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NYU Researchers Find Thinning of Greenland Glacier Was Caused by Ocean Warming

by James Devitt

The sudden thinning in 1997 of Jakobshavn Isbræ, one of Greenland’s largest glaciers, was caused by subsurface ocean warming, according to research published this fall in the journal Nature Geoscience.

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Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain

Vol 22, Issue 98

CONVERSATION WITH A POLICY MAKER: NIH’s Zerhouni: ‘[Research] is probably the best investment any government can make’

Elias A. Zerhouni stepped down on Oct. 31, 2008 from his role as the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency, which comprises 27 institutes and centers with more than 18,000 employees and a budget of $29.5 billion. | Full Story »

New Research Alliance to Study Progress in City Schools, Funded by Gates and Ford Foundations

New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein (at right) joined officials from the teachers union, civic leaders, education researchers, and policymakers on Oct. 29 in taking a major new step to advance school improvement in New York. | Full Story »

NYU Receives $490K NSF Grant to Promote Women in the Sciences

by James Devitt

NYU has received a $490,000, three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to bolster its existing campus-wide initiative to promote the representation of women and minorities in the sciences. | Full Story »

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