May 1, 2012
Native Woodland Garden: Meadow Rue 'Black Stockings' (Thalictrum 'Black Stockings') Between 3 and 4 Washington Square Village on the Bleecker Street sidewalk
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NYUToday-feature, NYU Garden Shop, Sustainability |
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May 2, 2012
NYU’s Creative Writing Program has launched a low-residency Master’s of Fine Arts program, which provides students the opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed authors and poets—including new faculty hire Nathan Englander—throughout the academic year and during a series of residency periods in Paris.
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The Global Network, Arts and Science |
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May 3, 2012
Clifford Jolly, an emeritus professor of anthropology at NYU, has received the 2012 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award.
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NYUToday-feature, Research, Arts and Science, Sponsored Awards, Faculty, Awards |
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May 4, 2012
Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) on the Green Roof at the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, 238 Thompson Street
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NYU Garden Shop, Sustainability |
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May 7, 2012
Sarah Stillman, the inaugural recipient of The Reporting Award, given by New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has captured two journalism honors for a story she did under the award’s funding: the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism and the National Magazine Award in the category of “Public Interest”.
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Arts and Science |
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May 8, 2012
Christine Beauchamp, former president and chief executive officer of Victoria’s Secret Beauty, and Tracy Gardner, former president of retail and direct at J. Crew, will serve as the inaugural Guess Visiting Professors at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYUToday-feature, Around the Square |
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May 9, 2012
NYU displays “Her Word As Witness: Portraits of Women Writers of the African Diaspora,” 35 images by Brooklyn-based photographer Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, at the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs at the Kimmel Center for University Life.
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kimmel center, NYUToday-feature, Events, Around the Square |
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May 9, 2012
The War of 1812, the first constitutionally declared war in the history of the United States and the first war to be fought in a modern democracy, was also a conflict fueled by family-oriented appeals, NYU historian Nicole Eustace writes in her new book, 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism, which examines the role of emotion in the making of war.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
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by Jason Hollander
May 9, 2012
Nine years ago, Alexis Cohen spent most of the 13-hour plane ride to Japan hysterically crying.
“I...
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College of Dentistry |
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May 9, 2012
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has named Lisa Armstrong, an award-winning reporter who has written for the Washington Post, National Geographic, and O, the Oprah Magazine, the recipient of its 2012 Reporting Award.
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May 10, 2012
Dom Fera, a sophomore in Undergraduate Film & TV in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, won the jury award for Best Short Film at the 2012 National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) for his film "The End."
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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May 11, 2012
Steinhardt’s 80WSE Gallery newest exhibit will represent a small cross-section of the talent and achievements of NYU's Venice Summer Studio Art graduates.
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Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, Student Life |
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May 14, 2012
A team of undergraduate students from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts has taken second place in the Fantastic Scholastic 8 Recording Competition, sponsored by the microphone and audio electronics manufacturer Shure Incorporated.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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May 14, 2012
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone constitutes the earliest evidence of wall art. Their research shows the piece to be approximately 37,000 years old and offers rich evidence of the role art played in the daily lives of Early Aurignacian humans.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
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May 15, 2012
The second of a two-part series brings together culinary leaders and writers to examine the practicalities of how food happens in America, and what can be done to reconnect us to a healthy way of living
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Fales, Events, Division of Libraries |
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May 16, 2012
The NYU Today section of NYU's 2012 Commencement program can be read...
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May 16, 2012
Craig Calhoun, University Professor of the Social Sciences at NYU, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. Others elected this year include: Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times; novelist Cormac McCarthy; and artist William Kentridge.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
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May 17, 2012
Public Culture, founded in the 1980s as an interdisciplinary social sciences journal, has been re-launched by NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK).
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
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May 17, 2012
Thanks to a $2.2 million grant from the NIH, Diana Sidtis, NYU Steinhardt Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, and her husband, John J. Sidtis, research professor at the NYU School of Medicine, can look for answers on how the mystery of how DBS affects the “low, soft, and breathy” speech of those living with Parkinson's Disease.
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NYUToday-feature, School of Medicine, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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May 21, 2012
Plass’ research illustrated that students in both urban and rural settings with use of the simulations, led to better performance in chemistry compared to learning without simulations.
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NYUToday-feature, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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May 23, 2012
Researchers at NYU and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered new ways neurons work together to ease the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Their findings provide additional insights into sleep-wake patterns and offer methods to explore what may disrupt them.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
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May 24, 2012
Researchers have identified a protein necessary to maintain behavioral flexibility, which allows us to modify our behaviors to adjust to circumstances that are similar, but not identical, to previous experiences. Their findings may offer new insights into addressing autism and schizophrenia—afflictions marked by impaired behavioral flexibility.
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Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
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May 24, 2012
The Cochrane Collaboration, an international, non-profit organization dedicated to helping clinicians, researchers, purchasers, and patients make healthcare decisions based on up-to-date, reliable, and accurate information, is partnering with the New York University College of Dentistry to train NYU dental and nursing faculty to conduct systematic reviews of the scientific literature related to oral health.
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College of Dentistry, NYUToday-feature |
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May 28, 2012
NYU physicists have developed a method that models biological cell-to-cell adhesion that could also have industrial applications.
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Research, Arts and Science |
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May 29, 2012
Globe Flower (Trollius ledebourii) in Mercer Plaza, 251 Mercer Street
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NYU Garden Shop, Sustainability |
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May 29, 2012
In "The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story", Professor Edward Berenson tells the little-known stories of the statue’s improbable beginnings, transatlantic connections, and meanings it has held for generations of Americans.
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May 30, 2012
A panel discussion, moderated by CBS medical reporter Dr. Max Gomez, will address health issues such as access to services, preventive care, and management of chronic illness.
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Events, Community Service |
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May 30, 2012
A social-change initiative captures "Changemaker Challenge" top prize. for 2011-'12.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYUToday-feature, Liberal Studies Program, Silver School of Social Work, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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May 30, 2012
New York University College of Nursing’s Leadership Institute of Black Nurses (LIBN) is being honored by The Council of the City of New York in regular session business on May 31, 2012, to congratulate the Institute upon the graduation of its 100th participant since its inception just seven years ago.
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College of Nursing |
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May 31, 2012
Series aims to bolster caregivers’ ability to deliver evidence-based care for older adult hospital patients
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NICHE, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing |
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May 31, 2012
New York University College of Dentistry has been selected as one of five institutions that are sharing a $20.7 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIH) to the Forsyth Institute to find new ways to diagnose and fight periodontal disease. As the recipient of a $1.8 million subcontract, the NYU College of Dentistry will screen research subjects and collect biological samples that will contribute to the overall project, “Biomarkers of Periodontal Disease Progression.”
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Research News, College of Dentistry |
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May 31, 2012
The Business and Economic Reporting Program has named two leading business journalists as visiting scholars: Bethany McLean, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and columnist for Reuters who co-authored of "The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron"; and Leigh Gallagher, assistant managing editor at Fortune.
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Arts and Science, Around the Square |
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