NYU London has continued to bloom during the last six months.
We delivered another successful semester of 83 courses (J-term, freshmen, sophomore, upperclassmen, and postgraduate), hosted distinguished researchers and PhD students in multifarious fields of work, and delivered an unprecedentedly wide range of student life events to enrich the experience of our students.
During the last six months we have recruited seven new, highly-distinguished faculty and now have 92 eminent academics.
We launched two new courses: Global Fashion Industry: London debuted as the third course in a trio of courses that form Gallatin’s new fashion programme; and Global Public Health’s Health and Society, which proved to be of interest to students from across disciplines. Additionally, we welcomed Abu Dhabi faculty member Dr PJ Henry here for the term to teach the Psychology of Prejudice.
The rich Cultural Program offered by Student Life has continued to develop. This last semester we offered 35 major separate events (e.g., visits to the Houses of Parliament, and the BBC) which attracted a participation rate of 1,279 students (or an average of 36.5 students on each event).

Our public programming continued to flourish during the last six months. We expanded our series of “Talking Points” faculty lunchtime lectures. In February we welcomed Edgardo Dieleke, a writer, director and faculty member at NYU Buenos Aires to talk on the Falkland Islands/ Las Malvinas.
In March, Dr Stefano Taglia gave a talk titled “Modern Turkey, the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire” which looked at the historical sources of current debates in the Middle East and Turkey.
Our third Talking Points lecture, given by Dr. Marko Bojcun, addressed the ongoing developments in Ukraine. In the final lecture, “Is the Break-up of Britain Inevitable?”, Dr Scott Kelly examined the background to – and potential implications of – the upcoming September 2014 Scottish vote on independence.
In February we were delighted to be visited by Mounir Guen, the Founder and CEO of MVision, one of the world’s leading private equity capital raising firms. Mr Guen spoke to a group of students from the NYU Stern Business and Political Economy programme on the theme of private equity.
The Global Orientations: British Culture class concluded in April with a debate on the motion, “This House believes that the human rights agenda is promoting unfairness in the UK” with two nationally eminent speakers: Adam Wagner, a lawyer, and Dr Lee Rotherham a politician.