NYU to Aid Veterans in Paying for College: University Will Join National “Yellow Ribbon” Program for College-Bound Post-9/11 Vets

New York University will participate in the new federal Yellow Ribbon GI Education Enhancement Program, under which the University will help cover the cost of tuition for veterans. Read more »

NYU shares its proposed design plan for the Mercer Street Garden and Greenspace. Read more »

New York University has appointed Zadie Smith, the prize-winning author of the novels White Teeth and On Beauty, as a full professor in its distinguished Creative Writing Program. She joins other senior tenured faculty members E.L. Doctorow, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sharon Olds, as well as Global Distinguished Professor Breyten Breytenbach. Read more »

New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development will launch a new B.S. degree program in public health beginning in the fall of 2010. In addition to a strong liberal arts component, the program will offer students a broad background in the field of public health, preparing them for careers in local and state health departments, health care organizations, human service agencies, as well as for advanced degree programs in public health and other related areas of graduate and professional study. Read more »

A trio of researchers 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 June-July 2009 issue of the American Mathematical Monthly. Read more »

New York University’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. Read more »

Researchers at New York University have created a method to precisely bind nano- and micrometer-sized particles together into larger-scale structures with useful materials properties. Their work, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Nature Materials, overcomes the problem of uncontrollable sticking, which had been a barrier to the successful creation of stable microscopic and macroscopic structures with a sophisticated architecture. Read more »

Helen Nissenbaum, professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, and Lucas Introna, professor of organization, technology, and ethics at Lancaster University (UK) have published a report, “Facial Recognition Technology: A Survey of Policy and Implementation Issues,” to serve as a guide for administrators, policy makers, public interest advocates, and academics. Read more »

Fresh Kills was once the world’s biggest landfill and still qualifies as one of the largest built structures in human history. It was also a torment to Staten Islanders for more than half a century. Can New Yorkers love a geography made of discards that was created despite the passionate objections of its hosts and neighbors? Read more »

A new and novel computer modeling platform developed through intensive, multidisciplinary collaboration at New York University can help hospitals and cities to be more prepared for catastrophic public health scenarios, according to an article published in the American Medical Association’s Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness journal. Read more »

New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study has 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). Read more »

Snakes use both friction generated by their scales and redistribution of their weight to slither along flat surfaces, researchers at New York University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have found. Their findings, which appear in the latest issue of 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. Read more »

New York University’s New Plays for Young Audiences will present staged readings of Nasty, a new play that explores the online and offline worlds of adolescent teenage girls, on June 13 and 14 at the Black Box Theatre, 82 Washington Square East. The production runs on Saturday at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 3 p.m. [Subway: A, C, D, E, F (West 4th St.)] Read more »

Twenty-four county leaders and one state association executive director came to New York City last week from counties as near as Westchester County, N.Y., and as far as Santa Barbara, CA, to complete the 6th Annual County Leadership Institute (CLI). This rigorous four-day program focused on how elected county officials can exercise leadership to address the complex challenges facing counties. Read more »

John J. Donnellan, director of VA New York Harbor Health Care System, has been named to the newly established “Robert Derzon Chair in Health & Public Service” at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. His selection as the Robert Derzon Professor of Practice in Health and Public Service provides a new research lens at NYU Wagner on veterans and VA issues as well as medical management and ethics issues. Read more »

New York University’s second annual “Green Apple Move Out” (GAMO) collection project for NYU Residence Halls was a tremendous success. Students moving out this spring were able to drop off their unwanted and gently used items in designated locations in their residence halls for collection and donation to Goodwill Industries. A record 73 tons of material was collected this year. Read more »

New York University will host a three-day workshop, “High-Frequency Finance and Quantitative Strategies,” June 10-12, at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (251 Mercer Street, Room 109 [enter on Gould Plaza on West Fourth Street at Greene Street]). Reporters interested in attending the workshop must RSVP to James Devitt, NYU’s Office of Public Affairs, at 212.998.6808 or james.devitt@nyu.edu. Read more »

NYU and the Archdiocese of New York have completed the long-discussed sale of the site of the former NYU Catholic Center. The site, on Washington Square South and Thompson Street, will be home to NYU’s Center for Academic and Spiritual Life, which will include spaces for religious observance, offices for NYU’s Chaplains’ Circle, classes, music rehearsals, and conferences, and will include space for an ongoing Catholic presence. Read more »

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• Cutting a Pie Is Not a Piece of Cake, Researchers Show . Read more »
• NYU Researchers Create Method to Precisely Glue Particles Together On the Micro- and Nano-Scale . Read more »
• NYU's Nissenbaum Releases Study On Use of Facial Recognition Technology. Read more »
• Simulating a Public Health Disaster Using Multiple Variables Can Assist Hospitals and Cities in Preparing for Worst-Case Scenarios, NYU Researchers Find . Read more »
• Snakes Use Friction and Redistribution of Their Weight to Slither on Flat Terrain . Read more »

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• Courant’s Deift, Who has Shown a Connection Between Quantum Physics and Solitaire, Elected to National Academy of Sciences . Read more »

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