| NYU Prepares to Celebrate Annual MLK Week “Dare to D.R.E.A.M” will be the theme for NYU’s third annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Week, to be held January 21-26. |
| NYU Report Offers Roadmap for Improved Relations with Muslims in the West As western nations see their Muslim populations grow, government officials and policy experts recommend improving relations between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in these countries through locally driven community building initiatives and training media professionals to be more conscientious of how they portray Muslim communities |
| Scholars Consider Works of Socialist Leader Harrington Having successfully processed and curated the papers of Michael Harrington, the most prominent American socialist intellectual and political leader of the latter half of the 20th century, NYU’s Tamiment Library recently celebrated their official “opening” with a symposium featuring some of the best thinkers of our time. |
| Symposium Explores New Directions of Philanthropy What are the most effective ways to make a positive impact on poverty, sickness, or homelessness? Should funding go to improve specific neighborhoods, address a high-profile problem, or go into research to investigate the root causes of various social ills? How much of the burden should not-for-profits and corporate philanthropies be expected to shoulder, and what are the responsibilities of government? |
| Glucksman Ireland House Launches New M.A. NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House recently completed the first semester of a new masters program in Irish and Irish-American Studies, with nine full- and part-time students enrolled. |
| Men’s Cross Country Team Wins NCAA Division III Championship The New York University men’s cross country team won its first-ever NCAA Division III National Championship, besting a crowded field at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, on Saturday, Nov. 17. Running in blustery winter conditions over the 8,000-meter course, the Violets had five finishers among the top 53, including senior Hany Abdallah, who took ninth place. |
| New Collaborative Master’s Program Offered in Oral Biology NYU has introduced a new master of science program leading to an M.S. in oral biology through a collaboration of the College of Dentistry (NYUCD) and the Department of Biology at the Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS). |
| New Housing Available for Purchase on Roosevelt Island for Eligible NYU Candidates |
| Tisch Asia to Offer New M.F.A. Degrees in Animation/Digital Arts and Dramatic Writing The Tisch School of the Arts Asia will begin offering two new graduate degrees—one in animation and digital arts and one in dramatic writing—at its new campus in Singapore in fall 2008. |
| Tisch School Gala Raises Record $1.6 Million This year’s Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) gala benefit, entitled “Totally Tisch,” set a record with nearly $1.6 million raised for student scholarships and seed funding for the renovation of the three sites for the TSOA’s new Institute of Performing Arts. |
| Chemical in Brain May Be Part of Basis for Visual Attention NYU neuroscientists have found that a naturally occurring chemical in the brain can enhance visual processing and suggest that this chemical may represent part of the biological basis of visual attention. |
| Aciman Discusses ‘Exile as Metaphor’ in Gallatin Lecture Author Andre Aciman, whose first novel, Call Me by Your Name, has just been included in the New York Times Book Review’s list of “100 Notable Books of 2007,” delivered a lecture, “Exile as Metaphor,” sponsored by the Writing Program of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in late November. |
| 100 Projects on Display for ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| Assemblyman Receives NYU Nursing Award The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| Defining and Measuring Poverty in New York The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| NPR’s Kitchen Sisters Come to Kimmel for SCPS Event The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| Portman and Easterly Discuss Microfinancing at Africa House, Wagner Event The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| Princeton Philosopher Outlines Good Global Citizenship The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| The NYC Subway Map, Reimagined The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| University Leaders Visit Abu Dhabi The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| Wagner Forum Asks: ‘Does Feminism Matter?’ The ITP Winter 2007 Graduate Student Show will be held Sunday, Dec. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m... |
| Kanbar Graduate Filmmaker Wins First Lifetime Movie Network Student Award Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, a second year student in the Graduate Film Division of the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts, recently took first place in the inaugural Lifetime Movie Network’s (LMN) Student Filmmaker Competition |
| Nat Ward’s ‘Buy Me Something’ Photos On View at Tisch “Buy Me Something,” an exhibition comprising 20 large-scale color photographs by Nat Ward, the recipient of the 2006 Constantiner Fellowship award in the Department of Photography and Imaging at the |
| Dello Joio Honored by Classical Recording Foundation Justin Dello Joio, faculty composer-in-residence in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at NYU Steinhardt, was awarded Composer of the Year by the Classical Recording Foundation at an event at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 30. |
| Mary Button’s ‘Hymnbook Project’ Exhibited at Tisch An exhibition by Mary Button, the 2006 Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship winner in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, is on view through Jan. 5. Entitled The Hymnbook Project, the exhibition features works that explore the difficult relationship between faith and history in the American South. |
| NYU Professors Co-Author New Report Calling for Prison Reform A new report concludes that the United States should reform its criminal justice system by sending fewer people to prison and reducing the time they serve. |
