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Study Abroad: Andy's Advice for #NYU2019

Title: Study Abroad: Andy's Advice for #NYU2019
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Andy Ng, Senior at NYU’s College of Arts and Science, began his freshman year studying at NYU London, the place that inspired many of the great works of literature. In this video for the newly admitted NYU Class of 2019, Andy explains how his international experienced helped bring his learning to life.

Becoming a Leader: Nikita's Advice for #NYU2019

Title: Becoming a Leader: Nikita's Advice for #NYU2019
Runtime: 1:18
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Nikita Chaudhry, a Senior at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, took a risk freshman year when she applied for president of her residence hall. In this video for the newly admitted NYU Class of 2019, Nikita explains how getting out of her comfort zone helped her to become a leader.

Watch more videos and connect with other admitted and current NYU students: admissions.nyu.edu/classof2019

Finding Community: Darrius's Advice for #NYU2019

Title: Finding Community: Darrius's Advice for #NYU2019
Runtime: 1:28
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Darrius Shaw, Senior at NYU's Polytechnic School of Engineering, is going to "love and covet" his Engineering degree, but what he will remember most is the community he discovered over his four years. In this video for the newly admitted NYU Class of 2019, Darrius introduces us to his friend Corey and explains the importance of getting out there and meeting new people when you get here.

Watch more videos and connect with other admitted and current NYU students: admissions.nyu.edu/classof2019

Internships at NYU: Banu's Advice for #NYU2019

Title: Internships at NYU: Banu's Advice for #NYU2019
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Banu Ibrahim, Junior at NYU's College of Arts and Science, describes her experiences as an intern writing food and music reviews for Nylon Magazine. In this video for the newly admitted NYU Class of 2019, Banu explains the advantages of having these types of internship opportunities all year round.

Watch more videos and connect with other admitted and current NYU students: admissions.nyu.edu/classof2019

Global Advocacy: Addressing Modern Antisemitism @ NYU DC March 12, 2015

Title: Global Advocacy: Addressing Modern Antisemitism @ NYU DC March 12, 2015
Runtime: 1:00:55
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: According to many, Antisemitism in Europe is believed to be the worst since the Nazi era. As the conflict between Israel and Palestine intensifies, so do incidents across Europe targeting Jewish communities. This discussion will focus on the many layers of antisemitism in Europe, taking into account a long history of religious discrimination, coupled with a newer and vehement attempt at suppression; xenophobia; secular nationalism; and the rise of Islamism. Panel experts examine how these factors affect European Jewish communities, and consider how these nations ought to respond.

As the world endures events like those recently experienced in Paris and Copenhagen, there is a growing sense of urgency among Jews, and of mutual responsibility. The desire to act is strong, but how to do so while still respecting the integrity and unique character of these communities is the challenge.

This panel considered what can be done, and what kind of future can be imagined.<...

#NYUhappydance—Spring Break Countdown Edition

Title: #NYUhappydance—Spring Break Countdown Edition
Runtime: 0:46
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Midterms are stressful. Snowstorms are stressful. Life is stressful. But dancing feels oh so good! Here's the first installment in our series of reminders that a smile and a little shake go a long way.

Title: 'And Now I'm There': One NYU Story
Runtime: 4:22
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Reflecting our motto, “a private university in the public service,” one of NYU’s most potent tools in increasing access to higher education is the extraordinary level of civic and community involvement by our university community. We are proud to have been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll in eight out of the past nine years, achieving the “With Distinction” recognition seven times. This winter, NYU was re-awarded the Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a recognition granted to under 10 percent of all colleges and universities in the U.S.

NYU's near-peer efforts—several entirely conceived and run by NYU students—share in the conviction that providing opportunity to students of all backgrounds is essential, not only to NYU as an institution, but also to the health and future of our country.

Read more about our near-peer programs and the impact they...

Title: #nyumoment: A Cut Above
Runtime: 1:11
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A look inside NYU's teaching kitchen, with Professor Lourdes Castro and her Introduction to Food and Food Science class.

Title: 90 Seconds in Ancient Mesopotamia
Runtime: 1:35
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Millennia after her death, the Mesopotamian Queen Puabi became an unlikely 1920s fashion icon when archaeologist Charles Leonard Woolley discovered her tomb filled with exquisite jewelry. Woolley's team assembled from a pile of thousands of lapis beads and gold jewelry a headdress that bore a striking resemblance to the beaded headbands popular among flappers at the time; it made the cover of style magazines. In the exhibition "From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics," NYU's Institute for the Ancient World explores this and other examples of how archaeological objects are transformed from artifacts to artworks and, sometimes, to popular icons. The show includes some 50 ancient Mesopotamian artifacts as well as works by contemporary artists inspired by these objects from the distant past. It's a meditation on how, in every era, the way we interpret of archaeological finds says as much about us and our values as it does about the ancient world.

For more informatio...

Title: Dear Albany: I Stand for Student Aid
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Each year, a group of NYU students, alumni, and staff travel to the New York State capitol to advocate for the expansion of state financial aid. Many of the students who meet with legislators to share their personal stories are themselves the recipients of state-funded education aid through programs such as Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP), the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), or the Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP). This February 10, 2015, 102 people joined in the 30th annual NYU Albany Day for face-to-face advocacy in a total of 20 meetings with legislators and staff. This video follows one NYU freshman in her quest to make her voice heard.

The Death of Print Has Been Greatly Exaggerated

Title: The Death of Print Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: "Reports of the death of the book have been greatly exaggerated," says Max Schumann, channeling Mark Twain in this video sneak peek at 80WSE's exhibit Learn to Read Art: A Surviving History of Printed Matter. Schumann is the acting director of the organization established by Carl Andre, Edit DeAk, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Walter Robinson, Pat Steir, Mimi Wheeler, Robin White, and Irena von Zahn in 1976 to support artists producing their own books—outside the traditional publishing or gallery system. The 80WSE show, on through February 14, explores the non-profit bookstore's history through administrative documents, programming ephemera, and publishing projects—and also includes a Printed Matter satellite store selling artists' books and a working print shop supporting the work of artists in residence. It's the testament to the sustained power of print in the digital age.

Learn more:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/80wse
https://printedmatter.org

Title: NYU's Coding Community
Runtime: 2:59
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Video produced by Lewie Kloster

The Student Technology and Research Committee (STARC) is committed to helping to reimagine educational technology at NYU through hackathons that bring together students and faculty from across New York University.

Peel, Pucker, Pinch, or Puncture? Coffee Lids, Explored

Title: Peel, Pucker, Pinch, or Puncture? Coffee Lids, Explored
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Gallatin professor Louise Harpman—designer and founding partner of Louise Harpman__PROJECTS—is the co-owner (with Scott Specht) of the world's largest collection of disposable plastic coffee lids. While the individually patented treasures usually live in a closet, protected in acid-free boxes, they have also been featured in the Smithsonian's “FOOD: Transforming the American Table 1950-2000" exhibit as examples of innovation that enabled American on-the-go dining culture. The lids have also made cameos at the Morgan Library and MMuseumm.

In this video, Harpman outlines the practical challenges various coffee lid designers have attempted to address—and shows off her full collection, highlighting a few favorite and unusual models. Design is everywhere, she insists, even in the everyday objects we take for granted. For more on the astonishing variety of coffee lid types, read her analysis in Cabinet magazine: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/19/harpman.php

Title: #nyumoment: Subway Daze
Runtime: 0:36
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: #nyumoment: a contemplative Instagram video series.

Music by Willbe (via Free Music Archive)

Title: #NYUMoment: Winter Village
Runtime: 0:49
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: #nyumoment: A contemplative mini-video series.

Music by Glass Boy (via Free Music Archive)

Happy Holidays from the NYU Children's Chorus

Title: Happy Holidays from the NYU Children's Chorus
Runtime: 1:42
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: The NYU Children's Chorus—open to any singer between the ages of 6 and 12, with or without prior singing experience—is an outreach program offered through Steinhardt to the community free of charge. Participants learn the fundamentals of vocal technique, musicianship, and teamwork, and perform as part of a group of more than 75 children.

NYU Stories sat down with Children's Chorus founder and 2013 GRAMMY Music Educator Award finalist Elaine Gates on the eve of her last concert as director of the group, in December 2014. Gates, who was Steinhardt's director of music education for many years, is also a former teacher to stars such as Natalie Portman and Mariah Carey.

When Long Island Was the Eugenics Capital of the World

Title: When Long Island Was the Eugenics Capital of the World
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: From 1910 to 1939, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, was home to the Eugenics Record Office, a center for genetic research aimed at preserving a “pure” American hereditary ideal by ridding the nation of the “unfit” and “degenerate.”

At its height in the 1920s, eugenics was far from a fringe movement: Research at the ERO was supported by the Rockefeller family and the Carnegie Institution, and the office’s director testified before Congress, leading to the passage of the exclusionary Immigration Act of 1924 as well as laws in many states mandating sterilization of those of “inferior” races and abilities.

With The Haunted Files, a chilling installation showing at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute through March 15, 2015, NYU professor John Kuo Wei Tchen and graduate students Noah Fuller and Mark Tseng Putterman have re-created the Eugenics Record Office as it looked and sounded in 1924, complete with creaking doors and reproductions of t...

George Reis Takes You on a Tour of the Campus Grounds

Title: George Reis Takes You on a Tour of the Campus Grounds
Runtime: 4:26
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: George Reis explains how NYU is creating a more sustainable university through the use of Urban Agriculture.

Leanne Brown Makes a Pumpkin Pie—With a Little Help from President John Sexton

Title: Leanne Brown Makes a Pumpkin Pie—With a Little Help from President John Sexton
Runtime: 4:26
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Just in time for Thanksgiving, NYU food studies alumna Leanne Brown returns to Steinhardt's teaching kitchen to bake a classic pumpkin pie—with help from a special guest. For more on Brown, her cookbooks, and her campaign to make simple, delicious recipes accessible to all, visit http://www.leannebrown.com. And to recreate her dish for your holiday table, download the recipe here: http://po.st/PovDOd

25 Years Later, the Berlin Wall Still Casts a Shadow

Title: 25 Years Later, the Berlin Wall Still Casts a Shadow
Runtime: 2:37
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: NYU Deutsches Haus Director Juliane Camfield remembers the Berlin Wall as a constant—and ominous—presence during her childhood in West Berlin. Built in 1961, the wall was a symbolic divider and a focal point for the Cold War, but also a very real physical barrier that kept families apart—many people were killed trying to cross. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall—on November 9, 1989—Camfield shares her personal story and reflects on the lessons to be learned from this painful history.

Title: L. Jay Oliva: In His Own Words
Runtime: 10:37
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Having served at NYU for 42 years—as faculty member, dean, vice president, chancellor, and president (from 1991 to 2002)—L. Jay Oliva touched the lives of so many who studied, taught, and worked throughout NYU and beyond. Hear him describe that experience.

Title: Fresh Veggies for All
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Speaking from New York City’s Union Square Greemarket at the height of the fall harvest, Steinhardt’s Carolyn Dimitri discusses how vouchers for produce can help improve the diets of the economically disadvantaged. Though low-income families often go without fruits and vegetables due to lack of access or inability to pay, Dimitri, an associate professor of food studies, and colleagues found that market vouchers for SNAP (food stamps) recipients can change that.

Title: How It Works: NYU's Co-Gen Power Plant
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: See how NYU dramatically raised the efficiency of its co-gen power
plant—the largest privately-owned facility in Manhattan.

Title: Be Safe: Street Smarts
Runtime: 0:46
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: For the start of the school year and New York City National Preparedness Month, Alison Leary, Executive Vice President for Operations, gives the NYU community tips about staying safe on campus and in the city.

http://www.nyu.edu/besafe

Title: Judge Someone in an Instant? Who, Me?
Runtime: 2:37
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Sex. Race. Age. Emotional State. Personality. These are just some of the characteristics the human brain gleans about another person through split-second visual perceptions—a process studied extensively at NYU's Social Cognitive & Neural Sciences Lab.

In this video, lab director Jonathan Freeman discusses how we make snap judgements about people's appearance—without even knowing that we're doing it. His previous research found that the speed with which test subjects categorized a female politician's gender could predict whether she wins or loses her election, and that people were more likely to consider a mixed-race person "black" if he appeared low-status apparel, like a janitor's uniform.

Freeman pioneered software that can track the brain's decision-making process by analyzing the millimeters of movement of a test subject's mouse cursor—technology that was used in a recent experiment exploring the amygdala's role in determining whether a given face ...

NYU Engineer Jonathan Viventi on What It Means to Be 'Brilliant'

Title: NYU Engineer Jonathan Viventi on What It Means to Be 'Brilliant'
Runtime: 1:39
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Jonathan Viventi, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, was recently named to the MIT Technology Review's annual Innovators Under 35 list as well as Popular Science's "Brilliant Ten of 2014." In this video, he describes how he moved from developing wireless technologies for cellphones to building devices that can interface with the brain to control "smart" hearing aids and prosthetic limbs. Plus, a note to parents: If your kid is constantly taking things apart, he might be destined to become a brilliant engineer.

The Quest for the World's Rarest Records

Title: The Quest for the World's Rarest Records
Runtime: 2:49
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Amanda Petrusich’s research for Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 rpm Records sent her to junkyards and basements across the country, as well as to scuba class—in the hopes that by learning to dive she could retrieve a lost trove of Paramount Records gems from the bottom of the Milwaukee River. Part history and part character study, the book explores the haunting power of country blues captured on 10-inch shellac discs at the start of the 20th century—and offers a thoughtful meditation on why some collectors spend their whole lives in pursuit of such elusive objects. It is also something of a conversion story: In the video above, Petrusich, a music critic and part-time Gallatin faculty member, discusses how she too came to love 78s.

Title: Be Safe: What To Do in an Earthquake
Runtime: 0:49
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: For the start of the school year and New York City National Preparedness Month, Alison Leary, Executive Vice President for Operations, gives the NYU community tips about staying safe on campus and in the city.

The Stuff They Didn't Tell You On the NYU Campus Tour

Title: The Stuff They Didn't Tell You On the NYU Campus Tour
Runtime: 2:05
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: From freak flags to quidditch, President John Sexton offers new students an insider's scoop of all things NYU.

Title: ESMITS Learning Our Tools Source
Runtime: 3:02
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description

ESMITS Effective Student Engagement Source

Title: ESMITS Effective Student Engagement Source
Runtime: 3:00
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description

Between Two Worlds: Life After Iranian Prison

Title: Between Two Worlds: Life After Iranian Prison
Runtime: 3:17
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Josh Fattal was one of three Americans detained by Iranian troops on July 31, 2009. He was hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan with friends Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd when a border guard accused them of illegal entry into Iran. The three were later imprisoned and charged with spying. Fattal spent 781 days in an Iranian prison, 100 of those in solitary confinement. He was released on September 21, 2011. Josh Fattal is now a PhD candidate in NYU's history department, studying jurisdictional tensions, or how various forms of government (local, state, national) respond to similar issues. He lives in South Brooklyn with his partner, Jenny Borhman, and their son, Isaiah Azad Fattal. Azad means "freedom" in Farsi. Fattal, with Bauer and Shourd, is a co-author of the 2014 memoir "A Sliver of Light: Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran."

Music by Bleak House via Free Music Archive

A Window Into Climate Change Comes to Mercer Street

Title: A Window Into Climate Change Comes to Mercer Street
Runtime: 1:57
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Courant professor David Holland, director of NYU's Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, has an unusual ground-floor lab at the southeast corner of Mercer St. and Washington Place. Pedestrians wandering by frequently peer in through its windows to stare at the spinning contraption inside—a scale model of the planet with a rotating fluid table that mimics the movement of the Earth's oceans.

What they might not realize is that it's all part of predicting the effects of climate change.

In this video, Holland gives a tour of the lab and connects experiments there to his field work in Greenland and Antarctica, where he studies how melting glaciers contribute to rising global sea levels.

Mississippi in Black and White: Freedom Summer 50 Years Later

Title: Mississippi in Black and White: Freedom Summer 50 Years Later
Runtime: 2:40
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: In 1964, less than 7% of eligible African-Americans in Mississippi were registered to vote.

Under the leadership of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a mixed race group of more than 800 young volunteers recruited from college campuses around the country traveled to Mississippi that summer to register black voters there.

Risking violence and arrest, they also set up Freedom Schools to educate and empower African-American students for social change.

Before they even arrived in the South, while the group was still training in Ohio, three volunteers—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner—were abducted and murdered by Klansmen.Their bodies were found on August 4, 1964.

In this video marking the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Steinhardt history and social studies professor Robert Cohen, author of Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s and Freedom's Orator: Mario Sav...

For Infants and Toddlers, It's Story Time at Steinhardt

Title: For Infants and Toddlers, It's Story Time at Steinhardt
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Parents and caregivers, take note: NYU's Constantine Georgiou Library and Resource Center for Children and Literature, named in honor of an accomplished children's book author, collector, and longtime scholar at NYU, opened in May 2013, and now offers free public programs for toddlers and infants featuring picture books from the center's extensive collection. In a bright, cheery room just steps from the offices of Steinhardt's leading experts in early literacy, media specialist Kendra Tyson imparts a love of reading through stories, songs, and games. Contact her at kendra.tyson@nyu.edu for information about attending a story time with your child.

2014 Commencement Ceremonies at Yankee Stadium

Title: 2014 Commencement Ceremonies at Yankee Stadium
Runtime: 2:22:16
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: NYU Bestows Honorary Degrees on Fed Chair Janet Yellen, Yankees Pitching Great Mariano Rivera, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, Singer Aretha Franklin and Distinguished Attorney Martin Edelman

NYU President John Sexton and Trustees Chair Martin Lipton officiated at NYU's 182nd Commencement in Yankee Stadium. Some 8,000 students receiving undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and 25,000 guests attended the morning ceremony, which was also attended by alumni, faculty, and other NYU community members.

Title: Street Stories: Summer Dreams
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: NYU students and faculty discuss their summer plans.

Title: 2014 Student Speaker: Corey A. Blay
Runtime: 10:37
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: New York University held its 182nd Commencement, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at Yankee Stadium.

Title: Conferral of Honorary Degrees
Runtime: 16:03
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: New York University held its 182nd Commencement, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at Yankee Stadium.

President John Sexton and Board of Trustees Chairman Martin Lipton presided over the event, which presented honorary degrees to Janet Yellen, the first woman to serve as Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Mariano Rivera, greatest relief pitcher in baseball history, 13-time All-Star, and winner of five World Series; Elena Kagan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, law school dean, and U.S. solicitor general; Aretha Franklin, "the Queen of Soul," winner of 18 Grammy awards, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and Martin Edelman, distinguished international real estate and corporate attorney.

Title: 2014 Commencement Procession
Runtime: 9:29
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: New York University held its 182nd Commencement, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at Yankee Stadium.

2014 Commencement Speaker: Janet Louise Yellen, Federal Reserve Chair

Title: 2014 Commencement Speaker: Janet Louise Yellen, Federal Reserve Chair
Runtime: 15:02
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: New York University held its 182nd Commencement, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at Yankee Stadium.

Title: 2014 NYU President John Sexton Speech
Runtime: 9:19
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: New York University held its 182nd Commencement, Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at Yankee Stadium.

Title: 2014 NYU Commencement Highlights
Runtime: 4:19
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: The sights and sounds from the big day at Yankee Stadium.

Title: Street Stories: What I'll Miss Most
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: As they're picking up their caps and gowns on the eve of commencement, members of the class of 2014 look back on fond memories of their time at NYU.

Title: Legislative Bodies: US v. UK
Runtime: 1:13:14
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Presented by the NYU Brademas Center
May 1, 2014

One of the most notable changes in British Politics in the past decade, is the growing Independence of Members of Parliament. Historically, MPs followed the Party Whips as Party support was essential to preferment. As a consequence of these changes, many political scientists in the UK have tended to devote their attention to studying the executive rather than the legislature.

While several academics have written about this phenomenon -- none has put forward, or even attempted to put forward, a coherent thesis to explain the rise in MP independence. This comparative discussion helped illustrate clear trends that have led to the decline in partisan voting, the growth in the number of 'safe seats', increasing lobbing activity in Parliament and the rise in importance of Parliamentary Committees.

NYU's Secret (and Not-So-Secret) Gardens

Title: NYU's Secret (and Not-So-Secret) Gardens
Runtime: 2:08
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: NYU's graceful green spaces do more than beautify our campus—they also provide countless passersby a brief respite from the grueling pace of city life. On this contemplative tour of the small plots tucked between NYU buildings, Supervisor of Landscaping George Reis explains how plants bring quiet dignity to an urban existence.

Music by ROW (Free Music Archive)

Title: Making Speech Visible
Runtime: 2:10
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: For the 10 percent of preschool and elementary school-aged children affected by speech-sound disorders, the request to "repeat after me" can present a real challenge. A child who struggles with the "r" sound, for example, may also have trouble hearing the difference between a "good" "r" and a "bad" "r." That's why speech pathologists at NYU's Steinhardt School are using ultrasound and acoustic biofeedback to present the "r" sound visually—allowing those with speech impairments to focus on what a sound "looks like."

In this video, Tara McAllister Byun, assistant professor of communicative sciences and disorders, and assistant research scientist Heather Campbell describe and demonstrate this unconventional therapy, which is currently being tested on English-speaking children aged 9 to 14. Study participants receive FREE therapy sessions twice a week for a 10-week period. More information for parents, educators, and caregivers of potential participants is available here: ht...

Secrets from the Keeper of the NYU Torch

Title: Secrets from the Keeper of the NYU Torch
Runtime: 2:26
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Tents? Tassels? The freshly washed hair of the graduating class? John DeSantis, senior director of technical services in NYU's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is the guy who makes sure none of those things catch fire each year at Commencement.

For 35 years, he's been the keeper of the NYU torch—the person who coaches the lucky student who gets to carry it and who makes sure its yellow flame shines brightly on the big day. Made by Tiffany, the torch was a gift to NYU in 1911, but was retired from use in 1920s—that is, until the 1970s, when DeSantis was called upon to help revive the tradition. He's been keeping watch over the University's precious symbol ever since.

The Bitter and the Sublime: Deb Willis on African American History Through Photographs

Title: The Bitter and the Sublime: Deb Willis on African American History Through Photographs
Runtime: 2:23
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Deborah Willis, chair of Tisch's Photography & Imaging Department and a leading scholar of African American photography, has devoted her career to questions of black representation through images. Most recently, she's focused on bondage and freedom in the 19th-century with the book Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery (for which she and co-author Barbara Krauthamer won a 2014 NAACP Image Award) and a chapter in The Image of the Black in Western Art (edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).

In this video, Willis—recipient of Guggenheim, Fletcher, and MacArthur fellowships—discusses the power of 19th-century photographs of the enslaved black body, and reflects on how African American photographers have documented their communities over the years.

Chaplains on the Red Carpet: NYU's Imam and Rabbi head to TriBeCa

Title: Chaplains on the Red Carpet: NYU's Imam and Rabbi head to TriBeCa
Runtime: 1:55
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Set against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the tension between Jewish and Muslim students on many college campuses, the short documentary film Of Many focuses on the transformative partnership between New York University chaplains Rabbi Yehuda Sarna and Imam Khalid Latif. They're the leaders of NYU's "Of Many" Institute of Multifaith Leadership, a program that brings students of many faiths together for service learning trips, trainings, and workshops to encourage harmonious relationships on campus. In this behind-the-scenes interview, they discuss their own unorthodox friendship as a powerful example for students learning to bridge differences.

Of Many, an official selection of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival, was directed by NYU's Linda Mills, Vice Chancellor for Global Programs and University Life, Associate Vice Chancellor for Admissions and Financial Support, NYU Abu Dhabi, and Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor. Chelsea Clinton is its executive producer.

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