Oct 1, 2012
Media industry’s top minds to assemble, discuss, and debate during Advertising Week
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Oct 1, 2012
Roster of Prominent Guest Speakers to Provide an Insider’s View of NYC Real Estate Investment and Development
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Oct 1, 2012
Named in honor of the director of Nanook of the North, Louisiana Story, and other classic documentary films, the Seminar began in 1955, before the era of film schools, when Flaherty’s widow and filmmaking partner, Frances, convened a group of filmmakers, writers, and musicians at the Flaherty farm in Vermont. For more than 57 years the Flaherty Seminar has been firmly established as a one-of-a-kind institution that seeks to encourage filmmakers and other artists to explore the potential of the moving image.
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Fales, Division of Libraries |
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Oct 1, 2012
In collaboration with Tisch School of the Arts Department of Photography and Imaging and University College London, The Walther Collection will present a symposium entitled "Encounters with the African Archive" on November 10, 2012 at New York University.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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Oct 1, 2012
It is widely believed that adolescents engage in risky behaviors because of an innate tolerance for risks, but a study by researchers at NYU, Yale’s School of Medicine, and Fordham University has found this is not the case.
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Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, Faculty |
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Oct 1, 2012
It is widely believed that adolescents engage in risky behaviors because of an innate tolerance for risks, but a study by researchers at NYU, Yale’s School of Medicine, and Fordham University has found this is not the case.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
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Oct 1, 2012
Gallatin Professor Stephen Duncombe has brought Sir Thomas More’s 16th century tale, Utopia, into the 21st century with the first web-based, open source, and open access edition of More’s classic work.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Research, Faculty |
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Oct 2, 2012
The survey explores what happens when parents talk with their teens about sex -- from the point of view of both the older and younger participants at the table.
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NYUToday-feature, Research |
Press Release
Oct 2, 2012
Global Executive Education and Strategic Educational Initiatives Expert Rosemary Anne Mathewson to Assume Dual Role as NYU-SCPS Divisional Dean for the Division of Programs in Business and NYU Associate Vice President of University Enterprise Initiatives
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NYU, School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Oct 2, 2012
Toolkits Assist Hospitals in Development of Initiatives to Improve Care of Older Adults
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College of Nursing, NICHE, Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing |
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Oct 2, 2012
New Executive Education Program to Provide Grounding in Best Practices for Board Governance
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School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Oct 3, 2012
In her public lecture, “Our Energy Efficiency Paradox: Psychological Barriers to ‘No-Brainer’ Solutions,” Weber, the Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business at Columbia Business School and a professor of psychology at Columbia University’s Earth Institute Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, will place the psychological dimension of climate change within the broader context of human dimensions of climate change.
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Sustainability |
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Oct 3, 2012
NYU celebrates the launch of "The Humanities at NYU: Tradition and Innovation", the latest publication by the Humanities Initiative, on Wednesday, October 17, 5-7 p.m.
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Research, Around the Square |
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Oct 3, 2012
The following experts from the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture,...
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Oct 3, 2012
David Amodio, an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, was named the 2012 recipient of the F. J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Prize on Understanding the Human Mind.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research |
Article
Oct 4, 2012
Physicist Matthew Kleban has won a $175,000 grant in the “New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology” competition to explore cosmic bubble collisions, whose existence would reveal that our universe is part of a smaller whole.
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Research, Arts and Science, Faculty |
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Oct 4, 2012
Dr. Yu Zhang, an associate professor of biomaterials and biomimetics at the New York University College of Dentistry, has been awarded a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop and test a prototype glass-zirconia composite dental crown.
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NYUToday-feature, Research, College of Dentistry, Research News, Sponsored Research |
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Oct 4, 2012
NYU biologists have uncovered new ways our biological clock’s neurons use electrical activity to help keep behavioral rhythms in order. The findings, which appear in the journal Current Biology, also point to fresh directions for exploring sleep disorders and related afflictions.
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Arts and Science, Research, NYUToday-feature, NYU Abu Dhabi |
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Oct 5, 2012
In a recent paper, “Differentiating the Effects of Status and Power: A Justice Perspective,” published...
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Article
Oct 5, 2012
Tarek Masoud, an associate professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will deliver a public lecture, “Beyond Political Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Future of the Middle East,” on Thursday, Nov. 1.
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NYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Around the Square |
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Oct 8, 2012
The research will be conducted under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
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NYUToday-feature, Research, Silver School of Social Work |
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Oct 8, 2012
Fiona Wada-Gill has landed the role of Clara in the Boston Ballet’s “The Nutcracker.” Her journey, from her audition through opening night in 2010, is told through "Becoming a Ballerina: A Nutcracker Story," co-authored by Gallatin's Lise Friedman.
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Gallatin School of Individualized Study |
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Oct 9, 2012
New York University’s Fales Library and Special Collections, the home of the nation’s largest collection in food studies, is celebrating the publication of its first cookbook anthology: 101 Classic Cookbooks 501 Classic Recipes, edited by Marvin J. Taylor and Clark Wolf (Rizzoli New York) with a panel discussion, entitled “The Cookbook Book: Why Books and Benchmarks Matter.”
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Fales, Division of Libraries |
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Oct 9, 2012
NYU today named Cheryl Healton as the inaugural Director of its Global Institute of Public Health and Dean of Global Public Health.
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Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, College of Nursing, Graduate School of Arts and Science, College of Dentistry, Silver School of Social Work, School of Medicine, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NYUToday-feature, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, School of Law, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
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Oct 9, 2012
The NYU Office of Faculty Resources is pleased to announce that nominations are now being accepted for...
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Article
Oct 10, 2012
Study by NYU Steinhardt researcher, Kristie Koenig, says 16-week yoga reginmen resulted in a significant decrease in aggressive behavior, social withdrawal, and hyperactivity for Autistic students attending District 75’s P. 176X in the Bronx. The school serves the largest population of students on the Autism Spectrum in the nation.
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NYUToday-feature, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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Oct 10, 2012
NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, celebrates German brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, the brothers who collected and published the first editions the approximately 200 imaginative stories that came to be known as Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
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NYUToday-feature, Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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Oct 11, 2012
A discovery by NYU physicists that has potential to significantly enhance computer memory has been cited by Applied Physics Letters as “one of the most notable” articles the journal has published over the past four years.
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Research, Arts and Science |
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Oct 11, 2012
NYU presenters to deliver their research on pressing public-health issues at San Francisco gathering.
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Research |
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Oct 15, 2012
The Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2012 Reading Series concludes in November and December with events featuring Emma Donoghue (Nov. 14), Colm Tóibín (Nov. 15), and former Poet Laureate Charles Simic (Nov. 29).
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Arts and Science, NYUToday-feature, Around the Square |
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Oct 15, 2012
While it is well-established that parenting is closely linked with a teenager’s sexual health and reproductive outcomes, it is mothers that, to date, have drawn most of the attention of researchers, the study points out.
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Research, Silver School of Social Work |
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Oct 15, 2012
The research aims analyze how racial and ethnic older adults living in underserved urban communities in NYC overcome barriers to accessing oral health care services.
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College of Dentistry, Research |
Press Release
Oct 15, 2012
The NYU Green Grants program has streamlined its application process; proposals will be considered for funding on a monthly basis from October 2012 through April 2013
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Sustainability, All University |
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Oct 15, 2012
Neuroscientists from NYU and the University of California, Irvine have isolated the “when” and “where” of molecular activity that occurs in the formation of short-, intermediate-, and long-term memories. Their findings offer new insights into the molecular architecture of memory formation and, with it, a better road map for developing therapeutic interventions for related afflictions.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Press Release
Oct 16, 2012
The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) needed an easy-to-use app to help facilitate communication and information exchange among volunteer emergency responders arising instantly from a disaster. The resulting app won the grand prize at the "Code For Change" hackathon at NYU Wagner.
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Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
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Oct 16, 2012
NYU's Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia will host “An Evening in Memory of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko,” a Russian experimental poet and essayist, on Fri., Oct. 19, 7-9 p.m. at 19 University Place, auditorium (at E. 8th St.).
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Around the Square |
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Oct 16, 2012
The New York University Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI) has awarded New York University College of Dentistry a one-year pilot grant to translate an English-language caregiver support program into Korean and to culturally adapt the program for families of Korean-American cancer survivors ages 55 and over. CTSI, a partnership between NYU’s Langone Medical Center and the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, is funded by a grant from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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College of Dentistry, Research, Community Service |
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Oct 16, 2012
The NYU Office of Faculty Resources is pleased to announce that
proposals are now being accepted...
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Article
Oct 16, 2012
New York University and Manhattan Community Board 2 will host
thousands of ghost, ghouls and goblins (also known as kids, moms, and dads) at the 22nd Annual Greenwich Village Children’s Halloween Parade.
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Community Service |
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Oct 18, 2012
This year’s Quinlan lecture will be delivered by Katharine Towers, whose book The Floating Man conducts musical themes against details of the everyday in a rich and varied collection.
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Around the Square, International Houses |
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Oct 18, 2012
The NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions welcomes Russian pianist Alexander Kobrin. Kobrin will perform on Wednesday, Oct. 24 at 8:00 p.m. at the Frederick Loewe Theatre.
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Performances, Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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Oct 18, 2012
New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts has announced that the Grammy-winners Harry Weinger and Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson will co-teach a new course for its students this spring that will explore what makes a music album a classic.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
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Oct 19, 2012
Historian Eric Foner will deliver “Abraham Lincoln and the End of American Slavery,” a public lecture on Lincoln’s transformations on slavery and race, on Mon., Nov. 19, 7-9 p.m. at NYU’s Center for the Study of Transformative Lives.
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Around the Square |
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by James Devitt
Oct 19, 2012
The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) underestimates the risks of defaulted mortgages, NYU economist Andrew Caplin concludes in a new study co-authored with economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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Research, Arts and Science |
Article
Oct 19, 2012
The fourth installment of Media, Culture, and Communication’s “Inside the Internet Garage” will kick-off with famous computer publisher, digital intellectual, and originator of the phrase “Web 2.0,” Tim O’Reilly.
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Around the Square, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
Press Release
Oct 22, 2012
A study released today by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools at NYU Steinhardt finds that ARIS is being used largely as a school-wide planning tool and much less as a direct aid to classroom instruction.
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Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development |
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Oct 22, 2012
The abstract, “An Approach to Dental Healthcare in an Inner-City Foster Care Population: The Partners Against Caries Program,” was presented at the 2012 AAP conference, Oct. 21st
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Research News, College of Dentistry, Research |
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Oct 23, 2012
The Taymouth Hours, by Kathryn Smith, chair of NYU’s Department of Art History, explores the origins and significance of a manuscript of the same name that was written and illustrated in late medieval England.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
Article
Oct 23, 2012
Zimmerman's book is aimed at academics, students, and practitioners across a wide range of fields, including transport planning and policy, environmental economics, environmental management, urban planning, public policy, and terrorism and security.
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Around the Square, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Press Release
Oct 24, 2012
New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program in the Department of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts will present a panel discussion and screening of films and videos from archives in New York City in celebration of UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Oct 24, 2012
The NYU Bookstore will host events in November and December featuring former Rockette Greta Gleissner, author of “Something Spectacular: The True Story of One Rockette’s Battle with Bulimia” (Nov. 5) and New Yorker humorist Ian Frazier and his “Shouts & Murmurs” editor Susan Morrison (Nov. 28).
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Around the Square |
Press Release
Oct 25, 2012
Blasphemy and Beyond: Reconciling Faith and Free Expression, from YouTube to the Pulpit. Wednesday, October 31, 12:25-1:50 p.m in Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge.
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Article
Oct 25, 2012
New York University’s Department of Photography & Imaging has announced that the photographers Ed Kashi and Donald Weber, both members of VII (Seven) Photo Agency, will discuss how they are using new technologies to push the boundaries of traditional visual representation and to expand the reach of their storytelling to new audiences.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Oct 26, 2012
NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) today announced the appointment of Dr. Aristides A.N. Patrinos, a distinguished research executive who previously served as Synthetic Genomics President for Corporate Affairs, as the school’s Deputy Director for Research. In conjunction with this news, CUSP also announced that Dr. Shelley A. Harrison, Senior Advisor & Head of Corporate Portfolio Ventures at Coller Capital, and Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a former IBM executive and current Citi advisor, will be named the center’s inaugural Executives-in-Residence.
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MetroTech, Center for Urban Science and Progress, Polytechnic Institute of NYU |
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Oct 26, 2012
The schedule begins with discussions marking the 300th year since the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Friday & Saturday, Nov 2-3). It will also include a lecture (Wednesday, Nov. 7) by Brian Martin, Williams College associate professor of French and Comparative Literature, called “Queer Napolean: from Napoleonic Friendship to Gays in the Military,” as well as a separate lecture (Monday, Nov. 26) delivered by Serge Klarsfeld, an attorney and author who has published a dozen books on the fate of French Jewry during World War II. And much more.
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Around the Square, International Houses |
Press Release
Oct 26, 2012
On the 95th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) Center for Global Affairs (GCI), in partnership with the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, presents a panel discussion, “Russia: When’s the Next Revolution?” November 7, 2012, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
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Center for Global Affairs, NYUToday-feature, School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Events |
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Oct 26, 2012
Howard W. Lutnick of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners to Keynote; Industry Titans Marc Holliday, William L. Mack, Stephen M. Ross, William C. Rudin, Larry A. Silverstein, and Darcy Stacom Close Conference with Annual “We Are the Golden Apple” Panel
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NYUToday-feature, School of Continuing and Professional Studies |
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Oct 27, 2012
Eric Zimmerman, visiting assistant arts professor of the NYU Game Center, recently was recognized at the 2012 IndieCade Festival of Independent Games (Oct. 4-7, 2012) for two of his projects.
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Tisch School of the Arts |
Press Release
Oct 29, 2012
NYU’s thriving entrepreneurial community—including successful student, faculty and alumni startup founders and venture capital investors—will gather this weekend (Nov. 2-3) to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship at the second annual NYU Entrepreneurs Festival.
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Around the Square |
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Oct 31, 2012
Scientists have created new kinds of particles that are 1/100th the diameter of a human hair that spontaneously assemble themselves into structures that resemble molecules made from atoms.
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Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
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