NYU Nationally Recognized for Commitment to Sustainability

New York University has won the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) annual Campus Sustainability Leadership Award in the four-year and graduate institutions over 15,000 full-time student category. The award recognized NYU as having made the greatest overall commitment to sustainability as demonstrated in its education and research, campus operations, and administration and finance. The award will be presented at the “Greening of the Campus VIII Conference,” Sept. 21 in Indianapolis. Read more »

Grammy Award nominated songwriter, record producer, and slide guitarist Derek Trucks and his band will take to the stage of the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University for one night on December 10, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. The group’s 2009 World Tour-featuring the release of Band’s latest album, Already Free-is winding down and has already taken them to more than a dozen countries on four continents. Read more »

New York University’s Petter Kolm, co-author of the forthcoming Quantitative Equity Investing: Techniques and Strategies, is available for comment on high-frequency trading and its use of algorithms as well as the practice of quantitative finance and asset management. Read more »

NYU College of Dentistry Professor Dr. Marcela Romero-Reyes has been selected by the Migraine Research Foundation and the American Headache Society as the first recipient of the Heftler Migraine Research Award for her innovative proposal to investigate whether a treatment for migraine headaches can also be used to manage orofacial pain disorders. Read more »

Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN is the Erline Perkins McGriff Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at New York University, has been elected to the membership of the Healthcare Executive Forum (HCEF), a membership of women executives in healthcare. Read more »

The New York University Creative Writing Program’s Fall 2009 Reading Series continues in December with a number of special poetry and fiction readings. Events are held in the program’s Greenwich Village home, the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House at 58 W. 10th Street, unless otherwise noted. The series is free and open to the public. For more information, call 212.998.8816 or visit www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu Read more »

Mario Savio was fueled in by “religious sensibility,” despite his rejection of Catholicism as an adult, New York University historian Robert Cohen recounts in Freedom’s Orator (Oxford), the first biography of the Free Speech Movement leader. Read more »

New York University’s Poe Room and Office of Government and Community Affairs presents a magical and creative evening of Edgar A. Poe’s poetry combined with Ludwig van Beethoven’s music. Don’t miss this opportunity to see three members of Outis, Jered Gallagher, Michael Miduski, and Joe Stark perform live. This event is free and open to the public with photo ID. To RSVP, please call 212.998.6943 or email community.affairs@nyu.edu Read more »

New York University will host a one-day conference, “The Future of Risk Management,” Friday, November 13, at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (251 Mercer Street, Room 109 [enter on Gould Plaza on West Fourth Street at Greene Street]). Speakers include representatives from the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Freddie Mac as well as Nobel Laureate Robert Engle, a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business. Read more »

Peter R. Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, will deliver a speech at New York University entitled “Rescue, Recovery, and Reining in the Deficit” on Tuesday, November 3, at 11 a.m. The event will take place at NYU’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium (at the corner of LaGuardia Place). Read more »

Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian David Oshinsky will deliver “Bellevue: A Look Back at America’s Most Influential Public Hospital” on November 10, 5 p.m. at New York University’s Hemmerdinger Hall (100 Washington Square East at Washington Place). The lecture is free and open to the public; RSVP is required. For more information, call 212.998.2264. Read more »

Carol A. Mandel, dean of the NYU Division of Libraries, has been elected president of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), an organization representing 124 of the largest research libraries in Canada and the United States. ARL members include the largest research university libraries, as well as institutions such as the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. Read more »

David Kretzmer, a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 1995 to 2002, will deliver a public lecture, “The Goldstone Report: Armed Conflict and the Duty to Investigate,” on Tuesday, December 1, 6 p.m. at New York University’s Hemmerdinger Hall in Silver Center (100 Washington Square East at Washington Place). The event is hosted by NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies. Read more »

NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study will host four performances of “The Trial,” Stephen Berkoff’s stage adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel of the same name, November 5-7 (7 p.m.) and November 8 (2 p.m.), at its Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts (715 Broadway at Washington Place/entrance on 1 Washington Place). Read more »

The Global Economic Policy Forum brings together government, economic, and academic leaders to discuss critical issues of economic policy and the capital markets. Through an open exchange of ideas among policy makers, scholars, and market participants guests get a rare inside look at the future of economic policy, regulation, and capital market activities. The event is co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Central Banks and the Law Alumni Association. Read more »

New York University’s Fales Library, the home of one of the nation’s largest and prestigious archives in food studies, will host a discussion entitled “Who’s Who and What’s What: The Evolution of the Food Cognoscenti in America,” on Thursday, November 5, at 4:00 p.m. at the Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, Third Floor, 70 Washington Square South. Read more »

Nora Ephron and Spike Lee will be featured in “Primary Sources,” a series of conversations at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (20 Cooper Square, between 5th and 6th Streets, 7th Floor) on November 10 and November 12. Both events are free and open to the public. Call 212.998.8044 for more information. Photo ID required for entry. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis Read more »

New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center will host “Bolivia—The Elections and Democracy in Historical Context,” a panel discussion, on Tuesday, December 1, 6 p.m., 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson and Sullivan Streets). The event, which is free and open to the public, comes just prior to Bolivia’s December 6 elections. For more information, call 212.998.3650 or visit www.nyu.edu/kjc Read more »

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Tony Award-Winner Bill Irwin Headlines Gala Benefit for NYU’s Maison Française, Nov. 9; Honoring Yves-André Istel
November 9 @ 6:30 PM

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November 10 @ 12:00 AM

Nora Ephron in NYU’s Journalism Institute’s “Primary Sources” Series
November 10 @ 3:00 PM

Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Historian David Oshinsky to Deliver "Bellevue: A Look Back at America's Most Influential Public Hospital
November 10 @ 5:00 PM

'Journey’ - A Unique & Provocative Inter-Active Installation into the World of Human Trafficking
November 11 @ 12:00 AM

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November 12 @ 12:00 AM

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