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This story was adapted from NYU Abu Dhabi News. NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2019 graduate Noora Almarri has made history as the first UAE national to be selected as a Schmidt Science Fellow, one of the world’s most competitive and prestigious postdoctoral fellowships supporting interdisciplinary research to address global challenges. Noora, who recently completed […]
Last spring, NYU students from 12 cities across the world signed into Zoom for Around the Globe, NYU’s first-ever global conversation. NYU In Dialogue and the Student Government Assembly (SGA) partnered to organize this event, bridging the divide between students in different countries—and on different continents—for 45 minutes of connection. “We attend NYU, a 60,000-student […]
Last November, while orbiting thousands of miles above the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) streamed music composed by NYU Abu Dhabi students and faculty to NASA’s Space Center in Houston, Texas. From there, a control interface shared the compositions online, allowing audiences worldwide to access this unique collaboration at the intersection of science and […]
For decades NYU’s global network has inspired countless impactful careers as students broaden their perspective and gain international experience. As a senior consultant working on EY’s climate change and sustainability services team in Singapore, Athena Thomas, an NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2020 graduate, leverages the unique global experience she gained at NYU to help […]
Artists in residence enrich a university community by bringing new ideas and inspiring new questions, and that’s exactly what the inaugural artists in residence at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai did this past year in the sites’ programs. NYU has long hosted artists in residence, but a global expansion allows the community to flourish […]
While it is impossible to fully capture the breadth of the NYU global network, we rounded up some fast facts about the academic sites and cities where NYU students can study away. Whether they land at one of our three degree-granting campuses in New York City, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai or at our sites in […]
Five NYU students from all three degree-granting campuses were selected as 2024–2025 Schwarzman Scholars. The honor supports master’s degree study in global affairs at Schwarzman College within Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Bincheng Mao, a Liberal Studies senior at NYU; Valentin Josan, Sachintha Pilapitiya, and Addie Mae Villas, seniors at NYU Abu Dhabi; and Li […]
Inspired by the first NYU Bookstore display collaboration between the Office of Marketing Communications and the Office of Global Programs, this list of books representing NYU’s global locations promises to broaden your perspective and enrich your knowledge. NYU Abu Dhabi Temporary People By Deepak Unnikrishnan The skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai are recognizable around […]
Connecting NYU and the public through the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute In 2008—two years before NYU Abu Dhabi welcomed its inaugural class—NYU established a presence in the city to begin building awareness about the type of events and dialogues the local community could expect the institution to host. The NYU Abu Dhabi Institute was a […]
This summer, Akkasah, the photography archive at NYU Abu Dhabi’s al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, released 1,500 digitized photographs from across the Middle East, with some photographs dating back to the 19th century. Located within the NYU Abu Dhabi Library, this remarkable collection houses a treasure trove of images that chronicle […]