Beth Willman Discovers Collection of New Stars
For the past quarter century, anyone with a few bucks could pay to have
a star named after a friend, relative, or even a pet. But getting one’s
name on a group of newly discovered stars requires significantly more
work.
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GSAS Dean Catharine Stimpson Offers Vision for Future of Humanities Research
The following is excerpted from Catharine Stimpson’s “Words and
Responsibilities: Graduate Education and the Humanities,” one of a
series of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s
“Essays on the Doctorate.” Stimpson is the dean of NYU’s Graduate
School of Arts and Science.
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Internationally Recognized Physicists to Head New Center for Soft Matter Research
NYU has put together a team of internationally recognized physicists to
head its research initiative in soft condensed matter physics, a new
interdisciplinary field that explores how nature organizes complex
function structures by studying the physical properties of such
malleable materials as colloids and polymers.
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NYU Partners with UC’s California Digital Library to Preserve Online Government and Political Materials
The Library of Congress recently awarded a $2.4 million grant to the
University of California’s California Digital Library (CDL), and its
project partners NYU and the University of North Texas, to develop Web
archiving tools that will be used by libraries to capture, curate, and
preserve collections of Web-based government and political information.
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Paul Glimcher Discovers Neurological Underpinnings of ‘A Beautiful Mind’
Over 400 years ago, the metaphysician Rene Descartes developed a theory
of how the brain functioned by dividing behaviors into separate types:
the “simple” and the “complex.”
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Pierre Hohenberg to Lead NYU’s Strategic Research Future
Pierre Hohenberg, a physicist who was until last year the deputy
provost at Yale University, was recently appointed to the newly
established post of senior vice provost for research at NYU (Washington
Square campus).
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Wagner’s Victor Rodwin Argues that U.S. Should Take Note of French Health Care Reform
Should France’s recent health care reform pique the interests of health
policymakers in the United States? NYU Wagner Professor Victor G.
Rodwin, and his co-author Claude Le Pen (University of Paris, Dauphine)
argue that it should in the article “Health Care Reform in France — The
Birth of State-Led Managed Care,” which appeared in the Nov. 25 issue
of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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