| Ambassador Susan Rice Delivers Address on U.N., Global Challenges at NYU Susan Rice, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, recently delivered an address, “A New Course in the World, a New Approach at the U.N.,” at the NYU School of Law, which focused on the Obama administration’s work at the UN building partnerships to tackle global challenges... |
| College Depression Partnership Wins National Award The National College Depression Partnership (NCDP) led by the NYU Student Health Center was recently selected for the 2009 Innovation in Quality Improvement Award by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC)... |
| Interactive Telecommunications Program to Mark 30th Anniversary NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) will mark its 30th anniversary in October with a weekend of festivities, including a benefit event honoring its chair, Red Burns. ITP is a pioneering graduate center for the design and study of new media forms in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts... |
| ITP Names Eric Rosenthal as ‘Scientist in Residence’ He’s been given the unofficial title “scientist-in-residence” of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), but adjunct faculty member Eric Rosenthal will be the first to tell you he’s just there to help students make a connection between technology and creativity... |
| Kanbar Institute Filmmaker Musa Syeed Wins 2008-09 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Production Award Musa Syeed (’06), an alumnus of the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television Undergraduate Film Division at the Tisch School of the Arts, recently won the 2008-09 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Production Fund Award for his film, Providence. The award supports outstanding young filmmakers in creating compelling feature-length narrative projects about science and technology, and it provides for a $100,000 cash prize toward the production of a film... |
| Museum of the City Lists the Top 400 New Yorkers The first-ever list of New York City's ultimate movers and shakers since the City's founding—from politics, the arts, business, sports, science, and entertainment—was recently compiled by the Museum of the City of New York. A number of NYU alumni and faculty—including Rudy Giuliani, Spike Lee, and Martin Scorsese—appear on the prestigious roster... |
| Tisch To Honor Award-Winning Artists and Philanthropists at Fall Gala Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, recently announced that the Tisch School will hold its annual gala, This is Tisch!, on Monday, November 2 at the renowned Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. This is Tisch! will honor Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer, two-time Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard, Academy Award and Tony Award-winning actress and Tisch alumna Marcia Gay Harden, arts philanthropist Diana King, and Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Peabody Award-winning Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary Films... |
| Barack Obama Appoints Tisch Dean as Vice Chair of President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities The White House announced on Sept. 16 that Mary Schmidt Campbell, dean of the Tisch School of the Arts, has been appointed by President Barack Obama as vice chair of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Tisch Dean’s Council member and theatrical producer Margo Lion will serve as co-chair. |
| Bob Cohen to be Honored in Oct. 15 Memorial Service A memorial service in celebration of the life of Robert I. Cohen (1930-2009), the longtime NYU community relations liaison who passed away suddenly on July 1, will take place on Thursday, Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. in Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science, 100 Washington Square East. A reception will immediately follow the program. Please RSVP to community.affairs@nyu.edu or to 212-998-2400. |
| Borough President Scott M. Stringer Honors Islamic Center at NYU The Islamic Center at NYU was among the honorees at the second annual Iftar Dinner on Sept. 2 at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Harlem. The event was hosted by Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer in honor of the month of Ramadan. |
| Developer James Stuckey Appointed to Lead NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate The School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) recently announced the appointment of James P. Stuckey as divisional dean of the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate, the University’s home for graduate and continuing professional education and applied research in real estate, construction management, and related fields. Stuckey will also become the new holder of the endowed Klara and Larry Silverstein Chair in Real Estate Development. He succeeds clinical professor D. Kenneth Patton, who steps down as divisional dean and Silverstein Chair this fall, after 11 years. |
| Gallatin School Receives Gold Environmental and Energy Rating for Renovations from U.S. Green Building Council The Gallatin School of Individualized Study recently received a Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for Gallatin’s two-year renovation project. The Gallatin School is the first NYU project to receive the Gold certification from the council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System™ (LEED)... |
| Journalism’s Samuels Named Senior Series Producer of BET’s Heart of the City NYU’s Jason Samuels, an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has been named senior series producer of BET News’ Heart of the City, a new, one-hour, primetime documentary series that will explore the most important issues affecting urban America in the 21st century... |
| NYU's Fales Library Acquires Gay Cable Network Archives NYU’s Fales Library, which houses the Downtown Collection documenting avant-garde New York art since 1975, has acquired the archives of the Gay Cable Network, one of the largest and most important LGBT media collections in existence... |
| Peter Blair Henry Named Dean of NYU’s Stern School of Business NYU President John Sexton and Provost David McLaughlin recently named Peter Blair Henry—the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Economics at Stanford University—as dean of NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He will assume the deanship effective January 15, 2010... |
| Scholar Jesper Juul Joins NYU Game Center As Visiting Professor The NYU Game Center, an independent multi-school center for the research, design, and development of digital games, established in fall 2008, recently announced Danish games studies scholar Jesper Juul as its first visiting faculty appointment. Juul is currently a video game lecturer and researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab... |
| Stephen Shorb Named Director of the Library at NYU Abu Dhabi Carol Mandel, dean of the NYU Division of Libraries, recently announced that Stephen Shorb has been named the director of the Library at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), effective August 1, 2009. Shorb comes to NYU from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), where he has been dean of the University Library since 2005... |
| Thornton Tomasetti Foundation Awards Scholarships for Second Year The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation has awarded the College of Arts and Science (CAS) and Polytechnic Institute of NYU a total of $10,000 in scholarships for two students with interests in civil engineering, architecture and building design, the building industry, urban planning, and building materials. The scholarships, now in their second year, are funded by the engineering firm of Thornton Tomasetti, which provided structural engineering for the two tallest buildings in the world—Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Taipei 101 in Taiwan... |
| Tisch Graduate Student Andy Uhrich Awarded F. Gerald Ham Scholarship by the Society of American Archivists Andy (Jonathan) Uhrich, a second year graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving Program (MIAP) of the Department of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, was recently named the 2009 recipient of the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) F. Gerald Ham Scholarship. The award recognizes an individual’s past performance in a graduate archival studies program and the honoree’s potential in the field. The scholarship is for $7,500 in tuition assistance toward his second year of graduate study... |
| CAS’s Inquiry Highlights Undergraduate Scholarship Andy (Jonathan) Uhrich, a second year graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving Program (MIAP) of the Department of Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, was recently named the 2009 recipient of the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) F. Gerald Ham Scholarship. The award recognizes an individual’s past performance in a graduate archival studies program and the honoree’s potential in the field. The scholarship is for $7,500 in tuition assistance toward his second year of graduate study... |
| Courant Institute Part of $10 Million NSF Grant to Study Impact of Global Warming in the Antarctic NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences is part of a $10 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to study the impact of global warming on the Antarctic Ice Sheet, an undertaking that will provide a method for measuring effects of oceanic and atmospheric warming in other regions. The award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009... |
| Cutting a Pie Is Not a Piece of Cake, Researchers Show A trio of researchers, which includes politics professor Steven Brams, has mathematically determined that it is much easier to equitably cut up a cake than it is to slice up pie. Their work, “Cutting a Pie Is Not a Piece of Cake,” appears in the American Mathematical Monthly... |
| NYU Chemists Bridge the Molecular and Real World with Creation of 3D DNA Crystals NYU chemists have created three-dimensional DNA structures, bridging the molecular realm with the world where we live. The work, reported in the journal Nature, also has a range of potential industrial and pharmaceutical applications, such as the creation of nanoelectronic components and the organization of drug receptor targets to enable illumination of their 3D structures... |
| NYU Chemists Discover Twisted Molecules that Pick their Targets NYU chemists have discovered how to make molecules with a twist—the molecules fold into twisted helical shapes that can accelerate selected chemical reactions. The research, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could yield valuable methods for making pharmaceuticals and other chemicals that require precise assembly of complex structures... |
| NYU Physicists Find Way to Explore Microscopic Systems Through Holographic Video NYU physicists have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which was reported in Optics Express, has the potential to improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery... |
| NYU Physicists Show Way to Count Sweets—From Inside the Jar How many sweets fit into a jar? This question depends on the shapes and sizes of the candy, the size of the jar, and how it is filled. Surprisingly, this ancient question remains unanswered because of the complex geometry of the packing. Moreover, as any contestant knows, guessing the number of sweets in the jar is difficult because those located at the center of are hidden from view. Researchers at NYU have now determined how candy packs from inside the jar, making it easier to more accurately count them... |
| Researchers Find Snakes Use Friction and Redistribution of Weight to Slither on Flat Terrain Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, say researchers at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their findings, which appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.... |
| Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, say researchers at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their findings, which appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.... |
| From Square One: A Meditation, with Digressions, on Crosswords Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, say researchers at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their findings, which appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.... |
| Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, say researchers at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their findings, which appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.... |
| Reading Ronell Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, say researchers at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their findings, which appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.... |
| Six Wagner Grads Publish Case Studies for Health Services Management Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, say researchers at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their findings, which appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.... |
| Islamic Center’s Fast-A-Thon Raises Money to Fight Domestic Abuse Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, say researchers at NYU and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Their findings, which appeared this summer in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, run counter to previous studies that have shown snakes move by pushing laterally against rocks and branches.... |
| Art of Indigenous Australians on View at Grey Gallery Exhibition The first U.S. exhibition devoted to early acrylic paintings by indigenous Australian artists is now on view at Grey Art Gallery. “Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya,” organized by the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, at Cornell University, features approximately 50 paintings, including many rare and spectacular examples, created during the 1970s in the remote Australian indigenous settlement of Papunya. The exhibition remains on view through Dec. 5... |
| Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Announces 2009/2010 Season of Events NYU’s Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts recently announced highlights of its 2009-10 season. This year’s multi-faceted lineup will include something for the youngest as well as the young at heart, enthusiasts of the rich intellectual context of the arts, not to mention fans of the dynamic and diverse cultures of New York City... |
| Willis's ‘Posing Beauty’ Exhibit on View in Photography and Imaging Department The Department of Photography & Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts is hosting Posing Beauty, an exhibition of approximately 80 works—including black and white, color, and digitized photographs; video installations; and web-based projects—drawn from public and private collections. The show, on view through Oct. 18, explores the ways in which African and African-American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts in a diverse range of media... |
| Easterly, Roubini Among Top 100 Twitter Users in International Affairs NYU professors William Easterly and Nouriel Roubini are among the top 100 Twitter users in international affairs, according to a ranking by Foreign Policy magazine. The list also includes Prime Ministers Stephen Harper of Canada and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, former Vice President Al Gore, Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, and Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... |
| German Comedian Reads at Deutsches Haus NYU professors William Easterly and Nouriel Roubini are among the top 100 Twitter users in international affairs, according to a ranking by Foreign Policy magazine. The list also includes Prime Ministers Stephen Harper of Canada and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, former Vice President Al Gore, Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, and Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... |
| Politicians Help Launch New Program for Public Interest Law Center NYU professors William Easterly and Nouriel Roubini are among the top 100 Twitter users in international affairs, according to a ranking by Foreign Policy magazine. The list also includes Prime Ministers Stephen Harper of Canada and Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, former Vice President Al Gore, Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, and Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... |
