| ‘Emerging Leaders’ Selected at Wagner Under an innovative Wagner Graduate School of Public Service program that prepares exceptional young men and women for public service careers, 35 college graduates have been selected as Fellows for Emerging Leaders in Public Service, Class of 2008. |
| College of Dentistry Dedicates Rosenberg Educational Wing Under an innovative Wagner Graduate School of Public Service program that prepares exceptional young men and women for public service careers, 35 college graduates have been selected as Fellows for Emerging Leaders in Public Service, Class of 2008. |
| Dental Students Learn to Medically Assess Patients “We tell our DDS students that they are primary healthcare providers, but that doesn’t mean very much unless we equip them with the knowledge, skills, and experience to act competently and confidently in that capacity,” says Andrew B. Schenkel, clinical assistant professor of cariology and comprehensive care at the College of Dentistry. |
| Drama Department Presents Seventh Annual hotINK International Festival Now in its seventh year, hotINK is the Department of Drama’s international festival of play readings, bringing together playwrights from around the world with distinguished actors and directors from the New York theatre, as well as students, alumni, and faculty from the Tisch School of the Arts. |
| GSAS, Steinhardt Offer New Master’s Degree in Teaching French The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has collaborated with the Graduate School of Arts and Science to offer a master’s program in teaching French as a foreign language. |
| Milestones Achieved in Second Year of Steinhardt, DOE, and CUNY Partnership Funded by a $15 million grant from the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation, the Partnership for Teacher Excellence (PTE) started in 2006 as a unique collaboration among the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the City University of New York (CUNY) and the NYC Department of Education (DOE) to address the need for quality teachers in high-needs public schools throughout the city. |
| NYU Press Helps Establish American Literatures Initiative Five university presses recently joined together to launch a collaborative project to expand the publication of first books by scholars in the humanities. |
| Study Maps Life in Extreme Environments, Creating Potential for Molecular Bioengineering A team of biologists, which includes NYU assistant biology professor Richard Bonneau, has developed a model mapping the control circuit governing a whole, free-living organism. |
| Wagner Faculty Offer Management Advice to Non-Profits and State Agencies Three faculty members from the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service are providing their performance-based management expertise to assist operations of major nonprofit organizations and of state and city government in New York. |
| GSAS Dean Stimpson Elected Vice Chair of Carnegie Foundation Board Graduate School of Arts and Science Dean Catharine R. Stimpson was recently elected vice chair of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Board of Trustees. Her term began in November. |
| Post WWII Script Wins Goldberg Playwriting Prize The Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing in the Tisch School of the Arts recently announced Jonathan Goldberg as winner of the 2007 Rita and Burton Goldberg Dramatic Writing Award for his play The Jew and the Demon. In addition to the honor, he receives a $10,000 cash prize. |
| I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody I’jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody, the debut novel by Iraqi-born poet, filmmaker, and Gallatin School of Individualized Study professor Sinan Antoon, was published in English in 2007 after appearing first in Arabic in 2004. |
| Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the NBA draft of 2003, the hopes of a half-million high school basketball players soared. But the reality is that their chances of playing basketball at the professional or even at the college level are infinitesimal. |
| On Eloquence Distinguished critic Denis Donoghue, University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at NYU, argues in this new book that eloquence is not merely a means to a rhetorical end, but rather has as its main attribute its “gratuitousness.” |
| Swimming Upstream: A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution In Swimming Upstream, Badal, a teacher in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in the Tisch School of the Arts and the short film programmer at the Tribeca Film Festival, has written the ultimate guide for anyone who has made a short film and wonders what to do next. |
| Awards NYU Professors win Awards and Accolades |
| Human Rights Watch Executive Director Delivers Lecture on Rights of the Accused NYU Professors win Awards and Accolades |
| Latin American Abstract Art Inspires Undergraduate Writers NYU Professors win Awards and Accolades |
| Nursing’s Mobile Health Program Gets Ready to Roll NYU Professors win Awards and Accolades |
| NYU Hosts Symposium on Molecular Semiconductors in Honor of Martin Pope NYU Professors win Awards and Accolades |
| Steinhardt Students Stage Floyd Collins in Loewe Theatre NYU Professors win Awards and Accolades |
| Stress? What Stress? NYU Professors win Awards and Accolades |
| Four Courant Faculty Named Fellows The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences professors Bhubaneswar Mishra and Amir Pnueli to be among its 38 new fellows for 2007, the association announced in December. |
| New Reading Series Offers Literary Lunches This spring, Matinee Readings, a new series hosted by the Creative Writing Program, will bring some of the most prominent and emerging literary voices to the University’s Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House (58 W. 10th Street) in the heart of Greenwich Village. |
| Record Breaking Year for TSOA at Sundance The Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) and its Kanbar Institute of Film & Television marked their 15th year at the Sundance Film Festival with a private reception in Park City, Utah on Jan. 19. |
| Social Work Professors Elected to Academies Shulamith Lala A. Straussner and Jeane Anastas, professors of social work at the Silver School of Social Work at NYU, were inducted recently into the National Academies of Practice as Distinguished Scholars in Social Work. |
