| Courant Alumnus Rosenbluth Establishes Fellowship in Financial Mathematics When Jeffrey Rosenbluth (CIMS ’99, ’06) first became involved at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, he was asked to provide advice as a finance professional. Now, over 15 years later, Rosenbluth is still actively involved at Courant—giving back to his alma mater by establishing a fellowship for doctoral students interested in financial mathematics. |
| Gender and Education Are Focus of Steinhardt’s Education Policy Series Recently, Georgia’s Greene County school district came under fire for its plans to segregate its public school children by gender beginning next fall. Similar policies are being debated in states across the country, leading the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to make single-sex schooling the focus of a policy series on the issue. |
| Institute for Public Knowledge Brings Social Science Ideas to the Forefront NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK), which brings theoretically rigorous scholarship in the social sciences to bear on major public issues, has just completed its inaugural academic year, which included a dialogue series, the publication of two books, and the establishment of partnerships with selected NYU global sites. |
| Neuroscientists Identify Mechanism for‘Handshake Agreement’ in the Brain In decision-making, the brain engages in a “handshake” agreement between neurons, reports a research team that included NYU’s Bijan Pesaran, assistant professor at the Center for Neural Science, in a study published in the journal Nature this spring. |
| Nice Day for a Trip to the Ballpark In decision-making, the brain engages in a “handshake” agreement between neurons, reports a research team that included NYU’s Bijan Pesaran, assistant professor at the Center for Neural Science, in a study published in the journal Nature this spring. |
| SCPS McGhee Graduate Takes Atypical Path to Foreign Policy Career Fabian Sievert, who was student speaker at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) undergraduate convocation on May 12, prides himself on a global mindset. |
| Steinhardt Professor Seeks to Shed Light on Depression Among Urban Poor Clinical studies of depression often take their data from sample populations that are easily accessed by researchers, such as undergraduate students and therapy patients. High-risk groups that do not have access to medical care, such as women who live below the poverty line, are often ignored. |
| Three NYU Faculty Named ‘Top 100 Public Intellectuals’ Three NYU faculty have been named to Foreign Policy magazine’s “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” list in its May/June 2008 issue. Those on the list are William Easterly, a professor in the Department of Economics; historian Tony Judt, who directs NYU’s Remarque Institute; and economist Nouriel Roubini, a professor in the Stern School of Business. |
| Three Professors Elected to American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society elected three NYU faculty as members in late April: Jorge Castañeda, a Distinguished Global Professor of Politics; Ronald Dworkin, the Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at NYU’s School of Law; and Itamar Rabinovich, a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies. |
| NYU Hosts Cultural Studies Association Meeting NYU recently hosted the sixth annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, which included numerous panels, plenary sessions, roundtable discussions, and salons. |
| NYU Tops List of Adoption-Friendly Education Institutions The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption recently announced the best adoption-friendly workplaces in the education industry and NYU topped the list for the second year in a row. |
| Silver School to Help Develop Social Work Profession in Vietnam The Silver School of Social Work (SSSW) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hanoi National University of Education (HNUE) to assist in the development of social work education in Vietnam and to advise in the establishment of social work as a recognized profession in that country. |
| Biologists Use Fruit Flies to Shed Light On How Color Vision Is Processed Biologists in NYU’s Center for Developmental Genetics have published a pair of studies that shed light on how color vision is processed in the brain. |
| Study Finds Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Display Higher Levels of Civic Interest Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGBs) report higher levels of civic engagement and a greater interest in politics than does the American population overall, according to a survey released in late April by the New York City-based Hunter College Poll. |
| Fight Pictures: A History of Boxing and Early Cinema Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGBs) report higher levels of civic engagement and a greater interest in politics than does the American population overall, according to a survey released in late April by the New York City-based Hunter College Poll. |
| God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGBs) report higher levels of civic engagement and a greater interest in politics than does the American population overall, according to a survey released in late April by the New York City-based Hunter College Poll. |
| New From NYU Press: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGBs) report higher levels of civic engagement and a greater interest in politics than does the American population overall, according to a survey released in late April by the New York City-based Hunter College Poll. |
| The University Against Itself Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGBs) report higher levels of civic engagement and a greater interest in politics than does the American population overall, according to a survey released in late April by the New York City-based Hunter College Poll. |
| Cohen-Nunn Dialogue Comes to NYU Lesbians, gays, and bisexuals (LGBs) report higher levels of civic engagement and a greater interest in politics than does the American population overall, according to a survey released in late April by the New York City-based Hunter College Poll. |
| Dorm Move Out Days Go Green at NYU This May, NYU’s Green Apple Move Out collection project gave students at 10 residence halls the opportunity to find a second life for items that might otherwise have been discarded. |
| Gallatin’s New Gallery Space Features Neumann Sculpture This May, NYU’s Green Apple Move Out collection project gave students at 10 residence halls the opportunity to find a second life for items that might otherwise have been discarded. |
| NYU Celebrates Earth Week with 11 Days of Events This May, NYU’s Green Apple Move Out collection project gave students at 10 residence halls the opportunity to find a second life for items that might otherwise have been discarded. |
| Tisch Undergrad Lands Role Opposite William H. Macy This May, NYU’s Green Apple Move Out collection project gave students at 10 residence halls the opportunity to find a second life for items that might otherwise have been discarded. |
| Weiner Lecture Examines Honk Horn and Acoustic Music of Ghana This May, NYU’s Green Apple Move Out collection project gave students at 10 residence halls the opportunity to find a second life for items that might otherwise have been discarded. |
| Exotic Travel Exhibits at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò on Display Through June 18 Dual exhibits—Fabio Caramaschi’s “African Portraits” and Niccolò Ricci’s “Lost-Central Brasil”— will be on display at NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (24 W. 12th Street) through June 18. |
| N’Harmonics Singers Compete in International A Cappella Championship The N’Harmonics, a group of NYU singers who perform a cappella and are sponsored by the Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA), was one of seven collegiate a cappella groups to compete in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) International Finals event on April 19 at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. |
| NYU’s Professional Development Week is June 23-27 NYU’s Professional Development Week offers staff members the chance to build new knowledge and skills, enhance their effectiveness, and grow professionally. |
| Tisch Alumna Receives Tribeca Film Fellowship Last month, Diandrea (Dee) Rees (TSOA’07), an alumna from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, was one of 22 recipients of a Tribeca Film Institute 2008 Media Arts Fellowship for Artistic Excellence, awarded to filmmakers and media artists whose work pushes boundaries. |
| Two Kanbar Filmmakers are Student Academy Award Finalists Earlier this month, two filmmakers from the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts were among the finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 35th annual Student Academy Awards competition. |
| Two School of Medicine Neuroscientists Win Sloan Fellowships Jeremy Dasen, assistant professor of physiology and neuroscience and a member of the Smilow Neuroscience Program, and Greg Suh, assistant professor of cell biology, were recently awarded research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. |
| Walking to Raise Oral Cancer Awareness Jeremy Dasen, assistant professor of physiology and neuroscience and a member of the Smilow Neuroscience Program, and Greg Suh, assistant professor of cell biology, were recently awarded research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. |
