by James Devitt
“I’ve never lived in
a world without AIDS,” says Katherine Otto, who graduates today from the
College of Arts and Science with an honors degree in international relations.
“It’s treatable and preventable, but it is still ravaging the world and it
doesn’t have to be.”
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by Richard Pierce
The movies are full
of life-affirming moments. Derek Dabkoski, a student from the Kanbar Institute
of Film and Television, wants to write and direct films but he never expected
he would be the center of one of those moments himself.
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NYU Medical Center
recently announced it will be renamed the NYU Elaine A. and Kenneth G. Langone
Medical Center, in honor of the chairman of its board of trustees and his wife,
whose unrestricted $200 million gift is the largest in the center’s history.
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Today’s graduate
student speaker, Mel Ochoa, is a proven change maker. A graduate of the
University of California, Berkeley, he chose the Stern School of Business’s
M.B.A. program because he wanted to be in the “center of the universe” and be a
part of the school’s growing social enterprise ventures.
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by Jason Hollander
While most are fatigued
at the end of the 13-hour flight from New York to Ghana, Brian Levine (GSAS ’03
and MED ’08) was full of energy when he arrived in the capital city of Accra
last fall.
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Once again NYU
students have won some of the most distinguished scholarships and fellowships
in the nation. While many students are still waiting to hear from ongoing
competitions, following are some of NYU’s award recipients so far for the
2007-08 academic year:
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by Barbara Jester
Graduating today from
the Silver School of Social Work (SSSW) are Kate Barrow and Randy Mason, both
of whom will receive master’s of social work degrees. Their paths to this same accomplishment,
however, could not have been more different.
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by Robert Polner
Allison Smith’s
pursuit of a master’s degree at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public
Service has been guided in a sense by the health problems she suffered as a
child, when asthma forced her to seek care from specialists throughout the
country.
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by Jamie Acker
Santhosh Ramdoss, who
graduates today from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,
was raised in rural India, where he was guided by Ghandian principles of
simplicity and self-reliance and by his mother, a single parent and social
worker.
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