Square, Humanities |
Article
Sep 7, 2010
The New York Times and New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will launch The Local East Village, part of The Times’s network of community web sites, on September 13.
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Arts and Science, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Sep 7, 2010
New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections is pleased to announce it has received a gift from the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance’s (www.nywca.org) of its historical archive. The archive consists of the records of the organization’s founding, its meeting notes, membership directories, newsletters, and reports on activities and events.
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Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Sep 7, 2010
The National Institute of Mental Health has awarded a $1.9 million research grant to Deborah Padgett and Victoria Stanhope – professors at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work – to support their five-year study of homeless adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse.
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Research, Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Sep 7, 2010
Steinhardt's Martin Simon has been awarded a $2 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation for research on students' concept development and the design of an innovative approach to teaching rational number (e.g., fractions, ratio) in elementary schools.
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Federal Grants, NYUToday-feature, Research News, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Sep 8, 2010
Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, Inc., will deliver a public lecture, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data,” on Friday, September 17, 2-3 p.m., at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 9, 2010
The team found that overall childhood caries prevalence was 83.4%. Approximately 25 percent of children interviewed said they do not own a toothbrush and an even greater number had never visited a dentist. Among those who had, most had likely not seen a dentist in more than two years.
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College of Dentistry, Research |
Press Release
Sep 9, 2010
Current energy technologies are not enough to reduce carbon emissions to a level needed to lower the risks associated with climate change, New York University physicist Martin Hoffert concludes in an essay in the latest issue of the journal Science.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Sep 9, 2010
In their new book, Ingrid Gould Ellen of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Brendan O’Flaherty of Columbia University propose that the answers to the question "How to House the Homeless" entail rethinking how housing markets operate and developing more efficient interventions in existing service programs.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 9, 2010
Sir Salman Rushdie, author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses, among other works, will be featured in “Primary Sources,” a series of conversations at NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute on Monday, September 13, 4-5 p.m. NYU ID required for entry.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 10, 2010
Researchers at New York University’s Center for Neural Science have identified a new neurological deficit behind amblyopia, or “lazy eye.” Their findings shed additional light on how amblyopia results from disrupted links between the brain and normal visual processing.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Sep 10, 2010
New York University will host a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Albert Gallatin, a founding father of both the United States of America and NYU, on Thursday, September 23, 6-8 p.m., at the school bearing his name, NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Sep 13, 2010
New York University’s Educating for Sustainability lecture series presents Dr. Rosina Bierbaum’s lecture, “The Changing Climate for Development,” on Tuesday, September 28, 6:00 - 7:30 PM, at NYU’s Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center, 50 West 4th Street, New York, NY. The event, part of Climate Week NY°C, is free and open to the public; please RSVP at: http://www.nyu.edu/rsvp/event.php?e_id=2903
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Sustainability, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 13, 2010
Shelley Rice and Kenneth Silver, professors in New York University’s Department of Art History, have been awarded the rank of chevalier, or knight, in France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for their contributions to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world.
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Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Sep 14, 2010
At this special book launch event at NYU Wagner on Tuesday, September 21, come hear from and converse with two authors of "Just Give Money to the Poor," David Hulme and Armando Barrientos, as they challenge the international aid industry with an elegant southern alternative – bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money.
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Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 15, 2010
Bernard Kouchner, France’s Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, and Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, will discuss “The European Union and the Middle East Peace Process” on Wednesday, September 22, 6 p.m. at NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor.
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Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 15, 2010
Tuffus Zimbabwe (Steinhardt MM ’09) is currently rehearsing for the upcoming SNL Fall season that begins on Saturday, September 25. He will join another Steinhardt alumni, saxophonist Rob Blake (Steinhardt Jazz MM’10), an SNL band member for the past three years.
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Alumni, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Article
Sep 15, 2010
NYU Wagner Professor Natasha Iskander will launch her fascinating new book, "Creative State" – a beautifully written study of Mexico, Morocco, and their respective migrants -- at a free public event at the school on Monday, September 27, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
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Research, Athletics, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 15, 2010
John Canemaker, Academy Award–winning animation filmmaker, author, and professor in the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch Shool of the Arts, will present an illustrated lecture based on his new book Two Guys Named Joe (Disney Editions, 2010) at the Museum of Modern Art on Friday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Sep 16, 2010
The one-hour afternoon talk will be delivered by Chris Blattman, assistant professor of political science and economics at Yale University and 2010-11 visiting fellow at New York University’s Department of Politics.
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Research, Social Science, Disciplinary Fields, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 16, 2010
NYU Cancer Institute will host "Half a Century of Birth Control, You’ve Come a Long Way Baby!" on Wed., Sept. 22, 6-7:30 p.m. at NYU Langone Medical Center. The discussion will feature NYU historian Linda Gordon and Lila Nachtigall, MD, a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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Around the Square |
Article
Sep 16, 2010
Hannah Stenson, a sophomore in the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts, has won an API Vision Scholarship 2010 Award.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Sep 16, 2010
New York University will host “The Politics and Poetics of Refugees,” a three-day symposium, September 23-25, 20 Cooper Square (between 5th and 6th Streets, 4th and 5th Floors).
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 17, 2010
New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) has been awarded a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support its ongoing public programming related to the region as well as to back K-12 outreach programs, research, and other initiatives.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Sep 17, 2010
NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies will host “Democracy and National Security: The American and Israeli Experiences,” a symposium featuring Roy Schondorf of the Israeli Ministry of Justice and Amos Guiora, former chief of the Israeli Defense Forces Military Law School, on Monday, October 4, 2-7 p.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 18, 2010
White brings 30 years of experience in nonprofit management and consulting to position; He will oversee expansion of curricula for the Master’s and professional certificate programs
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Full-Time |
Press Release
Sep 18, 2010
The Center for Global Affairs (CGA), a division of the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, today released Russia 2020, the latest report in its Scenarios Initiative.
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The Global Network, NYUToday-feature, School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Sep 20, 2010
NYU students, faculty, alumni, and staff who attend the APHA 2010 Annual Meeting are invited to attend a public health reception there sponsored by the Office of NYU Executive Vice President for Health Robert Berne.
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College of Nursing, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, School of Medicine, Events and Traditions, The Global Network, Research, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 20, 2010
NYU will today break ground on the Constance Milstein and Family Academic Center, home to NYU in DC and NYU’s first “Study Away” site in the U.S.
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The Global Network, Arts and Science, Research, Events, Events and Traditions, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Sep 20, 2010
Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party Leader in the United Kingdom, will conduct a question-and-answer gathering with New York University students and faculty on Wednesday, September 22 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
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The Global Network, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 20, 2010
New York University’s Africa House will host a conference with African leaders and the Africa Travel Association (ATA) focusing on tourism and economic development, on Wednesday, September 22, 4-8 p.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South. Participants include Honorable Mizengo Pinda, Prime Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania.
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Sep 20, 2010
New York University will host three lectures by cultural and literary critic Harry Berger, Jr.: “Collecting Body Parts in Leonardo’s Cave” (October 5); “Caterpillage: Death & Truthiness in 17th Century Floral Dutch Still Lifes” (October 12); and “The Mercifixion of Shylock” (October 27).
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Press Release
Sep 20, 2010
A series of poetry and creative writing readings will be hosted this fall by New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South. The readings, which take place in Spanish, are free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc.
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Press Release
Sep 21, 2010
This fall, Mexico will observe the bicentennial of its independence movement and the centennial of the Mexican revolution. To celebrate these two important historic events, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University will show a monthly repertoire of film shorts, historical feature films, documentaries, and rare brief shorts restored from original early 20th century film footage.
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film, international houses, kjc, events |
Press Release
Sep 21, 2010
Surveying the evolution of artists’ posters in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the decades preceding reunification in 1989, Künstlerplakate ranges from early examples of the late 1960s to the rich and varied highpoint of the late 1980s.
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Article
Sep 21, 2010
New York University’s 80WSE Gallery presents “Pastorale,” an exhibition by seven contemporary artists and curated by Klaus Kertess. The exhibition features artists for whom landscape and the long tradition of the “pastorale” play an important role in their practice. The gallery is open Tuesdays through Sundays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free.
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Press Release
Sep 22, 2010
New York University will host “Climate Ethics,” a roundtable discussion that will consider the emerging area of ethics and climate change, on Thursday, October 28, 4:30 p.m. at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor (on Bowery at 5th St.).
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 22, 2010
Zadie Smith, author of the critically acclaimed White Teeth, will read from selected works on Friday, October 29, 7 p.m., at New York University’s Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, Theater 101 (at University Place).
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
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by Tim Farrell
Sep 22, 2010
What students in Victor Pickard's "Intro to Media Studies" class didn't expect was that a celebrity guest speaker--Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show--was waiting for them in the wings.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Article
Sep 23, 2010
New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center and film programmer Diana Vargas present CortoCircuito, the seventh annual Latino Short Film Festival of New York from Thurs., Oct. 7 to Sat. Oct. 9, 2010. The programs are free and open to the public.
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film, international houses, kjc, events |
Press Release
Sep 23, 2010
New York University has created an Animal Studies Initiative to support research and curriculum development in the emerging field of animal studies.
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Sep 23, 2010
New York University’s King Juan Carlos I Center of Spain presents “La Colonia: Spanish Immigrants in New York, 1898-1945,” a new exhibition of photographs and archival materials that documents the experience of immigrants from Spain in early twentieth-century New York City. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, is on view Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at 53 Washington Square South (between Sullivan and Thompson Streets). For more information, visit www.nyu.edu/kjc.
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international houses, kjc, events |
Press Release
Sep 24, 2010
Founded in 1960, New York University’s Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts was the first graduate level training program at a university in the United States.
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Sep 24, 2010
Muslim philosopher Averroes and Jewish philosopher Maimonides worked together in the 12th century to advance the writings of Aristotle, serving as an example of scholarly cooperation during the Crusades. New York University’s Center for Dialogues will host a symposium, “The Meaning of Averroes and Maimonides for Our Times,” on Wednesday, October 6, 9:30 a.m - 8 p.m. at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 27, 2010
New York University College of Nursing invites you to a special guest lecture on the “Future of Nursing” by John W. Rowe, M.D., professor of health policy and management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The lecture is being held Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 8:30AM - 10:00AM at NYU’s Kimmel Center, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, 60 Washington Square South, NYC.
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College of Nursing, NYUToday-feature, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 27, 2010
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), announces the launch of a series that profiles innovations in geriatric care at NICHE designated hospitals. The series, called “Solutions,” is targeted at the NICHE community and other audiences in an effort to help healthcare professionals improve the care of older adult hospital patients.
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NICHE, College of Nursing |
Press Release
Sep 27, 2010
NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and developer Douglas Durst will consider the relationship between transportation policy and the real estate sector at an NYU Wagner breakfast conversation Wed, Sept. 29, at 8:30 a.m.
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Press Release
Sep 28, 2010
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2010 Reading Series will feature the Poets Forum reading, presented by the Academy of American Poets and including 14 of today’s most acclaimed contemporary poets, on Thursday, October 28, 7 p.m. at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square).
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Arts and Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, College of Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 28, 2010
This fall, New York University’s Catalan Center, in collaboration with NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, will present a weekly series of films produced and inspired by the master’s program in Creative Documentary at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain.
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International Houses |
Press Release
Sep 29, 2010
New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support its ongoing study of the modern and contemporary Middle East and its languages and to enhance public understanding of the region.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Sep 29, 2010
“Escape to Life: German Intellectuals in New York/The Photographs of Fred Stein,” a photographic portrait of the many famed artists and intellectuals who escaped Germany for the United States in the 1930s, will be on exhibit at NYU Open House (528 LaGuardia, between Bleecker and W. 3rd Streets) from September 28 through November 30.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 29, 2010
NYU will host “The Life and Art of Ardeshir Mohassess,” a conference (October 9-10) and exhibition (October 7-10) on the works of Ardeshir Mohassess (1938-2008), one of the most influential artists of contemporary Iran, at the Gallatin Galleries, 1 Washington Place (at Broadway).
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Sep 30, 2010
New York University is pleased to announce the appointment of Neil Rambo, MLibr, as director, Health Sciences Libraries and Knowledge Informatics, and library director of the Ehrman Medical Library, effective November 1, 2010.
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Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Sep 30, 2010
New York University has established the Iranian Studies Initiative (ISI-NYU) to provide an intellectual and academic home for the study of a region whose influence stretches from the ancient period to today’s global stage.
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The Global Network, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Arts and Science, Research, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Sep 30, 2010
New York University’s Sanford Gordon has devised a new method for forecasting the 2010 congressional elections that calibrates current expert rankings of individual House races based on the predictive success of those rankings in previous election cycles.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Oct 1, 2010
The first episode of “Jazz Master Class Series from NYU,” which features legends from the jazz world, will air on Mon., Oct. 4 at 10 p.m. on NYC life (Channel 25), the flagship station of NYC Media.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, musician |
Press Release
Oct 1, 2010
In late September, international dignitaries led discussions and answered questions during events across campus and beyond.
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Article
Oct 4, 2010
American Jewish women in the 1950s found ways to negotiate the domestic pressures of Postwar America, making their mark as social activists, intellectuals, artists, businesswomen, and religious leaders, a group of historians conclude in a new book, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America.
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Research, Arts and Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Oct 4, 2010
Renowned pianist and author Alfred Brendel will deliver the 12th annual Irving H. Jurow Lecture, a set of three talks on music’s performance, interpretation, and character, on Monday, October 18, Wednesday, October 20, and Thursday, October 21 in NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center.
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Arts and Science, College of Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 4, 2010
Join the Women of Color Policy Network at NYU Wagner on Wednesday, October 6, 2010, for the release of “At Rope’s End: Single Women Mothers, Wealth and Asset Accumulation in the U.S.,” and a moderated conversation by two leading experts.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 4, 2010
New York University Libraries is pleased to announce it has received a gift from the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) of its Albert Sussman Library’s print collection. The Library comprises more than 1,600 print items, including directories of shopping centers and retailers, as well as other books and reports covering the global shopping center industry.
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Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Oct 4, 2010
While researchers have noted the deleterious effects of foreclosure on surrounding properties and neighborhoods, little is known about the effects of foreclosure on children. A new report, Kids and Foreclosure: New York City, released today by researchers at the Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP) and Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy begins to address the issue by estimating the number of students in New York City affected by the current foreclosure crisis.
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Research, School of Law, Research News, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Oct 5, 2010
In Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis, NYU's Paul Glimcher outlines how neuroeconomics, a relatively new academic field, can provide insight into many of the fundamental features of decision making that have previously eluded scholars working exclusively within neuroscience, psychology, and economics.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Oct 5, 2010
NYU will host “Altneuland: Israeli Queer Cinema Festival,” on Saturday, October 23 and Sunday, October 24, at New York University’s King Juan Carlos Center [screening room] (53 Washington Square South, between Sullivan and Thompson Streets).
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 6, 2010
The New York University Fales Library and Special Collections presents A Sanctuary for the Arts: Judson Memorial Church and the Avant-Garde, 1954-1977, opening October 28, 2010, and running through January 7, 2011 at NYU Bobst Library, 3rd Floor, 70 Washington Square South, NYC. Exhibition hours are Monday through Friday, 10am to 5pm. The exhibition’s opening weekend features a roundtable discussion and dance performances—details below. The exhibition is free and open to the public. For more information, the public should visit http://www.judson.org/falesexhibition, or contact Joanna Steinberg at jrs358@nyu.edu. Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F (West 4th Street).
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Division of Libraries |
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Oct 6, 2010
Publishing students’ visit leads to input into cover design for current issue
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Oct 6, 2010
The NYU Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2010 Reading Series continues in November and December with events featuring Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Diaz (Nov. 11), who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, and Charles Wright (Nov. 18), who captured the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 6, 2010
Poet, novelist, and war hero, Gabriele d’Annunzio was a central figure in the Italian cultural and political life of the early 20th century. A new exhibition, “Gabriele d’Annunzio: Living Life as a Work of Art,” provides a striking glimpse into the life of the artist.
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New York City, International Houses |
Press Release
Oct 7, 2010
NYU is today filing an application with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to seek approval to introduce a new tower within the landmarked University Village (Silver Towers) site. The proposal has emerged from an extensive design and planning process and is considered a preferable option to building on a site immediately adjacent to the landmarked area, currently occupied by a Morton Williams supermarket.
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NYUToday-feature, Planning & Construction, NYU 2031 |
Press Release
Oct 7, 2010
Canceled: Mark Gelber, a professor at Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev, will deliver “Kafka, Zionism, and the Trial in Tel Aviv,” on Wednesday, November 10, 6 p.m., at New York University’s Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 8, 2010
The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service welcomes Ed Koch on Thursday, October 14 for a discussion about his legacy with NYU Polytechnic Institute historian Jonathan Soffer, author of a new book on the former mayor.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 8, 2010
He has been called the dean of American documentary filmmakers, the Johnny Appleseed of documentary, and the father of public access television.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Oct 11, 2010
The Graduate Film Program at New York University’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts has announced the addition of four new faculty members to the producing side of the curriculum beginning in fall 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Oct 11, 2010
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced the names of new members and foreign associates at its 40th annual meeting today. Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Dean of the New York University College of Nursing, was among this year’s inductees.
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College of Nursing |
Press Release
Oct 12, 2010
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), announces the launch of the “Solutions” Winter Webinars that profile innovations in geriatric care at NICHE designated hospitals. These new webinars, part of the “Online Connect” series, are based on the NICHE “Solutions” success story sheets. The presentations are geared to the NICHE community and other audiences to help health care professionals improve the care of hospitalized older adults.
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NICHE, College of Nursing |
Press Release
Oct 12, 2010
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded a joint, five-year, $1.25 million grant to Dr. Brian L. Schmidt, a Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the NYU College of Dentistry, and Dr. Markus Hardt, a protein chemist at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, for a study of the molecular mechanisms of oral cancer pain.
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NYUToday-feature, College of Dentistry, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Oct 12, 2010
A multimillion grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the J. Craig Venter Institute, in collaboration with the NYU College of Dentistry, is underwriting a four-year study that utilizes a new genetic sequencing technique to speed the process of identifying those remaining bacteria that play the most important role in tooth decay.
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College of Dentistry, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Oct 12, 2010
“Las Muertes Chiquitas/Little Deaths” is a multimedia documentary project focused on the lives of more than 30 Mexican women from different regions of the country: women of diverse ages, social backgrounds, professions, and religions. The Catalan Center is a co-sponsor of the film's NYC debut.
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International Houses |
Press Release
Oct 12, 2010
NYU celebrated the 250th anniversary of the birth of Albert Gallatin, a founding father of both the United States of America and NYU, on Sept. 23 at the school bearing his name, NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study |
Article
Oct 12, 2010
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò will launch a new speaker series devoted to issues of fashion and design. Called “AdDRESSing Style: Conversations on the Visual Arts,” the series kicks off with an inaugural event, “Fashion in the Global Age,” on Thurs., Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m
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The Global Network, Casa Italiana, International Houses |
Press Release
Oct 13, 2010
Smoking Cessation Specialists On-Hand from 11:30am to 3:30pm Providing Information and Referrals
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College of Dentistry |
Press Release
Oct 13, 2010
On Oct. 27 and 28, 2010, the Silver School of Social Work at NYU hosts a conference that combines cutting edge approaches and new ways of thinking to advance the promise and possibilities of mental health recovery.
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Research, Silver School of Social Work, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 13, 2010
Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, will deliver New York University’s Annual Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture on Thursday, November 4, 7:30 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center. Sen’s lecture is titled “Global Justice and Political Philosophy.”
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Arts and Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 13, 2010
The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University will present two cutting-edge performances of comedy and music back to back—Oct. 21 & 22—with the appearances of comedienne, actress, and writer Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords) and the musical homage to Andy Warhol by Brooklyn-based musicians Dean & Britta.
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Press Release
Oct 14, 2010
Researchers have developed a method for curbing the growth of crystals that form cystine kidney stones. Their findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal Science, may offer a pathway to a new method for the prevention of kidney stones.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Oct 14, 2010
A gene’s location on a chromosome plays a significant role in shaping how an organism’s traits vary and evolve, according to findings by genome biologists at NYU and Princeton University.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Oct 14, 2010
Professor Vitaly Naumkin, president of Moscow’s Institute of Oriental Studies, will deliver a public lecture, “Islam in Russia,” on Thursday, October 28, 6-8 p.m. at New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center, Richard Ettinghausen Library, 50 Washington Square South (enter at 255 Sullivan Street).
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 14, 2010
An exhibition of approximately 80 works created by the faculty and staff of the Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will open October 21 and run through November 20, 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Oct 14, 2010
Joe Sacco, a comic artist, journalist, author, and illustrator, will be featured in “Primary Sources: Coverage in Context,” a series of conversations focused on the media and the Middle East, at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square, between 5th and 6th Streets, 7th Floor), on Wednesday, November 3, 5:30-7 p.m.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 15, 2010
NYU has received a $1.6 million National Science Foundation grant to upgrade its Structural DNA Nanotechnology facility. Structural DNA nanotechnology uses synthetic DNA molecules to create new materials a billionth of a meter in size.
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Arts and Science, Research, Science, Faculty, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Oct 18, 2010
La Maison Française, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host a number of special events in November and December, including the opening of a new exhibition of drawings and prints by Henri Matisse on Nov. 2; a three-day conference on Jean Genet from Nov. 11-13; and a talk on Dec. 2 by Kenneth Silver, professor of modern art and curator of the Guggenheim exhibition, Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936.
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Events, International Houses |
Press Release
Oct 18, 2010
An exhibition of approximately 40 works created by alumni of the Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will open October 21 and run through November 20, 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Oct 18, 2010
NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host “1001,” Jason Grote’s postmodern re-telling of One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, on November 4, 5, 11, and 12 (7 p.m.), November 6 and 13 (8 p.m.), and November 7 and 14 (2 p.m.).
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 19, 2010
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936, an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum guest curated by New York University Art History Professor Kenneth Silver, is the first exhibition in the United States to explore the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I.
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Arts and Science, Research, Around the Square, Events, Faculty, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 19, 2010
The commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Silver School of Social Work this year will culminate with the Fiftieth Anniversary Benefit Celebration on November 10, featuring a conversation with NYU President John Sexton, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Carol Gilligan, followed by cocktails and dinner, with CBS Early Show anchor Harry Smith.
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NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Graduate, Silver School of Social Work, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 20, 2010
The ancient Greek myth Jason and the Argonauts is brought to life as a comedic tale of heroism and adventure when Visible Fictions brings its theatrical production to New York University’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on November 6 at 2:00 p.m.
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Press Release
Oct 20, 2010
More than 200 researchers, practitioners and business leaders will convene in New York City for a first look at new research results on the impact of microfinance. The Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference 2010, co-hosted by the Financial Access Initiative (FAI) at NYU Wagner and other leading research and financial institutions, will be held Thursday, October 21 through Saturday, October 23.
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Research, partner-university, Social Science, global-academic-center, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
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Oct 20, 2010
New York University’s Program in Music Business has named Chris Stanchak, founder and CEO of TicketLeap.com, as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the fall semester, 2010. Stanchak’s residency is supported by the Aronson Family Guest Speaker Fund and the Steinhardt School for Culture, Education and Human Development.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Oct 20, 2010
NYU Press and NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have announced the establishment of the Library of Arabic Literature (LAL). This new long-term project, funded by a grant from NYUAD’s research center, the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, will initially publish 35 English translations of the great works of classical Arabic literature.
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The Global Network, Research, Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Oct 21, 2010
John W. Rowe, MD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University lectured on “The Future of Nursing” at New York University’s Helen & Martin Kimmel Center for University Life on Wednesday, October 12th. The guest lecture was presented by NYU College of Nursing.
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College of Nursing, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 21, 2010
New York University and Manhattan Community Board 2 will host hundreds of children, moms, and dads at the 20th Annual Greenwich Village Children’s Halloween Parade. Led by the Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps. Marching Band, children and families will march around Washington Square Park. Following the parade, the children will be treated to candy, face-painting, rides and live entertainment, including a special performance by the NYC based children’s music band, Jeremy Plays Guitar.
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All University, Community Service |
Press Release
Oct 21, 2010
“Social, Ethical, Political, and Policy Implications of Interpretations of Islam’s Foundational Text: The Qur’an,” a symposium sponsored by New York University’s Center for Dialogues, will bring together some of the foremost Muslim scholars to discuss and debate the meaning of the text and the larger significance of how he Qur’an is viewed by Muslims and non-Muslims around the globe.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 25, 2010
New York University’s Tamiment Library has acquired the papers of Philip Agee, former CIA operative and author of Inside the Company: CIA Diary (1974). The papers document Agee’s life and work after his 1969 CIA defection. They contain valuable research files assembled for his books which document CIA practices world-wide.
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Division of Libraries, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Oct 25, 2010
New York University has established the Center on U.S.-China Relations, a research institute that will focus on the rapidly changing dynamic between the two countries. The Center will be directed by David Denoon, an NYU professor of politics and economics, who has served in senior policy-making positions in the U.S. government.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Oct 25, 2010
Otto Neugebauer (1899-1990), more than any other scholar of recent times, shaped the way we perceive and study ancient science.
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The Global Network, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World |
Press Release
Oct 25, 2010
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $3.75 million grant to a team of New York research and educational institutions to further develop BigPlant v1.0.
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Federal Grants, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Oct 26, 2010
Henri Matisse–Writers on Paper: Selected Drawings and Prints from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation is the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to Matisse’s little-known drawings of men. The exhibition, on view at New York University’s Maison Française from Nov. 2 through Dec. 21, includes a selection of intimate drawings and prints of writers.
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artwork, International Houses |
Press Release
Oct 26, 2010
Red Burns, founder of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in the Tisch School of the Arts, and Evan Korth, a clinical associate professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, have been named to the “Silicon Alley 100: New York’s Coolest Tech People in 2010.”
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Tisch School of the Arts, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research |
Press Release
Oct 27, 2010
From DIY butchery to home cheese making, pulling freshness from a rooftop Great Recession Victory Garden to gathering for Farmers Market - canning classes - Americans of all ages seem to be storming back into the home kitchen with renewed intensity and focus. Cookbook sales are up even while recipe sharing blogs go viral. Something big is going on out there in the American Home Kitchen.
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NYUToday-feature, Division of Libraries, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Oct 27, 2010
The conference, "Jean Genet in the USA," will feature discussions and roundtables about Genet’s influence on the political, social, and artistic scenes in the U.S. during the 1960s and 70s. All events are free and open to the public, and take place at La Maison Française.
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NYUToday-feature, International Houses, event, conference |
Press Release
Oct 28, 2010
New York University’s Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media (AFC) in Bobst Library will celebrate and honor the pioneering career of legendary documentary filmmaker and NYU’s own George C. Stoney with a retrospective screening of some of his films on Nov. 3, 9, 10, 16, & 17. The screenings are free and open to the public.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Division of Libraries |
Press Release
Oct 28, 2010
The education policy breakfast series at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development returns on Fri., Nov. 12 with a discussion on education and economic growth. The breakfast takes place from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South.
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Press Release
Oct 28, 2010
The Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced the winners of the 2010 Chris Columbus/Richard Vague Film Production Fund awards for alumni filmmaking. The Production Fund supports annual awards to recent alumni of the Kanbar Institute’s Graduate and Undergraduate divisions to direct their first feature film, either narrative or documentary.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Oct 28, 2010
Poets Matt Donovan and LB Thompson, graduates of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, were among the 10 recipients of the 2010 Writing Writers’ Awards, which are given annually to writers of exceptional talent and promise early in their careers.
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Arts and Science, Alumni, Sponsored Awards, Awards |
Press Release
Oct 29, 2010
New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections presents “At Moments Like These He Feels Furthest Away,” a new series of paintings by painter Philip Monaghan at NYU’s Bobst Library, 3rd Floor, 70 Washington Square South, (at LaGuardia Place). The exhibition opens January 26, 2011, and runs through April 29, 2011. [Subways A,C,E, B,D,M to West 4th Street; 6 line to Astor Place; R train to 8th Street.].
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Division of Libraries, Fales |
Press Release
Oct 29, 2010
Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Carol Gilligan will join a conversation and gala event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Silver School of Social Work at New York University on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010.
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New York City, Alumni, Silver School of Social Work, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 1, 2010
NYU today announced that will replace its in-house email system with Google Apps Education Edition to provide email service for the entire University community. The project, which will involve switching over some 80,000 email accounts, is projected to be completed by July 2012.
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NYUToday-feature, All University |
Press Release
Nov 1, 2010
Researchers at THE Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have developed a novel algebraic model of DNA “hybridization,” a process central to most biotechnology devices that monitor changes in cell’s gene expression or characterize a cell’s genome. Their work provides an additional tool for understanding how biological systems function and could enhance methods and designs of technologies used in cancer and genetics research.
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Research, Arts and Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty |
Press Release
Nov 2, 2010
Giacomo Puccini’s "Requiem," written in 1905 to commemorate the famous Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) four years after his death, will have its U.S. premiere on December 3, 2010 at 8 P.M. at The Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral, located at 263 Mulberry Street in New York City. Requiem will be performed by New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Drama Cantorum, under the direction of Ralph Affoumado, as part of the vocal ensemble’s winter concert, entitled "Gloria."
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Nov 3, 2010
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), Microsoft Research, and Motorola are challenging developers to create learning games through the 2010 Games for Learning Design Competition. Contestants will create and submit their own game for learning basic sixth grade geometry.
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Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions, Research, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Events, Around the Square, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Nov 3, 2010
New York University celebrates the re-opening of the historic Provincetown Playhouse this fall with a series of events that captures the spirit of the original Playwrights’ Theater, founded at 133-39 MacDougal Street in 1916.
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NYUToday-feature, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Nov 3, 2010
The Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts has announced that super producer, artist, and entrepreneur Swizz Beatz has been named its first Producer in Residence.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Nov 3, 2010
New York University Professor Stephen Cohen, author of the recently published The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation, discuss the historical and present-day factors behind Stalin's present-day popularity in Russia at a public discussion on Tuesday, November 23, 7 p.m. at the NYU Bookstore.
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bookstore, Faculty, Events and Traditions, Arts and Science, Research, Around the Square, Events |
Press Release
Nov 4, 2010
New York University researchers have developed a method to shape solid materials using a corn starch solution. The process, devised by researchers in NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Physics, offers a potential technique for material cutting and manufacturing processes.
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NYUToday-feature, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Nov 4, 2010
New York University’s 80WSE gallery will present the first major survey of Marlene McCarty’s work, "i’m into you now: some work from 1980-2010," on view now through Dec. 18, 2010. The exhibition of painting, prints, and drawings, curated by Michael Cohen, will be on display at 80WSE gallery, 80 Washington Square East (between West Fourth and Washington Place).
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Nov 4, 2010
New York University will host “Big Gaps in the Big Apple,” a panel discussion on the well-being of New Yorkers, on Wednesday, November 17, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. The discussion coincides with the release of The Measure of America, 2010-2011 (NYU Press), co-edited by Lewis and Burd-Sharps, a comprehensive report on the well-being of all Americans.
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Faculty, Events and Traditions, Research, Arts and Science, Division of Libraries, Division of Libraries, Events, Around the Square |
Press Release
Nov 5, 2010
A striking ten-piece collection of oil paintings by renowned multi-media artist Pepe Villegas helps mark Latino Heritage Month at New York University. The opening reception is Wed., Nov. 17.
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Neighbors, Activities, Around the Square, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
by James Devitt
Nov 5, 2010
The American Historical Association has awarded NYU’s Karl Appuhn, an associate professor in the Department of History, its 2010 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Johns Hopkins, 2009), which chronicles Venice’s efforts to manage its natural resources.
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Research, Arts and Science, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Article
by Ami Finkelthal
Nov 8, 2010
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the NIH, has awarded a two-year, $245,000 grant to an New York University dental research team to identify bacteria in the oral cavity that may be associated with oral cancer. The team will collaborate with researchers at the NYU School of Medicine and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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NYUToday-feature, Research News, College of Dentistry |
Article
Nov 8, 2010
David Amodio, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, has been awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
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Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
by James Devitt
Nov 8, 2010
Myles Jackson, the Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Polytechnic Institute of NYU, will study the application of mathematical models to skilled labor practices under an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Research, Research, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Faculty, Sponsored Research |
Article
Nov 8, 2010
New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for International Reporting for his coverage of the Iraq war, will be featured in “Primary Sources: Coverage in Context,” a series of conversations focused on the media and the Middle East, at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute on Wednesday, December 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 8, 2010
More than 400 nurses and healthcare professionals from over 100 hospitals will gather in Las Vegas, Nevada for the 14th annual NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) Conference, April 6-8, 2011 at Caesars Palace. The theme of this year's conference is “On the Front Line of Change!”
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College of Nursing, NICHE |
Press Release
Nov 8, 2010
Acclaimed jazz musician and producer Delfeayo Marsalis will deliver the Fall 2010 Albert Gallatin Lecture, “New Orleans Jazz: Old School of Modern,” on Monday, December 6, 6 p.m. at New York University’s Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 9, 2010
COLORS restaurant, a worker-owned cooperative founded by employees of Windows on the World, has opened a new café at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
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Student Life, Community, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Nov 9, 2010
Charles Darwin’s theory of gradual evolution is not supported by geological history, New York University Geologist Michael Rampino concludes in an essay in the journal Historical Biology.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Nov 9, 2010
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is accepting applications for “The Reporting Award,” which supports a work of journalism in any medium on significant underreported subjects of public interest.
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Arts and Science, Awards |
Press Release
Nov 10, 2010
New York University’s annual residence hall energy-savings challenge, NYUnplugged, is now part of the new Campus Conservation Nationals competition (http://www.competetoreduce.org/) in which 40 schools with 120,000+ participants in residence halls across the country are challenging one another to see who can most reduce their energy consumption over a three-week period, November 1 through November 19, 2010.
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NYUToday-feature, Sustainability, All University |
Article
Nov 10, 2010
The New York University College of Nursing has been awarded a $ 2.9 million, five (5) year, Federal Health Resources and Administration (HRSA) grant to fund its Mobile Health Van Program (MHVP), “Feeling Good in Your Neighborhood.”
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College of Nursing, NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Nov 10, 2010
New York University’s College of Arts and Science and its Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy will co-sponsor a public talk, “Educational Leadership in Tough Economic Times,” by Nancy Zimpher, chancellor of the State University of New York, on Thurs., Nov. 11 at 5 p.m.
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Around the Square, event, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Nov 10, 2010
Pete Hamill will deliver the 2010 Jacob K. Javits Visiting Professorship Lecture, “They Are Us: Common Sense in Immigration Reform,” on Tuesday, December 7, at 5:00 p.m., at NYU’s Silver Center.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 10, 2010
Producer, artist and entrepreneur Swizz Beatz visited with students on his first day as the new Producer...
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Nov 12, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010, from 12:00-2:00 pm Hosted by The George H. Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the series features national leaders in philanthropy innovation debating disruptive changes in the sector, including the latest influences of social media, cause video, the social enterprise movement, and mobile fundraising.
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 12, 2010
An illuminating exhibition of thirteen ancient Babylonian tablets, along with supplemental documentary material, opens at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) on November 12, 2010.
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World |
Press Release
Nov 12, 2010
Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, will be featured in “Primary Sources: Coverage in Context,” a series of conversations focused on the media and the Middle East, at NYU's Carter Journalism Institute on Wednesday, December 15.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 15, 2010
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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study abroad, International, All University, Around the Square |
Press Release
Nov 15, 2010
Ferris Jabr, a graduate student in New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has received the Society for Neuroscience’s Science Journalism Award, the organization announced at its annual meeting, which was held this weekend in San Diego.
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Arts and Science, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Sponsored Awards, Students, Awards |
Press Release
Nov 15, 2010
The Humanities Initiative at NYU will host its annual conference on Friday, November 19 and Saturday, November 20 at 20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor. The conference, “Ambience in the Humanities: Translating New Surroundings into New Poetics,” is free and open to the public.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Faculty, Events and Traditions, Research, Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events |
Press Release
Nov 16, 2010
The New York Academy of Sciences has selected four New York University researchers for its 2010 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists. The winners were announced at the Academy’s annual “Science and the City Gala” held November 15 in New York City.
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Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Faculty, School of Medicine, Awards, NYUToday-feature, Research, Arts and Science, Sponsored Awards |
Press Release
Nov 17, 2010
The Photographic Genome: Faces, Masks, Genes & Documents, an exhibition of 17 multi-media works by Sarah Getto, the 2010 Constantiner Fellowship award winner in the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, will be on view from December 2 through January 15, 2001.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
by Tim Farrell
Nov 17, 2010
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education, was a panelist on a two-hour primetime special on immigration, “Beyond Borderlines,” on MSNBC with Lawrence O’Donnell.
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Faculty, interview, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Article
Nov 17, 2010
New York University’s Edgar M. Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life will serve as the home of the Jewish Disaster Response Corps (JDRC), a non-profit founded by NYU alumnus Elie Lowenfeld, the Center announced.
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Alumni, Students, Around the Square, Student Life |
Press Release
Nov 17, 2010
New York University’s Kimmel Center has on display an exhibition of 12 large-scale, color photographs depicting everyday life in Afghanistan by photographer Robert Nickelsberg.
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Press Release
Nov 18, 2010
University Withdraws Landmarks Application for Fourth Tower; ULURP to Start Next Year
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NYU 2031 |
Press Release
Nov 18, 2010
NYC Health Commissioner Dr.Thomas Farley will give the keynote speech at full-day summit on roadway speeding on Friday, November 19 at NYU Wagner.
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Health and Wellness, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Nov 18, 2010
Saskia Sassen and Richard Sennett will be among the panelists at “Linking the Social to the Physical,” a discussion on the role of architecture in contemporary cities, on Wednesday, December 1, 6:30-8 p.m. at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 22, 2010
Using almost 300 hours of footage shot over the course of five years, filmmaker Carol Dysinger's critically acclaimed documentary Camp Victory, Afghanistan tells the story of the new Afghan National Army (ANA) and the U.S. National Guardsmen sent to mentor them.
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Tisch School of the Arts, School of Law, NYUToday-feature |
Press Release
Nov 23, 2010
Researchers at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have received the George Bell Prize, given to the world’s fastest supercomputing application, for creating software that simulates blood flow.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
by James Devitt
Nov 23, 2010
Rebecca Karl, an associate professor in the Department of History, offers a concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought in Mao Zedong and China in the 20th Century World.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Article
Nov 29, 2010
The New York University College of Nursing today announces the induction of faculty members, Wendy C. Bundin, PhD, RN-BC, Eloise Balasco Cathcart, MSN, RN and Ann E. Kurth, PhD, CNM, RN as US Fellows into the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). The US Fellows were formally inducted on November 13, 2010 at the Induction Ceremony in Washington, DC. Out of the 108 newly inducted US Fellows, six (6) received their degrees from NYU.
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College of Nursing, Awards |
Press Release
Nov 29, 2010
An expert in geriatric care and elder abuse, a respected author and leader in interdisciplinary education, Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, was honored by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and the John A. Hartford Foundation as the 2010 Nurse Leader in Aging at the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) Leadership Conference on Nov. 17 in New Orleans.
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College of Nursing, Awards |
Press Release
Nov 29, 2010
NYU will host a two-day workshop, “High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies,” December 10-11, at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Nov 29, 2010
New York University will host an open house at the newly refurbished Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street, on Sat., Dec. 11 from noon to 5 p.m. The public is invited to tour the historic theatre and enjoy light refreshments and live piano music, all free.
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Neighbors, Washington Square, Around the Square, Community, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Nov 30, 2010
Students from New York University’s Washington Square campus will be joined by members of NYU Abu Dhabi’s inaugural class of 2014 to perform original student compositions for a master class —despite being separated by some 7,000 miles. The performance is a highlight of the ResoNations Education Session, a component of the Innovation Talks Symposium III at United Nations Headquarters on Dec. 2 and 3.
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The Global Network, Around the Square, musicians, music, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Nov 30, 2010
The Interactive Telecommunications Program's (ITP) 2010 winter exhibition of recent works by graduate student artists and innovators will take place December 19 and 20 at the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Nov 30, 2010
Robin Nagle, an NYU anthropologist and the New York City Department of Sanitation’s anthropologist-in-residence, will deliver “The Twist-Ties that Bind: Garbage, New York City, and You,” a lecture recounting how the city’s garbage connects New Yorkers to one another as well as to history, politics, infrastructure, and technology, on Wednesday, December 8.
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions, NYU in NYC, Research, Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events |
Press Release
Dec 1, 2010
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and ProPublica, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative journalism non-profit, have formed a joint project to enhance the genre of “The Explainer,” a form of journalism that provides essential background knowledge to follow events and trends in the news.
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Arts and Science, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Dec 1, 2010
Joel D. Oppenheim, professor of Microbiology and Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences at NYU School of Medicine, has been awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences 2010 Lifetime Mentor Award.
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NYUToday-feature, School of Medicine |
Article
Dec 1, 2010
NYU's Patrick Egan, an assistant professor in the Wilf Family Department of Politics, will study public attitudes and prejudices toward LGBT issues as they relate to youth as part of a $730,000 grant from the Ford Foundation.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, Sponsored Research |
Press Release
Dec 2, 2010
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), announces the February 2011 Leadership Training Program (LTP). The LTP provides the means to train a team of staff and begin the process of becoming a leader in the care of older adults and a NICHE designated hospital. Registration information for the six-week, online February LTP is available at www.nicheprogram.org/join-leadership_training_program.
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NICHE, College of Nursing |
Press Release
Dec 3, 2010
Higher education leaders will examine the nexus between the university and the city in the 21st century—ranging from economic development to civic culture to urban political dynamics—at a roundtable discussion, “The University and the City,” on Wednesday, December 8.
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Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Dec 6, 2010
New York University Professors Jane Tylus and Crystal Parikh have received awards from the Modern Language Association (MLA) for their recently published works.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
Press Release
Dec 7, 2010
Passengers who use the University’s buses, trolleys and Safe Ride vans are now able to determine the location of their vehicle in real time.
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Safety, All University |
Article
Dec 7, 2010
New media expert Clay Shirky (www.shirky.com), who analyzes the social and economic effects of Internet technologies, will join New York University as a full-time faculty member, with appointments at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and the Tisch School of the Arts.
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Arts and Science, Research, Tisch School of the Arts, Faculty, Teaching and Learning |
Press Release
Dec 8, 2010
Philip Coltoff, who led the Children’s Aid Society of New York City from 1981-2005 as the organization’s President and CEO, and who is currently the Katherine W. and Howard Aibel Visiting Professor and Executive-in-Residence at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work, has written a critically well-received new book -- “At the Crossroads: Not-for-Profit Leadership Strategies for Executives and Boards.”
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Research, Faculty, Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Dec 8, 2010
The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, MP, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and New York University’s inaugural Distinguished Global Leader in Residence, will join Robert Shrum, veteran political consultant and Senior Fellow at NYU Wagner, in a lively one-hour discussion about Brown's just-published book.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Dec 9, 2010
Douglas Gale, a professor in NYU's Department of Economics, will study contagion among financial institutions and the influence of prudential regulation on the transmission of shocks under a grant from the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
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Research, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
Dec 9, 2010
An exhibition featuring approximately 50 works in photography, digital imaging, and multimedia by 12 graduating seniors from the class of 2011 in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television will open January 27. It will remain on view at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts through February 19, 2011.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Dec 9, 2010
Tony Award-winning playwright Edward Albee, Obie Award winner Judith Malina, and La Mama Experimental Theater archives director Ozzie Rodriguez, join in a discussion with Village Voice theatre critic Michael Feingold on Dec. 19 at the Provincetown Playhouse.
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Provincetown Playhouse, theater, Around the Square, event, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Dec 9, 2010
The Department of Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will present a one-night-only concert of works by alumni choreographers at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on January 28, 2011.
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Tisch School of the Arts, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts |
Press Release
Dec 10, 2010
NYU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) will host “Quechua Week,” a celebration of language and cultures in the Andean Region of South America, from December 13 through December 17 at venues around the NYU campus and at Columbia University.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions |
Press Release
Dec 11, 2010
New York University opened the doors of the newly renovated Provincetown Playhouse to the Greenwich Village community today, marking the official re-opening of the historic theatre following a two-year, $4.5 million refurbishment which preserved most of the theatre’s original structural walls and maintained the exact volume and footprint of the theatre, which dates to 1918.
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Provincetown Playhouse, Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Dec 14, 2010
With two major grants, The National Institutes of Health is supporting research on inner-city Latino and African American adolescent sexual behavior. The researcher's projects will study teenagers and their families in the Bronx.
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NYUToday-feature, Research, Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Dec 15, 2010
At least 17 members of the Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) community—students, alumni and Dean’s Council members—were among the nominees when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced its nominations for the 68th Annual Golden Globe® Awards on Dec. 14.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Dec 17, 2010
Publishing and viewing photographs of torture, mutilation, and death is not exploitative, but a necessary step in alleviating political violence, Susie Linfield concludes in her new book, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty Book, Faculty |
Press Release
Dec 17, 2010
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), research partner Microsoft Research, and Motorola are challenging developers to create learning games through the second annual Games for Learning Design Competition. Contestants will create and submit their own game for learning basic sixth grade geometry.
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Arts and Science, Research, Tisch School of the Arts, Around the Square, Faculty, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Dec 20, 2010
Jennifer Homans’ Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, the first cultural history of ballet ever written, chronicles how this art form has stood at the center of Western civilization for more than 400 years.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty Book, Faculty |
Press Profile
Dec 21, 2010
The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will once again partner with the Magnum Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting documentary photography, to present a summer program in Photography and Human Rights. The initiative, comprising four courses offered over five weeks beginning May 24, is designed to explore strategies to create effective documentary projects linked with issues of human rights. Three scholarships will be made available through the Magnum Foundation to international students for this program.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Dec 21, 2010
Stress can enhance ordinary, unrelated memories, a team of neuroscientists has found in a study of laboratory rats. Their results may bolster our understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and could offer a pathway for addressing PTSD and related afflictions.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Dec 22, 2010
The National Institutes of Health has awarded New York University Silver School of Social Work Professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos and Visiting Professor James Jaccard two major grants for research on inner-city Latino and African American adolescent sexual behavior. Both projects will study teenagers and their families in the Bronx.
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Research, Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Dec 22, 2010
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival has announced its list of films in competition and NYU filmmakers from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in the Tisch School of the Arts are poised for another remarkable year in Park City. Alumni and students are attached to a record number of films this year as well as having the most feature films in competition.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Article
Dec 23, 2010
NICHE has a critical story to tell about quality care for older adult hospital patients that everyone...
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Article