Alfred Bloom, President of Swarthmore, to Lead NYU Abu Dhabi
On September 29, 2008, NYU announced the appointment of Alfred H. Bloom, the highly respected president of Swarthmore College, as Vice Chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi. While completing his term as Swarthmore’s president, he will serve as a consultant; he will assume full-time leadership of NYU Abu Dhabi in August 2009. NYU Abu Dhabi’s first students will arrive in fall 2010. Read more »
“A Plan for Action,” Co-Authored by NYU’s Center on International Cooperation, Calls for a New Era of International Cooperation to Address Today’s Most Urgent Challenges
“A Plan for Action,” a report prepared by the Managing Global Insecurity (MGI) Project, is a comprehensive set of foreign policy recommendations to address the most critical challenges facing the world today. For more on the project and for a copy of the report, go to: http://www.cic.nyu.edu Read more »
“Allow Me to Introduce Myself” The Devil Notebooks, Book Talk at NYU, Dec. 9
A reading by Laurence A. Rickels, Visiting Professor in the New York University Department of German Languages and Literature, with images by Nancy Barton, chair of NYU Steinhardt School’s Department of Art and Art Professions, will take place on Dec. 9, at 6:30 p.m., 3rd floor, NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.2596. Read more »
Centennial Concert: Olivier Messiaen "Quartet for the End of Time" at NYU, Dec. 10
The Alliance Players, a chamber music group of prominent soloists and former players of the world’s leading ensembles, opens a new series of concerts at New York University’s Maison Française with the performance of Olivier Messiaen’s monumental work, Quartet for the End of Time, celebrating the centennial of the composer’s birth. Tickets for the concert are $20, general public; and $10 for NYU students with a current ID. For further information and to make a reservation, call 212.998.8750. Read more »
Brain Imaging Study Shows How Mind Adjusts in Threatening and Safe Circumstances
Researchers at New York University and Princeton University have mapped out how the brain responds to situations that once generated fear, but are subsequently seen as safe or non-threatening. The research, which appears in the Journal of Neuroscience, may enhance our understanding of how to treat clinical fear disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Read more »
Exhibition of Photographs by Alumna Alexandra Diracles Goes on View at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
Under Observation: Portraits of Young Mothers will remain on view through January 10, 2009 in the Window Gallery at 721 Broadway. Work in this gallery can be viewed from the sidewalk at 721 Broadway at Waverly Place. For further information, call 212.998.1930, or visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu Read more »
NYU’s Maison Française Hosts Special Events in December
La Maison Française of New York University, located at 16 Washington Mews, will host several special events in December, including a December 10 centennial concert featuring Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time, ” presented by the Alliance Players. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information, call 212.998.8750. Read more »
Supreme Court of the United States Grants Cert in Case in which Law School’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Filed First Amicus Brief
The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in a case in which New York University School of Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law filed its first amicus curiae brief. The Court will review a lower court’s ruling in U.S. v. Abuelhawa, in which petitioner Salman Khade Abuelhawa was convicted under a federal statute for using his cell phone to purchase drugs for personal use, conduct the statute was not intended to reach. Read more »
Statement by NYU’s Alicia Hurley, VP for Gov’t Relations and Community Engagement, on Landmarking of Silver Towers Site
“The University supported the designation of site - with its three I.M. Pei residential towers - and testified in favor of it in June 2008. For NYU, our support for this landmarking action is part and parcel of our ongoing commitment to stewardship, which has been demonstrated by our support for landmarking the Brown Building, our support for the South Village Historic District, our careful stewardship of the Washington Square’s North Row and the Mews, preserving the Provincetown Playhouse, and our receipt of a Getty Foundation Campus Heritage Grant.” Read more »
NYU's Creative Writing Program Fall Reading Series Concludes with 3 Events in December
The New York University Creative Writing Program Fall 2008 Reading Series concludes in December with three special events. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu. Read more »
NYU Remains Leader in Attracting International Students, Sending Students to Study Abroad, New Report Finds
New York University remains one of the top American universities in both attracting international students and in sending students to study abroad, according to a new report by the Institute of International Education (IIE). The report, “Open Doors 2008,” underscores the transformation of NYU as a “Global Network University”- it maintains study abroad sites on five continents that are fully integrated with each other and are connected to NYU in New York. Read more »
Richard Epstein, One of the World's Most Prolific Legal Scholars, to Join NYU School of Law
Professor Richard Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will join NYU School of Law as a permanent member of the faculty in the fall of 2010. Read more »
NYU Sociologist Conley to Deliver Public Lecture, “The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and he Health-Socioeconomic Relationship,” Dec. 1
The event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required for entry and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For questions, the public may call 212.998.2190. Read more »
NYU's Deutsches Haus Hosts Two Special Events in December
Deutsches Haus at New York University, located at 42 Washington Mews (at University Place), will host two special events in December. They are free and open to the public. For further information, call 212.998.8663. Read more »
Education Panel Explores Barriers to Learning, Friday, Nov. 14
The talk will be held at NYU in Lipton Hall in the D’Agostino Hall, 110 West Third Street (between Sullivan and MacDougal Sts.) on Fri., Nov. 14 from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. [Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street); R, W (8th Street); 6 (Astor Place)] Read more »
NYU Biologist Bonneau Named Among 20 “Visionary” Scientists Under 40 by Discover Magazine
New York University Biologist Richard Bonneau has been named one of 20 “visionary” scientists under the age of 40 by Discover magazine. Bonneau, 33, is an assistant professor who holds appointments at NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and the university’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The story, “Best Brains in Science 2008,” appears in Discover’s December issue. Read more »
NYU Wagner Professor Paul C. Light Debuts Column in Washington Post
Paul C. Light, Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University and author of the 2008 book A Government Ill Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It, has launched a partnership with the Washington Post during the presidential transition, entitled “The NYU Wagner Presidential Transition Project.” Read more »
NYU Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry Say: “It’s Never Too Late to Quit,” Nov. 20
Free Cessation Health Day celebrates the 32nd annual “Great American Smoke Out,” Thursday, November 20, 2008, from 9am to 3pm in the College of Dentistry lobby and commons, 345 East 24th Street, NYC. The event is free and the public is encouraged to stop by. For further information, the public may call the NYU Nursing Faculty Practice Smoking Cessation Program at 212-998-9420. Read more »
NYU Response to Senators Baucus and Grassley
For the full text of the report, click here (pdf). Read more »
- “A Plan for Action,” Co-Authored by NYU’s Center on International Cooperation, Calls for a New Era of International Cooperation to Address Today’s Most Urgent Challenges . Read more »
- Brain Imaging Study Shows How Mind Adjusts in Threatening and Safe Circumstances. Read more »
- Supreme Court of the United States Grants Cert in Case in which Law School’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Filed First Amicus Brief . Read more »
- Lead Flapping Objects Experience Less Wind Resistance Than Their Trailing Counterparts, NYU and Cornell Researchers Find. Read more »
- NYU College of Dentistry’s Dr. Racquel Z. Legeros Awarded $3.23 Million From the NIH to Continue Osteoporosis Research . Read more »
- NYU Biologist Bonneau Named Among 20 “Visionary” Scientists Under 40 by Discover Magazine . Read more »
- NYU Wagner Professor Paul C. Light Debuts Column in Washington Post. Read more »
- Video Interview: Wagner’s Paul C. Light Comments on the 2008 Presidential Transition . Read more »
- NYU Steinhardt’s Balter on How to Talk to Your Kids About the Financial Crisis . Read more »
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