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 »
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 »
Media Services to Support Emerging Filmmakers at NYU’S Kanbar Institute of Film & Television at the Tisch School of the Arts
Entertainment Industry Leader Creates $100,000 Endowment for Film Production Read more »
The Islamic Center at NYU Launches “Harmony NYU,” a Campaign Against Hate, with Teach-in—Nov. 17
The Islamic Center at NYU and various other clubs and campus organizations will host a teach-in to create a united voice against intolerance on Tuesday, November 17, 12:30 p.m. at NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life. Read more »
NYU’S Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film Stage the World Premiere of a New Play
New York University’s Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film in the Tisch School of the Arts have announced the world premiere of the new play Wonder: an American hymn to the shimmer of television and the end of history, by Steve Yockey. Read more »
NYU Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film Stage the World Premiere of “Rift”
New York University’s Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Design for Stage and Film in the Tisch School of the Arts have announced the world premiere of the new play Rift, by Caridad Svich. Read more »
Philosophy Professor Kitcher to Deliver 2009 Frumkes Lecture—“Understanding Darwin”—Nov. 16 at NYU
Philip Kitcher, the John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, will deliver New York University’s Annual Lewis Burke Frumkes Lecture on Monday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. at NYU’s Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (100 Washington Square East [at Washington Place]). Read more »
NYU Among Leading Universities in Attracting International Students and Students Who Study Abroad
New York University remains one of the top American universities in both attracting international students and in students who study abroad, according to a new study by the Institute of International Education (IIE). Read more »
New "Try This:®" Series of Assessment Tools for Older Adults Is Geared Toward Specialty Nurses
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing has launched a new Specialty Practice series of “Try This:®” assessment tools aimed at specialty nurses caring for older adults in hospitals and other settings. The new “Try This” series was created through the REASN (Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing) initiative, which has brought together 13 specialty nursing associations in a joint effort to improve their members’ knowledge and skills in care of older adults. Read more »
NYU Journalism Institute Launches “The Reporting Award” for Coverage of Underreported Topics in the Public Interest
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has established “The Reporting Award” to support a work of journalism in any medium on significant underreported subjects of public interest. Read more »
Top Student Geeks Converge On Brooklyn
NYU-Poly’s 6th Annual Cyber Security Challenges to Draw Hundreds of Student Finalists, Corporate Security Chiefs and Cyber Celebrities to Campus This Friday, Nov. 13 Read more »
NYU Museum Studies Director Altshuler Wins Prize for Salon to Biennial-a Chronicle of International Art Exhibitions
New York University Professor Bruce Altshuler, director of NYU’s Program in Museum Studies, has won the Banister Fletcher Award for the best new book on art or architecture for Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History, Volume 1 (1863-1959) (Phaidon, 2008). The prize, now in its 56th year, is given by the London-based Authors’ Club. 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 »
NYU Response to Senators Baucus and Grassley
For the full text of the report, click here (pdf). Read more »
- Ahead of Copenhagen Climate Meetings, NYU Anthropologist Looks Back at an Ancient Civilization's Sustainable Practices in a Complex Economy. Read more »
- New "Try This:®" Series of Assessment Tools for Older Adults Is Geared Toward Specialty Nurses. Read more »
- NYU College of Dentistry Professor Awarded NYU School of Medicine Grant for Bladder Cancer Research. Read more »
- Infants Able to Identify Humans as Source of Speech and Monkeys as Source of Monkey Calls, Psychology Researchers Find . Read more »
- Recent "Momentum" Influences Choices of Baby Names, NYU, Indiana Psychology Professors Find. 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 »
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
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