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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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