Transgender People Who Are Denied Mental Health Care Can Be at Higher Risk of Self-Harm, Study Led by NYU Researcher Finds
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Analysis of data from National Transgender Discrimination Survey.
East Meets West: Chinese and Other Asian Students Studying Abroad in the U.S. -- Apr. 16
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An academic conference at NYU looks at the challenges and opportunities facing Asian international students studying abroad in the United States.
Keeping Track of Your FICO Score Leads to Better Financial Decision Making, According to NYU Wagner Researcher
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Large-scale field experiment sees credit-score awareness as path to improved financial health.
Most of the U.S. Falls Short of Recommended Air Quality Standards; Study Provides Local Estimates of the Health Impacts of Air Pollution
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Thousands of deaths could be avoided through the utilization of a tougher standard for air quality in America's metropolitan areas, a New York University/American Thoracic Society report concludes.
New Study Examines Feelings of Inclusion Among Students with Disabilities
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Study led by NYU researcher Leanna Stiefel looks at steps that education policymakers and practitioners can take “to make inclusion in fact feel … inclusive.”
Researchers Uncover Our Brain’s Filing System for Storing Experiences
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A team of neuroscientists has uncovered how our brains organize, over time, our experiences: that is, according to their similarities.
Researchers Work to Save “Monkey Island” Damaged by Hurricane Maria
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Researchers from a multi-national group universities are working together to save a scientific resource that was badly damaged in Hurricane Maria—a population of rhesus monkeys living on a remote island off the coast of Puerto Rico—and the staff and facilities that support them.
Chemists Make Playdough/Lego-Like Hybrid to Create Tiny Building Blocks
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Playdough and Legos are among the most popular childhood building blocks. But what could you use if you wanted to create something really small—a structure less than the width of a human hair? It turns out, a team of NYU chemists has found, this can be achieved by creating particles that have both playdough and Lego traits.
NYU Steinhardt Awarded More Than $4 Million from National Science Foundation for STEM Education Research
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development three grants totaling more than $4 million for research working to improve computer science and computational thinking in elementary and middle schools.
Chemists Get Step Closer to Replicating Nature with Assembly of New 3D Structures
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A team of NYU chemists has created a series of three-dimensional structures that take a step closer to resembling those found in nature.