First Run Film Winners Announced
The 66th annual First Run Film Festival, which premieres the work of some of the country’s top student films from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA), recently screened over 105 films, videos, multimedia, and animation projects. Six outstanding student films were singled out for the Kanbar Institute’s top film prizes and over $50,000 in cash awards.
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Gallatin Grad Student Wins Fellowship to Write Biography of Four Blues Queens
Thulani Davis, a
graduate student in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and adjunct
instructor in the Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing in
the Tisch School of the Arts, has won an inaugural Leon Levy Center for
Biography Fellowship to pen a book on four blues queens: Ma Rainey, Ethel
Waters, Alberta Hunter, and Bessie Smith.
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GSAS Students Win Award for Work Measuring Support for Black Presidential Candidate
Jennifer Heerwig and Brian McCabe, doctoral candidates in the
Graduate School of Arts and Science, have received an award from the American
Association of Public Opinion Researchers (AAPOR) for their paper exploring a
discrepancy in public opinion data—nearly twice as many registered voters claim
to support a black presidential candidate as say America is ready for a black
president.
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NYU Philanthropist Martin Kimmel Dies at 92
Martin Kimmel, trustee
of the NYU Medical Center and member of the University’s Sir Harold Acton
Society and Bronfman Center Advisory Board, died on April 17 at the age of 92.
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Three NYU Professors Awarded 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships
Three NYU professors
have been awarded 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation said in announcing 190 fellowship awards totaling $8.2
million.
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