NYU Alumni & Friends Connect October 2018

It’s one thing to see a need that sparks an idea. But it requires much more to fan that spark into meaningful change. Every day, NYU alumni leverage their creativity and entrepreneurial vision for the greatest good. With more than half-a-million NYU alumni around the globe, we need your help to identify the 2019 NYU Alumni Changemakers and their impressive work. Nominate an NYU Alumni Changemaker today.

Did you know...? From Morse's telegraph to Def Jam Records and Kramer vs. Kramer, NYU alumni tell us some of their favorite fun facts about NYU. What's yours?

New York University congratulates NYU Stern professor Paul Romer, who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics Sciences, an honor which he shares this year with Yale University's William Nordhaus.

According the the MacArthur Foundation, Keene " is a fiction writer exploring the ways in which historical narratives shape contemporary lives while simultaneously re-envisioning these narratives from the perspectives of those whose voices have been suppressed. Through innovations in language and form, he imbues with multifaceted subjectivities those who have been denied nuanced histories within the story of the Americas—primarily people of color and queer people—and exposes the social structures that confine, enslave, or destroy them."

A new NYU Alumni Association president takes the helm (and his daughter is already decked out in #VioletPride); NYU alumni-owned businesses have your fall bucket list covered; an NYU alumna is the cinematographer behind the first-ever modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women; and more. Take a look at recent noteworthy news from our alumni community of newsmakers and changemakers.