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NYU Abu Dhabi: From Unknown to Beloved By Tanya Bansal, Class of 2018 NYU Abu Dhabi brings together a community at the crossroads of the world in an environment conducive not only to academic learning but also to learning that extends beyond textbooks and labs into a city that’s cosmopolitan, dynamic, modern and culturally vibrant. […]
Can an app reduce road accidents in the UAE? Yes, says the team of five students who created RoadWatch, the winning app for the UAE government’s 2016 mGov competition. (Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum personally handed them a well deserved prize of 1,000,000 AED). The national competition asked university teams to create a mobile […]
Dr. Alecia Simmonds (Ph.D., University of Sydney) currently teaches Pacific World History at NYU Sydney. She has previously taught The Australian Experience. Professor Simmonds is the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney, as well as the Book Review editor of Law and History. She is an inter-disciplinary scholar […]
One year ago, on January 7, 2015, terrorism attacked freedom of expression with the assault on the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo. The slogan “Je suis Charlie” became ubiquitous. All of Europe showed its solidarity with France. Many citizens living in capital cities placed garlands of flowers in front of the French embassies. The European media […]
Like the idea of teleportation, high-speed ground transport may conjure trappings of science fiction to most, but a team of NYU Shanghai freshmen, sophomores and juniors created a top-level capsule design for a hyperloop — a near-vacuum tube that would allow high-speed transportation. Invited to the Design Weekend taking place at Texas A&M University, they’ll […]
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi recently reflected on the New Hampshire primaries in the US presidential elections. In doing so, he recalled watching the 2008 returns with NYU Florence students.
In the summer of 2015, thousands of refugees began arriving in German on a daily basis. In Germany, the existing conditions for receiving refugees are better than in many other countries. It has thus become an important destination for those seeking refuge – they hope to find work and peace in Europe’s leading economy. Volunteers […]
Andy Gregory, NYU Abu Dhabi Public Affairs, interviews NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy John O’Brien, and shares the conversation: NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy John O’Brien spent three and a half years conducting ethnographic fieldwork with a group of young Muslim friends who […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg met today with a select group of NYU Florence students in the living room of the historic Villa La Pietra at NYU Florence. Students had the extraordinary opportunity to address questions to the Justice about everything from theCitizens United ruling, planned parenthood, income inequality and raising taxes on the rich, to eminent domain and the Black […]
NYU Buenos Aires Professor Juan “Pollo” Raffo received one of the most respected awards for Instrumental Music and Fusion this past November 10th, 2015 from the Konex Foundation. This year was the fourth time the Konex Foundation has recognized artists of Popular Music for their activity and work over the past decade. Again, for the […]