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NYU Brainiacs - Episode 14 - Earth Month Research! City Waste, Climate Change Communication, Stars!
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- NYU Brainiacs - Episode 14 - Earth Month Research! City Waste, Climate Change Communication, Stars!
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- 6 hours ago
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- For Earth Month, Brainiacs is uncovering how waste generation, climate intervention, and the geological-astrophysical connection affects the earth.
How can cities prepare for waste growth as population increase?
What is the best way to communicate about climate change?
When is the next continental basalt eruption?
NYU research provides some insight into these questions.
Learn more about these stories and other NYU research at nyu.edu/news
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- NYU's Grey Art Museum Reopens in with Ambitious 'Americans in Paris' Show
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- 27 days ago
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- The major exhibition of more than 100 works by artists working in postwar France re-launches the former Grey Art Gallery in its new, expanded location at 18 Cooper Square.
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- Solar Eclipse 101 with Applied Physics Professor John Di Bartolo
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- 27 days ago
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- A total solar eclipse makes its way across several US states on Monday, April 8. Ahead of that rare event, NYU Tandon's applied physics department chair offers some fascinating facts, including how long it will take for another full eclipse to impact the region and what ancient cultures believed was happening to the disappearing sun.
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- How To Build a Pinhole Camera for the 2024 Eclipse
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- 28 days ago
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- Indirect viewing is safe viewing! NYU Tisch photography student Max Ruibal demonstrates how to build a pinhole camera (also known as a camera obscura) to view the eclipse on April 8, 2024. You'll need a cardboard box, foil, tape, a thumbtack, scissors, and a crisp white sheet of paper.
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- Why It's Dangerous to Look at the Sun During an Eclipse
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- 28 days ago
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- NYU Langone ophthalmologist Nitish Mehta, who specializes in surgery to treat diseases of the vitreous, retina, and choroid areas of the eye, explains how permanent damage to the retina occurs and offers tips for how to enjoy the eclipse safely.
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- How Did 2020 Change Us? NYU Sociologist Eric Klinenberg Tackles the First COVID Year
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- 2 months ago
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- NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg has spent his career studying how people make connections and forces that drive them apart. So when the COVID pandemic hit, he knew he had a unique opportunity to document how different types of isolation would alter our city in the world. Armed with insights from his previous work on disaster response, the value of shared social infrastructure, and the phenomenon of people choosing to live alone, Klinenberg and a team of researchers started interviewing New Yorkers who were living and working through the crisis. His new book, "2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed," explores both the inspirational stories and the failures of that year, raising questions about how to repair political divisions, build trust, and better prepare for similar challenges in the future.
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- Brainiacs Episode 13: Sphinx Formations, Fake News, and “The Mom Penalty”
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- NYU researchers take on the search engine rabbit holes make you believe misinformation, the conditions that may have led to the creation of the Sphinx, the AI screeners that may be punishing parents looking for work.
Learn more about these stories and other NYU research at nyu.edu/news.
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- How Well Do the Stars of NYU's No. 1 Ranked Women's Basketball Team Know Each Other?
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- 2 months ago
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- We vote NYU Women's Basketball most likely to win it all 🔥🏀
Ranked no. 1 nationally in NCAA DIII, they're on a historic winning streak (24-0) and just clinched the UAA championship. But working hard doesn't mean they aren't having fun! We spent some time with the team—and tested how well they know each other.
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- Can AI Learn Language the Way Babies Do?
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- 3 months ago
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- AI systems like GPT-4 have made headlines for how well they learn and use human language, but they do that by ingesting astronomical amounts of data from the internet—more text a human would encounter in 100,000 years. Human babies, meanwhile, learn words with much less input, just by absorbing what's in their own environment. What would happen if an AI system had to learn words the way kids do, based only on what a single toddler sees and hears? NYU data science researchers recently Wai Keen Vong and Brenden Lake conducted that exact experiment, using video and audio captured from a camera mounted to a child's head over a period of months to train a multimodal neural network. The results—published in the journal Science—shed light on long-standing debates on language acquisition processes in children, as well as on what it would mean to make AI learning processes more childlike, and potentially more efficient.
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- Celebrating the First World Basketball Day with the NYU Professor Who Came Up with the Idea
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- 3 months ago
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- David Hollander, clinical professor at the NYU SPS Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sports, originated the idea of a World Basketball Day in his book How Basketball Saved the World (based on his NYU SPS course of the same name) and was instrumental in getting is recognized by the United Nations in August 2023. Basketball is the only team sport to have an official day on the international calendar.
For the first ever World Basketball Day on December 21, 2023, professor Hollander will lead a fireside chat with Julius “Dr. J.” Erving during a morning UN session hosted by The Philippine Mission. Then diplomats from 20 countries will play a friendly pick-up basketball game at the Vanderbilt YMCA.
To to warm up for those celebrations, professor Hollander faced NYU women’s basketball star Erica Miller in a game of N-Y-U (like H-O-R-S-E but shorter). Tune in to see who won.
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- Brainiacs Episode 12: FloodNet, Chess Bias, and Our Brains on Meta
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- 3 months ago
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- Flash flooding on September 29 caught many New Yorkers by surprise, closing subway stations and flooding major roadways. A system of sensors developed by NYU Tandon researchers hopes to alleviate some of that pain.
Named FloodNet, the devices are installed throughout the five boroughs and transmit real time flood data to a publicly available, interactive dashboard. The researchers hope these devices will enable the city to better prepared for the next emergency and provide valuable data for city planners.
Also in this episode: Similarities between real life chess prodigies and the Queen’s Gambit protagonist Beth Harmon, and social media’s lack of impact on political divisions.
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- Behind the Scenes with the Special Collections Conservation Team at NYU Libraries
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- 3 months ago
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- Bobst library houses millions of volumes, 53,320 serial titles, and over 43,000 linear feet of archives. That’s a LOT of physical objects—many of them old and irreplaceable—that need constant care and maintenance.
That’s where the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department comes in. The conservators working there—tucked away in workshops on one of Bobst’s lower levels—use an array of tools to preserve, protect, and extend the life of NYU Libraries' collections. Their work encompasses everything from bookbinding to film repair to figuring out how to safely store a book made out of slices of Kraft American cheese (yes, really).
To get a better sense of all the careful effort that goes into keeping valuable materials in top shape for scholars’ use, we went behind the scenes with the department’s Special Collections team.
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- Neighborhood Gems: Washington Square Association
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- 5 months ago
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- With over 100 years of service, the Washington Square Association is a volunteer-run organization that provides free events to the neighborhood. Learn how the WSA has both seen and created historic moments at Washington Square Park.
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- NYU Tisch's First Show in the African Grove Honors its Namesake, the Country's First Black Theater
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
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- NYU Tisch is inaugurating its African Grove Theatre with The African Company Presents Richard III, Carlyle Brown’s play about the country's first Black theater that performed on the same block where its namesake theater now stands.
The production, featuring Tisch School of the Arts students from Grad Acting and Design for Stage & Film, will be performed Nov. 15-18 and Nov. 20-21 in the new state-of-the-art theater on the fourth floor of the John A. Paulson Center.
The play celebrates a new era for the Tisch theater training program by honoring the legacy of the Black theater it is named for, explains Carl Cofield, chair of Grad Acting who is directing the play. Brown’s play is being performed in New York City for the first time.
“I couldn’t think of a better way to pay homage to the artists whose shoulders I stand on,” says Cofield. “We are in the space, on the actual land, where some of our forebears and artists were telling these sto...
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- Neighborhood Gems: Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce
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- 6 months ago
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- Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce (GVCCC) is one of the oldest chambers of commerce in NYC serving not only Greenwich village but also Chelsea, SoHo, NoHo, Union Square, Flatiron, as well as the East and West Villages.
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- 17th President Linda Mills Inauguration
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Neighborhood Gems: LifeThyme Natural Market
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- For almost 30 years LifeThyme Natural Market has been highlighting local farmers and produce, making eating healthy accessible to all. Discover how through the seasons, LifeThyme has built community with their neighbors.
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- 'Brainiacs' Episode 11: Hidden Lead Contamination, A Smarter Search Algorithm, and Better Antivirals
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The Brainiacs series offers a monthly snapshot of the range of research underway at NYU, exploring its impact on health, society, and our understanding of the world around us. Learn more at nyu.edu/news.
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- Alumni at Work: Jay Horwitz, New York Mets Vice President of Alumni Relations and Club Historian
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- The press box at Citi Field was recently renamed in honor of the team’s longtime head of public relations, who has been with the team for more than 40 decades.
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- How well do YOU know NYU?
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- 7 months ago
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- As an accredited member of the Middle States Commission on Higher
Education, NYU conducts a self-study of the University once every
eight years. In honor of this year's study, we asked our students some
pretty specific questions about their school—and were impressed by
their answers! Read the 2023-2024 report:
https://www.nyu.edu/academics/accreditation-authorization-assessment/accreditation/2023-2024-self-study.html
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- Neighborhood Gems: Issue Project Room
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- 7 months ago
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- In this episode of Neighborhood Gems, we follow Issue Project Room, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit that presents projects by interdisciplinary artists that stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community.
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- Meet the Dean: Gallatin's Victoria Rosner
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- 8 months ago
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- Gallatin School of Individualized Study Dean Victoria Rosner's
scholarship focuses primarily on literary modernism seen from an
interdisciplinary perspective. Her books illuminate the complex ways
in which literature shares a conceptual lexicon with architecture,
design, science, and technology. NYU News recently spoke with her
about how interdisciplinary research and studies can help address the
most complex issues of our time, her love of NYC theatre, and her
favorite neighborhood bakery.
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- Fizz Factory: Inside the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum
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- 8 months ago
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- Barry Joseph, Steinhardt adjunct professor and author of the book Seltzertopia: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Drink, is a co-founder of the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, which explores the history, science, and culture of New York City’s favorite drink. NYU graduate students helped develop some of its effervescent exhibits.
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- Brainiacs Episode 10: The Gorilla in the Room
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Recent innovations by NYU researchers include a swallowable device that can control hunger, a new experiment testing established beliefs about 'inattentional blindness,' and an AI device that can predict a tumor's genetic makeup in minutes.
Learn more at nyu.edu/news.
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- President Mills: 'My Life in Pictures'
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- 9 months ago
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- President Linda G. Mills recently reflected on images from key moments that have shaped her life—from a pivotal disability case she argued as a young lawyer to 9/11 and beyond.
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- Babies Are Better Than AI at Understanding Human Psychology—For Now
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Infants are fascinated by other people, and they bring to this fascination a rich set of inferences and intuitions about the motivations that cause other people to act. An if an aim of AI is to build the flexible, commonsense thinker that human adults become, then AI might need to start like human adults do, from the same core abilities as infants. But a recent experiment that put 11-month old infants head-to-head with neural network models meant to mimic human behavior found that the babies still had the edge when it came to predicting the invisible goals and motivations behind the actions of animated shapes (representing people) on a screen.
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- BRAINIACS Episode 9: Demystifying Straws, Predicting Famine, and VR Boxing to Beat Anxiety
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Visit nyu.edu/news for more on this month's stories and all the latest NYU research.
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- 2023 - Commencement Slideshow
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- 11 months ago
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- Feeling Wobbly? A New App Developed at NYU Tracks Balance to Assess Risk of Falling
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- 11 months ago
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- Balance is part of everything we do—from sitting upright in a chair or crossing the street safely to throwing a baseball or doing ballet. But it can be disrupted by various health conditions and tends to decline as we age. Tisch dance professor Elizabeth Coker developed Home Balance Test, an app that uses a smartphone’s sensors to track how much a user sways. She teamed up with Steinhardt physical therapy professor Anat V. Lubetzky to test usability of this app when testing people remotely on a set of balancing tasks. Their long-term goal is that with the data the app collects, health providers will be able to identify those—particularly older adults—who need help to prevent falls, and researchers will be able build a better understanding of how balance varies across different groups.
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- A Scholar of Activism Goes Fishing
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- 11 months ago
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- The process is really important, not the product. Sometimes you have successes, but most often you don’t. If you don’t love the process, you’re not going to do it very long, and if you don’t do it very long, your chances of changing the world are going to be pretty slim. You always have to be looking for new perspectives, new vantage points."
In his new book, The Activist Angler, Gallatin and Steinhardt Professor Stephen Duncombe discusses parallels that he observed between activism and angling when he began fishing during the height of the pandemic. NYU News joined Duncombe at NYC's Central Park lake where he shares some of the lessons he's learned.
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- 2023 NYU Commencement Highlights
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- 11 months ago
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- NYU celebrated the Class of 2023 with its 190th Commencement exercises at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, May 17 at 11 a.m. Some 13,000 students receiving undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and more than 26,000 family, friends, alumni, faculty, and other NYU community members attended the ceremony.
Honorary degree recipients included Nobel-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi, ABT principal dancer Misty Copeland, UMBC President Emeritus Freeman A. Hrabowski, and Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who spoke on behalf of all the honorees.
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- 2023 NYU Commencement (Full Ceremony)
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- 11 months ago
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- 2023 NYU Commencement
NYU celebrated the Class of 2023 with its 190th Commencement exercises at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, May 17 at 11 a.m. Some 13,000 students receiving undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and more than 26,000 family, friends, alumni, faculty, and other NYU community members attended the ceremony.
Honorary degree recipients included Nobel-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi, ABT principal dancer Misty Copeland, UMBC President Emeritus Freeman A. Hrabowski, and Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who spoke on behalf of all the honorees.
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- 2023 NYU Commencement Speaker Sanna Marin, Prime Minister of Finland
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- 11 months ago
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- Sanna Marin—the youngest person, at the time of her appointment as Finland’s prime minister, ever to serve as a head of any government—received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa. She delivered remarks on behalf of all the honorary degree recipients at NYU's 190th Commencement celebrating the Class of 2023 at Yankee Stadium on May 17.
"The face of power is not the same as the face of the people—and this has to change," Marin said. "I also want things to change, but I cannot do it alone. I need you and others with me to make the world more equal, more sustainable, and more just. I know I’m not alone with this thought. I know many of you want the same and together we can make it a reality."
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- 2023 NYU Commencement Speech by President Andrew Hamilton
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- 11 months ago
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- Andrew Hamilton addressed the Class of 2023 in his last Commencement as NYU President at Yankee Stadium on May 17.
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- 2023 NYU Commencement Student Speaker Donovan Dior Dixon
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Donovan Dior Dixon, who received a B.A. through the undergraduate Public Policy program jointly offered by the College of Arts and Science and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, addressed his classmates at NYU's 190th Commencement at Yankee Stadium on May 17, 2023.
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- 2023 NYU Commencement Procession
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- 11 months ago
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- NYU celebrated the Class of 2023 with its 190th Commencement exercises at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday, May 17 at 11 a.m. Some 13,000 students receiving undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and more than 26,000 family, friends, alumni, faculty, and other NYU community members attended the ceremony.
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- NYU's 2023 Commencement
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Tune in live as New York University convenes its 190th Commencement Exercises at Yankee Stadium, celebrating the Class of 2023.
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- Behind the Scenes with WNYU
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Follow Jack Peterson (Steinhardt '24) as he goes about the work—making playlists, conducting interviews on air, organizing recording sessions, coordinating publicity, and more—of a general manager for NYU's college radio station, which is celebrating 50 years of broadcasting on 89.1 FM.
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- I Met MY BFF at NYU
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- 12 months ago
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- As they look ahead to graduation as part of the Class of 2023, three pairs of best friends reflect on the shared memories and jokes they'll take with them when they leave the place that first brought them together.
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- Ask an #NYU2023 Grad
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- 12 months ago
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- We stopped graduating students on campus to ask what they wish they'd known when they started college, what they'll miss most, who they want to thank, and more.
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- Cool Course: Hip Hop Dance Culture
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- 1 year ago
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- "You can't teach hip hop dance without teaching hip hop culture." Prof Afaliah Tribune's class—open to students of all majors—breaks it down element by element.
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- Pop Quiz: NYU Alumni Superstars
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- 1 year ago
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- We tried to stump students on NYU's Quiz Bowl team with some tough trivia questions about NYU alumni and their accomplishments. How many can you get right?
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- NYU Community Climate Justice Mural Timelapse
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- 1 year ago
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- In an effort to make visible the role that Indigenous people and
people of color play in the climate movement, a new mural themed on
climate justice was created in just five days for the NYU campus. Led
by 2040 Now artist-in-residence Jess X. Snow—along with contributors
Ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, Sonali McDermid, and Nico Cary—the community mural, painted from April 17–21, aims to "help us remember how we all have a role in joining the fight against climate change and protecting
the Earth." Learn more at nyu.edu/2040now
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- An invitation to 2040—Now!
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- 1 year ago
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- The 2040 Now festival will offer numerous opportunities to take climate action and reframe our focus toward climate optimism. Learn more about 2040 Now and help us make this university—and the world—greener each day: https://www.nyu.edu/about/university-initiatives/2040-now.html
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- Cool Course: Pop/Rock Ensemble
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- 1 year ago
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- 5 instrumentalists. 4 singers. All the greatest hits, decade by decade, with new repertoire to tackle each week. (Don't you dare touch that dial! 🎙) We dropped in on a session with NYU Steinhardt's rigorous Pop/Rock Ensemble course, which emphasizes historical context and vocal agility:
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- Meet the Dean: Global Public Health's Debra Furr-Holden
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- 1 year ago
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- Debra Furr-Holden—an epidemiologist and public health professional with expertise in health disparities and health equity research, policy and practice, drug and alcohol dependence epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, and prevention science—became dean of NYU's School of Global Public Health on July 1, 2022. NYU News spoke with her about her passion for health as a birthright, and about how much she has enjoyed exploring New York City since moving here from her previous post at Michigan State University, where she was the C.S. Mott Endowed Professor of Public Health, associate dean for Public Health Integration, and the director of the NIH-funded Flint Center for Health Equity Solutions at MSU’s College of Human Medicine.
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- Bias in AI Is 'More Than a Glitch'
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Racist soap dispensers. Chat GPT texts that seem like they’re grooming 13-year-olds. A kidney transplant list algorithm that disadvantages Black patients. “The next time you see some kind of AI disaster, I would urge you to think about it not just as a blip, not just a glitch,” says NYU journalism professor Meredith Broussard, the author of the new book More than a Glitch:
Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. “We have to fix society before we start crystallizing it in code.”
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- NYU Conversations Podcast with President Andy Hamilton – Episode 13: Coach Kim Wyant
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- President Hamilton talks with head coach of the NYU men's soccer team, Kim Wyant. When she was appointed to this role in 2015, Wyant was the only woman coaching an NCAA men's soccer team. In fall 2022, she gained wide publicity for a historic matchup against Julianne Sitch—the new coach for the UChicago men's team. The two teams played to a draw, and Chicago went on to win the NCAA Div III national championship.
In addition to her years of success as a coach for numerous teams, Wyant was also a highly accomplished player. She was a starter for the University of Central Florida in the first-ever NCAA Women's National Championship Game (1982), and was named MVP of that tournament. She was named first team All-American as a college senior.
Wyant played goalkeeper for the first United States Women's National Team in their inaugural international game against Italy in 1985. In 2008, Wyant received the Special Recognition Award from the National Soccer Hall of Fam...
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- NYU's Next President
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Linda G. Mills—who for more than a decade has served as NYU’s Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs and University Life, overseeing NYU’s unrivaled global presence and shaping and supporting the student experience—will be NYU’s 17th president and the first woman in the role. She will take up her new duties on July 1, 2023. Join the conversation at nyu.edu/president-designate"
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- "Love Actually" is... a Popular Course at NYU
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The importance of love and intimacy in human life is clear, but what can the latest observations and scientific discoveries about the brain tell us about this supreme emotion? Through discussions, papers, and projects, an interdisciplinary NYU course examines the concepts of love and intimacy through various lenses, including those of neurobiology, evolutionary psychology, culture, and art. Focusing on the development of love throughout the lifecycle, students study how people seek intimacy, how love evolves over time, the influence of love on human behavior, and love and intimacy’s relation to psychological well-being.