NYU Medical Center Changes Name to Honor Chairman of Board & Wife
New York, April 16, 2008- NYU Medical Center today announced it will be renamed the NYU Elaine A. and Kenneth G. Langone Medical Center, in honor of the chairman of its board of trustees and his wife, whose unrestricted $200 million gift is the largest in the Medical Center’s history. Read more »
NYU Journalism Department Becomes the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute
Original Works of Art by Carter to be Installed on the Occasion of the Institute’s Naming Read more »
CCPR Investigators Available for Comment and Interview on Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna, and Ike.
New York University’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response (CCPR) supports 10 independent studies looking at the impacts of hurricanes on society including several studies that were established in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The investigators of these projects are available for comments and interviews. Read more »
Author David Rieff to Speak at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge, Sept. 10
The Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK) at NYU will host a dialogue, which launches the institute’s Humanitarian Action Seminar, with author and journalist David Rieff on Wed., Sept. 10, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Rieff will be joined in dialogue by University Professor and IPK Director Craig Calhoun. The event will be held in NYU’s Jurow Lecture Hall, Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East at Waverly Place. The event is free and open the public. RSVP to ipk.info@nyu.edu. Call 212-992-9561 for more information. Read more »
NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, American Museum of Natural History Receive $1.6 Million NSF Grant to Explore Plant Evolution, Create Public Database
New York University and the American Museum of Natural History have received a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to explore plant evolution and to create a public database that provides information about the structure and inferred function of proteins found in two plant genomes. The three-year grant will allow the researchers at both institutions to investigate ground-breaking methods for exploring the evolution, structure, and function of proteomes— the entire array of proteins expressed by a genome. Read more »
NYU's Creative Writing Fall 2008 Reading Series Continues in September
The New York University Creative Writing Program Fall 2008 Reading Series continues in September with a number of special readings and events. Most events are held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, located at 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816. Read more »
NYU Skirball Center Presents the New York Premiere of “the break/s” by Hip-Hop Performance Poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph
The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University will officially kick off the 2008-09 season with Hip-Hop performance poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s newest work, the break/s: a mixtape for stage, in a four-performances-only New York premiere September 23, 25, 26 & 27 at 8 PM. Tickets are $40. Read more »
NYU's Glucksman Ireland House Hosts Special Events in September
Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, located at One Washington Mews (at Fifth Avenue), will host several special events in September, including a reading by poets Chris Agee and Sinéad Morrissey from The New North, an anthology of Northern Irish poetry, on September 30. Admission is free to members of Ireland House and those with an NYU ID; for all others, $10 admission to regular events and $15 for Blarney Star Concert Series events. To reserve a seat, call 212.998.3950. Read more »
NYU Photo Exhibit Marks 20th Anniversary of Partners in Health
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the renowned Partners In Health, the NYU Master’s Program in Global Public Health has mounted an exhibit of photographs documenting the Boston-based organization’s pioneering work bringing high-quality medical care to destitute communities. Read more »
NYU School of Law Launches Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
New York University School of Law has established the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, a non-partisan advocacy organization and think tank dedicated to the promotion of good government practices in criminal matters. The Center analyzes critical issues in criminal law, particularly prosecutorial power and discretion, and uses that information to produce scholarship, to participate in important litigation, and to influence public policy. Read more »
NYU School of Law’s Center On Law and Security Hosts “The Enemy Combatants Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War On Terror,” Sept. 3
New York University School of Law’s Center on Law and Security will host “The Enemy Combatants Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror” on Wednesday, September 3, 2008, at NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, Room 210, 40 Washington Square South (between Sullivan and Macdougal Streets). The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please call 212.992.8854 or e-mail cls@juris.law.nyu.edu. Read more »
NYU Response to Senators Baucus and Grassley
For the full text of the report, click here (pdf). Read more »
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Author David Rieff to Speak at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge
September 10 @ 6:30 PM
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