News and notes from across NYU's Campuses and Sites
NYU Sydney Professor Joanna Nash teaches Foundations of Finance at NYU Sydney. She co-authored a paper which recently won the Harry Markowitz Special Distinction award on sustainability issues within finance. The article is titled “A Pitfall in Ethical Investing: ESG Disclosures Reflect Vulnerabilities, not Virtues”.
Four selected Interactive Media Arts (IMA) student projects—from an interactive digital fountain to a color-changing constellation—were displayed at the Shanghai MixC Mall in Minhang district as special part of the “INFINITE: Dimensions In Digital Age And Beyond” exhibition on Saturday. This was the first public unveiling of their projects. Titled INFINITE·New Born, the exhibition is a […]
Rosie Johnston is a high-energy PhD student who is spending this year in Prague researching 1950s Czechoslovak radio propaganda. A few months ago, she and Czech TV journalist Tereza Willoughby were talking about how the world has changed in the age of new media. But their conversation made both of them start to wonder just […]
A new strategic partnership will focus on growing entrepreneurship initiatives across the UAE. Etihad Airways and NYU Abu Dhabi-based innovation and entrepreneurship platform startAD have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the UAE through the exchange of knowledge, expertise and training. The agreement was signed by Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways […]
In 2013, soon after joining NYU Sydney to teach Global Media as a founding instructor, Sacha Molitorisz began his PhD in media and philosophy. Last week he signed a publishing deal with New South Press to turn the now-completed PhD into a book “The provisional title is Panopticon 2.0,” says Sacha, who has been teaching […]
ReSignifications, an exhibition curated by Awam Amkpa and originally produced in 2015 as part of “Black Portraiture[s] II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories” by New York University Florence, Villa La Pietra, opened at the Cooper Gallery, Harvard University.
On Wednesday 7 March NYU Sydney will be screening ‘Sixteen Legs’ an award-winning behind-the-scenes glimpse of the effort required to tell a natural history story with 7 years of filming, 27 years of scientific research and over 250 million years of evolutionary detail. The film features research conducted by NYU Sydney biology instructor Sean Blamires. This is a […]
On February 8, NYU Accra hosted a Symposium on Chronic Kidney Disease. Working with NYU College of Public Health, the symposium brought together scholars and researchers from the NYU community, the NYU School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana’s Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Services, Midwives and Nurses Council of Ghana, […]
On March 1, NYU Washington, DC is hosting a dynamic panel relating to big data and rights implications. Big data has produced big change. As anyone with a phone knows, technology has exploded – and created startling amounts of data about our lives. How is this information tracked and stored, and how does that affect […]
On 26 February, NYU Prague will host a talk by Julia Mickenberg on the Russian Revolution in American Feminism, 1905 – 1945. Many of us have heard about the vogue of Paris and France after the First World War, but few know about the exodus to Moscow and the Soviet Union in the 1920s and […]