College of Dentistry Receives $600,000 Grant from Susan G. Komen Foundation
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has recently awarded an NYU
dental research team a three-year, $600,000 grant to study whether
nutrients and antioxidants found in broccoli, grapes, and other
naturally occurring compounds could prevent breast cancer.
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Courant Receives $500,000 NSF Grant to Discover the Learning Algorithm of the Brain
NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and its institutional
partners—Stanford University, MIT, and the University of California,
Berkeley—have each received a $500,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation (NSF) to study the “learning algorithm of the brain.”
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Spacing, Not Size, Matters in Visual Recognition, NYU Researchers Find
You might think that the farthest distance at which you can hold a book
and still read it quickly is determined by the size of the letters.
However, NYU neuroscientists have concluded that it’s the spacing
between letters, not their size, which matters.
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