Ballerina Turned Mathematician Credits Discipline for Success in Both Fields
Jessica Lin, who graduates today from the College of Arts and Science, leaves NYU as she entered it: solving problems through understanding the mechanics...
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First Wheelchair Bound Student in Musical Theatre Graduates From Tisch School of the Arts
The Ridgewood, New Jersey native discovered her talent for singing at an early age, but when it came time for college, several top musical theatre training programs told her not to bother to apply because of her disability...
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Gallatin’s Mickey Sanchez Aims to Understand the Reality of Performance
Growing up in Roxbury, New Jersey, Mickey Sanchez developed an early affinity for music...
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Grammar School Kids Create Music for Theatre in Tisch Songmaking Program
Lerner & Loewe, Comden & Green, and Kander & Ebb are all famous musical theatre songwriting teams. Boolbol & Cone, Grob & Gray, and Meckler & Meckler are not famous yet, but keep those names in mind...
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Green Is the Color of Progress on Washington Square
As springtime blossoms and Mother Nature turns campus green, here is an update on some of NYU’s own efforts to become as green as possible...
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Joscelyn Truitt to Continue Social Work Career at Tanzanian Orphanage
Joscelyn Truitt, graduating today with a B.S. degree from the Silver School of Social Work, spent the last year and a half working at Bellevue Hospital in the Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT), where she helped provide social services for individuals who have survived severe political and religious persecution in countries as far flung as Tibet, Chad, and Russia...
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Law School’s Samuel Rascoff Named 2009 Carnegie Scholar
The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently named School of Law assistant professor Samuel Rascoff a 2009 Carnegie Scholar, the fifth academic affiliated with the school in the last seven years to be selected for the prestigious award...
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Law Student Garlinger Plans Return to Classroom to Teach on Free Speech Issues
While many who graduate today are looking forward to stepping out of the classroom, Patrick Garlinger can’t wait to return—in a different role...
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Manhattan Borough Chief of Staff Hones Her Skills at Wagner
Alaina Colon graduates today from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service a more reflective and, she says, more effective New York City public official...
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Maria C. Dolce Earns Third Nursing Degree from NYU
This spring, Maria C. Dolce added Ph.D. to her nursing credentials, fulfilling a life-long ambition...
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Nicole Smith Transforms Lives With Aesthetic Dentistry
Aesthetic dentistry is a lot more than creating pretty smiles and glamorous makeovers, says Nicole Smith, president of the College of Dentistry Class of 2009 and co-founder of an NYU club for students interested in specializing in aesthetic dentistry when they enter practice...
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NYU’s Pipes and Drums Band Offers A Little Bit of Scotland in New York City
The NYU Pipes and Drums, which leads today’s Commencement procession, performs throughout the city at venues including Avery Fisher Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and Madison Square Garden...
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Philosopher Michael Raven Challenges Worthiness of Branch of Metaphysics
Michael Raven’s doctorate in philosophy from NYU is real—he did the requisite coursework and wrote a dissertation...
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SCPS Fulbright Scholar Seeks to Grow PR Industry in Her Native Pakistan
A native of Karachi—Pakistan’s largest city and financial center— Qureshi did her undergraduate work at Lahore University of Management Sciences, earning a B.S. in social science with honors...
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Social Work’s Applegate Advocates for the Benefit of Community Gardens
Recipient of the Silver School of Social Work’s Innovation in Social Work Practice Student Award, Jennifer Applegate graduates today with a master’s degree in social work...
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Steinhardt M.P.H. Graduate Returns to Iraq with Dreams for Future
Ghalib Al-Jibara was a medical school student at Baghdad Teaching Hospital at the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003...
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Steinhardt’s Phoebe Lee Hopes to Provide Resources for Communities Most in Need
For her first undergraduate student teaching job, Phoebe Lee faced a world history class filled with recent immigrants—some of whom were older than she and one who had been in New York for only six days—at Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School...
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Stern School’s Sarah Ross Gains International Perspective on Business
Graduating today from the Stern School is Sarah Ross, whose pursuit of a bachelor’s degree in international business took her around the globe...
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Wagner School’s Katherine Otto to Deliver Commencement Speech Today
Katherine E. Otto, who graduates today from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and delivers the Commencement speech for the Class of 2009, is both a full-time employee and a full-time student who finished her M.P.A. with a perfect grade point average...
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