“Doing Science,” Rather than “Being Scientists,” More Encouraging to Those Underrepresented in the Field
Tagged in Education and Social Sciences Research Arts and Science
Over the course of a school year, elementary school children lose confidence that they can “be scientists,” but remain more confident that they can “do science."
New Event Series: Can We Afford to Eat in New York City?
Tagged in Education and Social Sciences Law and Policy Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Food Tank, Salon.com and NYU Steinhardt partner on evening speaker series in NYC. First guests include Joel Berg, Raymond Figueroa Jr., Qiana Mickie, Noreen Springstead and other prominent food figures.
NYU Marron Institute’s Constantine E. Kontokosta is a Google AI Impact Grantee
Tagged in Education and Social Sciences Urban Studies
The Institute will partner with FDNY to apply Artificial Intelligence to emergency response.
Women Leaders in Transportation - May 13
Tagged in Education and Social Sciences Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Four women holding major leadership positions in transportation in New York discuss their careers at panel discussion that will take place at NYU Wagner.
Sociologist Morning Available for Comment on the Census, the Citizenship Question, and Ethnicity
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Sociologist Ann Morning is available for comment on the potential impact of the proposed citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. Census and on established procedures for adopting census questions.
Some Children Find It Harder to Understand What Strangers Are Saying
Tagged in Education and Social Sciences Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Research
New research finds that children with poorer language skills are at a disadvantage when given tasks or being spoken to by strangers because they cannot, as easily as their peers, understand speech from people they do not know.
One Question: How Can Special Education Teachers and Parents Work Together?
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Natasha Strassfeld, assistant professor of special education, explores the benefits of effective partnerships between schools and families
Meaning Without Words: Gestures and Visual Animations Reveal Cognitive Origins of Linguistic Meaning
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Gestures and visual animations can help reveal the cognitive origins of meaning, indicating that our minds can assign a linguistic structure to new informational content “on the fly."
Whose Life Stories Are Being Neglected in Picture Books? – May 4
Tagged in Education and Social Sciences Campus and Community Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Teaching and Learning
NYU Steinhardt's Constantine Georgiou Library and Resource Center for Children and Literature will host a half-day symposium exploring diversity in picture book biographies.
Carter Journalism Institute’s Griswold Wins 2019 Pulitzer Prize for "Amity and Prosperity"
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Eliza Griswold, a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for "Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America".