April

NYU Steinhardt Graduate Student Wins Prizes for Videogame that Helps Children Learn Number Concepts

Apr 1, 2011
Dixie Ching, a doctoral student in New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, was part of a team that won both the Impact and Collegiate prizes in the inaugural National STEM Video Game Challenge. The two awards carry a total cash prize of $50,000.
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NYU Bookstore to Feature Author Alix Strauss, Journalist Danny Schechter, NYU’s Niobe Way, and More in April

Apr 1, 2011
The New York University Bookstore will host events in April, including readings by author Alix Strauss (April 5), journalist Danny Schechter (April 6), and NYU Professor Niobe Way (April 25), at its 726 Broadway location.
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New York Institute for the Humanities’ “Springtime Wonder Cabinet, Curated by Lawrence Weschler”—April 16

Apr 1, 2011
The New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU will host “Springtime Wonder Cabinet, Curated by Lawrence Weschler,” a day-long series of presentations, films, and performances, on Saturday, April 16, 10:45 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at NYU’s Cantor Film Center.
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NYU's Master of Public Health Program Presents NYS Health Commissioner Nirav Shah - April 6

Apr 4, 2011
New York University’s Master of Public Health (MPH) Program will present New York State Health Commissioner Nirav R. Shah at a breakfast event on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. He will talk about current public health priorities.
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NYU Conference Highlights Undergraduate Scholarship– April 15

Apr 5, 2011
“Global Issues Past and Present,” “Literature Through the Ages,” “Bacteria, Viruses, and Immunity,” and “New York City: Long-Standing Challenges and Dynamic Change” will be among the sessions at New York University’s College of Arts and Science undergraduate research conference on Friday, April 15, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at NYU’s Silver Center.
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“NYU Startup Week,” Featuring Entrepreneurship and Innovation in NYC’s Tech Community, April 7-15

Apr 5, 2011
NYU will host “NYU Startup Week,” which will include sessions on mobile, web, and clean tech startups, online communities, and fundraising, as well as a job fair, from April 7 through April 15 at different venues at NYU’s Washington Square campus.
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Hasia Diner’s “We Remember With Reverence and Love” Wins American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Prize

Apr 5, 2011
The American Jewish Historical Society has awarded We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (NYU Press, 2009), authored by New York University Professor Hasia Diner, its Saul Viener Prize.
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Forum Will Examine Shared Public & Private Sector Risks to Critical Infrastructure

Apr 5, 2011
Public and private sector risks and preparedness for catastrophic events, and avenues for collaboration in connection with critical infrastructure, will be the focus of an NYU Wagner forum featuring officials from the Department of Homeland Security -- Tuesday, April 5, at 3 p.m.
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NYU’s 69th Annual First Run Film Festival Winners Announced

Apr 5, 2011
Last night, the winners of New York University’s 69th annual First Run Film Festival, which premieres the work of some of the country’s top student films from the Tisch School of the Arts’ Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in New York and Tisch Asia School of the Arts in Singapore, were announced at a ceremony and screening at the Regal Union Square Theatre in New York City.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
Statement by NYU Vice President Alicia D. Hurley Regarding Landmarks Preservation Commission's Unanimous Approval of NYU Plan

Apr 6, 2011
“We are gratified that the Landmarks Preservation Commission has unanimously approved our plan to improve open space within the landmarked University Towers site. This approval will allow for us to provide new landscaping, restore original lighting fixtures, add a new dog run and offer the community an improved toddler playground."
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NYU Garden Shop Plant of the Week, Tuesday, April 5

Apr 6, 2011
Lenten Rose (Helleborus x hybridus) in the sidewalk median at 100 Bleecker Street (on the south side of Bleecker St).
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Former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown Discusses the Role of Cities in the Wake of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis - April 11

Apr 6, 2011
NYU Wagner's 2011 Henry Hart Rice Forum presents the Gordon Brown, former UK Prime Minister, in dialogue with Professor Mitchell Moss about the role of cities in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.
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Human Rights Journalist Winner of Carter Journalism Institute’s “Reporting Award”

Apr 7, 2011
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has named Jina Moore, a Christian Science Monitor correspondent who has written on human rights, foreign affairs, and Africa, the recipient of the 2011 Reporting Award.
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NYU and The Songwriters Hall of Fame to Launch Master Session Series at the Steinhardt School Featuring Major Music Figures

Apr 7, 2011
Robert Rowe, director of music and performing arts professions at New York University’s The Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development, and Jimmy Webb, chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), have jointly announced that the two institutions will collaborate to create The Songwriters Hall of Fame Master Sessions at NYU. The inaugural Master Session will take place June 14, 2011.
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Fishes that Don’t Sleep Point to Genetic Basis for Slumber, NYU Biologists Find

Apr 7, 2011
Cave fish sleep significantly less than their surface counterparts do, a finding by New York University biologists that reveals the genes involved in sleep patterns and disorders. Their study may shed light on how genetic makeup contributes to sleep variation and disruption in humans.
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NYU Steinhardt School Symposium to Explore the Role Applied Theatre Can Play in Helping Prevent the Rising Incidence of Bullying, Apr. 15

Apr 7, 2011
The Steinhardt School’s Music and Performing Arts Professions Department at New York University has organized an all-day symposium on bullying that will explore the ways the applied theatre, a participatory art form powered by social activism, can play in combating the bully menace.
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Fales Library Acquires Lang Cookbook Collection

Apr 7, 2011
New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections today announced the acquisition of the Georg and Jenifer Lang cookbook collection. A renowned restaurateur, owner of Café Des Artistes in NYC and Gundel in Budapest, Lang’s collection comprises some 21,000 books, covering food from the 16th century to the present along with European and American food materials, and is valued at more than $800K.
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Schedule a Portrait for Commencment 2011

Apr 7, 2011
Commencement portraits can now be scheduled online—book your appointment today.
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NYUCN's Cortes to Receive Villanova College of Nursing Medallion

Apr 7, 2011
Tara Cortes, PhD, RN, FAAN, Executive Director, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, NYU College of Nursing, will receive the Villanova University College of Nursing Medallion for Distinguished Contributions to the Profession on Saturday, April 9 at the College-sponsored and Nursing Alumni Association-sponsored Annual Mass and Alumni Awards Ceremony.
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College of Nursing, Awards | Press Release
Eight NYU Professors Awarded 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships

Apr 7, 2011
Eight 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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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Arts and Science, Research, School of Law, Tisch School of the Arts, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Press Release
NYUCN’s Deren and Hagan Guest Editors of Journal Substance Use and Misuse

Apr 7, 2011
New York University College of Nursing’s Sherry Deren, Ph.D., Director, Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) and Senior Research Scientist and Holly Hagan, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, served as guest editors of a special issue of the journal Substance Use and Misuse on “The New York HIV-Drug Use Epidemic: Lessons Learned and Unresolved Issues.”
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College of Nursing, Research | Press Release
NYU College of Nursing Health Van Receives a Five-year $2.9 Million Dollar Grant From HRSA

Apr 7, 2011
The NYU College of Nursing has been awarded a $2.9 million, five (5) year grant from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to support implementation of the newly developed nurse managed NYUCN Mobile Health Van Program (MHVP) “Feeling Good in Your Neighborhood”, an innovative, replicable model of nursing care coordination, “Set Up, Catch Up, Hook Up”...
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Kanbar Institute’s Spike Lee and Sam Pollard Win Peabody Award

Apr 8, 2011
The 70th Annual Peabody Awards were announced and among the winners for the best electronic media of 2010 was the documentary If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise (HBO); producers, Sam Pollard, professor in the Undergraduate Film & TV division, and Spike Lee (’82/’98), alumnus and artistic director of the Graduate Film division; directed by Spike Lee.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Article
New York State Health Commissioner Nirav Shah Lauds the Launch of the NYU Master in Public Health Program

Apr 8, 2011
Marking a milestone in public health education, New York State Commissioner of Health Nirav R. Shah joined with New York University faculty, students, alumni, staff, and senior officials in celebrating the creation of the NYU Master of Public Health Program.
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NYU to Host Symposium on Refugee Youth and Relationship of Education to Health—April 29

Apr 11, 2011
NYU will host “A Symposium on Refugee Youth: The Relationship of Education to Health,” on Friday, April 29, 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor.
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Center for Ancient Studies to Host “Combat Trauma and the Ancient Stage”—April 20-21

Apr 11, 2011
The Center for Ancient Studies will host “Combat Trauma and the Ancient Stage,” April 20-21, at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, Room 102, 100 Washington Square East.
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NYU Student Actors to Perform “Twelfth Night” in Washington Square Park

Apr 11, 2011
Shakespeare in the Square, a student group at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, will perform William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will for two performances, rain or shine, in Washington Square Park’s Holley Plaza, Saturday, April 30 at 1:00 and 4:00 PM.
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Tisch School of the Arts, All University | Press Release
NYU Press, Media Commons to Test Online Peer Review in Project Funded by The Mellon Foundation

Apr 11, 2011
NYU Press (NYUP) has been awarded a grant of $50,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop and test a method of conducting open, public online peer-to-peer (P2P) review of scholarly monographs and journal articles. NYUP, which is part of the NYU Division of Libraries, will collaborate on the project with MediaCommons (http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org), a digital scholarly network affiliated with both NYU Libraries and the Institute for the Future of the Book.
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NYU’s Richard Sennett Wins Schocken Prize for Literature

Apr 11, 2011
NYU Professor Richard Sennett has won the 2011 Jeanette Schocken Prize for Literature. Sennett, a sociologist, will receive the award, which includes a prize of 7,500 euro, at a ceremony in the German city of Bremerhaven this Spring.
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NYU Supersizes its Earth Week April 11, 2011 – April 26, 2011

Apr 11, 2011
This year, NYU's Earth Day celebrations were too much to fit into just one week leading up to April 22, so starting on April 11 there will be more than two dozen extraordinary ways to connect with your environment and your community, including panel discussions, volunteer opportunities, film screenings — all a part of this annual celebration of NYU's commitment to sustainability.
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Steinhardt School’s Carol Bove and Trisha Donnelly Among the Artists in the 54th Venice Biennale

Apr 12, 2011
Carol Bove and Trisha Donnelly, NYU Steinhardt faculty from the Art and Art Professions Department who are both clinical associate professors of studio art, are among the 82 artists from around the world to be featured in the 54th Venice Biennale.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Article
La Maison Française To Honor Dancer-Choreographer, Vivendi Executive at Gala Benefit - May 5

Apr 12, 2011
La Maison Française of New York University will honor Benjamin Millepied, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet and a choreographer of international reputation, and Jean-Francois Dubos, Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Vivendi, at a Gala Benefit on Thursday, May 5.
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"The Irish Family - Who Do We Think We Are?" - Saturday, April 16

Apr 12, 2011
Betty Ford Institute President Dr. Garrett O’Connor will deliver the keynote lecture at University Day organized by NYU's Glucksman Ireland House: “Resilience, Shame, Alcohol and Survival: The Tragic and Triumphant Alchemy of Irish Cultural History."
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NYU Garden Shop Plant of the Week, Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Apr 12, 2011
NYU Garden Shop Plant of the Week, Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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Wanted: Working Professionals for ITP Summer Camp! Must Be Motivated, Creative, and Like to Play; No Prior Technical Experience Required

Apr 13, 2011
Imagine a mash-up of artist residency and summer camp for working professionals who get excited by experimentation in art, media, and technology. It’s called ITP Camp, and it is being offered again this year by the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
"Asians in the Ivory Tower" Forum Addresses an Overlooked, Misunderstood College Student Population

Apr 15, 2011
In an April 6 public forum hosted by the Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy, the NYU Multicultural Alumni Group, and the Asian / Pacific / American Institute at NYU, a panel of speakers brought attention the often overlooked and misunderstood Asian American and Pacific Islander college student population.
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Around the Square, Faculty, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | Article
“Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry”—May 7

Apr 15, 2011
NYU will host “Second Thoughts on the Memory Industry,” an all-day symposium with sessions ranging from memorials and commemorations to truth commissions and reparations, on Saturday, May 7, 10:45 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Cantor Film Center.
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NYUCN's Annual Norman and Alicia Volk Lecture on Geriatric Nursing Took Place April 13

Apr 15, 2011
Over 175 guests attended Dr. Tara Cortes, PhD, RN, FAAN lecture on “Preparing for 2030: Health Care and Aging” on Wednesday, April 13 at New York University, for the annual Norman and Alicia Volk Lecture on Geriatric Nursing.
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College of Nursing | Article
NYU’s Creative Writing Program to Feature Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer Winner Jorie Graham, and Others in May

Apr 19, 2011
The Creative Writing Program’s Spring 2011 Reading Series concludes in May with events featuring Yusef Komunyakaa (May 5), Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham (May 13), and the NYU Veterans Writing Workshop (May 7).
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‘Global Lens 2011’ Film Series Focuses on Latin America – April 25-27

Apr 19, 2011
Three notable films, from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, will be screened at the Global Lens 2011 film series running Monday through Wednesday, April 25-27.
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NYU Fales and the Department of English Present a Lecture by Paul Muldoon, April 26

Apr 19, 2011
The New York University Fales Library and the Department of English at New York University cordially invite you to the 2011 Fales Lecture in English and American Literature, “The Missives of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop,” by Paul Muldoon Pulitzer Prize winning poet and author of Maggot, Tuesday, APRIL 26, 2011.
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AAAS Elects Six NYU Faculty as 2011 Fellows

Apr 19, 2011
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) has elected six NYU faculty as fellows: Marsha Berger, a professor of computer science and mathematics, Philosophy Professor Beatrice Longuenesse, Economics Professor David Pearce, History Professor Barbara Weinstein as well as Marcel Kahan and Geoffrey Miller, both professors in NYU’s School of Law.
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NYU Garden Shop Plant of the Week, Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Apr 19, 2011
NYU Garden Shop Plant of the Week, Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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Liberal Studies’ Astiz Selected for Student Freedom Ride

Apr 20, 2011
Liliana Graciela Astiz, a sophomore in NYU’s Liberal Studies Program, is one of 40 students from across the nation to be selected by PBS’s award-winning documentary series “American Experience” to take part in the 2011 Student Freedom Ride.
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A Bird and a Plane--Courant Institute Receives Grant to Develop Crow-Sized Autonomous Plane

Apr 20, 2011
NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to develop a bird-sized, self-flying plane that could navigate through both forests and urban environments.
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GSAS Student Britto Wins Woodrow Wilson Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Apr 20, 2011
Lina Britto, a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Arts and Science, has been awarded a Newcombe Fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Britto will receive $25,000 for the one-year fellowship, which is given to doctoral candidates writing dissertations on topics involving religion and ethical values.
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NYU Steinhardt Music Business Program Honors Pandora Founder Tim Westergren with Visionary Award

Apr 21, 2011
Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora, will receive the second Music Business Program Visionary Award given by The Steinhardt School at New York University. This award honors a business figure of note for their lasting and positive impact on the music industry through innovative, effective, and creative business leadership.
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Wisconsin in New York? Former NY Legislator and Critic of Public-Employee Unions Will Go Toe-to-Toe on April 28

Apr 21, 2011
Richard Brodsky, senior fellow at NYU Wagner who served as a New York State legislator for many years, will debate the meaning of Wisconsin’s pitched battles over the rights and role of public-employee unions with Daniel DiSalvo, City College professor of political science and author of an influential 2010 article in National Affairs magazine, “The Trouble with Public Sector Unions.”
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Forum Will Introduce New Nationwide Effort to Increase Diversity in Public Service Leadership

Apr 21, 2011
The new “Public Service Diversity Initiative" -- aimed at increasing the number of people of color holding leadership positions in the public and nonprofit sectors -- will be the focus of a New York University forum organized by National Urban Fellows and the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) at NYU Wagner.
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NYU Garden Shop Plant of the Week--April 25, 2011

Apr 25, 2011
NYU Garden Shop Plant of the Week: Japanese Flowering Cherry (Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan') on the Bleecker Street side of Coles Sports Center, 181 Mercer Street.
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Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8

Apr 25, 2011
The Festival of Ideas will take place at numerous locations in downtown Manhattan, including NYU Wagner. A first for New York, the Festival is a major new collaboration involving scores of artists, planners, visionaries, and academic leaders.
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Psychologists Find Unintentional Racial Biases May Affect Economic, Trust Decisions

Apr 25, 2011
Psychologists have found that people may make economic and trust decisions based on unconscious or unintentional racial biases.
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NYUCN Launches Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice Program

Apr 26, 2011
The New York University College of Nursing has been awarded $202,030 to launch the first year of a three-year initiative, Oral Health Nursing Education and Practice (OHNEP) Program, from the DentaQuest and Washington Dental Service Foundations to develop a replicable model for implementing a comprehensive oral health curriculum in nursing schools throughout the United States, as well as best practices for oral health care in nurse-managed primary care settings.
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College of Nursing, College of Dentistry | Press Release
Gérard Ben Arous Appointed Director of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Apr 26, 2011
NYU President John Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin today announced the appointment of Gérard Ben Arous, a prize-winning mathematician and a professor of mathematics at NYU since 2002, as the Director of NYU’s renowned Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Research, Faculty | Article
Black, Latino, and White Candidates Equally Likely to Invoke Race, But in Different Ways, New Book Finds

Apr 26, 2011
Black, Latino, and White candidates make race-based appeals in advertisements at roughly the same rates in campaigns in which their opponents are of a different race, according to research by New York University’s Charlton McIlwain and North Central College’s Stephen Caliendo.
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NYU Bookstore to Feature Author Robert Rowland Smith, Creative Writing Workshop, Poet Deborah Landau, and More in May

Apr 26, 2011
The NYU Bookstore will host events in May, including readings by Breakfast with Socrates author Robert Rowland Smith (May 2), a writing workshop with novelist Ann Napolitano (May 3), and a poetry reading featuring Deborah Landau, director of NYU’s Creative Writing Program (May 5).
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NYU’s Steinhardt School and Tisch School Collaborate to Present 14th Annual Student Short Film Series Featuring Original Scores and Live Musical Accompaniment, May 1

Apr 27, 2011
A one-night-only showcase of 17 silent films—animated and live action—with original scores accompanied by live instrumentalists, conducted by Joe Bartolozzi, will take place Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 8 p.m. at the Frederick Loewe Theatre, located at 35 West 4th Street in New York City.
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Benefit Performance of Tony Kushner’s “The Henry Box Brown Play” Will Support NYU’s Graduate Acting Program

Apr 27, 2011
The Graduate Acting Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will present a special one-time-only benefit concert staging of playwright and alumnus Tony Kushner’s play The Henry Box Brown Play: Political-Historical-Doggerel-Vaudeville.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release
NYU Panel, “ ‘The King’s Speech’: Fact or Fiction,” to Examine Stuttering and the Oscar-Winning Film—May 5

Apr 27, 2011
New York University will host “The King’s Speech: Fact or Fiction? An Interdisciplinary Look at Stuttering in the Oscar-winning Film,” a panel discussion featuring speech and theatre professionals, on Thursday, May 5, 6-8 p.m. at NYU’s Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St. (at University Place).
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NYU Residence Halls Leave It "Green"

Apr 28, 2011
4th Annual “Green Apple Move Out” Collection Drive Organized During Annual Dorm Move-Out, May 7th –May 18th
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NYU to Host Fourth Annual World Science Festival Events—June 1-5

Apr 28, 2011
The best and brightest minds in science will descend on New York City for the 2011 World Science Festival, June 1-5. New York University will be among the hosts for the highest-profile event of its kind in the United States.
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NYU and Government of Madrid agree to Explore Expansion of NYU Academic Program in Madrid

Apr 29, 2011
With the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, NYU President John Sexton and President Esperanza Aguirre of the Madrid Regional government today agreed to begin a study of ways to expand NYU’s academic program in Madrid. The Government of Madrid has identified an exceptional property where such an expanded program might be located – el Palacio del Marqués de Salamanca de la Finca de Vista Alegre – where the Memorandum of Understanding was signed.
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You Think You’re So Funny? Tisch Professor’s New Book Offers Tips on How to Make a Living at It

Apr 29, 2011
D.B. Gilles, a produced and published playwright, screenwriter, and television writer who teaches in the Undergraduate Film & Television division of the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, has the next best thing to being in his comedy writing class… his newest book You’re Funny! Turn Your Sense of Humor into a Lucrative New Career (Michael Wiese Productions, 2011), which is available May 1.
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Tisch School of the Arts | Press Release

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