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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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