| Phonics, Whole-Word, and Whole-Language Processes Add Up to Determine Reading Speed Reading specialists have often pitted phonics against holistic word recognition and whole language approaches in the debate over how to teach children to read. |
| Student Volunteers Redefine University Orientation Anyone walking or cycling along the Hudson River on Saturday, August 25, would have witnessed quite a sight—an army of 120 young adults, equipped with garbage pickers and trash bags, wearing matching chartreuse t-shirts, all scavenging between rocks and bushes for any sign of debris. |
| Courant’s Venkatesh Wins Young Mathematicians Prize for Work in Analysis Akshay Venkatesh, an associate professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, was recently awarded the 2007-2008 Salem Prize. |
| Edward Fox Donates $5 Million to Establish the Herman Robert Fox Deanship at College of Dentistry A $5 million gift from Edward Fox has created the Herman Robert Fox Deanship at the NYU College of Dentistry (NYUCD) in memory of Fox’s father, Herman Robert Fox, who graduated from the college in 1926. |
| Event to Examine University’s Initiative for Physical Growth Over the Next 25 Years As a result of a conscious choice made by the University’s leaders in the late 1970s, NYU transformed itself from a good regional university into a prominent and selective national research university. |
| Four NYU Filmmakers Win Student Academy Awards Four filmmakers from NYU were among the winners in this year’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 34th Annual Student Academy Awards® competition. |
| Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Receives $5 Million Grant to Improve Hospital Care of Older Adults The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, part of the College of Nursing, has been awarded a $5 million, five-year grant to expand its widely praised NICHE (Nurses Improving Care to Health-System Elders) program. |
| New Director to Help Guide Research for Wagner Leadership Center At NYU Wagner’s Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA), leadership is treated as a collective achievement, and the question of how leadership happens is considered in the context of organizations and networks of individuals tackling critical public issues. |
| NYU Students Launch New Biannual Independent Journal, The Film Review The first film studies journal produced and edited by students from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) made its unofficial debut in July when 2,000 copies of the slim volume arrived on campus. |
| Steinhardt and East China Normal University Forge Partnership Devoted to Language Education Addressing the huge need in the United States for more teachers of Mandarin Chinese, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development recently began a working relationship with East China Normal University (ECNU)—the NYU partner school in Shanghai. |
| Steinhardt Partners with American Ballet Theatre to Offer New Master’s Degree American Ballet Theatre (ABT) and NYU have entered into a partnership to offer the first-ever Master of Arts in Dance Education, with a concentration in ballet pedagogy. |
| Susan Kinsey Named Dean of McGhee Division at School of Continuing and Professional Studies Susan Kinsey, former associate vice provost for continuing education at the University of Pittsburgh, recently became head of the Paul McGhee Division in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS), NYU’s undergraduate program for adult students. |
| College of Dentistry's Yu Zhang Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Fracture-Resistant Crowns and Bridges Susan Kinsey, former associate vice provost for continuing education at the University of Pittsburgh, recently became head of the Paul McGhee Division in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS), NYU’s undergraduate program for adult students. |
| Dentistry’s Daniel Malamud Receives NIH Grant for HIV Research Daniel Malamud, professor of basic science and craniofacial biology at the College of Dentistry, has been awarded a five-year, $6.2 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to head up a research collective consisting of four interrelated research projects, along with administrative, biostatistical, and clinical core components. |
| Furman Center Study Shows Mixed Impact of Business Improvement Districts Over the past few decades, New York City and other major cities have fostered the development of business improvement districts (BIDs) to finance services and streetscape improvements in commercial areas. |
| New Fossils Found in Kenya Challenge Current Views on Early Evolution of Genus Homo Two new fossils discovered in Kenya cast fresh light on a little understood and important period of human prehistory at the dawn of our own genus, Homo. |
| Psychology Study Offers New Insights Into Visual Ability of Infants Four-month old infants are able to discriminate between pictures of structurally possible and impossible objects, according to a study by lead researcher Sarah M. Shuwairi, a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology. |
| Study Warns of Potential ‘Reverse Brain Drain’ of U.S. Immigrant Entrepreneurs More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| From Quebradita to Duranguense: Dance in Mexican American Youth Culture More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| New From NYU Press: Writers Under Seige: Voices of Freedom from Around the World More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| SCPS Student Wins Marshall Scholarship More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| Your Cell Phone and Your Safety More than one million skilled immigrant workers—including Indian and Chinese scientists and engineers—and their families are competing for 120,000 permanent U.S. resident visas each year, creating a sizeable imbalance likely to fuel a “reverse brain drain” with skilled workers returning to their home country, according to a report released by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. |
| Drama Department’s Production of The Bacchae Wins Two Awards at Warsaw Festival The young cast of student actors from the Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) Department of Drama had not performed the play in almost a year and a half. But the invitation to recreate their production of a well-known Greek tragedy at a prestigious festival in Warsaw, celebrating the best productions from 12 leading theatre schools in Europe and around the world, was just too good to pass up. |
| The Grey Art Gallery Presents:The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art From the Patricia Phelps De Cisneros Collection The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, a major exhibition comprising some 115 works of art from the acclaimed Venezuela-based collection, is now on view through December 8 at the Grey Art Gallery. |
| Obama Sounds Off On Poverty, Health Care in Wagner Working Cities Forum Senator Barack Obama visited the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service on July 25 to discuss his ideas about reducing poverty, extending health care coverage widely, and reaching disconnected youth. |
