| 194 Recordings Engineers Video Debut of Graduating Senior 194 Recordings, the student-run record label for NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music in the Tisch School of the Arts, produced its first music video this semester with recent department alumnus Nyle Emerson (’09), a hip hop and spoken word artist... |
| Clinton to NYU Class of 2009: ‘This is Your Moment’ U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, at podium, spoke under bright sunny skies in Yankee Stadium’s new home during NYU’s 177th Commencement on May 13, urging graduating students to be part of the solution to the economic crisis and other world issues... |
| College of Arts and Science Awards ‘Golden Dozen’ Twelve members of NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science have won teaching awards given annually by the College of Arts and Science (CAS). The Golden Dozen Awards celebrate those who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and service to undergraduates... |
| Courant’s Percy Deift Elected to National Academy of Sciences Percy Deift, a professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington, D.C.-based organization announced in late April... |
| FAS’s Bonfante, Expert in Etruscan Civilization, Elected to American Philosophical Society Larissa Bonfante, a professor emerita in NYU’s Department of Classics, was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the Philadelphia-based organization announced this spring... |
| Garden Shop Positions NYU as a Leader in Sustainable Horticulture Sustainability around Washington Square now includes most of the green outdoor spaces thanks to the NYU Garden Shop, which designs, installs, and maintains the garden areas and sidewalk planters on campus... |
| NYU Selects Distinguished Administrators NYU recently announced the recipients of the 2008-09 Distinguished Administrator Award, which recognizes outstanding administrative and professional performance that helps the University meet its strategic initiatives and goals... |
| NYU to Create Center for Academic and Spiritual Life NYU and the Archdiocese of New York recently completed the sale of the site of the former NYU Catholic Center, which will soon be home to NYU’s new Center for Academic and Spiritual Life... |
| NYU Torch Fellows to Travel the World Marta Kaluza, a doctoral candidate in NYU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has set out to map the ideological development of Gombrowicz through his various residences—Argentina, France, Germany, and Poland. She will do so as a recipient of a Torch Prize Fellowship for advanced students in the Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS)... |
| Silver School Events Aim to Help Non-Profit Women Executives Break the Glass Ceiling Women CEOs, COOs, and executive directors in the not-for-profit sector—many of whom are social workers—make an average of 28 percent less than their male counterparts... |
| Six Faculty Receive Distinguished Teacher Award Six professors were recently presented with NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award for 2008-09. The honor, which recognizes high quality instruction and commitment to students, comes with a $5,000 grant and a specially designed medal... |
| Steinhardt’s David Kirkland Envisions Student-Centered Approach to English Education For David Kirkland, assistant professor of English education at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, traditional English curricula too often exclude students whose lives are not reflected in the canonical texts of Western literature... |
| Student Editors Help Produce Gallatin School’s Two Annual Journals The Gallatin School of Individualized Study recently published two of its most popular annual journals—The Gallatin Review and The Literacy Review—both of which relied on strong student editing and design... |
| Thirteen Courant Faculty Named Inaugural SIAM Fellows Thirteen faculty from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences are among the inaugural Fellows in the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows Program... |
| Dramatic Writing Student Earns Spot in Playwright’s Workshop at Kennedy Center Erica Lipez, a 2009 alumna of the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, is among eight playwrights selected from 57 Master of Fine Arts students who will participate in the fourth annual MFA Playwrights Workshop, hosted by the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C... |
| Graduate Filmmaker Ritesh Batra Selected as Sundance Institute Storytelling Fellow The Sundance Institute has announced that second-year graduate student Ritesh Batra has been selected as one of four 2009 Time Warner Storytelling Fellows... |
| Lynn Videka Named New Dean Of Silver School of Social Work Lynn Videka has been appointed as dean of NYU’s Silver School of Social Work, effective Sept. 1... |
| Moss Tells Congress to Separate FEMA from Homeland Security Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service professor Mitchell L. Moss testified May 14 before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, calling for returning FEMA to its previous status as an independent agency.... |
| NYU and Seton Hall University To Archive Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Records NYU’s Tamiment Library and Seton Hall University’s Center for Policy and Research have announced a new project to document, preserve, and make accessible the legal records and the human stories of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp... |
| NYU Professor Leads Team of Archivists on Mission to Save Orphan Films in Buenos Aires A team of American film experts and archivists, under the direction of NYU’s Dan Streible, associate professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts and associate director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program (MIAP), traveled to Buenos Aires last month to help the Museo del Cine preserve its orphan films... |
| NYU to Receive Village Alliance’s Buchbinder Award for ‘Meticulous and Gleaming Restoration’ On June 18, the Village Alliance will present the first Norman Buchbinder Award to New York University for “its outstanding, meticulous, and gleaming restoration” of five buildings at 6-22 East 8th Street... |
| Bregler Receives $1.47 Million Grant to Enhance Motion Capture Tools NYU computer science professor Chris Bregler recently received a $1.47 million grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) to enhance his laboratory’s previous work on motion capture and computer vision... |
| Chemists Create Bipedal, Autonomous DNA Walker to Mimic Role of Cell’s Transportation System Two fundamental components of life’s building blocks are DNA, which encodes instructions for making proteins, and motor proteins, such as kinesin, which are part of a cell’s transportation system... |
| Nursing Professor Receives NIH Grant to Help Study Latino HIV Risk in New Orleans Michele Shedlin, a medical anthropologist and professor in NYU’s College of Nursing, and Patricia Kissenger, professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, recently received a $275,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their study “The Epidemiology of Drugs and HIV Sex Risk Among Latino Migrants.”... |
| Omega 3 Fats May Help Some Cancer Patients, Steinhardt Researcher Finds Omega 3 fats are essential fats found naturally in oily fish. Food manufacturers have begun to add them to foods such as yogurt, milk, juice, eggs, and infant formula in light of evidence suggesting that Omega 3 fats reduce cardiovascular disease risk, blood pressure, clot formations, and certain types of fat in the blood... |
| Researchers Find that
Timing Is Most Important in Wiping Out Memory of Fear Banishing a fear-inducing memory might be a matter of the right timing, according to new research conducted at NYU... |
| Steinhardt’s Halkitis Wins $2.9 Million NIH Grant Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s
Forgotten Jungle City Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Plague Writing in
Early Modern England Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and
Its Aftermath Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| College of Dentistry Students Help
Organize Annual Oral Cancer Walk Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Conference Explores How Darwin Broke Barriers Between Science and Religion Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Courant’s Gromov Receives Abel Award from Norwegian King Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Dystopian Works of NYU’s Scott Lewis
On View in Wagner Exhibit Space Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Gallatin Graduate Students Strut Their Stuff in Masters Thesis Showcase Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Gallatin School Celebrates Redesign and Renovation Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| International Rescue Committee’s Biddle Speaks on Global Humanitarian Aid Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| NYS First Lady Michelle Paterson Delivers Address at College of Nursing Graduation Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Steinhardt Jazz
Students Perform at Blue Note Milano Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Wagner Event Explores Process of Changing
Workplace Culture at Large Health Care Institutions Hoping to better understand the habits of young gay men and the specific risk factors for HIV infection, researchers at the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior, and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS) are embarking on a three-year longitudinal study of the behavioral choices of young men who have sex with men... |
| Game Center Partners with Come Out and Play Festival The NYU Game Center, an independent, multi-school center for the research, design, and development of digital games at NYU, established in fall 2008, will be a partner in the 2009 Come Out and Play Festival, held June 12-14... |
| John Canemaker Awarded a Bellagio Residency The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded John Canemaker, professor and director of animation in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television in the Tisch School of the Arts, a month-long creative arts residency at its Bellagio Center on Lake Como... |
| Karen Karbiener Wins Kluge Fellowship and Fulbright Grant to Research Two New Books Karen Karbiener, master teacher of humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Science’s Liberal Studies Program, has won awards to research two new publications over the next year... |
| NYU Local’s Eisenhood Named Among Top 100 Collegiate Journalists Charlie Eisenhood (CAS ’11) was named this spring to the UWIRE 100, which honors the nation’s top collegiate journalists... |
| Silver School of Social Work Receives Caron Foundation Award The Caron Foundation, a non-profit provider of drug and alcohol addiction treatment, has named the Silver School of Social Work as the recipient of its Educational Excellence Award... |
| Sociology’s Florencia Torche Wins NAE/Spencer Fellowship Florencia Torche, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been chosen to be a 2009-2010 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow... |
| Tisch Grad Rachel Helson Is Youngest-Ever Producer Nominated for a Tony Rachel Helson, a 20-year-old who will graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts in September 2009, became the youngest-ever Tony Award-nominated producer of a play as Neil LaBute’s Reasons To Be Pretty was named a nominee for Best Play on May 5... |
| Tisch School Claims Eight 2009 Tony Award Nominees The Tisch School of the Arts has seven alumni and one student among the 2009 Tony Award nominees... |
| World Science Festival Announces Programming and Events The World Science Festival recently announced a lineup of cutting-edge and innovative science programming... |
