New York University
Commencement 2025 - Molly Shannon
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- Commencement 2025 - Molly Shannon
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- 18:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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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
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- 2:08:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Finding a Unicorn of a Friend at NYU
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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- Eos: Discovery of the Nearest CO Dark Molecular Cloud to the Sun
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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.
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- 4:13
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
- 2 years ago
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- 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?
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 2:15
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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'
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- New Study Uses Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Quantify Green Spaces
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 2:18
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- 4:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- 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
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- How Games Like Chess Helped Inspire Designs for the Modern Computer
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- “Modern computers were first imagined by mathematicians Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace in the mid-19th century, but we’re still learning more about how they did so,” says Samuel Pizelo, visiting assistant professor in media, culture, and communication at NYU Steinhardt. “The fact that games were such powerful modeling tools helps us to understand games as agents of historical change more broadly. This also gives historians and computer theorists a new vocabulary for thinking about what computation is, and what else it can do.”
Citing journal entries, publications, drawings, and correspondence by Babbage and Lovelace, Pizelo argues that they used gaming theories to model and develop complex mathematical algorithms, spatial and temporal calculations, and predictive reasoning.
These calculations were then used for Babbage’s design of the analytical engine—a steam-powered mechanical computer that inspired the first digital computers a century late...
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- Why This Education Professor Loves Abbott Elementary
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- 2:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Natalia Ortiz, Clinical Assistant Professor and the Director of the Office of School and Community Partnerships in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the NYU Steinhardt School, says there's a lot the show gets right. She walked us through her favorite episode—"The Principal's Office"—to explore how the next generation of educators are exploring more inclusive and restorative models of classroom management and discipline.
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- NYU Dental Students Use Virtual Reality to Practice Injections and More
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It’s no secret that novocaine injections are anxiety-provoking for many dental patients, including the one in four adults with a fear of needles. But what those in the chair may not realize is that they can also be stressful for future dentists who are learning to perform the procedure while putting their patients at ease.
That’s why NYU College of Dentistry is pioneering the use of virtual reality (VR) to give students a realistic way to practice these injections—over and over and over—before they administer local anesthesia in the real-life clinic.
“As dentists, we have to get these skills right—you cannot practice dentistry without anesthetics. That’s why we’re so focused on students being both competent and confident,” says Marci Levine, a clinical associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery who has spearheaded the development of VR training at NYU College of Dentistry.
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- Meet one of NYU's Faculty Fellow-In-Residence, Dell Howlett
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Dell Howlett is one of NYU's Faculty Fellow-In-Residence. He is a choreographer and director who teaches dance at the Tisch School of the Arts.
As a Faculty Fellow-In-Residence, his responsibilities extend beyond the classroom and into the residence hall where he works with the staff and RAs to provide extra programming and mentorship.
For more information on the Faculty Fellow-In-Residence program click here: https://www.nyu.edu/students/student-information-and-resources/housing-and-dining/on-campus-living/the-on-campus-experience/faculty-programs/faculty-fellows-inresidence.html
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- Cool Course Dispatch: Physical Theatre & Improvisation
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Steinhardt’s Educational Theatre course layers words, sounds, and movement in exercises that free students' imaginations and help them develop performance skills
There’s no room for shyness in the Black Box Theatre on the ground floor of Pless Hall, where Nan Smithner’s students meet weekly for “Physical Theatre & Improvisation,” a course that examines the art of improvisation through specific vocal and movement techniques.
Required for Educational Theatre students, the course encourages students to be playful and experimental as they discover ways to communicate with their entire body. In any given session, that means jumping, miming, groaning, or any combination of sounds and gestures that express an intention or idea.
“I teach a lot through play, and improvisation is embedded in everything,” Clinical Professor Nan Smithner explains. “I’m advocating for the whole body to be expressive.”
NYU News attended a recen...
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- Brainiacs Episode 16: Election 2024
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- 4:26
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this month's episode of Brainiacs, we're making diving into the world of political science and elections.
- NYU researchers released new guidelines on how online platforms should monitor violent speech.
- Most Americans' beliefs don't fit neatly into either party, making them "party misfits"
- Incumbency seems to be an inherent belief among American voters, even with every extraneous variable removed.
Learn more about these stories and other NYU research at nyu.edu/news
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- NYU Acting Students Role Play as Counseling Clients for Social Workers in Training
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- 3:24
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Medical schools have long used live actors playing simulated patients for students training for a variety of healthcare scenarios. Add over the past decade, these Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) have been adapted for social work, including here at NYU. Silver School professors Nicholas Lanzieri, Anne Dempsey, and Gabriella McBride have recently brought the OSCE experience to social work students by hiring and training acting students from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts to act as teens in live, simulated school counseling sessions. During the sessions, NYU Silver faculty observers rate the MSW students' clinical performance.
“Live, actor-based simulations provide a level of authenticity that generally isn’t realized in student role-plays that are conducted in the classroom,” says Lanzieri. “Students are able to engage in developing skills with actors who are trained to respond as a real client would, in a low-stakes environment, where harming a real clien...
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- How Student Veterans Find Community at NYU
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- 2:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Ahead of Veterans Day, members of NYU's Student Veterans Association group gathered in the Kimmel Center's Military Alliance Community Center to reflect on the role of building connections with other military-connected students in helping with the transition to university life.
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- Rubin Hall’s 13th Floor is Back—Just in Time for Halloween
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Built in 1928, NYU’s Rubin Hall originally skipped 13 in the numbering of its floors, in keeping with an architectural tradition tied to folk beliefs about 13 as a bad luck number.
But after its recent passive house retrofit to make the residence hall climate-efficient and comfortable, Rubin reopened with an eye to the future and its 13th floor restored—and for good reason. A straightforward numbering system that matches the building’s architectural plans makes it easier for firefighters and other first responders to find their way to the right place in an emergency.
Plus, not everybody thinks 13 is bad news. According to @nyusteinhardt’s Jesse Bransford, an art professor and researcher on occult traditions, the number is actually considered good luck in some circles. No one knows for sure where triskaidekaphobia—or fear of 13—comes from, but he has some theories about the cultural roots of the spooky association.
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- Motions (arrows) of the human genome across an entire cell nucleus.
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- 0:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Credit: Image courtesy of Alexandra Zidovska, Department of Physics, NYU.
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- Single gene motion within the surrounding genomic flows
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- 0:25
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Motion of a single gene (white dot) is marked by its trajectory (colored curve) within the flows of the surrounding genome (arrows).
Credit: Image courtesy of Alexandra Zidovska, Department of Physics, NYU.
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- Shared Grief, Shared Hope: Holding Onto Humanity
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- 1:21:42
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Pirate Lingo 101 with an NYU Linguistics Professor
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Arrrrr! Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19) is an annual opportunity to pepper your speech with swashbuckling phrases like "ahoy matey" and "shiver me timbers." But where does "pirate speak" come from, and is this how historical pirates really talked? We asked Laurel MacKenzie, an NYU associate professor of linguistics who studies dialectology, language change, and varieties of English to explain the origins of some common pirate phrases and sounds. Turns out a lot of it has to do with the movies.
Video by Jonathan King
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- NYU Tisch student and Paralympic swimmer? Meet Katie Kubiak
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- With the 2024 Paralympics underway in Paris, we talked to a 2028 Paralympic hopeful at NYU—Tisch sophomore Katie Kubiak, who qualified for and will be competing with the US National Paralympic Swimming team beginning in 2025. While a full-time student in film & TV, she’s also been training at Palladium and setting American Paralympic records in freestyle and breaststroke. #VioletPride
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- Do Fancier NYC Neighborhoods Have More Biodiversity?
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Do wealthier NYC neighborhoods have more species of birds and bugs? NYU biology researchers Valentina Alaasam and Rafael Baez spent the summer surveying the wildlife in different parks as part of a project to evaluate whether there's "luxury effect" on biodiversity across the five boroughs. We tagged along on their trip to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
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- Derek Maas competes at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- From growing up swimming in Lake Michigan to becoming the first from @NYUswimming to compete in the @teamusa Olympic trials, Derek Maas knows what hard work looks like. The current @NYUGrossman med student also maintained a perfect 4.0 while earning his bachelor’s and MBA in four years as a star swimmer at @univofalabama.
This June, he represented NYU in the Olympic prelims for 100m breaststroke, 200m individual medley, and 100m butterfly. There are more than 325,000 swimmers in the U.S., and Derek is one of just approximately 900 who competed in Indiana for qualifying—making him part of the top 0.2 percent nationally. Here’s what he had to say about the journey there
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- Brainiacs Episode 15: The Nextdoor App, Brain-Speech Synthesis, and Music vs Speech
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- 3:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- In this month's episode of Brainiacs, we're making progress on how our brains determine what is music and what is speech. In another study, NYU CSMaP researchers delve into the Nextdoor app, a widely used but largely unexplored social media platform.Finally, NYU Tandon scientists implanted sensors onto participants' brains to synthesize speech.
Learn more about these stories and other NYU research at nyu.edu/news
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- Say hello to NYU’s newest global site: NYU Tulsa
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A dynamic and diverse city with a rich and complex history, Tulsa offers many opportunities for NYU students and faculty as a destination for a study away semester, a summer internship, a short-term program, or research and creative work.
At NYU Tulsa, NYUers can examine the United States’ past, present, and future in a city emerging as a national leader in policy innovation, community-focused entrepreneurship, and tech-driven economic development.
NYU students can explore Tulsa’s unique history while engaging with some of the most complex challenges the United States faces as a nation. It’s an ideal study away location for students who care about deep impact and the future of American cities.
Every student at NYU Tulsa has the opportunity to do an internship, whether in the non-profit sector, government, or industry. NYU students can quickly plug into the network of people and organizations who are transforming the city.
Studen...
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- Jonathan Haidt and Guests: "The Anxious Generation on The Anxious Generation"
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- 1:19:20
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Recording of “the anxious generation on The Anxious Generation” — a conversation that brings together on stage Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU Stern Jonathan Haidt with students in the generation that is the main subject of Professor Haidt’s latest book. Recorded live at New York University on April 17. Learn more at nyu.edu/in-dialogue.
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- Wendy Suzuki: "Anxiety as a Superpower!"
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- 44:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- NYU Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Dean of the College of Arts & Science Wendy Suzuki continues on her mission to reframe “the most misunderstood emotion” with a talk titled “Anxiety as a Superpower!” — also the topic of her latest book, Good Anxiety. Recorded live at New York University on April 8, 2024. Learn more at nyu.edu/in-dialogue.
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- David Greene, Christopher Norris, and Guests: "Productive Conversations From Differing Perspectives"
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- 1:13:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- David Greene — host of the Left, Right & Center podcast and show on NPR stations nationwide — and StoryCorps’ Christopher Norris welcome special guests to the NYU Skirball stage for a stimulating conversation across the aisle. Joined by Amina Amdeen — whose 2016 election story has moved millions of people worldwide — the group offers a glimpse into productive political dialogue between family members who support opposing candidates, a discussion that is much more than red versus blue or Trump versus Biden. Recorded live at New York University on March 25, 2024. Learn more at nyu.edu/in-dialogue.
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- Elisabeth King et al.: "Talking Peace"
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- 1:14:27
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- “Talking Peace” — a conversation featuring Elisabeth King, Professor of International Education and Politics at NYU Steinhardt, Michael Posner, Jerome Kohlberg Professor of Ethics and Finance at NYU Stern, Cyrus Samii, Associate Professor of Politics at NYU CAS, Joshua Tucker, Professor of Politics at NYU Arts & Science and Director of NYU’s Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, and j. Siguru Wahutu, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. Recorded live at New York University on March 12, 2024. Learn more at nyu.edu/in-dialogue.
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- Randall Kennedy and Samuel Issacharoff: "Academic Freedom: Contemporary Dilemmas"
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- 1:15:54
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- A conversation about “Academic Freedom: Contemporary Dilemmas” with Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and Samuel Issacharoff, Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU Law. Recorded live at New York University on March 5, 2024. Learn more at nyu.edu/in-dialogue.
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- Eboo Patel: "Could a Potluck Dinner Save our Democracy?"
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- 1:13:10
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Founder of Interfaith America Eboo Patel helmed this year’s Fritzi Weitzmann Owens Memorial Lecture with a talk titled “Could a Potluck Dinner Save Our Democracy?” Recorded live at New York University on February 29, 2024. Learn more at nyu.edu/in-dialogue.
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- NYU clinic provides free mental health care to restaurant workers
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Free mental health services for restaurant workers? Yes, chef! Carmy and Sydney (played on The Bear by NYU grad Ayo Edebiri 🤩) may be fictional characters, but their struggles reflect service industry stress that is very real.
That's why NYU's Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing began offering free counseling in September of last year—supported by the nonprofit Southern Smoke Foundation for food and beverage workers—to give the restaurant community the mental health support they need.
Dr. Jordan Wright, a clinical associate professor at NYU Steinhardt, and graduate students supervised by New York State licensed mental health professionals provide 20 free sessions per client—and offer continued care at a low cost.
📹 : Video by Jonathan King
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- How Microwaving Insecticides Can Help Kill More Mosquitoes
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Deltamethrin is an insecticide that is commonly incorporated into bed nets to fight mosquitoes that carry malaria. But some mosquitoes have become resistant to it, making the nets less effective and increasing the risk of disease.
A possible fix? The microwave! Experiments by NYU chemistry professor Bart Kahr and colleagues have shown that heating up insecticides can rearrange their crystal structure, yielding new forms that may work better against mosquitoes. They started their research with DDT before moving on to deltamethrin.
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- Your Guide to Manhattanhenge 2023: Tips from an Expert on NYC Light and Shadow
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Twice a year, the sun setting over the Hudson River aligns perfectly with NYC's streets, creating rare and striking views of the orb of light passing through the shadowy canyon formed by the city's skyscrapers.
Called 'Manhattanhenge' by the American Museum of Natural History's Neil Degrasse Tyson, the phenomenon occurs not on the summer solstice itself but rather just before and just after, because Manhattan's grid doesn't perfectly match up with compass directions: What we call "uptown" isn't due north.
Here NYU Tandon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Cláudio T. Silva, who previously mapped the shadows of every building and every block of New York City, explains why Manhattanhenge is so dramatic and shares his top spots for viewing it.
