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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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