CAS Graduate Pursuing More Effective Methods of Combating AIDS in Africa
“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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Class of 2008 Celebrates NYU’s 176th Commencement Ceremony Today
The scenery may bring
to mind “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” but graduates will hear the traditional
“Pomp and Circumstance” march today as the University celebrates its 176th
Commencement ceremony. The nearly 15,000 members of the Class of 2008 join an alumni
community of more than 360,000 worldwide.
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Commencement Is a Moment of Triumph for TSOA’s Dabkoski
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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Dental Graduate Reaches Out to Urban Youth
When Marcus Johnson
receives his D.D.S. degree today, he will have fulfilled the spirit of the
unique scholarship that enabled him to attend the NYU College of Dentistry
(NYUCD).
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Elaine and Kenneth Langone Make Historic $200 Million Gift to NYU Medical Center
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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Evel Knievel of Dance Blends Physics into Performance Art
She has a
self-described obsession with “high-impact, high-velocity” sports. She has
debated former Congressman Dick Armey on Larry King
Live over the merits of public funding for the arts. And she has a
fascination with how to best analyze right triangles.
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Gallatin Graduate Rustom Uses Religion as a Business Model
NYU’s Gallatin School
of Individualized Study was established to allow students to design
interdisciplinary courses of study that unite their divergent interests, and to
bring into close relation many traditionally discrete academic disciplines.
Mohammad Rustom, who graduates from Gallatin today, is the type of student the
school’s creators had in mind over 30 years ago.
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Gallatin’s Sixth Annual Literacy Review Features Writers from 50 Countries
The travails of a
food line in the former Soviet Union, Sunday matinees at a movie theater in the
Dominican Republic, and a New York City fairy tale, “Little Red Riding in the
Hood,” are a sample of the essays that make up the Literacy
Review, an annual book of writing by adults in Basic Education, GED, and
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) programs throughout New York
City.
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Law School Scholar to Fight for Justice in Alabama Legal System
NYU’s motto—“a
private university in the public service”—is a charge that the School of Law
takes very seriously, especially student Sophia Farber Bernhardt.
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M.B.A. Graduate Mel Ochoa: A Force for Change
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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Med School’s Levine Works to Build Health Care Bridges Across the Globe
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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NYU Students Garner Top National Scholarships and Fellowships
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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NYU Unveils New Mural by Renowned Artist Elena Climent
Earlier this month,
NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science marked the end of a major renovation of its
six-story Languages and Literature Building with a reception and unveiling of
its newly commissioned mural, At Home with Their Books,
by New York-based Mexican artist Elena Climent, a distinguished painter in the
realist tradition whose work has been seen in some of the principal museums and
galleries in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.
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NYU’s Tamiment Library Acquires Herskhowitz Collection Documenting 300 Years of New York City History
NYU’s Tamiment Library,
an archive devoted to research on labor history and the history of progressive
and radical political movements, has acquired the Leo Herskhowitz
Library—documenting the social, economic, and labor history of New York City.
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Social Work Grads Pursue Call To Work With Those in Need
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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Steinhardt Professors Win $2.3 Million NIH Grant to Study Child Welfare in South Africa
The devastating effects of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa have
long been the focus of humanitarian aid organizations, researchers, and
policymakers. The country has more
adults and children with HIV/AIDS (5.3 million) than any other, and recent
estimates say 14.4 percent of children have lost one or both parents to the
disease.
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Steinhardt Senior Sees Interfaith Dialogue as Key to Building Peace
For Frank Fredericks,
a graduating senior in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human
Development, the world’s different religious faiths are not an obstacle for
peace-building, but a vehicle for positive social action.
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Steinhardt’s Harrod to Counsel Students on Personal Development
When Shawn Tina Harrod,
who today earns her M.S. from the Program in Counseling for Mental Health and
Wellness at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development,
works with at-risk adolescents and young adults to encourage them to apply to
college, she understands the fear many of them face at the application process.
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Wagner School’s Allison Smith to Continue Dedication to NYU Community Service
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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Wagner’s Ramdoss Seeks Equality in His Native India
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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