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A substantial minority of Americans morally opposed to abortion would nonetheless offer help to a friend or close family member who is seeking one, finds a new analysis of both public opinion data and in-depth interviews. Notably, these…

The implementation of federally funded sex education programs over a decade ago was followed by a decline in teenage pregnancies in counties where these programs were implemented, finds a new study. The research, which encompasses a…

Jonathan Niles-Weed, an assistant professor in New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Center for Data Science, has been awarded a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.The fellowships “honor…

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on people’s physical and mental health and has caused economic hardship. However, this adversity has disproportionately hurt certain populations—including essential workers and women—deepening…

New York University Kimmel Windows Gallery presents Portraits of Ireland’s Easter Rising Leaders from March 5, 2022 through June 17th, 2022, in Schwartz Plaza on the corner of Washington Square East and West 4th Street, visible…

The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University announces Kenneth Kemble and Silvia Torras:The Formative Years, 1956-63, the first dual presentation of the work of Argentine artists Kenneth Kemble (1923-1998) and Silvia Torras (1936-1970)…

Hurricane Maria, which struck Puerto Rico in 2017, may have accelerated the aging process in rhesus monkeys living on the region’s Cayo Santiago island, a team of scientists has concluded. Its findings suggest that an increase in adverse…

NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, one of the nation’s leading institutions for international contemporary performance and artistic research, has received three grant awards totaling $45,000 from the New York State Council on…

NYU President Andrew Hamilton and Provost Katherine Fleming today announced the appointment of Michael A. Lindsey—a leading scholar of poverty, inequality, and child and adolescent mental health; the Constance and Martin Silver Professor…

Researchers at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified a mechanism that underlies inflammation and pain in the colon, and demonstrated that blocking a key receptor from entering colon cells can inhibit inflammation and pain,…