January

NYU’s Creative Writing Program to Feature Michael Cunningham, Zadie Smith, and Others This Winter

Jan 4, 2011
The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2011 Reading Series commences in January and February with events featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham (January 27), Zadie Smith (February 2, RSVP required), and Walter Mosley (February 25).
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Graduate School of Arts and Science, College of Arts and Science, Events and Traditions, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Events | Press Release
NYU to Workshop "Fantasy Football: The Musical?" March 24-27 at Provincetown Playhouse

Jan 4, 2011
New York University’s program in vocal performance will present a workshop production of the show Fantasy Football: The Musical? at the Provincetown Playhouse, 133 MacDougal Street, March 24-27. The show, which features book, music, and lyrics by David Ingber and direction by John Simpkins, debuted at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival and is presented at NYU with significant changes throughout.
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Provincetown Playhouse, theater, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
New Resources for Nurse Faculty Help Integrate Geriatrics into Undergraduate Teaching In Hospitals and Nursing Homes

Jan 7, 2011
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing has created two sets of resources for nursing faculty and clinical instructors to help them guide students in caring for older adults, in both hospital and nursing-home settings. More than 50% of hospital patients, 80% of home care patients, and 90% of residents of nursing homes are over age 65, yet the instructors who supervise students may have had little geriatric content in their own education.
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College of Nursing, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing | Press Release
NYUCD and MTCP to Join Hundreds of Tobacco Control Advocates in Albany for Legislative Day, Jan 11th

Jan 7, 2011
The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Program (MTCP) housed at New York University’s College of Dentistry (NYUCD) will join New York State tobacco control advocates in Albany Tuesday, January 11, 2011, to educate New York leaders about the important role tobacco use prevention and cessation have in preventing youth initiation and reducing healthcare costs.
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College of Dentistry | Press Release
Brademas Center Presents Evening with Senators Daschle and Lott - Feb. 2

Jan 7, 2011
Event will feature Tom Daschle and Trent Lott discussing their U.S. Senate leadership roles at a time when the chamber was evenly divided and power was to be shared among the two major parties.
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Washington Square, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
Courant’s Naor Wins American Mathematical Society Prize

Jan 7, 2011
Assaf Naor, a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the 2011 American Mathematical Society Maxime Bocher Memorial Prize, which recognizes outstanding research in the field of mathematical analysis over a six-year period.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards | Press Release
Researchers Uncover Behavioral Process Anticipating the Results of Rapid Eye Movements

Jan 10, 2011
A team of researchers has demonstrated that the brain predicts consequences of our eye movements on what we see next. The findings have implications for understanding human attention and applications to robotics.
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Research, Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Faculty | Press Release
NYUCD’s Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Program Asks Docs to Make New Year’s Resolution to Help Patients to Quit Smoking

Jan 10, 2011
The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Program (MTCP) housed at New York University’s College of Dentistry (NYUCD) recently released print and Internet ads urging healthcare providers to make quitting a priority with their patients who smoke, and Dr. Donna Shelley, clinical associate professor at the NYU College of Dentistry and School of Medicine, is encouraging those same healthcare providers to make a New Year’s Resolution to treat smoking as a chronic disease.
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College of Dentistry | Press Release
Justin Spring to Read at NYU’s Fales Feb 10th

Jan 10, 2011
New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections and the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (ART) invite you to a reading and discussion with Justin Spring, author of Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010) on Thursday, February 10th, 2011, 6:30 pm at Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South, 3rd floor, NYC.
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Fales, Division of Libraries | Press Release
AAAS Selects Three NYU Faculty as Fellows

Jan 11, 2011
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has selected three NYU faculty as 2010 Fellows: Bhubaneswar “Bud” Mishra, a professor of computer science and mathematics; Dan Sanes, a professor of neural science; and Patrick Shrout, a professor of psychology.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards | Press Release
Chinese Experts to Study High-Tech Solutions for Coal Mine Safety in 12-Month Pilot at NYU-Poly

Jan 11, 2011
With China’s accelerating economy heavily dependent on coal, mine safety has emerged as a national priority. Moving to embrace high-tech solutions to improve its record, 15 Chinese scientists and engineers this month will enter a pilot program at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly).
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NYUToday-feature, NYU Poly | Press Release
Iran’s Islamists Influenced by Western Philosophers, NYU’s Mirsepassi Concludes in New Book

Jan 11, 2011
Iran’s Islamists were influenced by Western philosophers, notably Martin Heidegger, in forming an ideological foundation for the 1979 revolution and today’s political Islam, Gallatin's Ali Mirsepassi concludes in his new book, Political Islam, Iran, and the Enlightenment.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Research, Faculty Book, Faculty | Press Release
Conservation Center at IFA Awarded Grant for Education and Training of Library and Archive Conservators by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Jan 12, 2011
The Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a four-year pilot program in the education and training of library and archive conservators.
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Institute of Fine Arts | Article
“Drug Wars and Drug Laws” Conference to Analyze Role of Politics, Race, and Culture in Treatment—Jan. 14 at NYU

Jan 12, 2011
“Drug Wars and Drug Laws,” a conference presented by New York State Psychological Association’s Division on Addictions on January 14, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., will consider the role of politics, race, and culture in the treatment of addictions.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions | Press Release
French Publisher Gallimard in Conversation with Olivier Barrot at La Maison Française, Jan. 24

Jan 12, 2011
La Maison Française of New York University will host a special edition of the ongoing “French Literature in the Making” series, hosted by Olivier Barrot on Mon., Jan. 24 at 7 p.m. The evening’s special guest, Antoine Gallimard, will discuss the 100-year publishing history of his eminent firm
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International Houses, books, Center of French Civilization and Culture, Maison Francaise | Press Release
“Kafka, Zionism, and the Trial in Tel Aviv”—March 2 Lecture at NYU

Jan 13, 2011
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, March 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m., at NYU Open House, 528 LaGuardia Place.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions | Press Release
"Give Bigotry No Sanction"--Jan. 31 Symposium at NYU

Jan 14, 2011
New York University will partner with the international education nonprofit organization Facing History and Ourselves to host a symposium on religious freedom and democracy on Mon., Jan. 31, 7-9 p.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place), Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (4th Floor).
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Around the Square, event, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
Oslo Accords, Israeli Nationalism Focus of February Lectures Sponsored by NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies

Jan 14, 2011
The Taub Center for Israel Studies will host two February lectures centering on how the nation’s history has influenced its present: “Did the Oslo Accords Pave the Way to a (Israeli-Palestinian) Two-State Solution?” (February 7) and “Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Religion and Identity in Israel” (February 28).
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events | Press Release
Humane Society Recognizes NYU’s “Food, Animals, and the Environment” with Animal and Society Course Award

Jan 14, 2011
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the nation’s largest animal protection organization, has recognized “Food, Animals, and the Environment,” a course in NYU’s Environmental Studies Program and Animal Studies Initiative, as a winner of an Animals and Society Course award.
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Arts and Science, College of Arts and Science, Sponsored Awards, Awards, Teaching and Learning | Press Release
NYU Neuroscientists Receive Grant to Study How Fear is Passed From Generation to Generation

Jan 18, 2011
NYU neuroscientists have received a grant from National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSD) to examine how fears are passed from generation to generation.
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Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards, School of Medicine | Press Release
NYU College of Nursing: "The Future of Nursing" Report, Feb 17th

Jan 18, 2011
New York University College of Nursing’s Dean Terry Fulmer along with the Alex and Rita Hillman Family Foundation will host a panel presentation and discussion on "The Future of Nursing" report, a Robert Wood Johnson Initiative at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), on February 17, 2011, from 6:00p - 7:30p at the NYU Welcome Center, Shimkin Hall, 50 West 4th Street and Washington Square East, NYC. [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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College of Nursing | Press Release
'Greening Gotham,' with NYC Buildings Commissioner - Jan. 25

Jan 18, 2011
NYU Wagner to host lecture and discussion on New York City’s greening initiatives with the Commissioner of the city Department of Buildings, Robert D. LiMandri.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Events and Traditions | Press Release
CNN’S Soledad O’Brien at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute’s “Primary Sources” Series—Feb 4.

Jan 18, 2011
Soledad O’Brien, an award-winning anchor and special correspondent for CNN, will be featured in “Primary Sources: Coverage in Context,” a series of conversations focused on the media, at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute on Friday, February 4.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square, Events, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Publisher Gallimard, Novelists Moody and A.M. Homes Appear at La Maison Française Events, Jan. & Feb.

Jan 19, 2011
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host a number of special events in January and February, including a conversation with esteemed French publisher Antoine Gallimard on Jan. 24, a colloquium on Haiti and independence on Feb. 15, and a three-day festival featuring French and American authors, including Rick Moody and A.M. Homes, on Feb. 24-26.
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Around the Square, Maison Francaise, Events | Press Release
Dr. Seok-Kyun Kim Receives NYUCD's Smigel Prize

Jan 20, 2011
Dr. Seok-Kyun Kim, Founder and President of the Korean Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry, has received the 2010 NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD) Irwin Smigel Prize in Aesthetic Dentistry. Internationally renowned as one of the all-time great teachers and researchers in aesthetic dentistry, Dr. Kim has established more than 90 aesthetic dentistry centers in South Korea and has advanced the status of aesthetic dentistry among Korean dentists and the Korean public through thousands of hours of continuing education courses and mainstream media presentations.
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College of Dentistry | Press Release
NYU to Open New Center to Serve Students’ Academic Needs

Jan 20, 2011
NYU will create a new academic services hub for students to support them in achieving academic success. The new center – to be called the Academic Resource Center – will be a one-stop location for academic support and advising services, and a satellite location for other student support services, such as financial aid and career counseling.
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Academic Affairs and Faculty, Office of Student Life, Provost | Press Release
Public Forum: International University Rankings, Thurs., Feb. 3

Jan 20, 2011
The Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy at New York University, in collaboration with the Institute for Public Knowledge, will host a public forum on international university rankings on Thurs., Feb. 3 at 5 p.m. The forum will be held in Jurow Hall in the Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East.
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Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
Dinosaur Expert Horner to Deliver Public Lecture in Celebration of Darwin’s Birthday—Feb. 9 at NYU

Jan 21, 2011
Jack Horner, who discovered the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, will deliver “Dinosaurs: Getting Rid of Some Old Ones, and Making Some New Ones,” a public lecture celebrating the birthday of Charles Darwin, on February 9 at NYU's Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (CGSB) Auditorium.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Switches on Green CoGen Plant and Powers Up for the Sustainable Future

Jan 21, 2011
New York University today announced the completion of its natural gas-fired Co-Generation (CoGen) plant, which decreases greenhouse gas emissions by 23% while reducing air pollutants by 68% compared to its 30-year-old, oil-fired CoGen predecessor.
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University facilities, Sustainability, All University | Press Release
NYU Receives Record Number of Freshman Applications

Jan 24, 2011
NYU today announced that it had another record year for freshman applications: 42,242 men and women applied for spots in NYU’s class of 2015, exceeding last year’s record for total applications by 11 percent. Applications for freshman admission to NYU have more than quadrupled over the past two decades.
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Liberal Studies Program, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, College of Arts and Science, Tisch School of the Arts, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Student Life, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, The Global Network, Arts and Science, Around the Square | Press Release
NYU Professor Explores Asian American Designers’ Role in NYC’s Fashion Industry in The Beautiful Generation

Jan 24, 2011
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, an assistant professor in NYU's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, addresses the rise of "Asian chic" in her new book, The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion (Duke University Press).
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty Book, Faculty | Press Release
NYU Wagner Expert Available for Interview on State of the Union Address

Jan 24, 2011
Paul Light, a nationally recognized expert on the Federal government, is available for interview about President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service | Press Release
“Haiti(an) Matters: Creating a New Narrative” Theme of NYU Gallatin’s 2011 Black History Month Events

Jan 24, 2011
New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host “Haiti(an) Matters: Creating a New Narrative”—a series of Black History Month events—February 3 through 24, at 1 Washington Place (at Broadway).
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Gift from Dentsply Keeps NYUCD in the Vanguard of Implant Dentistry Research

Jan 25, 2011
New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) received a gift from Dentsply International of over $450,000 to promote research in implant dentistry. Dentsply International, the company behind such major dental brand names as Caulk, Cavitron, Delton, Dycal, Jeltrate, Lucitone, Midwest, Nupro, Rinn, and Trubyte, is the largest professional dental products company in the world. Dentsply’s gift will be used to further the mission of NYUCD’s implant program, first dental school in the US to teach implant dentistry to predoctoral students.
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College of Dentistry | Press Release
Four NYU Faculty Finalists for National Book Critics Circle Awards

Jan 25, 2011
Four New York University faculty have been named National Book Critics Circle Finalists for its 2010 book awards: Darin Strauss for Half a Life (autobiography); Susie Linfield for The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence (criticism); Jennifer Homans for Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (nonfiction); and Anne Carson for Nox (poetry).
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards | Press Release
NYU to Open Biomedical Chemistry Institute with Jan. 28 Symposium

Jan 25, 2011
NYU will open the Biomedical Chemistry Institute, which will promote cross-disciplinary research in areas aimed at improving human health, with a symposium highlighting the latest research in the field on Friday, January 28, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at NYU’s Silver Center.
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Arts and Science, Research, Events, Around the Square, Faculty, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Anya Schiffrin, Editor of New Book on How America’s Business Press Missed the Financial Crisis—Feb. 16 at the NYU Bookstore

Jan 25, 2011
The NYU Bookstore will host Anya Schiffrin, editor of the newly released Bad News: How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the Century, on Wednesday, February 16 at 6 p.m. (726 Broadway, between Waverly Place and Washington Place).
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Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions | Press Release
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Oshinsky to Join Bill Gates for Webcast Conversation on Polio —Jan. 31

Jan 26, 2011
David Oshinsky, an NYU Distinguished Scholar in Residence, will join Bill Gates and other global leaders in a conversation on“Polio Eradication and the Power of Vaccines.” The event will be webcast live on Monday, January 31, 9:30 a.m. EST at www.gatesfoundation.org.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Faculty, Events and Traditions | Press Release
NYU Bookstore Launches Weekend Story Time for Children

Jan 26, 2011
The NYU Bookstore has launched a weekend story time for children at its 726 Broadway location. Every Saturday and Sunday, noon to 12:30 p.m., children aged 2 to 8 and accompanied by an adult can come to the NYU Bookstore’s Kids Corner and listen to stories read by bookstore staff. February 5 through July 31.
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NICHE Video Contest Opens

Jan 27, 2011
Hospitals invited to share their geriatric nursing innovation stories at upcoming conference and on NICHE YouTube Channel
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NICHE, College of Nursing | Press Release
Kanbar Filmmakers Have Lots to Crow About at this Year’s Oscars

Jan 28, 2011
Oscar season is always an exciting time for students and faculty in the Kanbar Institute as they wait and watch to see which films will walk away with the honors.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Article
Bastard Out of Carolina Author Allison to Deliver NYU’s Gallatin Lecture, “Writing for Its Own Sake,” Feb. 9

Jan 28, 2011
Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina, will deliver the Spring 2011 Albert Gallatin Lecture, “Writing for Its Own Sake—How the Collapse of Print Publishing Will Shape the New World of Storytelling,” on Wednesday, February 9, 6:30 p.m. at NYU’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
Center for European and Mediterranean Studies Celebrates Centennial of “Der Rosenkavalier”

by James Devitt Jan 28, 2011
NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies celebrated the centennial of the first performance of “Der Rosenkavalier,” the comic opera by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, with a symposium in late January.
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Arts and Science, Events, Around the Square, Events and Traditions | Article
Neuroscientists Find Process for Memory Storage, Reactivation More Complex than Previously Thought

Jan 31, 2011
The process we use to store memories is more complex than previously thought, NYU neuroscientists have found. Their research underscores the challenges in addressing memory-related ailments, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, School of Medicine | Press Release
NYU College of Dentistry to Celebrate MLK Week with a Black History Month Oral Health Day

Jan 31, 2011
The New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) Office of Student Affairs in collaboration with the NYS Assemblyman, Keith Wright, NY City Councilwomen, Inez Dickens, and Vice President Allen McFarlane of NYU’s Office of Student Diversity Programs and Services will sponsor The Martin Luther King Jr. /Black History Oral Health Day on Saturday, February 12th from 12:00 – 3:00 pm at the Harlem State Office building.
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College of Dentistry, NYUToday-feature | Press Release
Tisch Alumni Take Home Sundance, DGA, and SAG Awards Over the Weekend

Jan 31, 2011
The weekend of January 29-30 was a busy one for film industry awards and Tisch alumni, once again, were among the winners.
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Tisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature | Article

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