Press Releases : Faculty of Arts and Science
May 08, 2008
Three NYU Faculty Named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s “Top 100 Public Intellectuals” List
May 01, 2008
Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals Report Higher Levels of Civic Engagement, Interest in Politics Than Americans Overall
May 01, 2008
Scholars at NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies Available for Comment On "Israel at 60"
Apr 29, 2008
AAAS Elects Three NYU Faculty As 2008 Fellows
Apr 28, 2008
“At Home with Their Books,” Mural of New York Writers by Artist Elena Climent, Unveiled at NYU May 1
Apr 21, 2008
NYU Researchers Identify New Class of Photoreceptors in Retina, Pointing to New Ways Sights-and Smells-Are Regulated
Apr 18, 2008
Readings & “The Art of Translation” Conclude NYU’s Creative Writing Program Spring Series in May
Apr 17, 2008
New School Prayer Cases Reignite Public Debate Over Religion in the Public Schools, Says NYU Professor
Apr 15, 2008
NYU's Issues in Technology Management Series Features Credit Suisse Executive Yatko, April 30
Apr 11, 2008
Human Mind Product of Chaotic Evolutionary Path, NYU Psychology Professor Concludes in New Book
Mar 31, 2008
NYU’s 2008 Humanities Festival-“Climate of Concern”-Showcases Coral Reef Project with April 20 Symposium
Mar 28, 2008
NYU's 2008 Humanities Festival to Feature Nine Plays in Three Days with Global Warming Themes, April 21-23
Mar 26, 2008
NYU Conference, Featuring Two Nobel Laureates, Weighs the Foundations and Future of Economics
Mar 20, 2008
NYU's Department of German, Institute of Fine Arts Receive Gifts to Establish Professorship, Lecture, and Fellowship
Mar 20, 2008
Uzi Dayan, Former Chairman of Israeli National Security Council, to Deliver NYU Lecture, April 14
Mar 17, 2008
Supreme Court Decisions and Public Opinion Examined in New Book Co-Edited by NYU Political Scientist
Mar 17, 2008
NYU Chemist Seeman Recognized for Founding, Establishing the Field of Structural DNA Nanotechnology
Mar 14, 2008
Pete Hamill Book Signing for Liebling: World War II Writings at NYU’s Department of Journalism, March 31
Feb 27, 2008
NYU’s Issues in Technology Management Series Features Former IBM Research Chief Paul Horn, March 5
Feb 21, 2008
NYU Psychology Professor Davachi Available for Comment On Memory and Upcoming "Vantage Point"
Feb 19, 2008
Coral Reef Project Lecture and Workshop, at NYU March 1 & 2, Seeks to Highlight Global Warming
Feb 19, 2008
NYU-Hosted Workshop Considers How to Predict Future Changes in Sea Level As a Result of Climate Change, Feb. 22 & 23
Feb 15, 2008
NYU Celebrates Medieval Thinker Ramon Llull Mar. 6-7 in Symposium “A Mind for the Ages”
Feb 15, 2008
NYU Creative Writing Program & Poetry Society of America Host “The New Salon: Poets in Conversation”
Feb 13, 2008
NYU Roundtable On I.F. Stone Includes Peter Osnos, Robert Kaiser, and Jeremy Stone, March 12
Feb 11, 2008
NYU, Tel Aviv University Create Non-Invasive Imaging Method for Diagnosing, Monitoring Osteoarthritis
Feb 08, 2008
NYU to Host “The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60,” March 6-7
Jan 29, 2008
NYU's Creative Writing Program Celebrates Valentine's Day with Readings From the Best American Erotic Poems
Jan 28, 2008
Faculty From NYU’s Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Program Available for Comment On HBO’s “In Treatment”
Jan 25, 2008
"String Talks," a Reading & Performance with Poet Anne Carson at NYU's Skirball Center, Feb. 8
Jan 17, 2008
NYU Professor's "Mathematics and Democracy" Offers Mathematical Solutions to the Electoral Process
Jan 16, 2008
NYU’s Issues in Technology Management Series Features Verizon Executive Kheradpir, Feb. 6
Jan 15, 2008
NYU Public Opinion Researchers Available for Comment On America's Willingness to Vote for Black President
Jan 14, 2008
"Matinee Readings," New Series Hosted by NYU Creative Writing Program, Offers Literary Lunches in Greenwich Village
Jan 04, 2008
“Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic” Opens at Museum of Jewish Heritage Feb. 17
Jan 02, 2008
Bhutto Assassination Aims to Destabilize Pakistan's Government, Rubin Argues in Wall Street Journal Op/Ed
Dec 19, 2007
"How Do You Make a Museum From Garbage?"--NYU & NYC Dept. Of Sanitation Lecture, Jan. 10 & 13
Nov 21, 2007
NYU Neuroscientists Show Naturally Occurring Chemical in Brain Enhances Visual Processing
Nov 16, 2007
NYU's Center for Dialogues Report Offers Roadmap for Improved Relations with Muslims in the West
Nov 14, 2007
NYU's Nagle Notes Shortcomings of Household Recycling, Available for Comment On Benefits of "America Recycles Day"
Nov 06, 2007
Two New Books On Asia by NYU's Denoon Focus On Region's Economic and Strategic Developments
Nov 06, 2007
NY Poetry Community Celebrates Acclaimed Poet Philip Levine in an 80th Birthday Tribute, Nov. 29
Nov 02, 2007
NYU Physicist Wins Presidential Early Career Award
Nov 02, 2007
NYU Hosts Symposium On Molecular Semiconductors in Honor of 2006 Davy Medal Winner Martin Pope, Nov. 30
Oct 25, 2007
NYU to Host Roundtable--"Muslim Youth and Women in the West: Source of Concern or Source of Hope?"--Nov. 6
Oct 25, 2007
Former Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt On “The Incredible Shrinking Woman,” at NYU, Nov. 7
Oct 19, 2007
Natalie Portman, NYU's William Easterly Dialogue On Microfinancing and Global Poverty, Oct. 23
Oct 16, 2007
A Dialogue On Environmental Journalism-"Troubled Land: Who's Watching Over Russia's Environment?"-At NYU, Nov. 5
Oct 04, 2007
NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies Co-Sponsors Inaugural "Other Israel Film Festival" Nov. 8-15
Sep 25, 2007
"Moral Obligations and Social Commands" Topic of NYU's 8th Annual Frumkes Lecture, Oct. 29
Sep 17, 2007
NYU Professor Explores Controversial High Court's Decision Banning Organized School Prayer
Sep 17, 2007
NYU Lecture On "Why Stoic Thinking On Justice Is Important" Draws Cypriot President Papadopoulos, Sept. 24
Sep 10, 2007
Liberals More Likely Than Conservatives to Break From Habitual Responses, NYU Psychology Study Finds
Sep 07, 2007
"Tempest Tossed"--Two Evenings Devoted to Shakespeare's Great Late Play the Tempest, Oct. 1 & 2 at NYU
Aug 31, 2007
Genome Pioneer Venter Keynotes NYU Symposium On Momentous Impact of "Designer Microbes", Sept. 29
Aug 22, 2007
NYU's Venkatesh, 25, Wins Prize Given to Young Mathematicians for Work in Field of Analysis
Aug 22, 2007
Study Sees Potential ‘Reverse Brain Drain’ of Skilled U.S. Immigrant Entrepreneurs Back to Home Country
Aug 08, 2007
Exciting New Kenyan Fossils Challenge Established Views on Early Evolution of Our Genus Homo
Aug 02, 2007
Media & Technology Expert Joins NYU Faculty
Aug 01, 2007
NYU & LIU’s Palmer School Receive Federal Grant for Innovative Dual Degree Program for Scholar-Librarians
May 23, 2007
NYU Launches Molecular Design Institute with Lecture by National Medal of Science Winner, May 30
May 04, 2007
Documentary Filmmaking and Human Rights Focus of NYU's Center for Religion and Media Conference, May 17-19
Apr 30, 2007
Francis Crick and John Nash Biographers Discuss Life and Legacy of Nobel Laureates at NYU, May 8
Apr 06, 2007
NYU's Lewent Symposium Explores International Relations in the Ancient World, April 17-18
Mar 30, 2007
NYU Scientists Identify How Development of Different Species Uses Same Genes with Distinct Features
Mar 19, 2007
Two NYU Scientists Receive Nanotechnology Grant
Mar 16, 2007
NYU Brain Imaging Study Shows Fears Learned Through Observation Similar to Fears From Direct Experience
Mar 14, 2007
NYU’s April 12 Roundtable, “Breaking the Color Barrier in Corporate America,” Focuses on Pepsi-Cola in the 1940s
Mar 09, 2007
NYU Conference On German Jews in the U.S., Germany From Pre-WWII to the Present, March 25-27
Mar 07, 2007
NYU’s Institute of African American Affairs Hosts Filmmaker Greaves for Series of Screenings, Discussions
Feb 28, 2007
NYU Study Shows Diminished Sense of Moral Outrage Key to Maintaining View That World Is Fair and Just
Feb 01, 2007
NYU to Host "Islamic Ethical Principles and Globalization," a Lecture by Ethan Allen Ceo Kathwari, Feb. 27
Jan 24, 2007
"How Israelis and Arabs Perceive Each Other in the Media" Focus of NYU's Taub Center Lecture, Feb. 21
Jan 24, 2007
New Nanotechnology Able to Examine Single Molecules, Aiding in Determining Gene Expression
Jan 06, 2007
Ibm's Paul Horn to Deliver Public Lecture, "the Changing Nature of Innovation," at NYU April 11
Dec 18, 2006
NYU Brain Imaging Study Shows Those Closer To World Trade Center Have More Vivid Memories When Recalling 9/11
Nov 29, 2006
NYU's Sennett Wins Germany's Hegel Prize
Nov 20, 2006
NYU Senior Kevin Shenderov Named Rhodes Scholar
Nov 20, 2006
NYU's Tony Judt to Deliver "Disturbing the Peace: Intellectuals and Universities in an Illiberal Age," Dec. 4
Nov 16, 2006
"Paule Marshall & the New Generation Series" at NYU Introduces Three Emerging African Writers, Dec. 7
Nov 06, 2006
NYU's Nov. 13 Frumkes Lecture Postponed
Nov 06, 2006
NYU's Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book On Drama or Theatre Awarded to Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Nov 02, 2006
Sociology's Calhoun to Deliver University Professorship Lecture On "Humanitarian Emergencies," Nov. 14
Oct 23, 2006
NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies to Host "Missing Soldiers and the Politics of Friendship in Israel"
Oct 18, 2006
NYU Professor Available for Comment On Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Board of Trade Merger
Oct 12, 2006
NYU, Columbia Book Features Censored Photos by Dorothea Lange of Japanese-American Internment
Sep 28, 2006
Feminist Theorist Cixous to Deliver Lecture, “The Infinite Taste of Dreams,” Oct. 12 at NYU
Sep 28, 2006
Journalists at Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Biloxi Sun Herald Head NYU Roundtable On Katrina Coverage
Sep 27, 2006
Author Mark Danner to Deliver 2006 Remarque Lecture, “The Politics of the Forever War,” at NYU
Sep 19, 2006
Massimo D’Alema, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, at NYU’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, Sept. 21
Sep 15, 2006
Tanzanian President Kikwete at NYU Forum, Sept. 19
Sep 14, 2006
OAS Secretary General Miguel Insulza Speaks With Jorge Castañeda in Sept. 21 Dialogue at NYU
Sep 12, 2006
Former French Ambassador to Deliver Lecture On French and American Political Cultures Ahead of U.S. Elections
Sep 11, 2006
"God's Elect? Religion, Media and Elections in the Americas" Film Series at NYU This Fall
Aug 29, 2006
NYU Launches 9/11 Memory Database
Aug 29, 2006
NYU Hosts Chinese Documentary Film Festival
Aug 23, 2006
Readings by Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards Winners Open NYU Creative Writing Fall Series, Sept. 15
Aug 10, 2006
"Democracy Re-Examined" Focus of NYU Lecture
Jun 12, 2006
NYU Researchers Decorate Virus Particles, Showing Potential to Enhance MRI Capabilities
Jun 08, 2006
NYU, International Group of Museum Professionals Head to Museum of Jewish Heritage As Part of Three-Week Program
Jun 08, 2006
NYU’s Haykel Available for Comment On Al-Zarqawi
May 10, 2006
American Public Opinion On U.S. Participation in International Courts and Tribunals to Be Released May 11
May 08, 2006
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Menchú at NYU, May 17
Apr 27, 2006
Three From NYU Named 2006 Carnegie Scholars
Apr 25, 2006
NYU Visiting Scholar Michels to Deliver "Liberalism and Consensus in American Jewish History," May 3
Apr 24, 2006
NYU, Austrian Researchers Create Non-Invasive Imaging Method with Advantages Over Conventional MRI
Apr 20, 2006
Body Counts/Bodies Count-NYU Conference Explores Role of Body in War, Social Change, and Religion
Apr 17, 2006
New York University & Long Island University Collaborate On Innovative Dual Degree Program for Scholar-Librarians
Apr 14, 2006
Bernard-Henri Levy to Deliver May 9 Lecture at NYU
Apr 12, 2006
Join NYU's Africa House and the John Brademas Center at NYU Wagner for a Forum On "Who Makes Policy On Africa?"
Apr 11, 2006
NYU Celebrates Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Apr. 27
Mar 29, 2006
Swedish Poet Tomas Tranströmer to Receive Jean Kennedy Smith NYU Creative Writing Award On Apr. 17
Mar 22, 2006
Israeli Artists Take Graffiti From the Streets…and to Museums and Boardrooms in NYU Bronfman Center Exhibit
Mar 10, 2006
NYU Panel On American Muslims and National Security Draws Dept. Of Homeland Security, ACLU, and Others
Mar 09, 2006
NYU Scientists Identify Key Factor in How Fruit Fly Color Receptor Cells Randomly "Decide" Their Type
Feb 18, 2006
NYU’s Childress Demonstrates Tool for Studying Hovering Flight at International Science Meeting
Feb 16, 2006
Study Suggests That Publicly Available Genome Data May Contain Small but Significant Errors
Feb 14, 2006
NYU, with Getty Foundation Support, Creates Summer Institute for International Group of Museum Professionals
Feb 10, 2006
Before "Brokeback Mountain: "Laramie Inside Out" Screening/Discussion On Shepard Murder, Hate Crimes
Feb 01, 2006
NYU’s Center On International Cooperation Receives $1.2 Million Grant From the Ford Foundation
Jan 25, 2006
"The Pope, the Chief Rabbi, and Jewish Orphans After the Holocaust" Topic of Feb. 2 NYU Lecture
Jan 18, 2006
Washington Square Review Celebrates Winter 2006 Issue with Special Launch Reading & Benefit, Feb. 10
Jan 17, 2006
NYU's Seeman Named Winner of 2005 World Technology Award After Woo Suk Hwang Stripped of Honor
Jan 10, 2006
NYU’s Ledoux Wins Fyssen Foundation’s International Prize for Work On Neural Basis of Emotions
Dec 14, 2005
Physicists Find Evidence for Highest Energy Photons Ever Detected From Milky Way’s Equator
Dec 14, 2005
Fluid Particles Irreversible in Some Circumstances, Physicists Report in This Week's Nature
Dec 14, 2005
NYU's Silver Co-Creator of "Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama," at Jewish Museum Through April 2006
Dec 01, 2005
Communications Executive Cisneros to Speak at NYU As Part of Latin American Leaders Series
Nov 21, 2005
Experts Debate at NYU: "The Opportunities and Challenges of Education in Globalized Society"
Nov 03, 2005
“The Effects of Terrorism On World Capitals” Brings Experts, Officials From U.N., NYFD, and NYU’s School of Medicine
Nov 02, 2005
NYU Graduate Creative Writing Faculty Present Annual Share Our Strength Benefit Reading, Dec. 1
Oct 28, 2005
NYU's Seeman Named Member of World Technology Network, Contender for 2005 World Technology Award
Oct 24, 2005
Nobel Laureate Phillips, Historian Holton Highlight NYU Symposium: 100th Anniversary of Einstein’s
Oct 19, 2005
NYU's "Immigration" Draws Writer Dorfman, Spanish Foreign Secretary, Minister of Justice, and Others
Oct 16, 2005
NYU-Cornell Study Finds That Perceptions of Morality Influence Economic Decisions and Brain Responses to Rewards
Oct 14, 2005
Why Do They Hate Us? They Used to Love Us! A Debate On U.S. Public Diplomacy and Its Challenges in the Muslim World
Oct 05, 2005
NYU Hosts Colloquium On Francophone Theater, Oct. 28
Sep 21, 2005
NYU’s “Security and Defense” Draws Fmr. Sen. Kerrey, Spain’s Defense Chief, OAS Secretary General
Sep 16, 2005
NYU to Host “Gaza Withdrawal and After - Implications for Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East”
Sep 06, 2005
NYU to Host “Situating Sartre,” Sept. 29-Oct. 1
Aug 30, 2005
Self-Help, Inc., by NYU's Mcgee, Says Americans Overworked and Work On Themselves to Stay Employable
Aug 12, 2005
NYU Sociologists Capture National Awards
Aug 02, 2005
U.S. Census Stands Apart From World in Classifying Race and Ethnicity, NYU Research Shows
Jul 28, 2005
NYU’S Feldman Available for Comment On IRA
Jul 12, 2005
"Terrorism, Media, Liberation" Analyzes Role Mass Media Should Play in Depicting Violent Acts
Jun 30, 2005
NYU’s Center for Comparative Functional Genomics Helps to Unravel the Function of MicroRNAs
May 18, 2005
NYU Chemist Wins Teaching & Research Award
May 13, 2005
NYU’s Conley Wins NSF’s Waterman Award
Apr 20, 2005
NYU to Host "Genomes in Action" On April 25
Apr 14, 2005
NYU to Host "Democracy, Education, and the Classics"
Apr 14, 2005
Two NYU Professors Win Guggenheim Fellowships
Apr 14, 2005
NYU Chemist Wins Watson Young Investigator Award
Apr 13, 2005
"Torture, Truth, and Survival" Focus of NYU Panel
Apr 07, 2005
NYU to Host “The End of French History?” April 22
Apr 05, 2005
Poet Jean Valentine to Receive Jean Kennedy Smith NYU Creative Writing Award On Apr. 21
Apr 04, 2005
NYU to Host "1929: Mapping the Jewish World"
Apr 01, 2005
NYU to Host Panel, Book Signing On Spanish Judge Garzón’s a World Without Fear, April 13
Apr 01, 2005
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka Headlines "Africa & the World: The Writer's Role" at NYU, Apr. 19
Mar 30, 2005
NYU Hosts Conference On Rousseau's "Discourse On the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men", Apr. 8
Mar 09, 2005
NYU and MSKCC Research Provides Model for Understanding Chemically Induced Cancer Initiation
Mar 02, 2005
NYU's Brams to Discuss Adjusted Winner Formula in Context of Israeli-Palestinian Issue, March 14
Feb 24, 2005
"Academic Freedom in a Time of Conflict" to Feature Columbia's Khalidi, NYU's Hertzberg
Feb 18, 2005
NYU’S Dvali Says Change in Laws of Gravity, Not ‘Dark Energy,’ Source of Cosmic Acceleration
Feb 16, 2005
NYU Book Launch of Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It, March 7
Feb 15, 2005
'Yellow Peril' Collector to Head Feb. 17 Discussion at NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute
Jan 31, 2005
Researchers Find New Genes Necessary to Make Embryo
Jan 25, 2005
Pollitt, Frank Head "Culture Wars" Roundtable at NYU
Jan 14, 2005
NYU Researchers Simulate Molecular Biological Clock
Jan 07, 2005
NYU Experts Available for Comment On Tsunami
Jan 01, 2005
NYU’s Willis Wins Inaugural Fletcher Fellowship
Dec 16, 2004
NYU Chemists Create Dna Translation Machine
Dec 09, 2004
NYU’S Mcgee, Author of Forthcoming Self-Help, Inc., Available for Comment On Consumer Culture
Dec 06, 2004
Benefit Reading for Washington Square Dec. 17 Features James Frey, Matthew Rohrer & Hannah Tinti
Dec 02, 2004
Cyprus' Ambassador to U.S. At NYU Dec. 3
Dec 01, 2004
Robert Pinsky, Cynthia Ozick, Louise GlÜCk Head NYU's Celebration of 100 Issues of the Threepenny Review
Nov 30, 2004
NYU's Jones, Deputy Research Director of U.N.'S High-Level Threats Panel, Available for Comment On Dec. 2 Report
Nov 22, 2004
Experiencing Highly Emotional Event Enhances Feeling of Remembering, but Not Accuracy, NYU Study Shows
Nov 08, 2004
NYU Announces Major Hires in Physics
Nov 05, 2004
"Scholarship and Politics" Topic of NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies' Inaugural Lecture
Nov 05, 2004
"Scholarship and Politics" Topic of NYU's Taub Center for Israel Studies' Inaugural Lecture
Jun 06, 2003
Researchers from NYU and Syracuse University Demonstrate The Remarkable Inefficiency of Word Recognition
Feb 05, 2002
New York University Hails "Perfect Gift" That Will Transform Its Faculty of Arts and Science and the University
Mar 27, 1998
Internationally Acclaimed Writers André Aciman & Francine Du Plessix Gray to Read at NYU Apr. 23