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November 21, 2007 | Vol. 21 No. 4


NYU to Open Campus in Abu Dhabi

Martin Lipton, chair of NYU’s Board of Trustees, President John Sexton, and His Excellency Khaldoon Al Mubarak, chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, recently announced that they have reached an agreement to create “NYU Abu Dhabi,” a Middle Eastern campus of the University. This will be the first comprehensive liberal arts campus established abroad by a major U.S. research university. It is projected that a first class of students will enroll in 2010.
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Tisch School of the Arts Asia Launches Singapore Campus

The Tisch School of the Arts Asia officially opened in Singapore in early October with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception, which included a tour of the new three-acre campus. Tisch Asia is the first-ever branch campus of the Tisch School, and it is also the first American arts school to set up residence in Singapore.
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Alumni Constance and Martin
Silver Donate $50 Million to
University’s School of Social Work

In the largest private donation to a school of social work in the United States, Constance and Martin Silver have pledged $50 million to the New York University School of Social Work. The gift will be used to support the Constance McCatherin-Silver Fellowship, which provides financial aid to M.S.W. students in need who are dedicated to helping minority populations; to establish an endowed professorship for a junior faculty member researching poverty; and to promote other new initiatives dedicated to the study of poverty.
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Steinhardt Blogs Offer Window Into Student Experience

This fall, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development added a new tool to attract prospective students to its programs: student blogs. Seven undergraduate and graduate students from various departments within the school are blogging about life at NYU.
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Alumni Constance and Martin
Silver Donate $50 Million to
University’s School of Social Work

Robert Leibson Hawkins to Hold
First EndowedProfessorship in
Poverty Studies

Steinhardt Blogs Offer Window Into Student Experience

First Class of Fellows Selected for
NYU’s New Humanities Initiative

EPA Recognizes NYU for
Green Power Purchases

Faculty of Arts and Science, Steinhardt Announce Scholarship Program to
Train More High School Mathematics
and Science Teachers

NYU Offers New Winter Session Courses

Fryer Fund Honors Memory of
Famed NYU Psychologist

Courant Institute, Stern School
Launch MBA/MS Finance Degree

$5 Million Gift from Zegar Family Foundation to Support Genomics and Systems Biology

SCPS Hosts Seminar on
Medical Interpreting

Tisch Holds Next Reel International
Film Festival in Singapore

Howard Gardner Imagines the
Future of Multiple Intelligences

Zitrins Establish Professorship in Bioethics

Tisch Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell Becomes Chair of New York State Council on the Arts

College of Nursing Dean Terry Fulmer
Named to Skidmore College Board of Trustees

Support the 25th Anniversary of the
NYU Community Fund

Events Calendar
November 21 – December 10, 2007



Keeping track of NYU faculty and student accomplishments.


Books by NYU faculty members and from
NYU Press


Images from events around the University


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