News and notes from across NYU's Campuses and Sites
Spring semester 2016 in Buenos Aires Valerio Farris and Marsha Ho served as facilitators at Breathing Room, a drop-in group made by students for students to have a safe space to talk and share their experiences while studying away. You can read more about the establishment of Breathing Room in an earlier post. They share their experiences […]
This post originally appeared on NYU Abu Dhabi’s Salaam blog. By Brian Kappler The “cloud computing” we hear so much about is cheap and efficient, but it’s not completely secure. Encrypted data — payroll information, for example, or hospital records — can easily be stored on servers run by Google, Amazon, Oracle, or another company. But only non-encrypted […]
NYU London Professor Benedict O’Looney, who teaches Seeing London’s Architecture, is currently working on a new project in South London – a women’s and children’s wing for the Croydon Mosque, opening in June 2016. The Croydon Mosque is one of the biggest in Britain and this recent addition marks the third stage of development since the […]
On 23-24 May, 2016, NYU Florence and the La Pietra Dialogues will host the 2nd Biannual Meeting of SMaPP-Global to Florence. SMaPP-Global is a joint initiative of the NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study (GIAS) and NYU’s Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) laboratory (smapp.nyu.edu). SMaPP-Global’s goals are three-fold: (1) to better understand how social media […]
The NYU Global Leadership Summit 2016: Taking Action on the European Refugee Crisis will be held in Prague from 21 – 24 May. Global issues like the European Refugee Crisis demonstrate that the challenges of the 21st century are simply too large and complex to be solved by a select group of people. Our times […]
On May 2, NYU Florence hosted an event entitled Civil Society Activism & Democracy: Risks and Promises. Moderated by NYU Florence Professor Gianluca Sgueo, the panelists included Vigjilenca Abazi, Centre for European Research in Maastricht (CERiM), Giulio Carini, Riparte Il Futuro, Angelo Gennaro, Campaigner, Jamal Shahin, Institute for European Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Their discussions were followed by a lively Q […]
Emily Wang, who has studied abroad at NYU Berlin and also NYU Abu Dhabi, recently won an award for her work in the exhibition The Guest as Host, which showcased work by students from NYU Berlin and Universität der Künste Berlin, and was at the Deutsches Haus at NYU. She reflects on her time overseas and her work below. What is […]
This reflection originally appeared on the blog NYU Prague Now!. See the complete story and further photos there. NYU Prague Student Robert Ramkishun recently commented on Ally Week 2016 in Prague: “allyship (v.) is an active and consistent practice of unlearning and re-evaluating beliefs and actions, in which a person seeks to work in solidarity with […]
NYU Tel Aviv students recently participated in a rare modern dance experience. The Batsheva dance troupe practices in a famous dance pavilion located in Neveh Tzedek, a neighborhood in southern Tel Aviv with cobbled stone streets and small artisan shops. NYU students were invited into a private final rehearsal of the troupe’s choreographer, Ohad Naharin’s, […]
Two students from NYU Abu Dhabi have received Fulbright study grants, a prestigious grant that provides students with support for their research projects and graduate studies. Established in 1946 by the US, the grant is given to both American and non-American citizens, and is meant to act as an exchange of education and knowledge. American […]