News and notes from across NYU's Campuses and Sites
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
All around us, there are signs the world is rapidly warming. But the Himalayas, which experiences floods and avalanches that could plunge the 2.5 billion people who rely on the mountains for freshwater into crisis, is a region under constant threat. Now, as part of NYU Abu Dhabi’s eARThumanities research initiative, the Geopolitics and Ecology […]
Roudhah Hamad Al Mazrouei, NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2024, recently won a Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation for Distinguished Academic Performance award and is excited to continue her artistic journey. She paints with a purpose: to find her own signature style. “I’ll keep painting until I find it,” she affirms. Still, Roudhah has […]
While the NYU Abu Dhabi Library offers an array of academic books and resources for students and faculty, the recently launched Global Book Collection focuses on the curation of a collection based on a survey of favorite books and genres completed by contracted staff. “I think it’s an amazing initiative to give back to the […]
Orientation Week at NYU global locations introduces students to the history and culture of their new home through exciting programming. Additionally, students receive important academic information to set them up for success during their time away. NYU Abu Dhabi NYU Florence NYU Madrid NYU Paris NYU Prague NYU Sydney NYU Tel Aviv NYU Washington, D.C.
NYU researchers use “resurrection genomics” to sequence genome of extinct date palms germinated from 2,000-year-old seeds In a recent study for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology—along with their research colleagues in Israel and France—used a technique called “resurrection genomics” to successfully […]