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Free Speech Movement Leader Savio Fueled by "Religious Sensibility" Despite Rejection of Catholicism, Biography by NYU Historian Finds
Nov 05, 2009 — Mario Savio was fueled in by “religious sensibility,” despite his rejection of Catholicism as an adult, New York University historian Robert Cohen recounts in Freedom’s Orator (Oxford), the first biography of the Free Speech Movement leader. Read more »
NYU’S Gerson Available for Comment On Forces Affecting New Generations of Parents and Workers
Sep 03, 2009 — Economic uncertainty has given Labor Day 2009 a significance not felt in recent years. But underlying these circumstances are social and cultural, as well as economic, shifts that have been occurring for decades. Read more »
NYU’s Institute for Education and Social Policy Issues Report on NYC Leadership Academy
Aug 24, 2009 — Public elementary and middle schools in New York City led by “Aspiring Principals Program”-trained principals have achieved comparable or higher rates of student improvement than schools led by other new principals, according to a report released today by New York University’s Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP). These results were obtained even though APP-trained principals were more likely to be placed in chronically low-performing schools. Read more »
NYU's Easterly, Roubini Among Top 100 Twitter Users in International Affairs
Aug 17, 2009 — New York University 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 included 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. Read more »
On Power and Decision-Making: Research by NYU Professors Finds That People in Positions of Power Interpreted 9/11 Attacks Differently Than Ordinary Citizens
Aug 10, 2009 — A newly completed New York University study of public reaction to the 9/11 attacks concludes that people in positions of power, from government officials to managers working on Wall Street to military personnel, tended to interpret the events in more abstract terms and with more certainty and positivity than ordinary individuals. Read more »
NYU Game Center Announces the Appointment of Game Studies Scholar Jesper Juul as Visiting Professor
Jul 14, 2009 — The NYU Game Center, an independent multi-school center at New York University for the research, design, and development of digital games, established in fall 2008, has announced its first visiting faculty appointment, the Danish games studies scholar Jesper Juul. His position as visiting assistant arts professor is effective August 1, 2009. Juul is currently a video game lecturer and researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. Read more »
Simulating a Public Health Disaster Using Multiple Variables Can Assist Hospitals and Cities in Preparing for Worst-Case Scenarios, NYU Researchers Find
Jun 10, 2009 — 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 »
NYU's Grandin Chronicles Henry Ford's Attempt to Bring the American Midwest to the Brazilian Amazon in New Book
May 20, 2009 — At a time when Detroit’s status as a hub of the automobile industry is in grave doubt comes a book by New York University History Professor Greg Grandin that chronicles a little-known Henry Ford endeavor aimed at creating a more perfect American company town in the Brazilian Amazon-and, with it, a Midwestern America of the automaker’s imagination. Read more »
NYU Nursing Expert Available to Comment on Swine Flu Outbreak
Apr 29, 2009 — Epidemiologist Dr. Ann Kurth has tips on things you can do to reduce risk of acquisition transmission of the influenza virus Read more »
Courant’s Deift, Who has Shown a Connection Between Quantum Physics and Solitaire, Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Apr 29, 2009 — Percy Deift, a professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington, D.C.-based organization announced today. Deift’s work has shown a powerful similarity between a simple form of solitaire and random matrices, a mathematical tool originally developed to decipher the quantum behavior of large atoms. Read more »