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 »
First Group Selected as Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed University Scholars
Seventeen men and women have been named as the inaugural class of the “Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed University Scholars Program,” which recognizes outstanding students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and provides them with special academic and leadership opportunities. The Scholars program — named after His Highness, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi - is a major initiative of the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, which will be established in the fall of 2008 to jump-start academic and intellectual activities while the NYU Abu Dhabi campus is being developed. Read more »
Viral Complementation Allows HIV-1 Replication Without Integration, NYU Dental College Research Shows
Vital “cooperation” is shown to be a mode of retroviral replication, which allows the survival of viruses that would otherwise be “lost” because of a failure to integrate with a host’s DNA. Read more »
NYU Hosts “Simone de Beauvoir Week” Sept. 15-20
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s birth, New York University’s Center for French Civilization and Culture will host “Simone de Beauvoir Week” from September 15 to 20, featuring documentary films about Beauvoir, a theatrical presentation, and a major international conference entitled “All Said and Done/Tout Compte Fait.” Read more »
NYU's Richard Sennett Wins International Henkel Prize for Scholarship in Historical Humanities
New York University Professor Richard Sennett has been named the winner of the 2008 Gerda Henkel Prize, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement in the historical humanities. The prize includes a cash award of 100,000 euros ($160,000) and is given every two years by the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Düsseldorf, Germany. Read more »
NYU Professor Explores How Biblical and Prophetic Language May Serve Progressive Agenda in New Book
In American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (University of Minnesota, August), George Shulman, a professor at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, examines how biblical or prophetic discourse influences American politics and considers whether it can be re-worked for progressive purposes. Read more »
NYU Response to Senators Baucus and Grassley
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Statements by NYU School of Law’s Richard Revesz and Michael Livermore On: Supreme Court’s Exxon Valdez Decision and White House Refusal to Accept EPA Conclusion On Greenhouse Gases
On June 25, the Supreme Court reduced the punitive damages award against Exxon over the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, a decision which could have a profound effect on offshore drilling. Read more »
NYU School of Law’s Barkow Available for Comment On Supreme Court’s Rejection of Death Penalty for Child Rape
New York University School of Law Professor Rachel Barkow is available for comment on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision outlawing executions of people convicted of raping a child. Read more »
NYU Supports Designation of “University Village” as an NYC Landmark
In testimony before the Landmarks Preservation Commission today, Lynne P. Brown, NYU’s Sr. Vice President of University Relations and Public Affairs, conveyed the University’s support for the “University Village” site - with its three I.M. Pei residential buildings in a “tower in the park” design - to be designated a landmark. Read more »
Statement by NYU Provost David Mclaughlin On Regents’ Vote On NYU and Poly
“NYU is very gratified by today’s vote by the New York State Regents that enables NYU and Polytechnic University to move forward with their partnership. Our two institutions will be far stronger connected than either would be on its own.” Read more »
NYU Response to Senators Baucus and Grassley
For the full text of the report, click here (pdf). Read more »
- Viral Complementation Allows HIV-1 Replication Without Integration, NYU Dental College Research Shows . Read more »
- NYU Dental Researcher Finds Link Between Pregnancy and Tooth Loss . Read more »
- NYU's "Systems Biology Across All Scales" Symposium Explores the Field's Big Questions, May 30. Read more »
- NYU Wagner Professor Paul Light’s New Book Reveals Government at the Breaking Point - and Shows How to Fix It . Read more »
- Film Content, Editing, and Directing Style Affect Brain Activity, NYU Neuroscientists Show . Read more »
- NYU School of Law’s Barkow Available for Comment On Supreme Court’s Rejection of Death Penalty for Child Rape . Read more »
- In Letter, NYU Wagner Professor Paul Light Urges Presidential Candidates to Support “McCain-Obama Government for the 21st Century Act” . Read more »
- David Kirby, Bestselling Author On Vaccines and Autism, to Speak at NYU School of Law . Read more »
- NYU Authors of Selling War to America Available for Comment On McClellan’s Claims About Bush, Iraq War . Read more »
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