| Dental Professor Awarded Grant to Study Animal Cognition in Madagascar Can animals remember the location of the nearest, most abundant fruit tree, the way people recall a neighborhood restaurant with large portions? |
| Emergency Preparedness Leaders Gather to Discuss NYU’s LaSER Project NYU’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) held a symposium on March 3 to discuss the University’s Large Scale Emergency Readiness Project (LaSER), which is focused on government and private sector disaster preparedness and response. |
| NYU Adopts the Orphan Film Symposium NYU and the Department of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts will host a festival and conference on the preservation, historical value, and creative use of films that time has forgotten, otherwise known as “orphan films.” |
| Steinhardt Freshman Uses Late Artist’s Generosity to Create Public Art Michelle Palatnik, a freshman studio art major in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, knew she wanted to become an artist from a very young age. |
| Two Tisch Alums Honored at 39th NAACP Image Awards Last month, Seith Mann, TSOA ’02, took home a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series for the Friday Night Lights episode “Are You Ready for Friday Night?” |
| Works by Graduating Seniors in Photography and Imaging on View Last month, Seith Mann, TSOA ’02, took home a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series for the Friday Night Lights episode “Are You Ready for Friday Night?” |
| 2008 Gallatin Arts Festival to Consider Arts and Dialogue Dance, staged theater readings, and concerts are just part of the Gallatin Arts Festival, which will take place from April 7 through April 12 at locations at and around NYU. |
| Bloomberg Receives Transportation Leadership Award Mayor Michael Bloomberg received the 2008 Leadership in Transportation Award given annually by the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. |
| Fusion Film Festival Announces Winners The winners of NYU’s fifth annual Fusion Film Festival, a student-run event at the Tisch School of the Arts’ Kanbar Institute celebrating the work of women filmmakers, were announced at a ceremony and reception on March 1. |
| Juliet Letters Now in Icon’s Native Language More than a year after its initial publication in English, Letters to Juliet, co-authored by Lise Friedman, an adjunct professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, has been published in Juliet Capulet’s native language, Italian. |
| Students Lobby Albany Policymakers For Essential Funding More than 50 NYU students, administrators, and faculty traveled up the |
| Employees Now Eligible for Condo Deal on Roosevelt Island More than 50 NYU students, administrators, and faculty traveled up the |
| A Rich History of Garbage More than 50 NYU students, administrators, and faculty traveled up the |
| Camera Club of the Philippines Presents Photo Exhibit at NYU More than 50 NYU students, administrators, and faculty traveled up the |
| Slovenian Meeting Considers Muslim Citizenship in Europe More than 50 NYU students, administrators, and faculty traveled up the |
| Speaking Freely About Scholarship in an Age of War More than 50 NYU students, administrators, and faculty traveled up the |
| Collaboration Takes Center Stage for Tisch Dance Students As the incoming chair in the dance department at the Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA), Cherylyn Lavagnino promised herself last September that she would try to create more performance opportunities for her students. |
| Second Avenue Dance Company Spring Concert to Feature Noted Guest Choreographers The Second Avenue Dance Company will present its major spring concert series from April 2-7, featuring the work of four noted guest choreographers—Trisha Brown, Jessica Lang, Mark Morris, and Christopher Williams. |
| Steinhardt, TSOA Artists Selected for Whitney Biennial Artist Carol Bove’s installations (pictured at right) explore the distance between the ideals of the 1960s and those of the current day. |
| Fales Exhibition Explores ‘Preserving Downtown’s Time-Based Works’ An exhibition entitled “Moving/Images: Preserving Downtown Time-Based Works” opens at the Fales Library (3rd floor of Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South) on March 26 and will run through July 31. |
| Gallatin’s Hightower Wins Poetry Translation Prize Scott Hightower, an adjunct professor in NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, has been awarded a Willis Barnstone Translation Prize for his translation of the Aurora de Albornoz poem “In Search of Those Children in a Row, #3” from its original Spanish. |
| Silver School of Social Work Receives Grant for Geriatric Mental Health Program A $75,000 grant over three years from the John A. Hartford Foundation, administered by the New York Academy of Medicine, has been awarded to the Silver School of Social Work to develop a Field Learning Partnership Program in Integrated Geriatric Mental Health (IGMH). |
| TSOA’s Deborah Willis Honored by BCALA The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) recently awarded Deborah Willis, University Professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts, its Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation for “Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” (Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture). |
