There was a time in the 1970s and 1980s before SoHo became Madison Avenue South and Starbucks and Duane Reade invaded Greenwich Village when a group of artists, writers, punk rockers, and activists — collectively known as the Downtown Scene — created new ways of thinking about art and literature, the creative process, and the effects of the marketplace on what is created. | Full Story »

NYU faculty members were recently posed the question “What do you believe to be the most important trends in humanities research? What are the particular challenges or opportunities for those conducting this work?” The following are their responses: | Full Story »

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) recently inducted five New York University faculty members as fellows. They are among 175 new fellows and 20 new foreign honorary members elected by AAAS. Among the newly elected are former presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as chief justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts. | Full Story »

Fifty U.S. hospitals, including NYU Medical Center, have been named to the first Leapfrog Top Hospitals list, based on results from the Leapfrog Hospital Quality and Safety Survey, a national rating system that offers a broad assessment of a hospital’s quality and safety. | Full Story »

Six NYU faculty members were awarded fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has granted almost $240 million in fellowships to more than 15,500 individuals. | Full Story »

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has elected two members of NYU’s faculty to its ranks: Leslie Greengard, director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and Richard Novick, a microbiologist at the School of Medicine’s Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine. There are now 27 NYU faculty who are members of NAS. | Full Story »