NYU
A Workshop in Listening and Understanding
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- A Workshop in Listening and Understanding
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In September and October, NYU’s A Mile in My Shoes—in partnership with the Empathy Museum—welcomed students, faculty, administrators, and staff to enter a life-sized shoe box (think: a medium-sized Winnebago), pluck a pair off a shelf, try them on for size, and take a stroll while listening to the original owner’s story. Some of the museum’s 350 previously collected stories from across 19 countries were available to listen to alongside new, NYU entries produced by and featuring voices from the university community. Those offering anecdotes included a disability advocate, a war veteran, a hospital chaplain, and more.
In one of the exhibit's storytelling exchange workshops—facilitated by experts from Narrative 4—NYUers gathered to pause, listen to each other, and gain new understanding of the people they pass on campus each day.
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- Spring move-in Swap Shop
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- 0:20
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The NYU Swap Shop is back with a mini spring move-in pop-up(!) at Third North, stocked with 3,800 items donated primarily by students moving out of residence halls. We’ve got housewares and clothes galore—including name-brand items new with tags and an entire rack of costumes. Even the hangers are donated—didn’t have to purchase a single one! The effort to keep useful items out of landfills is a collaboration between @nyu_green, NYU Grounds & Collections, and @nyuhousing, supported by 11 student workers.
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- Hot Takes with Plant Biologist Adam Roddy, How Mangrove Cells Adapted for Salty Environments
- Runtime
- 1:44
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- NYU's Adam Roddy explains how mangrove cells evolved.
Mangroves, a diverse set of plant species, grow primarily along tropical and subtropical coastal areas where saltwater is abundant. They are one of the few plants who thrive in saline environments. But it’s been unclear what in mangroves’ cellular makeup explains their durability in these conditions.
In new published research, which appears in the journal Current Biology, Roddy and a team of international researchers found how.
For more on this story and other NYU research, visit nyu.edu/news
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- NYU Students Talk Screen Time, and How to Reduce It
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- The University launched the NYU IRL initiative to encourage people to connect offline and in real life—and many students have already developed their own strategies
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- Come Take a Tour of NYU's New Nest Space, located in Kimmel
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- If you're tired of being on your phone all the time, the Nest has lots of activities to get you offline and connected with your friends. There's plenty of room to lounge and eat, talk and relax, play board games or read, or anything else you can imagine.
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- Observable Time Crystals that You Can Hold in Your Hand
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Time crystals, a collection of particles that “tick”—or move back and forth in repeating cycles— were first theorized and then discovered about a decade ago. While scientists have yet to create commercial or industrial applications for this intriguing form of matter, these crystals hold great promise for advancing quantum computing and data storage, among other uses.
A team of New York University physics researchers has now observed a new type of time crystal—one whose particles levitate on a cushion of sound while interacting with each other by exchanging sound waves. In the process, these particles defy Newton’s Third Law of Motion.
For more on this story and other NYU research visit nyu.edu/news
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- Bean Plant Growth
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- A timelapse video of two bean vines: The left plant has hormone levels typically found in vines and climbs normally; the right plant, by contrast, has an excess amount of hormones, creating an imbalance that stifles climbing.
Video courtesy of the Onyenedum Lab/New York University.
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- Water Gear Mechanism, Counterclockwise
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- A team of New York University scientists have created a gear mechanism that relies on water to generate movement. For some conditions, the rotors spin in opposite directions like a pair of gears. Video contains no audio.
Video courtesy of NYU's Applied Mathematics Laboratory.
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- Water Gear Mechanism, Clockwise
- Runtime
- 3:01
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- A team of New York University scientists have created a gear mechanism that relies on water to generate movement. For other conditions, the rotors spin in the same direction like pulleys looped together with a belt. Video contains no audio
Video courtesy of NYU's Applied Mathematics Laboratory.
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- How Multilingual Are You, Really?
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
- Description
- NYU's Esti Blanco-Elorrieta and Xuanyi Jessica Chen created a calculator that scores multilingualism, allowing users to see how multilingual they actually are and which language is their dominant one. A trio of multilingual NYU students tried it out to test their abilities in different languages—with results that were both surprising and affirming. Video by Jonathan King/NYU
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- A Masterclass for NYU Students with Paul of Peter, Paul, and Mary
- Runtime
- 2:41
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Noel Paul Stookey—who first rose to international fame in the 1960s as a member of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary—met NYU songwriting students at The Bitter End on October 27 to give them feedback on their work are part of his residency with NYU's Arts & Impact initative.
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- The Writers Room with Lucy Thurber
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Writers room's are an often enigmatic part of the TV process. To better understand what a writers room is like, Lucy Thurber is creating one for students.
Clinical Assistant Professor at Gallatin and OBIE Award-winning playwright, Lucy is teaching a new class appropriately called The Writers Room. Through the semester, students take turns show running the writers room, providing clarity and insight to what that process looks like.
For more info, visit nyu.edu/news
- Title
- Hot Takes: Pain Researcher Nigel Bunnett Explains How to Build Better NSAIDs
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
- Description
- Nigel Bunnet, Professor and Chair of NYU Dentistry's Department of Molecular Pathobiology, explains new research he discovered on NSAIDs.
NSAIDs, or Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs, are an extremely common variety of pain relief medicine. There are over the counter varinets such as Advil or aspirin or prescribed forms such as Celebrex and Voltaren.
Though common, NSAIDs have side effects that can be dangerous, and long-term usage can result in significant cardiac risk.
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, a team of researchers successfully identified the mechanisms that make NSAIDs work. These findings are an important step in creating new medicines that can relieve pain without many of its dangerous side effects.
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- Quick Tips for Marathon Nutrition with a Registered Dietician
- Runtime
- 2:21
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Director of the NYU Food Lab and registered dietician and nutritionist, Lourdes Castro has previously ran the NYC marathon. Here are some of her tips for running a marathon.
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- Accelerating Climate Modeling at a Lower Cost
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Scientists are increasingly turning to AI to model future changes in the climate. However, existing approaches often face a trade-off between accuracy, speed, and computational cost.
Researchers at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science have now developed a first-of-its-kind neural network—Samudra—that emulates the ocean in 3D. Samudra (Sanskrit for “ocean”) reproduces key ocean model variables, including sea surface height, ocean currents, temperature, and salinity throughout the ocean’s depth, offering a detailed look at earth’s vast waterways. Moreover, it does so at a rate that is 100 times faster than many existing methods—and is conducted at a lower computational cost.
Samudra’s creators see the breakthrough as significantly advancing our present and future understanding of the world’s oceans, which absorb more than 90 percent of excess heat and 25 percent of carbon dioxide emissions and are ess...
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- Introducing NYU's New Supercomputer, 'Torch,' One of the Most Powerful in Higher Ed
- Runtime
- 2:55
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Named for the NYU's iconic logo, Torch is five times more powerful than NYU’s previous supercomputer, Greene, as well as more sustainable: Torch was recently ranked No. 40 on the Top Green 500, a global list of the most sustainable supercomputers in the world thanks to its advanced liquid cooling system. Greene, which came online in 2020, was ranked No. 50 on the same list.
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- Why Lanternflies Are in NYC to Stay
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- New Yorkers are spotting their share of lanternflies this season. Since these colorful pests first arrived in New York City in 2020, they’ve inspired curiosity, calls to stomp them, and fear about their ability to harm trees and other plants.
They also caught the attention of NYU biology professor Kristin Winchell and doctoral student Fallon Meng, who study how wildlife adapt to cities. The researchers are exploring how factors like urban heat and human transportation are enabling spotted lanternflies to thrive and spread in the US, including to colder regions.
NYU News took a trip with Winchell and Meng to Central Park, where spotted lanternflies were plentiful on a tree of heaven, another invasive species and a favorite host plant for lanternflies.
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- Ice Melt Transformations
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The video depicts how ice melts and then repeatedly capsizes while transforming from the shape of a cylinder into a pentagon before dissipating. Video courtesy of NYU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory.
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- Under Iceberg Water Flow
- Runtime
- 2:01
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- This video depicts the flow of water beneath the surface of a melting model iceberg. Video courtesy of NYU’s Applied Mathematics Laboratory
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- How Naturalistic Learning Algorithm PooDLe Works
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Most AI systems trained on carefully curated datasets struggle when faced with the messy reality of naturalistic video. PooDLe [https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11208], a newly published work, addresses this problem.
“We were interested in building embodied learning algorithms that could learn directly from video streams." Says Mengye Ren, author of the paper and assistant professor of computer science and data science at NYU.
The algorithm's name comes from a combination of a pooled loss function and a dense loss function used in PooDLe's architecture.
Visit nyu.edu/news for updates on this story and more.
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- NYU Swap Shop
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
- Description
- Coming soon: a FREE shop for incoming students to stock up on residence hall essentials—sourced and upcycled from previous move-outs! With the help of NYU Grounds’ Misty Germany, students Kate Koblegarde (GLS ‘27), Belle Mbaezue (CAS ‘26), and Hanin Amer (Silver ‘26) have spent the summer turning an empty storefront at 111 Second Ave. into this highly organized one-stop shop for #NYU2029. They’ve been stocking microwaves, lamps, and other dorm essentials, seeking collaboration with the @nyumakerspace to host mending circles, and developing methods to track the flow of items, all in preparation for the NYU Swap Shop to open on August 23 in time for move-in. Follow @nyu.swapshop for details!
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- Vortex Ring Reflection
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- A vortex ring of water traveling in a tank gets reflected off a water-air interface. Credit: John Zhuang Su et al., NYU Shanghai
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- New Study Tackles the Dynamics of Common—and Difficult—Sailing Maneuver
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, an instructor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, describes the dynamics of successful tacking—a common, but difficult, sailing maneuver—at Conservatory Water in New York City's Central Park.
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- Brainiacs EP 18-Bounce Crypto Tech and NYC's Speed Camera Efficacy
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- In this episode of Brainiacs, we explore a new, experimental technology that could change how blockchains work.
The Bounce protocol uses satellites to order transactions and has the potential to significantly increase transaction speeds while lowering energy costs.
We also investigate how NYC's 2013 speed camera program affects driver behavior, and how much it reduced traffic fatalities.
For more on these stories visit nyu.edu/news.
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- Commencement 2025 - Highlights
- Runtime
- 8:11
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
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- Commencement 2025 - Student Speaker
- Runtime
- 5:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- Commencement 2025 - Honorary Degrees
- Runtime
- 10:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Commencement 2025 - Molly Shannon
- Runtime
- 18:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- NYU 2025 All-University Commencement PSA
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Know before you go! Be prepared for Commencement at Yankee Stadium. Visit the Commencement Day Guide on our website for additional information: bit.ly/NYUCMDayGuide.
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- Commencement 2025 - Full Ceremony
- Runtime
- 2:08:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- Finding a Unicorn of a Friend at NYU
- Runtime
- 4:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- 2025 grads talk about the classmates who got them through their four years and the results will have you reaching for the tissue box (or the phone to call your own bestie!).
Special thanks to:
Will Gerber (CAS '25)
Lila Oranchak (CAS '25)
Pamela Esquivel (Stern '25)
Emily Sorkin (Gallatin '25)
Raffy Mustaq (SPS '25)
Ryan Daly (Tandon '25)
Jun Shim (Tandon '25)
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- SNL Legend Molly Shannon to Speak at NYU's 2025 Commencement
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Keia Clarke, CEO of the WNBA’s New York Liberty, and Walter E. Massey, esteemed physicist and educator, will also receive honorary degrees during the ceremony. Read more at nyu.edu/news
- Title
- Eos: Discovery of the Nearest CO Dark Molecular Cloud to the Sun
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- This video illustrates the place of Eos—a newly discovered molecular hydrogen cloud that is 99-percent CO dark—on the edge of the Local Bubble, a large gas-filled cavity that encompasses the solar system. It is the nearest molecular cloud to earth at only 300 light years away. Scientists estimate that Eos is vast in projection on the sky, measuring about 40 moons across the sky, with a mass about 5,400 times that of the sun. Credit: Thomas Müller, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, and Thavisha Dharmawardena, New York University.
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- Eos: Discovery of the Nearest CO Dark Molecular Cloud to the Sun
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- This video illustrates the place of Eos—a newly discovered molecular hydrogen cloud that is 99-percent CO dark—on the edge of the Local Bubble, a large gas-filled cavity that encompasses the solar system. It is the nearest molecular cloud to earth at only 300 light years away. Scientists estimate that Eos is vast in projection on the sky, measuring about 40 moons across the sky, with a mass about 5,400 times that of the sun.
Credit: Thomas Müller, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, and Thavisha Dharmawardena, New York University.
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- NYU Law Students Take to the (Basketball) Court
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- NYU Law students are busy training for their annual charity basketball game versus Columbia Law. The proceeds benefit each school's Public Interest Law Center.
Speakers in the video:
Cedric Lewis JD '25
Ryan Ross JD '25
Steven Chung JD '26
Janeé Dennis JD/MBA '26
Patience Adegboyega (the "MC") JD '25
Chudi Ikpeazu JD '26
Honor Culpepper JD '27
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- NYU Faculty Talk Failure
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- We teamed up with Student Wellbeing to ask NYU faculty about the times they failed—and what came next. Because growth doesn’t come from getting it right. It comes from what you do next.
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- NYU Brainiacs Episode 18, Mental Framing, Guaranteed Income, and Suicide Prevention.
- Runtime
- 4:13
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this episode of NYU Brainiacs, we're investigating the social sciences. We explore research into story framing and its affect on gender gap perception. We look into the Compton Pledge's Fund for Guaranteed Income to see how spending habits changed. Finally we investigate policy that unintentionally reduce suicide rates.
For more on these stories and other NYU research, please visit nyu.edu/news
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- Pizza for Pi Day
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In exchange for a slice on March 14, NYU students talked about how they use pi in their classes and showed off how many digits they can recite.
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- Why Do We Still Have Daylight Saving Time?
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- NYU Meyers' Susan explains why the "spring forward" is bad for our health—and why the US hasn't yet managed to "lock the clock."
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- Using Virtual Reality to Study Balance in NYC Subways
- Runtime
- 2:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- While it may seem intuitive, the way our senses interact to help us maintain balance is still somewhat tricky.
Associate professor of physical therapy at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Anat Lubetzky has been studying balance for years. Much of her previous work reinforces our understanding of the relationship between balance and visual input.
Her new study, published in January 2025, explores how sound affects balance using VR and real New York City subway sounds.
Read more about this study here: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2025/january/vr-subway-experiment-highlights-role-of-sound-in-disrupting-bala.html
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- NYU Professor Statia Cook explains the Jupiter's 2024 opposition
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On December 6th Jupiter will be at its closest to earth for the year. This presents opportunities for researchers and casual stargazers. We'll be able to see Jupiter with the naked eye, even in New York City!
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- Season's Greetings, Live from New York...
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Students in the NYU Steinhardt Chorale mark the 60th anniversary of a holiday classic live on The Today Show.
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- NYU Researchers' DietNerd Project, a preliminary research tool for diet and nutrition
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- NYU's Shela Wu and Dennis Shasha developed DietNerd.org. The website is aimed to ease dieting and nutrition research for individuals. DietNerd is a large language model-based AI tool that is comparable to other AI research tools such as Clinfo.ai. DietNerd uses peer-reviewed research from PubMed to answer user questions.
For more on this and other NYU research visit nyu.edu/news.
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- An NYU Roboticist Fact Checks 'The Wild Robot'
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Real robots today may be more like the Roomba than like protagonist Roz, but NYU Courant's Lerrel Pinto says that there's plenty of inspiration scientists take from movies about robots that can explore, adapt, and yes, even parent goslings. Pinto's General-Purpose Robotics Lab focuses on robot learning and decision making.
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- An NYU Law Professor Breaks Down Legally Blonde’s Climactic Courtroom Scene
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- 4:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Erin E. Murphy, NYU School of Law’s Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties, uses the final courtroom scene from Legally Blonde in her classroom to teach a few key legal tactics and evidentiary rules. She says Elle Woods demonstrates “good lawyering” in how she uses her knowledge of haircare to impeach the witness by specific contradiction, and that reimagining the exchange a few different ways can help law students learn the collateral evidence rule, which isn’t always intuitive.
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- How a 'Star Trek Generations' Scene Violates the Laws of Physics
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A few crucial errors in the climactic sequence from the 1994 film have been bugging Jeremy Tinker, NYU associate professor of physics, for 30 years. Here, he breaks it down, starting with how the bad guy's rocket travels faster than the speed of light.
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- NYU Students Talk Self-Love Ahead of Valentine's Day
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
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- New Study Uses Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Quantify Green Spaces
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- NYU associate professor Rumi Chunara - with appointments in both the Tandon School of Engineering and the School of Global Public Health - has developed a new system for accurately measuring how much green space exists in cities.
Green spaces help reduce temperatures, filter air pollution, and provide essential spaces for health and wellbeing.
The newly published paper provides cities with a tool for precisely tracking these spaces.
Read more about this story here: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/new-ai-system-accurately-maps-urban-green-spaces-exposing-environmental-divides
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- What Medical Dramas Get Wrong About Nurses, From an NYU Professor
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Hospital shows have long been a staple of both daytime soaps and primetime prestige television, and nursing professor Michele Crespo-Fierro has enjoyed many over the years, especially when plotlines have tackled real-world issues such as HIV care. But she can't help pointing out a few things that the genre tends to get wrong about her profession, from workplace dynamics and labor conditions to education and credentialing.
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- Brainiacs Episode 17: Abortion Care, 3D Printed Cancer Cells, and Congestion Pricing
- Runtime
- 4:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this episode of Brainiacs, NYU researchers have made progress on understanding metastatic cancer cells, the nuances of New York City congestion pricing, and financial burdens of abortion care.
Learn more about these stories and other NYU research at nyu.edu/news
