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 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’S Courant Institute Part of $10 Million NSF Grant to Bridge Gaps in Understanding Power and Limits of Efficient Algorithms
New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and its institutional partners—Princeton and Rutgers universities and the Institute for Advanced Study—have received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation to bridge fundamental gaps in our understanding of the power and limits of efficient algorithms. Read more »
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram to Deliver the 12th Annual Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture, Sept. 8
The 12th annual Attorney General Robert Abrams Public Service Lecture at New York University School of Law will be delivered by New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram on Monday, September 8, 2008. Read more »
NYU’s Center for Global Affairs Announces Its September 2008 Events
The September 2008 schedule of events and lectures includes: Conversations with Clyde Haberman, NYC columnist for The New York Times; as well as the “Thursday Brown-bag Series,” Conflict, Security, and Development: Issues, Actors, and Approaches, a collaboration with NYU Wagner, and film events: Politics and Art in Cinema: The Winds of Change-Lives in the Balance Read more »
CCPR and PERI Study Finds Many U.S. Government, Business, and Nonprofit Organizations Ill-Prepared for a Crisis
Report Proposes New Approaches to Improve Crises Readiness; Rep. Peter King (R-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, calls for Continued Progress in Nation’s Preparedness Efforts Read more »
NYU School of Law's Randy Hertz Named Chair of American Bar Association's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Randy Hertz, director of clinical and advocacy programs and professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law, has been named chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. He will serve a one-year term. Read more »
NYU’s Center for Dialogues Explores Islam As Part of Europe’s Identity in Sept. 25 Panel Discussion
New York University’s Center for Dialogues: Islamic World - US - the West, in cooperation with the British Council, will host a panel discussion, “Our Shared Europe,” to highlight the policy implications of rethinking “European identity” as a shared and partly Muslim identity on Thurs., Sept. 25, 6:30-9:00 p.m. at NYU’s Casa Italiana, 24 West 12th Street (betw. 5th and 6th Avenues). Read more »
NYU to Offer Parking Reimbursement Again for Neighbors' Cars Displaced by Incoming Students
Sunday, August 24, 2008 is NYU’s annual “Move-In Day,” when thousands of students arrive at NYU residence halls for the start of the fall semester. Because of the volume of arriving students - many of them being dropped off by car with their belongings - parking is prohibited in front of NYU dorms on that day. Read more »
NYU’s Perlin Recognized for Innovations in Computer Graphics
New York University’s Ken Perlin, a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH) for his “broad contributions and impact across computer graphics,” the organization announced this week. Read more »
NYU's "Green" Projects and New Recommendations Highlighted in Sustainability Task Force Report for 2007-08
New York University’s Sustainability Task Force recently released its Annual Report, highlighting major successes for 2007-08 and submitting to the administration new recommendations to improve campus environmental performance and to further advance NYU along the path toward sustainability. 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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- 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 »
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