News and notes from across NYU's Campuses and Sites
On December 6, 2018, NYU Sydney’s Global Equity Fellow, Juliana Maia led a group of students to Summer Hill to visit the Four Brave Woman initiative. Four Brave Woman is a project that works to empower refugees by providing a commercial kitchen and seating area for use as a restaurant. Refugees are invited to spend eight weeks at […]
On January 24, NYU Washington, DC will host an event featuring a discussion between Speaker of the Fifteenth Knesset and NYU AD Visiting Professor, Avrum Burg, and President and Co-Founder of the Arab American Institute and NYU Visiting Scholar, James Zogby, who will delve into some of the conflict’s issues surrounding border settlements and security, refugees, and […]
Over the past year, faculty from five schools (Abu Dhabi, Gallatin, Steinhardt, Stern, and Tisch) have collaborated on the development of a new type of study away program in Los Angeles, which will open in Fall 2019. The new program, which builds on one that Tisch has been running since 2015, will give undergraduates who […]
Design Works offers an overview of the body of in-house visual design work by students and faculty at NYU Abu Dhabi from 2012 to present. Visual design practice entered the curriculum of the university in January 2012 with the offering of an elective course named Designing Abu Dhabi. The course resulted in a cohort of […]
NYU Berlin Director Gabriella Etmektsoglou was recently interviewed by the German national radio station Deutschlandradio. Her focus was on the Holocaust in Greece and the rise of antisemitism in Europe today. The interview is in German and is presented in three separate parts. The first part begins here.
Each semester, students at NYU Accra have the opportunity to participate in for credit and non-credit internships. They are placed with organizations that align with their courses of study. Steinhardt junior Gabrielle Henoch is completing a for credit internship at the Ghanaian nonproft Street Girls Aid, an organization created to help keep young women and their families of the streets. Gabby helps take […]
Pilkyung Moon, an assistant professor of physics and a member of the NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai, working in collaboration with a research group from Sungkyunkwan University, have succeeded in creating a new kind of quasicrystal. In research featured on the cover of Science, Moon and his colleagues reported that a new kind […]
The latest edition of PragueCast, NYU’s Prague’s podcast that covers all matter of exciting topics related to the city. Created by NYU Prague students with support from NYU Prague professor and BBC correspondent Rob Cameron, PragueCast is always an interesting listen. The latest edition explores what happens when most of the city is sleeping, discovering […]
Today we are conversation with Stephen Shore and Kristie Patten Koenig about the Steinhardt course they co-taught at NYU London last J-Term and will soon be teaching again in January 2020. The course, Shifting to a Strength Based Paradigm: A Focus on Autism and Well-being Comparative Analysis Between the UK and the US, their experiences in […]