News and notes from across NYU's Campuses and Sites
As New York City’s hospitals fill with coronavirus patients and medical staff struggle with shortages of personal protective equipment, NYU’s Shanghai community has pulled together to support New Yorker’s in their fight against the pandemic, sending some 17,000 masks to NYU New York. Last week, a group of NYU New York parents who are based […]
Even though NYU Buenos Aires had to suspend their in-person activities due to the impact of COVID-19 in Argentina, the site’s Global Equity Fellow, Sydney Lin, is continuing to focus on building community with her fellow NYU Buenos Aires students scattered around the globe. Although this was not what she had envisioned for her GEF […]
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 […]
NYU Prague student Viviana Garcia recently shared her experience of returning home after time at NYU Prague. She initially decided to stay in Prague, but then was required to depart when all students had to do so. Going Home I just got home, and I wanted to let you know how grateful I am to […]
Vanessa Hsiao was meant to be studying at NYU Prague this term. She shares here why she decided to leave the Czech Republic when given the option to to do so. Why I Decided to Leave On March 3, NYU sent an email to all study abroad students, giving them the freedom to choose to […]
An Experience from my Forum 2000 Internship Sofia Molina The 23rd annual conference produced by the Forum 2000 Foundation paid homage to the promising ideology that existed during 1989 during the Czech Republic’s Velvet Revolution. Topics covered a broad range of global perspectives and were even held in different languages with experts, journalists, political representatives, […]
The NYU Washington, DC StoryCorps initiative is a multimedia student-driven initiative that tells the stories of NYU Washington, DC, through the students, staff, and surrounding area. The initiative started in Spring of 2017 and has grown. Students develop their individual programs, choosing their medium and storylines. All of the StoryCorps content is hosted here. Previous programs […]
NYU Florence, in collaboration with The Opera di Santa Croce, teamed up to have one of our students, Serena Mahal Ponciano (CAS ’22) become an ambassador for the current “Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy, to New York, New York.” This exhibition at the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration in New York is currently open until […]
NYU engages with its urban communities not just in New York, but around the globe. In Berlin, this has recently involved working with museum spaces in collaboration with a government initiative thanks to the work of NYU Berlin Lecturer Pierre Depaz. Professor Depaz is an educator, artist and programmer from France. He’s taught at NYU […]
Gallatin student Pablo De Castro Gomez recently led a community service project focused on urban farming while studying at NYU Tel Aviv. Working with a group of fellow NYU Tel Aviv students, local students, and a local NGO, Pablo found the experience meaningful. When you live in a city like New York where everything exists […]