German Donors Support Literature and Art at NYU
Inspired by their dedication to art and culture, two
German friends of NYU recently found creative ways to make gifts to the
University. Eberhard Berent, professor emeritus of German at NYU, made a
commitment to establish the Eberhard Berent Professor of Goethe in the
Department of German, and Paul Lott will establish the Paul Lott Lectureship
and Fellowship Fund at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts (IFA).
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Humanities Initiative Helps Innovative Scholars Expand Personal and Professional Horizons at NYU
NYU’s Humanities Initiative was
created in 2007 to help scholars find kindred spirits across campus, to support
humanities work in the classroom and field, and to articulate the importance of
the humanities to the NYU community and beyond.
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ISAW Holds Initial Conference and Makes First Faculty Appointment
The Institute for the
Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) has organized a scholarly conference in
conjunction with its inaugural exhibition, Wine,
Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani (on view
through June 1 at 15 E. 84th Street), which offers an unprecedented display of
ancient treasures on loan from the Republic of Georgia.
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Joel Coen Is Third Straight Film Alum to Earn Best Directing Oscar
Want to increase the
chance of winning your Academy Awards office pool next year? A good bet would
be to vote for Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) alumni in the major categories.
The 80th annual Oscar telecast on Feb. 24 featured four wins (best picture,
director, supporting actor, and adapted screenplay) for No Country for Old Men, written and directed by Joel
Coen, TSOA’78, and his brother Ethan.
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Scholarship Honors Renowned Publicist and TSOA Alumnus
The list of actors Robert Garlock, TSOA ’88, represented during his career as an entertainment publicist reads like a “who’s who” of A-list Hollywood talent: Penelope Cruz, Hugh Grant, Clive Owen, Hilary Swank, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, and Kate Winslet, to name a few. Garlock also oversaw publicity campaigns for more than 40 feature films, including Pulp Fiction, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The English Patient, and The Hours.
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Stern School of Business Undergoing $35 Million Renovation Project
The
Stern School of Business is embarking on the most significant renovation of its
facilities since uniting the school’s graduate and undergraduate programs at
Washington Square two decades ago.
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Ten Socially Conscious Students Named Reynolds Scholars
Ten NYU
undergraduates were recently named scholars in the Catherine B. Reynolds
Program in Social Entrepreneurship, which attracted 117 applicants, an increase
of 35 percent over last year.
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Tisch Launches Hemispheric New York Initiative
The Hemispheric
Institute of Performance and Politics at the Tisch School of the Arts is a
consortium of international institutions, artists, scholars, and activists
dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly
construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas.
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