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“What we saw in this period of scarcity was the emergence of creativity,” said Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo, Emmy-winning filmmakers and lecturers at NYU Madrid, who described their experience moving Madrid Stories, a location-based course, to an online format. Madrid Stories is a semester-long class at NYU Madrid that encourages students to look, […]
Over the summer, NYU Abu Dhabi Vice Chancellor Mariët Westermann announced the appointment of Dr. Arlie O. Petters – Benjamin Powell Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Duke University, and former Dean of Academic Affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke – as the Provost of NYU […]
After a winter break which involved volunteering at an orphanage in Tanzania, and visiting the location where his mother had studied abroad some 30 years ago, Bakari Young-Smith was looking forward to heading to NYU Shanghai for his spring semester. But one week before his planned departure, the rising junior at NYU’s Rory Meyers […]
In order to ensure that all NYU Paris (NYUP) students were beginning their math and computer studies with a similar foundation in the disciplines, NYUP Site Director Alfred Galichon, and professor of Economics and Mathematics at NYU in New York, oversaw the creation of a pre-semester “Science Bootcamp.” “We really felt there was a need […]
The following post is a guest submission from Gracie Corapi, assistant to NYU Los Angeles Program Director Nina Sadowsky. By Gracie Corapi I started as the assistant to Nina Sadowsky, program director of NYU Los Angeles (NYULA), in September 2019, still early in the program’s inaugural semester. We gave our first 33 students a […]
“What would Martin Luther King do if he were here today in our Latin America? With no doubt, he would certainly be denouncing the inequality that affects black populations, claiming for them to have fairer working conditions. He would be inspiring us. He would be making history.” So writes Anny Ocoró Loango, professor at the […]
NYU Abu Dhabi hosted Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka for a series of events in February, including his first-ever talk at The NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, which was is open to the public and free of charge. A Conversation with Wole Soyinka, moderated by NYUAD Assistant Professor of Practice Tishani Doshi, saw Soyinka reflect on culture […]
With 90 courses in 24 countries, NYU Abu Dhabi’s 10th January Term aims to enhance cultural knowledge exchange and globalization. January Term at NYU Abu Dhabi is a distinctly impactful part of the NYU Abu Dhabi curriculum. Since the inaugural class matriculated in 2010 – thousands of students have discovered new things about the world […]
The annual “Open Doors” Survey by the Institute of International Education ranks NYU #1 among all US universities for sending students to study abroad for the 17th year in a row, and reported an 11% year-over-year increase in international students on campus. For the fifth year in a row, NYU was ranked No. 1 in […]
NYU Tel Aviv (NYUTA) marked its 10th anniversary earlier this month with a series of events that brought together faculty, students, and administrators from across NYU’s global network, as well as alumni, and members of NYU’s leadership team, including President Andrew Hamilton, and several members of NYU’s Board of Trustees. On November 10th, participants toured […]