| Furman Center Study Reveals Warning Signs for New York City Homeowners Data released by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) this fall show that for the first time this decade the national rate of subprime lending decreased in 2006, according to an analysis by the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, a joint initiative of NYU’s School of Law and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. |
| Richard Arum Helps Create New Research Partnership for New York City Schools Recognizing the need for educators and policymakers in New York City to have access to strong evidence-based research on educational issues, the NYC Department of Education has endorsed the creation of a non-partisan research consortium that will study what works—and what doesn’t—in NYC public schools. |
| TSOA to Honor Five Alumni and the Musical Spring Awakening at Benefit Gala The Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) annual benefit gala on Nov. 12 will honor the achievements of five individuals as well as the alumni cast and creative team of the hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening. |
| Exiled Iraqi Writer Haifa Zangana to Speak at Tisch’s 10th Annual ‘Days of Community’ Remembering History/ Activating Ourselves—Artists and Civic Agency will be the topic of the 10th annual Days of Community Symposium sponsored by the Center for Art and Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts. |
| John Canemaker’s Animated Film, The Moon and the Son, Wins Emmy Award Academy Award-winner John Canemaker, professor and director of animation in NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, has added an Emmy to his list of honors for his autobiographical animated film The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation. |
| New Speech Pathology Lab Offers Free Screenings to NYU Community In late August, the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development left its cramped, cluttered office at 719 Broadway for a sleek, newly-designed 10,000 square-foot space a few blocks away that could be mistaken for the office of a downtown advertising firm or dot-com. |
| NYU Acquires Irish Immigration Reform Movement Papers NYU’s Division of Libraries and the Glucksman Ireland House will announce the acquisition of the papers of the Irish Immigration Reform Movement (IIRM) by NYU’s Archives of Irish America, based in the University’s Tamiment Library, at a special event on Oct. 25. |
| Nursing Study Points to Poor Management and Stressful Work as the Leading Causes of Attrition A shortage of 340,000 RNs is projected by 2020, notes Christine Kovner, professor in the College of Nursing and lead author of the study, “Newly Licensed RNs’ Characteristics, Work Attitudes, and Intentions to Work,” which was published in the September 2007 issue of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). |
| Wagner School Experts Develop Strategies for Philanthropic Wealth Distribution A division of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, “21/64” is named after the multiple generations it helps through original educational exercises and consultation services: from 21-year-olds inheriting family wealth to 64-year-olds and older who are pondering their legacies. |
| Inaugural Jacob K. Javits Foundation Lecture Features Multiple Intelligences Theorist Howard Gardner Howard Gardner, who developed the theory of multiple intelligences, will deliver the inaugural Jacob K. Javits Lecture on Tues., Oct. 30, 5 p.m. at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place). |
| NYU Launches All-University Council For the Study of Disability What began as a small group of faculty members from four schools to raise awareness about disability issues has expanded into an all-University Council, with seed money from NYU Provost David McLaughlin. |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences Inducts Five from NYU as New Members NYU School of Law Dean Richard Revesz and four other NYU faculty were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in early October. |
| Author Irshad Manji Calls for Reforming Islam During SCPS Film Screening Event Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith, recently screened her new PBS documentary Faith without Fear, which is based on her book and addresses the challenges of being a progressive Muslim woman and the global need for a liberal reformation of Islam. |
| Conference to Examine African and African-American Visual Imagery A four-day conference focusing on contemporary expressions in art and cinema from perspectives within the realm of African and African American visual culture will be held this November at NYU. |
| NYU Acquires Collection of Irish Musician/Folklorist Mick Moloney The Mick Moloney Collection, which documents nearly two centuries of Irish- American popular culture and music, particularly between the years of 1860 and 1940, has been acquired by NYU’s Division of Libraries. |
| Photographer Kike Calvo’s Work on Exhibit at King Juan Carlos Center NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center is showcasing work by award-winning Spanish photographer Kike Calvo through Dec. 31. |
| Fusion Film Festival to Screen Award-Winning Documentary The Devil Came On Horseback Fusion Film Festival, the student-run film festival at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts celebrating the work of women filmmakers, will launch its year-long fifth anniversary celebration with the screening and a panel discussion of the award-winning Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern documentary The Devil Came on Horseback, a film candidly exposing the tragedy taking place in Darfur, Sudan. |
| Nursing and Dentistry Researchers Receive Grants to Study Elder Mistreatment NYU College of Nursing’s Dean Terry Fulmer and co-investigator Sheryl Strasser, and co-investigator Stefanie Russell of the NYU College of Dentistry, have received a two-year $346,569 grant from the National Institute on Aging to study elder mistreatment (EM). |
