NYU Nationally Recognized for Commitment to Sustainability
New York University has won the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) annual Campus Sustainability Leadership Award in the four-year and graduate institutions over 15,000 full-time student category. The award recognized NYU as having made the greatest overall commitment to sustainability as demonstrated in its education and research, campus operations, and administration and finance. The award will be presented at the “Greening of the Campus VIII Conference,” Sept. 21 in Indianapolis. Read more »
Games for Learning Institute's Game Developers Expo Draws Field's Top Minds-Dec. 17 at NYU
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, will host “The Game Developers Expo” on Thursday, December 17, 5-7 p.m. at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South). The event is free and open to the public. Read more »
Games for Learning Institute Launches "Game-a-Week" Feature
In response to President Barack Obama’s national initiative to focus on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), the Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has launched a Game-of-the-Week feature on its web site - http://g4li.org Read more »
Works by Two Fellowship Winners to go on View in NYU’s Dept. of Photography & Imaging, Dec. 4
Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship Winner is Ashley Valmere Fischer Leon & Michaela Constantiner Fellowship Winner is Robert Sukrachand Read more »
NYU Creative Writing Program Presents New Interactive Performance by Anne Carson, Dec. 10
The New York University Creative Writing Program hosts the widely acclaimed writer Anne Carson in a new interactive performance, “Ghost Parts,” on Thursday, December 10, 2009. Two performances are scheduled at 7:00pm and 8:15pm. Featuring original text, the piece will be performed by Anne Carson along with artistic collaborators Mike Clemow, Robert Currie, Amy Khoshbin, and Adam Soldofsky. Read more »
Ode to Luther Gulick, a Founder of the Field of Public Administration and a Father of the IPA-Dec. 4
On Friday, December 4, starting at 9 a.m., a three-part symposium will be held at NYU Wagner-The Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, N.Y.—honoring and highlighting the efforts of Luther Gulick, the work of the IPA, and their contributions to the field of public administration. Read more »
NYU Fales Library Announces Art Exhibition-‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): The Work of Robert Blanchon’; Opening Reception Dec. 1-World AIDS Day
Coming 10 years after artist and educator Robert Blanchon’s death of AIDS, the first New York exhibition of his works, writing and ephemera will be spotlighted in an opening reception scheduled Tuesday, December 1st, World AIDS Day, at the Tracey/Barry Gallery of the Fales Library & Special Collections. The Gallery is on the Third Floor of the Bobst Library at New York University, 70 Washington Square South. The two-hour reception begins at 6:30 p.m. Read more »
Challenges of Reporting Across Cultures Focus of NYU Journalism Panel-Dec. 1
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University will host “Cross Cultural Journalism: A Discussion of Bias, Perspective, and Representation,” a panel on the challenges of reporting across cultures, on Tuesday, December 1, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., at the NYU Stern School of Business, Schimmel Auditorium, Tisch Hall, UC-50, 40 West 4th Street (at Greene Street). Read more »
Political Views May Skew Perception of Skin Tone, New Study Finds
Political affinity could influence how some people view the skin tone of biracial political candidates, according to a new study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, New York University, and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Read more »
Climate Change Could Boost Incidence of Civil War in Africa, Study Finds
Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Read more »
Rigid Social and Economic Forces, Not Absence of Family Values, Threaten Vibrant Family and Work Life, NYU's Gerson Concludes in New Book
Rigid social and economic forces, not the absence of family values, threaten a vibrant family and work life for all Americans, New York University sociologist Kathleen Gerson concludes in her new book, The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America (Oxford University Press) Read more »
NY, NJ Officials Reject Chicago’s Model of Privatizing Public Assets, Agree Public-Private Partnerships Need Better Safeguards
New York and New Jersey public officials who are exploring new ways to involve the private sector in the delivery of public infrastructure soundly rejected Chicago’s model of selling off public infrastructure at a New York University Institute for Public Knowledge forum on November 16. Read more »
New York Premiere of Elliott Carter's Tintinnabulation, Dec. 5 at 8 P.M. At NYU
The New York University Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Jonathan Haas, will the New York premiere of Elliott Carter’s Tintinnabulation at NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theatre as part of its Masterworks concert series on Saturday, December 5 at 8 p.m. The Frederick Loewe Theatre is located at 35 West 4th Street (at Greene Street) [Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th St)]. The event is free and open to the public. Read more »
New Leadership Training Program Helps Hospitals Improve Geriatric Care a Stepping Stone to the Nationally Recognized NICHE Program
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing has established a new Leadership Training Program for hospitals that seek to improve the care they provide to older adults. The Leadership Training Program is an entryway to joining the national NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Health-System Elders) program-in which 285 hospitals participate. Beginning in February 2010, hospitals interested in becoming NICHE sites may participate in this rigorous program. Read more »
NYU Forum On Black and Latino Drop Out Crisis in NYC Schools, Nov. 24
New York University’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education will host an educational policy forum on New York City’s Black and Latino drop-out crisis on Tues. Nov. 24 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The forum will take place in the Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th floor, Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South (at LaGuardia Place). [Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street)] Read more »
Ahead of Copenhagen Climate Meetings, NYU Anthropologist Looks Back at an Ancient Civilization's Sustainable Practices in a Complex Economy
The Indus civilization, a South Asian contemporary with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, was not discovered by scholars until the 1920s. While much of this civilization remains a mystery, many of its economic practices and responses to a changing climate are detailed in The Ancient Indus: Urbanism, Economy, and Society (Cambridge University Press, 2010) by New York University Professor Rita Wright. Read more »
Games for Learning Institute Announces Design Contest for Microsoft’S XNA Game Studio Platform
The Games for Learning Institute (G4LI), a joint research endeavor of Microsoft Research, New York University, and other universities, has announced a design contest—the Game Design Challenge—to build mini-games for learning on Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio 3.1 platform. Read more »
Screening of Documentary On Argentina’s “Dirty War” and Q & A with Director Peter Sanders—Dec. 2 at NYU’S Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will host a screening of The Disappeared, an award-winning 2007 documentary by Peter Sanders, on Wednesday, December 2, 6-8 p.m., 20 Cooper Square, between 5th and 6th Streets, 7th floor television studio. Read more »
NYU Response to Senators Baucus and Grassley
For the full text of the report, click here (pdf). Read more »
NYU’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Offers a Rare Look at Some of Europe’s Earliest Civilizations in a New Exhibition
Lost World of Old Europe is on view from November 11, 2009 - April 25, 2010 at ISAW, located 15 East 84th Street in Manhattan. Exhibition hours are: Tuesday - Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Friday 11 am - 8 pm. Closed Monday. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Read more »
- Games for Learning Institute Launches "Game-a-Week" Feature. Read more »
- Rigid Social and Economic Forces, Not Absence of Family Values, Threaten Vibrant Family and Work Life, NYU's Gerson Concludes in New Book. Read more »
- NY, NJ Officials Reject Chicago’s Model of Privatizing Public Assets, Agree Public-Private Partnerships Need Better Safeguards . Read more »
- Political Views May Skew Perception of Skin Tone, New Study Finds . Read more »
- Climate Change Could Boost Incidence of Civil War in Africa, Study Finds . Read more »
- Free Speech Movement Leader Savio Fueled by "Religious Sensibility" Despite Rejection of Catholicism, Biography by NYU Historian Finds. Read more »
- NYU’S Gerson Available for Comment On Forces Affecting New Generations of Parents and Workers . Read more »
- NYU’s Institute for Education and Social Policy Issues Report on NYC Leadership Academy . Read more »
- NYU's Easterly, Roubini Among Top 100 Twitter Users in International Affairs. Read more »
Challenges of Reporting Across Cultures Focus of NYU Journalism Panel
December 1 @ 11:00 AM
The Goldstone Report Focus of NYU Taub Center for Israel Studies Lecture
December 1 @ 6:00 PM
Bolivia’s Elections Focus of King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center Panel
December 1 @ 6:00 PM
NYU Fales Library Announces Art Exhibition-‘You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): The Work of Robert Blanchon’; Opening Reception Dec. 1-World AIDS Day
December 1 @ 6:30 PM
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