Anthropologist to Examine How Human Rights Rankings Are Created Under NSF Grant
NYU anthropology professor Sally Engle Merry will examine how rankings of human rights are created under a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The resulting research is designed to help the public as well as international decision-makers develop a fuller understanding of the kinds of knowledge these rankings provide...
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Biologist Rockman to Study How Genetic Variation Contributes to Aging
Scientists have long known that genetic variation contributes to differences in aging among individuals, populations, and species. Less clear are the specific genes that drive the aging process. NYU biologist Matthew Rockman aims to uncover these genes with the help of a $400,000 New Scholar award from the Ellison Medical Foundation...
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College of Dentistry Professor Awarded NYU School of Medicine Grant for Bladder Cancer Research
The NYU School of Medicine has awarded a one-year Center of Excellence grant to an NYU College of Dentistry professor to study how bladder tumors progress to invasive cancer....
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College of Dentistry Shares $2.8 million NIH Award to Advance Study of 3-D Bone Tissue Scaffolds
Two NYU College of Dentistry professors are partnering with researchers from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and Rutgers University on a $2.8 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, to assess the effectiveness of anti-inflammatory, three-dimensional bone tissue scaffolds in regenerating missing sections of skull. The study is being led by Patrick O’Connor, an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at UMDNJ...
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Eric Klann Receives Research Grant from Angelman Syndrome Foundation
Eric Klann, a professor in NYU’s Center for Neural Science, recently received a research grant from the Angelman Syndrome Foundation. More than $988,000 in grants were awarded to six principle investigators whose work will focus on Angelman Syndrome (AS), a neuro-genetic disorder that occurs in 1 in 15,000 live births...
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Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund Grant Awarded to Dentistry’s Dasanayake
NYU College of Dentistry professor Ananda P. Dasanayake has been awarded a one-year NYU Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund grant to continue his study of how periodontal disease can contribute to gestational diabetes mellitus....
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NYU Researchers Show that Education Primes the Pipeline of Innovative Entrepreneurs
A team of NYU researchers recently reported on the first phase of their study on effective approaches to the training of innovative entrepreneurs, who aim to use new methods to produce or deliver existing goods and services at a lower cost...
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Partridge Awarded $1.5 Million NIH Grant for Craniofacial Bone Research
Nicola Partridge, chair of the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at the NYU College of Dentistry, was recently awarded a two-year, $1.5 million NIH grant to expand research on craniofacial bone biology. Partridge is an international authority on molecular endocrinology and an expert in bone and mineral research...
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Psychology and Stern Marketing Professors Receive $1.1 Million Grant from NIH to Study the Efficacy of Anti-Drug Ads
David Heeger, a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Center for Neural Science, and Stern School of Business marketing professors Eric Greenleaf, Geeta Menon, Tom Meyvis, and Vicki Morwitz, with Uri Hasson, an assistant professor of psychology at Princeton, were awarded a two-year, $1.1 million grant by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse. The grant supports their research project entitled, “The Neural Correlates of Effective Drug Prevention Messages...”
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Psychology’s David Amodio Explores Neurological Activity that Fuels Racial Bias
Overt expressions of bigotry are relatively infrequent, but current psychological research finds that racial biases often lurk in the unconscious mind, influencing behavior in subtle ways despite a lack of intent. Under a five-year, $834,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, David Amodio is examining the dynamics of such unconscious, or “implicit,” racial associations through research that aims to advance our understanding of how neural mechanisms of learning and memory function in social behavior. The award is funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)...
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Recent 'Momentum' Influences Choices of Baby Names, NYU, Indiana Psychology Professors Find
How do people choose a name for their child? Researchers have long noted that the popularity of a name exerts a strong influence on people’s preferences—more popular names, such as Robert or Susan, are more frequent and, by their sheer ubiquity, drive more parents to adopt a similar choice. However, new research by psychologists at NYU and Indiana University, Bloomington suggests that the change in popularity of a name over time increasingly influences naming decisions in the United States. Like momentum traders in the stock market, parents today appear to favor names that have recently risen in popularity relative to names that are on the decline...
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Steinhardt Research Identifies Best Programs to Help New Immigrants
There are now between 190 and 200 million transnational migrants working, living, and moving across every region of the world, according to the U.N. Global Commission on International Migration. A new web-based report by researchers at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development identifies an array of innovative programs facilitating the adaptation of immigrant children, youth, and families to new countries...
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