Sep 4, 2012
NYU’s Creative Writing Program will host the 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards Reading on Fri., Sept. 21, 7 p.m. at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House.
Read More
Arts and Science, Around the Square |
Press Release
Sep 4, 2012
GLOBAL Design NYU, a New York University project that aims to transform architecture and urban design in ways that address environmental concerns, has directed and curated Elsewhere Envisioned, a forthcoming exhibition at London’s Building Centre, Sept. 20 through Oct. 20.
Read More
Gallatin School of Individualized Study |
Press Release
Sep 4, 2012
Paul Horn, New York University’s senior vice provost for research and former IBM executive, will deliver, “The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines,” on Monday, September 24, 5 p.m. at NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center.
Read More
NYUToday-feature, Research, Arts and Science, College of Arts and Science, Faculty, Around the Square |
Press Release
Sep 4, 2012
Dr. Cristina Teixeira, associate professor of orthodontics and of basic science and craniofacial biology, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Orthodontics at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD), effective immediately. Dr. Teixeira had been serving as the interim chair of the Department of Orthodontics since September 2011.
Read More
College of Dentistry |
Press Release
Sep 5, 2012
James Macinko, associate professor of public health and health policy at NYU Steinhardt, along with associate professor Diana Silver, has been awarded a $1,039, 500 grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study new directions for reducing traffic-related deaths and injuries in the U.S.
Read More
NYUToday-feature, Research, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, College of Arts and Science, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Sep 5, 2012
See how to apply for the 2012-13 Changemaker Challenge run by NYU Reynolds.
Read More
Reynolds Foundation, Activities, Student Life |
Press Release
Sep 5, 2012
"The View from Left Field," an exhibition of 73 black & white photographs and archival records from The Daily Worker, the official newspaper of the American Communist Party that was acquired in 2006 by the Tamiment Library at New York University, is on view at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, The Department of Photography & Imaging.
Read More
Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Sep 10, 2012
In "Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger," sociologist Harvey Molotch surveys different places in our post-9/11 world and asks if we feel safer.
Read More
Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Article
Sep 11, 2012
NYU will host the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets reading on Thurs., October 18, 7 p.m. at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Read More
NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Around the Square |
Press Release
Sep 11, 2012
In addition to her acclaimed work as a musician, Rösinger is a novelist.
Read More
Around the Square, International Houses |
Press Release
Sep 11, 2012
The author of the 2010 book "Taliban" was described by Christopher Hitchens as “Pakistan’s best and bravest reporter.”
Read More
Wagner, Global, Around the Square, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 11, 2012
The event will air a new study revealing the geographic spread of organizing and its growing influence in state and national political arenas.
Read More
Around the Square, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 11, 2012
The Affordable Care Act has been the subject of a great deal of scrutiny and controversy. But what do we actually know about how the ACA will impact public health? A panel of experts will shed light on this critical topic.
Read More
Health, events, Steinhardt, School of Law, Around the Square, Events and Traditions, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 12, 2012
The Research Alliance for New York City Schools, housed within NYU Steinhardt, has been selected to conduct an evaluation of the Expanded Success Initiative (ESI); a key component of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative, a combination of programs and policy reforms designed to decrease rates of poverty, incarceration, and unemployment among young men of color
Read More
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Sep 12, 2012
Admission is free.
Read More
Around the Square, International Houses |
Press Release
Sep 12, 2012
The series will feature author readings and more throughout the fall.
Read More
Around the Square, International Houses |
Press Release
Sep 12, 2012
The New York University Bookstore will host events in October featuring Zadie Smith (October 30) and Mark Dery (October 24) as well as a demonstration of its Espresso Book Machine (October 9) at the Bookstore’s 726 Broadway location.
Read More
Around the Square |
Press Release
Sep 13, 2012
Tessa West, an assistant professor in NYU’s Department of Psychology, has been named the recipient of the 2012 Theoretical Innovation Prize, given by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
Read More
Research, Arts and Science |
Article
Sep 13, 2012
The following programs are open to NYU faculty and graduate students. Registration is required, as space...
Read More
NYUToday-feature |
Article
Sep 13, 2012
The “siloed” structure of U.S. health agencies is hindering efforts to spot and combat animal-to-human afflictions, such as West Nile Virus, NYU sociologist Colin Jerolmack has concluded after conducting an organizational analysis of their operations.
Read More
Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
Press Release
Sep 13, 2012
New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS), Division of Programs in Business, in conjunction with the Financial Planning Association of New York will host the 10th Annual Financial Fitness Workshop to kick-off this year’s National Financial Planning Week in New York. The workshop will take place on Saturday, September 29, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at NYU’s School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South.
Read More
School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
by James Devitt
Sep 14, 2012
A new species of monkey has been discovered in Democratic Republic of Congo by a team of researchers that included three NYU anthropologists.
Read More
Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Article
Sep 17, 2012
The Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2012 Reading Series continues in October with events featuring Deborah Eisenberg (Oct. 4) and Pulitzer-Prize-winning poets Charles Wright (Oct. 5) and Jorie Graham (Oct. 25).
Read More
Arts and Science, Around the Square |
Press Release
Sep 18, 2012
McKay becomes the second Silver School faculty member to be honored as a fellow of the AASWSW.
Read More
Research, Silver School of Social Work |
Press Release
Sep 19, 2012
Autistic adults have unreliable neural sensory responses to visual, auditory, and touch stimuli. This poor response reliability, the study’s authors conclude, appears to be a fundamental neural characteristic of autism.
Read More
Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Article
Sep 19, 2012
NYU neuroscientists have devised a method that has reduced several afflictions associated with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) in laboratory mice. Their findings offer new possibilities for addressing FXS, the leading inherited cause of autism and intellectual disability.
Read More
Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
Press Release
Sep 20, 2012
A groundbreaking exhibition that unites masterpieces of Chinese sculpture from the famed sixth-century cave temples at Xiangtangshan with the first-ever digitized reconstructions of their original setting is on view at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University (ISAW).
Read More
NYUToday-feature, exhibition |
Article
Sep 20, 2012
NYU will host “Integrating the Ultra-Orthodox into Israeli Society: Education, Army, and Workforce,” on Thursday, October 4, 6 p.m. at NYU Open House. Barriers between the Ultra-Orthodox and the rest of Israeli society are increasingly being challenged in Israel. This panel will examine current trends and possible future directions in managing one of the most debated problems facing Israel today.
Read More
Arts and Science, Around the Square |
Press Release
Sep 20, 2012
The anniversary of the destruction of Gernika is also the Year of Cultures for Peace and Freedom, as this exhibition underscores.
Read More
Around the Square, International Houses |
Press Release
Sep 20, 2012
A rich array of free happenings at NYU's French cultural center is slated for October.
Read More
Around the Square, International Houses |
Press Release
Sep 21, 2012
Two internationally known experts will grapple with the impact and potential of a pertinent worldwide poverty-fighting strategy.
Read More
Around the Square, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Sep 24, 2012
New York University has opened a newly-constructed, 75,000 sq. ft. academic facility for teaching, learning, and research for NYU students and faculty in Washington DC, which will give students a chance to Study Abroad (or “Study Away,” in NYU parlance) in the nation’s capital.
Read More
NYUToday-feature, Global Academic Centers |
Press Release
Sep 24, 2012
In an effort to prepare its students to navigate this digital landscape, NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC), announced today an initiative with Codecademy, to teach NYU students how to code.
Read More
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Sep 24, 2012
Today, New York University, in collaboration with Fundación Mujeres Por África, the University of...
Read More
College of Nursing, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Sep 24, 2012
Danny Strong, adjunct faculty in New York University’s Undergraduate Film & Television Division of the Kanbar Institute at the Tisch School of the Arts, won a 2012 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or Movie for the HBO film "Game Change."
Read More
Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Sep 25, 2012
The direction of American foreign policy for the next four years will be debated by a high-level panel of experts on presidential policy and world affairs during “The U.S. Election in a Global Context: 2012 and its Potential Outcomes,” a special event hosted by the Center for Global Affairs of the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) on Tuesday, Oct. 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Read More
Center for Global Affairs, School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Sep 25, 2012
The NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate (scps.nyu.edu/schack) announces its 42nd Urban Leadership Award Dinner to be held on October 9, 2012 at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York. This year’s honoree is Mitchell E. Rudin, the president and chief executive officer of U.S. Commercial Operations for Brookfield Office Properties, Inc.
Read More
School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
Press Release
Sep 25, 2012
NYU biologists have uncovered one way that biological clocks control neuronal activity—a discovery that sheds new light on sleep-wake cycles and offers potential new directions for research into therapies to address sleep disorders and jetlag.
Read More
Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Sep 26, 2012
Sir Richard Lambert, chancellor of the University of Warwick and former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, will deliver a public lecture, “Ripping Across the Atlantic: How the Eurozone Crisis Will Affect the U.S.,” on Wednesday, October 24, 6 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall in Silver Center.
Read More
College of Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Around the Square |
Press Release
Sep 26, 2012
A research team led by investigators at NYU and NYU School of Medicine has determined how cells that cause inflammatory ailments, such as Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis, differentiate from stem cells and ultimately affect the clinical outcome of these diseases.
Read More
NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty, School of Medicine |
Press Release
Sep 26, 2012
Robert Teranishi, project director of the National Commission on Asian-American and Pacific Islander Research in Education (CARE) at NYU Steinhardt received nearly $2 million to support the Partnership for Equity in Education through Research (PEER) project to help realize the full degree-earning potential of the AAPI student population.
Read More
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Sep 26, 2012
With music, the singer and accordion player tells the story of Berlin.
Read More
Around the Square, International Houses |
Press Release
Sep 28, 2012
Following a two-year study of the Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards Program, a comprehensive conditional cash transfer (CCT) program launched in 2007 by the Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) Steinhardt researchers found that monetary incentives to low-income families changed how teenagers spent their time.
Read More
Research, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Sep 28, 2012
Catherine Barnett, a faculty member in NYU’s Creative Writing Program, has been awarded the 2012 James Laughlin Award by the Academy of American Poets for her book "The Game of Boxes."
Read More
Arts and Science, Faculty |
Article
Sep 28, 2012
DPI@30, an exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of the The Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, will open October 4 and run through November 17, 2012.
Read More
Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Sep 28, 2012
An historic agreement was recently announced by New York City, the MTA, and a consortium of world-class...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black...
Read More
Article
by James Devitt
Sep 28, 2012
A team of scientists has created an “MRI” of the sun’s interior plasma motions, shedding light on how...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) recently opened a Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, featuring...
Read More
Article
by Courtney Bowe
Sep 28, 2012
Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health in the Steinhardt...
Read More
Article
by Debra Weinstein
Sep 28, 2012
Carolyn Dimitri, associate professor of food studies at the Steinhardt School, has been thinking about...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Fossils discovered east of Africa’s Lake Turkana confirm that there were two additional species of our...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Anthropologists working in southern France have determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Computer scientists have isolated the movements of Olympic swimmers and divers through a cutting-edge...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Six years ago, New York City made a vigorous attempt to attract the 2012 Summer Olympics, only to see...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
A network of brain regions that is activated during intense aesthetic experience overlaps with the brain...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Amit Nigam, assistant professor of management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Farmers regularly use low-dose antibiotics to fatten livestock for market. But is it possible that antibiotics,...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Low cognitive ability and poor skill with numbers prevent many Medicare beneficiaries, including those...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
A new study by researchers at the Silver School of Social Work has found that among 60 young adults with...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Old habits die hard…even in the Twittersphere.
In an effort to determine if certain tweeting strategies...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Minority children are known to utilize treatments for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD—the...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
In a new paper, recently published in Science, Sinan Aral, a Stern School of Business assistant professor...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Reporting their initial findings, researchers at NYU’s Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP)...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Lisa Young—a nationally-recognized nutritionist, registered dietician, and adjunct professor at the Steinhardt...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s James Macinko, associate professor...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
European settlement during the colonial era had a positive effect on today’s per capita income, a study...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
The part of the brain we use when engaging in egalitarian behavior may also be linked to a larger sense...
Read More
Article
by Melynda Fuller
Sep 28, 2012
The artists featured in Multiplicity, a recent exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, read...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
The ability of infants to recognize speech is more sophisticated than previously known, researchers in...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
NYU physicists have developed a method that models biological cell-to-cell adhesion that could also have...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Researchers at NYU and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Local weather patterns temporarily influence people’s beliefs about evidence for global warming, according...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
A researcher at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and two collaborators from the University...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Consumers and marketers alike will be interested to know that when it comes to personal budgeting, most...
Read More
Article
by Kathleen Hamilton
Sep 28, 2012
Recent grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), industrial partners, and New York state government...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Researchers at NYU and UCLA have developed a method to detect sequence differences in individual DNA...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
More than three decades ago, neurosurgeons first investigated the use of deep brain stimulation (DBS)...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as “boys have short hair,” can lead children...
Read More
Article
by Elyse Bloom
Sep 28, 2012
What does mental health have to do with dental health?
More than most think, according to Richard Heyman...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
It would be hard to find a suburban community where spacious driveways and garages were in short supply....
Read More
Article
by Ami Finkelthal
Sep 28, 2012
The Center for Skeletal and Craniofacial Biology has been established at the NYU College of Dentistry...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
When the federal government under President George W. Bush adopted “Housing First” to address the problem...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
While donor funding for HIV programs has increased rapidly over the past decade, the increase has raised...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
For the second year, the College of Nursing’s Mobile Health Van Program has sponsored two Brooklyn high...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
College of Nursing (NYUCN) faculty members Ann Marie P. Mauro, Mary T. Hickey, Donna E. McCabe, and Emerson...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Everyone deserves to die with choice and dignity. Unfortunately, in America that is often not the case....
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story
By Edward Berenson
Yale University Press, 2012
The...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
The June 2012 issue of the Clinical Social Work Journal, titled “Agency-Based Clinical Practice With...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
NYU sociologist Richard Sennett won the 2012 Zócalo Book Prize for his recently published Together: The...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
NYU has launched a database chronicling undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. The archive,...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Multinational research teams have recently sequenced two malaria genomes, revealing genetic variability...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Hydrogen can potentially serve as a clean, environmentally friendly energy carrier, but fundamental concerns...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Researchers from NYU and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart reveal how protons move in phosphoric...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
NYU biologists have discovered new mechanisms that control how proteins are expressed in different regions...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Eight New York University Faculty Join Hillary Clinton, Jeff Bezos, and Clint Eastwood
As 2012...
Read More
Article
Sep 28, 2012
Fans of the New York Yankees incorrectly perceive Fenway Park, home of the archrival Boston Red Sox,...
Read More
Article
Sep 29, 2012
Shakespeare in the Square, a student group at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, will perform Romeo and Juliet, rain or shine, in Washington Square Park’s Garibaldi Plaza (east of the fountain), on Saturday, October 27 at 1:00 and 4:00 P.M. and on Sunday, October 28 at 3:00PM.
Read More
Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release