| A Gene for Sexual Switching in Melons Provides Clues to the Evolution of Sex A newly discovered function for a hormone in melons suggests it plays a role in how sexual systems evolve in plants. The study, conducted by French and NYU scientists, appeared in the journal Science. |
| College of Dentistry Professor Racquel LeGeros Awarded $3.23 Million NIH Grant for Osteoporosis Research New York University College of Dentistry’s Racquel Z. LeGeros, a professor of biomaterials and biomimetics and the Linkow Professor of Implant Dentistry, has received a five-year, $3.23 million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health... |
| 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. |
| Courant Institute Part of $10 Million NSF Grant to Address “Intractable” Mathematical Problems NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and its institutional partners—Princeton and Rutgers universities and the Institute for Advanced Study—have received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to bridge fundamental gaps in our understanding of the power and limits of efficient algorithms. |
| Furman Center Study Confirms Collateral Damage of Nation’s Home Foreclosures As the national mortgage crisis worsened throughout 2008, an increasing number of communities faced declining home prices and high rates of foreclosure. |
| Microsoft Research, NYU, and Seven Other Universities Create Games for Learning Institute NYU and a consortium of universities recently unveiled plans for a first-of-its-kind, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional gaming research alliance that will provide the fundamental scientific evidence to support games as learning tools for math and science subjects among middle-school students. |
| New Wagner Class Explores the Future of Water Scarcity Natasha Iskander was conducting research in the south of Moroc¬co on labor emigration when she visited two adjacent villages, one of them a “ghost town” and the other a vibrant community. |
| NYU Biologists Identify Genes that Prevent Changes in Physical Traits Due to Environment NYU biologists have identified genes that prevent physical traits from being affected by environmental changes. The research, which examined the genetic makeup of baker’s yeast, appeared in the Public Library of Science’s journal, PloS Biology. |
| NYU Receives $490K NSF Grant to Promote Women in the Sciences 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. |
| NYU Receives $7.2 Million NSF Grant for Center to Engineer New Materials NYU has received a $7.2 million, six-year grant from the National Science Foundation to create a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), where scientists will develop new materials through the exploration and manipulation of molecular particles. |
| NYU Researchers Debunk ‘Model Minority’ Myth Often characterized as a “model minority,” many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) face hardships and barriers to mobility in U.S. society, according to an impact report prepared by NYU researchers.Often characterized as a “model minority,” many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) face hardships and barriers to mobility in U.S. society, according to an impact report prepared by NYU researchers. |
| NYU Researchers Find Thinning of Greenland Glacier Was Caused by Ocean Warming 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. |
| Radical New Look at Domestic Violence Forges Groundbreaking Treatment Programs The American family is violent: 35 percent of parents hit their infants when they believe they are misbehaving; 94 percent hit their toddlers. |
| Research Led by NYU Langone Decodes Genome for Vivax Species of Malaria A team of scientists from around the world has cracked the genetic code for the parasite that is responsible for up to 40 percent of the 515 million annual malaria infections worldwide, according to a cover story in the Oct. 9 issue of the journal Nature. |
| Social Work’s Trudy Festinger Reviews Interventions for Child Maltreatment Silver School of Social Work professor Trudy Festinger has been named to co-chair an international initiative that will review the effectiveness of interventions addressing child maltreatment. |
| Steinhardt, NYU Libraries Awarded Grant to Improve Access to Digital Music Drawing on such diverse fields as information technology, machine learning, music theory, and cognition, a research project between the Steinhardt School of Education, Culture, and Human Development’s music technology program and NYU Libraries seeks to develop content-based approaches to the organization of, and access to, digital music archives. |
| Study Reveals Why Political Conservatives Are Happier than Liberal Counterparts The question may strike some as curious: Why are political conservatives happier than liberals? John T. Jost, a professor in the Department of Psychology at NYU, tried to find out. |
| Tina Fey Moves Like Sarah Palin, NYU Researchers Find Tina Fey has been widely praised for imitating 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s voice and appearance. But researchers at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences went a step further and found that the actress also effectively imitates the Alaska governor’s body language. |
| Wagner Professor Explores the Role of Race for Child Welfare Caseworkers The work of child-protective caseworkers is normally closed to outsiders. But for two and a half years, Erica G. Foldy, assistant professor of public and nonprofit management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, was permitted to sit in on scores of case discussions at one state agency charged with protecting children at risk of abuse and neglect. |
| Courant’s Ken Perlin Recognized for Innovations in Computer Graphics Ken Perlin, a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) for his “broad contributions and impact across computer graphics,” the organization announced. |
| Courant’s Naor Wins Packard Fellowship Assaf Naor, an associate professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been named recipient of a 2008 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. |
| 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. |
| Nursing Faculty Receive Pless Center Grants The Muriel and Virginia Pless Center for Nursing Research at NYU College of Nursing has awarded grants to two nursing faculty members, Marie Boltz and Hongsoo Kim, for studies that address issues of older adult health care. |
| Nursing’s Mei Fu Honored for Advances in Lymphedema Research Mei R. Fu, assistant professor of nursing research at NYU’s College of Nursing, has devoted her career to researching the impact of women’s lymphedema —the abnormal and debilitating arm swelling that can follow breast cancer surgery. |
| NYU Faculty, GSAS Students Selected as Fulbright Fellows Since it was launched in the late 1940s, the Fulbright Program has been an integral part of U.S. foreign relations, encouraging dialogue between U.S. citizens and institutions and their counterparts abroad. |
| NYU’s Langone Medical Center Creates New Centers of Excellence The NYU Langone Medical Center recently announced the creation of six new Centers of Excellence, which bring together scientists and clinical researchers to foster highly collaborative, multidisciplinary investigation that inspires new ideas and discoveries in areas long recognized as institutional strengths. |
| Pathologist Michele Pagano Focuses Cancer Research on Proteins The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced in May that Michele Pagano, the May Ellen and Gerald Ritter Professor of Oncology in the Department of Pathology at NYU Langone Medical Center, is among the 56 top scientists who will be appointed as HHMI Investigators this year. |
| Professors Chosen to Join NAS and AAAS Helmut Hofer of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Anthony Movshon, professor and director of NYU’s Center for Neural Science, were recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. |
| Stern Professor Receives $400,000 NSF Grant to Study Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates Stern School of Business associate professor of finance Xavier Gabaix, with Emmanuel Farhi, assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, has received a $402,342 grant from the National Science Foundation to study rare disasters and exchange rates. |
| Three NYU Faculty Awarded Guggenheims Stern School of Business associate professor of finance Xavier Gabaix, with Emmanuel Farhi, assistant professor of economics at Harvard University, has received a $402,342 grant from the National Science Foundation to study rare disasters and exchange rates. |
| Three NYU Faculty Named ‘Top 100 Public Intellectuals’ Three NYU faculty were named to Foreign Policy magazine’s “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” list in its May/June 2008 issue. |
| Wagner Researcher Examines Transit Patterns in Variety of Weather Every transit commuter has war stories related to the weather, whether it was that rain storm that drowned their hopes of getting home on the subway, the blizzard that stopped bus service dead in its tracks, or withering heat that made them wish they were sitting in a cooled car, even one wedged in traffic. |
| Brain Imaging and Economic Behavior Study Provides Researchers with New Insight into Why People Pay Too Much at Auctions Auctions are an old and widely used method for selling goods, and have become increasingly common with the rise of Internet sites such as eBay. |
| Dentistry Study Links Immune Response for Common Mouth Bacteria to Alzheimers A new one-year study by NYU College of Dentistry researchers led by Angela R. Kamer, an assistant professor of periodontology and implant dentistry, has established a link between the body’s immune response to a common mouth bacteria and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). |
| Nursing’s Shiela Strauss Explores Policies in Drug Treatment Programs Affecting four to five million Americans, Hepatitis C is four times more prevalent than HIV in the U.S., and sometimes causes chronic liver disease. |
| Stern School of Business Study Demonstrates Academic Return on Research Investment Affecting four to five million Americans, Hepatitis C is four times more prevalent than HIV in the U.S., and sometimes causes chronic liver disease. |
| Study Shows Flossing Significantly Decreases Gum Disease and NYU College of Dentistry researchers Patricia Corby, assistant professor of periodontology and implant dentistry, and Walter Bretz, associate professor of cariology and comprehensive care, have published a study in the Journal of Periodontology that provides new data about the importance of a flossing regimen in addition to daily brushing of the surfaces of the teeth and tongue. |
| Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain NYU College of Dentistry researchers Patricia Corby, assistant professor of periodontology and implant dentistry, and Walter Bretz, associate professor of cariology and comprehensive care, have published a study in the Journal of Periodontology that provides new data about the importance of a flossing regimen in addition to daily brushing of the surfaces of the teeth and tongue. |
| Neurotropic Viral Infections NYU College of Dentistry researchers Patricia Corby, assistant professor of periodontology and implant dentistry, and Walter Bretz, associate professor of cariology and comprehensive care, have published a study in the Journal of Periodontology that provides new data about the importance of a flossing regimen in addition to daily brushing of the surfaces of the teeth and tongue. |
