Four Courant Faculty Named Fellows
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences professors Bhubaneswar Mishra and Amir Pnueli to be among its 38 new fellows for 2007, the association announced in December. Mishra, who also has an appointment in the Department of Cell Biology at NYU’s School of Medicine, and Pnueli were recognized for symbolic computation, computational biology, and system verification. ACM will formally recognize the 2007 Fellows at its annual awards banquet on June 21, 2008, in San Francisco.
Two other Courant faculty were named fellows of professional associations in 2007. Michael Shelley, who also holds an associate faculty position at NYU’s Center for Neural Science, was named a fellow by the American Physical Society, which recognized him for his “broad-ranging contributions to computational fluid mechanics.” Zvi Kedem, a faculty member in NYU’s Department of Computer Science, was elected a fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to concurrent and parallel computing systems—forms of computing in which several instructions are simultaneously executed.
—James
Devitt
Record
Breaking Year for TSOA at Sundance
The Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) and its Kanbar Institute of Film & Television marked their 15th year at the Sundance Film Festival with a private reception in Park City, Utah on Jan. 19. This year, TSOA celebrates a record-tying 57 films in the festival, with a record-breaking 170 from NYU alumni, students, and faculty attached, representing directors, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers, and editors, among others. Of the more than 200 films to be screened at Sundance, 17 are directed by alumni. The Sundance Film Festival awards were given out on January 26.
—Richard
Pierce
New
Reading Series
Offers Literary Lunches
This spring, Matinee Readings, a new series hosted by the Creative Writing Program, will bring some of the most prominent and emerging literary voices to the University’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House (58 W. 10th Street) in the heart of Greenwich Village. Both poets and fiction writers will read from their work during this free series, and the audience is encouraged to bring lunch as they enjoy the readings and participate in lively, intimate conversations with the guest writers.
“We wanted to start a lunchtime reading series so that busy New Yorkers would be able to enjoy readings by notable poets and fiction writers in the middle of the work day,” says Deborah Landau, director of the Creative Writing Program. “Vernon Writers House is particularly beautiful in the afternoons, when the light filters in through the skylights and stained glass—a wonderful, intimate setting for readings. We’re hoping that these readings will provide the same kind of pleasure that sneaking out of work to go to an afternoon movie provides.”
All the readings will take place at 1 p.m. For further information, call Danielle Veith at 212-998-8850; email danielle.veith@nyu.edu; or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu.
—Barbara
Jester
Social
Work Professors Elected to Academies
Shulamith Lala A. Straussner and Jeane Anastas, professors of social work at the Silver School of Social Work at NYU, were inducted recently into the National Academies of Practice as Distinguished Scholars in Social Work.
The National Academies of Practice was founded in 1981 in recognition of the need for interdisciplinary collaboration in healthcare. It is composed of distinguished practitioners and scholars from all of the primary health professions, including dentistry, nursing, optometry, osteopathic medicine, medicine, psychology, podiatric medicine, social work, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy. Only 150 distinguished members can be elected to membership
Other Silver School of Social Work professors who are members are Eda Goldstein, Carol Tosone, and Caroline Rosenthal Gelman.
—Barbara Jester
