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#NYU2021 Students Share Their Favorite College Moments
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- #NYU2021 Students Share Their Favorite College Moments
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- 3 years ago
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- A study night turned movie night. Lunches in Washington Square Park. An NYU Abu Dhabi flash mob performance. Seeing Bobst for the first time. We asked #NYU2021 grads to share favorite memories from their time at NYU.
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- NYU Conversations Podcast with President Andy Hamilton—Episode 6: Professor Bob Bauer
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- 3 years ago
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- In the early weeks of President Biden's new administration, President Hamilton talks to School of Law professor Bob Bauer—White House counsel under Barack Obama and senior advisor to Biden on his 2020 campaign—about how the US can and should move forward after a period of fracture perhaps unlike any seen since the Civil War.
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- NYU Conversations Podcast with President Andy Hamilton—Episode 8: Professor Deborah Archer
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- 3 years ago
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- Faculty Farewell to the NYU Class of 2021
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- 3 years ago
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- Give me an N, give me a Y, give me a U! NYU Distinguished Teaching Award and Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award winners offer some spirited advice for this year's grads.
Featuring:
Noel Anderson
Erica Foldy
Phil Galdston
Faye Ginsburg
Ross Kerr
Amal Shehata
Dina Tate
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- #StickItToCOVID: When We Vaxx
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- 3 years ago
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- Members of our NYU community share what they are most looking forward to doing once they're vaccinated.
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- #StickItToCOVID: Why We Vaxx
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- 3 years ago
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- Members of our NYU community share why that are choosing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Podcasting and Audio Storytelling
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- 3 years ago
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- How do you develop an idea, analyze a market, and create a podcast? Once you have a good idea, how do you produce, sustain and distribute it? This Spotify-sponsored course provides a comprehensive overview of
podcasting. By the end of the course, students will have produced three
minutes of a show pitch introducing their idea.
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- Getting Over Needle Phobia
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- 3 years ago
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- Don't let your fear of needles keep you from getting vaccinated. NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing clinical assistant professor Saribel Garcia Quinones shares some insight into why people experience needle phobia and how they can overcome it.
¿Prefieres ver éste video en español? ¡Qué suerte la tuya! Aquí está: https://youtu.be/54IXBwozjUo
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- COVID-19 Vaccines: The Student Perspective
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- 3 years ago
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- Students from NYU's School of Global Public Health share their candid thoughts on the COVID-10 vaccine—why they plan to get it, the concerns they're hearing about, what they tell friends who are hesitant, and the pros and cons of mandatory vaccines. The conversation also covers the controversy over health inequities, digital passports and the unique concerns of international students.
This panel discussion was recorded on April 12, 2021, prior to the FDA's pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and before NYU's announcement of its plan to require vaccines for students. For the latest student vaccine updates and requirements, go to: nyu.edu/coronavirus/vaccine/help
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- 2020 Through the Lens of Fashion
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- 3 years ago
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- Are you dressed for Zoom meetings or for the revolution? Or both? 2020 brought two competing calls to action: stay home to combat COVID-19, and take to the streets to confront injustice. An exhibition by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development costume studies grad students looks at the role clothes played in a society struggling with dual traumas, examining how designers shifted to producing PPE or used garments as a vehicle for activism: http://spr.ly/6187HmMyR
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- What the Bilingual Brain Can Teach Us About Code-Switching
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- 3 years ago
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- There is a lot of existing neuroscience research concerned with whether or not the brain exerts additional cognitive effort when switching between languages. But the tasks bilinguals are asked to perform in studies don’t always mirror typical real-life situations. So Sarah Phillips, a linguistics PhD student in professor Liina Pylkkänen's lab, designed her own experiment in a way that felt more natural to her and her fellow Korean-American bilingual speakers.
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- A Very NYU Snowperson
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- 3 years ago
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- We were pretty pleased with our snowperson until we saw the competition in Washington Square Park this week! Still proud of this #snowfie though.
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- A Concert for the NYU Community Featuring Christopher Hearn (Steinhardt '18)
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- 3 years ago
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- As part of NYU's Spring Welcome, check out hip hop artist Christopher Hearn (Steinhardt '18)—also known as Ceezar—in a special virtual concert for the NYU community.
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- NYU Endeavors: William Falcon
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- 3 years ago
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- NYU Center for Data Science PhD student and founder of Pytorch Lightning William Falcon talks to us about Grid AI, the new data company he founded while completing his studies at NYU.
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Immigration and Transnationalism
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- 3 years ago
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- In Roy Germano's graduate-level International Relations course, NYU students and their peers at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (headed by Professor Ana Tovar) discuss, analyze, and make recommendations on policy affecting the relationship between the two countries.
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- NYU Provost Fleming and Steinhardt's Tara McAllister on the Challenges of the /r/ Sound
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- 3 years ago
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- Like the poet Amanda Gorman, NYU Provost, history professor, and multilinguist Katherine Fleming had her own childhood difficulties with the /r/ sound and speaks to Tara McAllister and other speech pathology researchers at NYU Steinhardt about ongoing research on this topic.
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- NYU Returns: Covid-19 Safety Update for the Spring 2021 Semester
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- 3 years ago
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- In Fall 2020, the NYU community proved that we care about keeping each other safe. We did the hard work. And while vaccines and treatments are paving the way for a return to some of the pre-Covid aspects of daily life, we’re unfortunately not there yet—so each of us needs to stay absolutely on track this winter and spring.
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- NYU Returns: COVID-19 Safety Rules and Protocols for the Spring 2021 Semester
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- 3 years ago
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- Whether or not they plan to return to campus this semester, all students returning to NYU in NYC are required to watch this updated video outlining our COVID-19 safety rules and protocols for the Spring 2021 semester.
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Food and Design
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- 3 years ago
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- From production to consumption, designers influence how users interact with places, objects, and sensorial experiences. “Design is a tool that could give students agency to think about what the food system could be,” says Fabio Parasecoli, Professor of Food Studies at NYU Steinhardt. In his course, Food in the Arts: Design, students consider how design influences the food system.
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- Big Ideas: Kristie Patten on Disability Justice and Radical Inclusion
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- 3 years ago
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- This course will hear from the experts in disability justice and radical inclusion, noted disability activists and thinkers that have changed the face of disability rights, representation, and inclusive practices.
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- Big Ideas: Kristie Patten on Disability Justice and Radical Inclusion (with audio descriptions)
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- 3 years ago
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- This course will hear from the experts in disability justice and radical inclusion, noted disability activists and thinkers that have changed the face of disability rights, representation, and inclusive practices.
The Big Ideas course series offers an academic experience completely unique to NYU. Students will engage with faculty experts from across the University to explore themes and topics relevant to today's issues, including social justice, the arts, sports, and artificial intelligence.
These courses will offer NYU students the chance to learn in a whole new way, and approach the world from the vantage point of celebrated and renowned artists, neuroscientists, philosophers, data journalists, historians, or ethicists.
Each course in this series will:
• Be offered fully online in spring 2021;
• Be open to all undergraduate students, regardless of School/Department or location;
• Provide access to multiple facul...
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Games 101
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- "Games are culture. They have always been a part of what it means to be human," says NYU Game Center director Frank Lantz. "Through games, we explore some of our most deeply rooted questions—life and death, good and evil, how we are able to manipulate the world and predict the future."
And to really understand games, you have to play them. That's what the Games 101 course is all about.
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- NYU BRAINIACS Episode 5: COVID-19 Research
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- 3 years ago
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- Discover the latest cutting edge COVID-19 research from NYU faculty across all global campuses. In this episode of Brainiacs, we explore the new and creative ways NYU researchers are detecting and fighting the virus, and the surprising digital impact the pandemic is generating—with a focus on both disparities and resilience.
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- A Concert for the NYU Community Featuring Christopher Hearn (Steinhardt '18)
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- 3 years ago
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- On Monday, December 14, at noon, hip hop artist Christopher Hearn (Steinhardt '18)—also known as Ceezar—gives a special virtual concert for the NYU community to encourage our students as they gear up for final exams.
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- Big Ideas: Ghazi Faisal al Mulaifi on Music and Identity in Trade
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- 3 years ago
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- The Big Ideas course series offers an academic experience completely unique to NYU. Students will engage with faculty experts from across the University to explore themes and topics relevant to today's issues, including social justice, the arts, sports, and artificial intelligence.
These courses will offer NYU students the chance to learn in a whole new way, and approach the world from the vantage point of celebrated and renowned artists, neuroscientists, philosophers, data journalists, historians, or ethicists.
Each course in this series will:
• Be offered fully online in spring 2021;
• Be open to all undergraduate students, regardless of School/Department or location;
• Provide access to multiple faculty experts within a single class; and
• Utilize a mix of asynchronous and synchronous engagement with faculty and course material.
For more information, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/academics/nyu-online/growing-...
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- Here are the Winter 2020 NYU Cozy Coloring Contest Finalists
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Vote in our Instagram Story before it's too late!
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- Meet YORB, the Fun Video Call Alternative By NYU's ITP Fellows
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- 3 years ago
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- Zoom fatigued? Ever want to just walk away from a Google Hangout? NYU Tisch's ITP department created a more spontaneous and fun way to get together online—one that's based on some lo-fi TV shows from the 1990s.
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- How NYU Tackles Snow
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- 3 years ago
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- Snow control at New York University is no picnic, and the hard work of clearing the campus falls to AVP of Operations Carlos Zafra and his team at Collins Building Services. With a strategic approach and a lot of effort, the team deploys before, during, and after a storm to keep the campus safe, accessible, and minimally disrupted. This is how.
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- How to Make a Chef's Hat
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- 3 years ago
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- In response to the stresses of COVID-19, NYU nutrition and art therapy grad students collaborated on Creative Kitchen, a cookbook that includes ideas for mindfulness, restoration, and recovery activities—plus fun recipes for families to tackle together. Even more recipes for the community are available on the nutrition and food studies website.
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Sight and Sound Filmmaking
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- 3 years ago
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- This signature course, which has been taught by leading directors such as Martin Scorsese, considers ways in which contemporary filmmakers have adapted to new modes and means of producing topical, relevant, and imaginative work.
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- One Minute of Beethoven
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- 3 years ago
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- Bagatelles, Op. 119 performed by Michelle (Mocun) Li from the Studio of Eduardus Halim in the Piano Studies program at NYU Steinhardt. Excerpted from Eteri Andjaparidze's Masterclass, part of the Beethoven the Contemporary, a virtual festival celebrating the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth..
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- Introducing the NYU Greene Supercomputer, One of the Fastest in Higher Ed
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- 3 years ago
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- “Greene,” NYU’s new high-performance computing cluster, is one of the top 100 Greenest Supercomputers in the World. In an educational environment where cutting-edge research involves increasingly staggering amounts of data, Greene, which balances the need for next-level computation and storage capacity with the need to reduce reliance on fossil-fuel consumption. The new high performance computing (HPC) cluster will bolster research across a wide range of disciplines, from biomolecular genetics to the political ramifications of social media behavior to artificial intelligence.
The new Greene supercomputer, built by Lenovo, has the capability to do four quadrillion (4 x 1015) calculations per second, making it 10 times faster than both NYU’s current supercomputer and the most powerful computer in the New York area. Greene connects to NYU research facilities with the fastest network available in any institute of higher education in the United States.
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- Introducing the Fall 2020 NYU Cozy Coloring Contest
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- 3 years ago
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- It's been a tough year. We're all tired of looking at screens. And in New York, the weather is getting cooler as the daylight hours grow shorter. Seems like the perfect time to indulge in a little friendly competition to bring our community together—while stepping away from Zoom in favor of a healthy dose of COVID-safe indoor self-care.
For contest details, visit: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/november/coloring-book-nyu-locations.html
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Simulation Removable and Implant Prosthodontics
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- 3 years ago
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- In the second year of dental school, students learn where artificial teeth and prosthetics should be placed in the mouth when patients need them. Traditionally, this course is taught in a lab using wax models, but in response to COVID-19, NYU Dentistry began to teach remotely. A team of NYU faculty worked with Dentca's free, web-based software to create an entirely new curriculum, which has met or exceeded the outcomes of the traditional method. The department is now considering permanently converting this coursework to the digital platform.
Faculty: Thomas Giugliano, Lili Ortiz, Sharvari Karande, Bijan Moghadam, Igor Chikunov, Paul Zhivago, and Leila Jahangiri
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- The 30th Annual Children's Halloween Parade
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- 4 years ago
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- Join us for our first-ever virtual Children's Halloween Parade, hosted by Manhattan Community Board 2 and NYU! We've reimagined the 30th year of this beloved event as a show featuring Ran'D Shine the Magician, the children's band Shira & Friends, and a costume contest. Learn more about the parade at tinyurl.com/cb2nyuhalloween
Tell us what you thought of the parade!
NYU Community Engagement: @NYU_CE (Twitter), @nyucommunityengagement (Facebook)
Manhattan Community Board 2: @CB2_Manhattan (Twitter), @CB2Manhattan (Facebook)
Our Free Halloween Activity Book, designed by Kathryn Gemma Faughnan, is available upon request by emailing community.engagement@nyu.edu.
Fogo Azul: fogoazulnyc.com
Ran'D Shine: www.randyshine.com
Shira & Friends: www.facebook.com/ShiraandFriends
Special thanks to our sponsors, including Con Edison, Suffolk Cares, and the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. We also thank our Grand Marshals for...
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- Making A Difference Awards 2020
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- 4 years ago
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- Celebrate our Making A Difference Award recipients, recognized for their work against racial injustice, economic disparity, and structural inequality.
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- 10.23.20 Faculty Update
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- 4 years ago
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- “What We’ve Learned So Far”, an NYU Returns Webinar for Full-Time Faculty (Tenured/Tenure-Track and Continuing Contract)
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- Seeing Molecular Structure With Your Own Eyes
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- 4 years ago
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- Here's how a pre-pandemic AR project from Trace Jordan, Clinical Professor of Foundations of Scientific Inquiry and of Chemistry, and Craig Kapp, Clinical Associate Professor of Computer Science, is giving chemistry students a fuller appreciation of the real way atoms bind together into molecules.
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- 10.15.20 Researchers
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- 4 years ago
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- NYU Returns webinar series for researchers.
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- For NYU Dentistry Professor, Art Meets Science at the American Museum of Natural History
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- 4 years ago
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- Timothy Bromage, professor of biomaterials and head of the Hard Tissue Research Unit in the NYU College of Dentistry, creates abstract art when capturing hard tissue samples. One of his pieces—an image of the mineral and collagen fibers in the femur of "Lucy," the skeleton of an early hominid from nearly three million years ago—is the basis for the wall covering of the Hall of Human Origins in the American Museum of Natural History.
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- NYU-Themed Pumpkin Carving by Hooded Guy
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- 4 years ago
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- It's the season of the richly school-spirited pumpkin carvings, and this spooky Hooded Guy got carried away.
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- Pop Quiz: NYU Trailblazing Women (Episode 3)
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- 4 years ago
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- In this episode of Pop Quiz, you'll meet 5 brave women who graduated from NYU and blazed trails in uncharted fields ranging from film to engineering and design.
Do you know the answer to this one??
Two pioneering women of NYU (Tisch '75,'76) were recently inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame for inventing which of the following:
A) the tampon
B) the sports bra
C) the high heel shoe
Watch and play along to find out!
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Arts & Cultures of Modernity
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- 4 years ago
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- From analyzing metaphorical monsters to studying robotics to practicing forensic anthropology, our students are broadening their horizons—whether they’re attending classes remotely or in person.
In Liberal Studies professor Karen Karbiener’s “Arts & Cultures of Modernity” course, students deepened their reading of Okakura Kakuzo’s Book of Tea with a (virtual!) Japanese tea ceremony hosted by Souheki Mori, proprietor of the East Village tea house Setsugekka.
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- COVID Happened. Now What?: Mutual Aid
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- 4 years ago
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- Professor Stephen Duncombe of NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study poses this research question in light of the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Voiceover by NYU Multimedia Content Producer Jorge Corona.
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- 9.2.20 Parents Update
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- This webinar update for parents features a welcome from President Hamilton and updates on Public Health, Wellness, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, Academic Life, Housing/Residential Life, Dining, and Student Life.
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- First-Day Mask Selfies
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- NYU students showed off their first-day-of-school looks.
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- NYU Returns: Daily COVID-19 Screener
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Daily COVID-19 Screener for Campus Access—found through the “NYU Mobile” app or online—is a requirement to enter all NYU buildings. You must answer all the questions and receive a daily authorization, even if you are feeling fine, so be prepared to check your temp, evaluate yourself for symptoms and exposure, and answer the questions accurately in order to be cleared to enter NYU properties and locations.
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- NYU Big Ideas: Kwame Anthony Appiah on Defining Religion
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- 4 years ago
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- Each course in NYU's new Big Ideas series—open to all students online this fall—will feature a team of top faculty experts (such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, who gives a taste of his lecture on ethics and religion here) weighing in on a common theme. The course topics are chosen to explore some of the most important and controversial questions of our time. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6182GVFSK
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- NYU Big Ideas: Meredith Broussard on Artificial Unintelligence
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Each course in NYU's new Big Ideas series—open to all students online this fall—will feature a team of top faculty experts (such as Meredith Broussard, who gives a taste of her lecture on equitable technology here) weighing in on a common theme. The course topics are chosen to explore some of the most important and controversial questions of our time. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6182GVFSK
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- NYU Returns: Resources for Students in Quarantine
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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