Former French World Cup Star Thuram on “Racism in Soccer” - Nov.8

Posted On Saturday, November 9, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , ,   
Former French World Cup star Lilian Thuram will head “Racism in Soccer,” a conversation with Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl, on Fri., Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m. at NYU’s School of Law, Tishman Auditorium, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South (between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets). Thuram, a defender on France’s 1998 and 2006 ...

Prof. Nayar’s Little Camera Is a Big Idea for Children Around the World

Posted On Saturday, November 2, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
Shree Nayar has dedicated much of his computer science career to improving the way cameras take pictures. Four years ago, he decided to move in a new direction: to design a camera that could improve the way children learn about science and one another. He came up with a prototype as ...

$12M gift bolsters leadership at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Posted On Friday, October 25, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
ITHACA, N.Y. – Advancing their support of cutting-edge sustainability research, David and Patricia Atkinson have given $12 million to enhance the leadership of the David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, the university announced Oct. 22. “Dave and Pat Atkinson’s new gift expands their already extraordinary support for the Atkinson ...

Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash Are Surprisingly Effective Form of Aid to the Poor

Posted On Friday, October 18, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
The classic proverb says: If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will have food for a lifetime. Christopher Blattman’s research suggests that if you just give the man cash, he will buy a fishing pole and learn ...

ISAW Exhibition Examines Gepgraphic Knowledge In Antiquity

Posted On Friday, October 11, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , ,   
An exhibition focused on ancient cartography and the ways in which Greek and Roman societies perceived and represented both the known and unknown worlds opens on October 4 at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at New York University. Since no actual maps survive from antiquity, "Measuring ...

NYU Announces Winners of “Grand Challenge” Science Competition

Posted On Friday, October 4, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
Two Research Teams Will Receive $250,000 to Explore Solutions to Significant Issues New York University today announced it is awarding $250,000 each to two teams of researchers in its newly created “Grand Challenge” competition to promote significant scientific research that has the potential to solve major national or global problems. The two ...

Columbia Nobelist Explores How Nations Flourish

Posted On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , ,   
Edmund Phelps The title is optimistic and uplifting: Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. But the message is more nuanced, as befits a Nobel laureate in economics. Does Edmund Phelps believe that Europe and America still have what it takes to create “mass flourishing,” that unique combination of wealth ...

Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World

Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By . Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...

Courant’s LeCun Recognized for Technological Breakthroughts in “Deep Learning”

Posted On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
Yann LeCun, a professor at NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been named the recipient of the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, which is given by the Computational Intelligence Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award, which recognizes contributions to the field at least 15-year ...

David Madigan Appointed Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Posted On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , ,   
University President Lee C. Bollinger has appointed Professor David Madigan as Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Madigan has been the interim dean since March. He joined Columbia’s faculty in 2007 as a professor of statistics, and became the department's chair the following year. “In his ...

Historian Wosh Recognized by Society of American Archivists

Posted On Monday, September 2, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
Peter Wosh, director of NYU’s Archives and Public History program, has received the 2013 Council Exemplary Service Award given by the Society of American Archivists (SAA). The award, presented during SAA’s annual meeting in August, honors his work as the SAA Publications Editor. “The award recognizes a special contribution to the archives ...

NYU’s Carter Journalism Institute to Host Gav Talese - Oct.10

Posted On Monday, September 2, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , , ,   
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute will host author Gay Talese for an hour-long exchange with Max Linsky, co-founder of Longform.org, on Thurs., Oct. 10, 7 to 8 p.m. at 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor (between 5th and 6th Streets). The interview, a live podcast, is a collaborative effort ...

NYU Researchers Part of $2 Million NSF Grant to Develop Cutting-Edge Nanomaterials

Posted On Monday, August 26, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , , ,   
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded New York University researchers and their colleagues at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) a $2 million grant to develop cutting-edge nanomaterials that hold promise for improving the manufacturing of advanced materials, biofuels, and other industrial products. Under the grant, the scientists will develop ...

$75,000 Grant to Aid Minority and Women Entrepreneurs

Posted On Sunday, August 18, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
grant to aid minority and women entrepreneurs BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A $75,000 grant from the Allstate Foundation will help support initiatives for minority and women entrepreneurs at the University at Buffalo School of Management’s Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) while also funding a new pilot program. “The program helps participants build valuable skills and strengthens the Western New ...

Great Recession Onset Spurs Harsh Parenting, Researchers Find

Posted On Saturday, August 10, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
The onset of the Great Recession and, more generally, deteriorating economic conditions lead mothers to engage in harsh parenting, such as hitting or shouting at children, a team of researchers has found. But the effect is only found in mothers who carry a gene variation that makes them more likely ...

Neuroscientists Find Protein Linked to Congnitive Deficits in Angelman Syndrome

Posted On Saturday, August 3, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , , ,   
A team of neuroscientists has identified a protein in laboratory mice linked to impairments similar to those afflicted with Angelman syndrome (AS)—a condition associated with symptoms that include autism, intellectual disability, and motor abnormalities. The findings appear in the journal Cell Reports. “By isolating a protein that contributes to cognitive deficits in ...

NYU Awarded $2 Million Mellon Grant to Expand Humanities Faculty for Study of Cities

Posted On Saturday, July 27, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , ,   
New York University has received a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand its humanities faculty whose scholarship and teaching will focus on the past, present, and future of cities. The grant, part of the Foundation’s “Architecture and Urbanism in the Humanities” program, will help fund three new NYU ...

Distant Quakes Trigger Tremors at U.S. Waste-Injection Sites, Says Study

Posted On Friday, July 19, 2013 By . Under NEW YORK  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
Large earthquakes from distant parts of the globe are setting off tremors around waste-fluid injection wells in the central United States, says a new study. Furthermore, such triggering of minor quakes by distant events could be precursors to larger events at sites where pressure from waste injection has pushed faults ...
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