New York University

NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts is renaming the Great Hall of the James B. Duke House in honor of its Board Chair, Marica Vilcek. A member of the Institute’s board since 2013, Marica has supported numerous fellowships in art history,…

Environmental Studies Professor Sonali Shukla McDermid (photo credit: Mathew McDermid)New York University’s Sonali Shukla McDermid has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of 26 selected to the 2021 class for a program that provides…

Four New York University faculty have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Marisa Carrasco, Yann LeCun, Kathryn J. Moore, and Adam Przeworski. This year’s election of 120 new members--59 of whom are women, the most elected in…

A new paper on college science classes taught remotely points to teaching methods that enhance student communication and collaboration, offering a framework for enriching online instruction.Students in Erin Morrison’s Liberal Studies’…

Chloé Zhao (TSOA), an alumna of NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Film program, made Oscars history at the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, April 25, becoming the first Asian woman to take home the trophy for Best Director for…

“Music, Health, and Healing,” a webinar featuring experts in the areas of music therapy and neuroscience, along with acclaimed solo violinist and composer Ittai Shapira, will explore the curing power of music, on Thurs., May 6, 2:30 to 4…

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Purple List and an important milestone with two of its distinguished alumni, Shaka King and Chloé Zhao, earning 2021 Academy Award nominations for Judas and the Black Messiah and Nomadland,…

Income inequality within countries correlates with higher COVID-19 infections rates in those nations, finds an analysis by New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC). The newly released paper, “Inequality, Lockdown,…

After a drunken night of bargaining beside a winter campfire in the woods near the Susquehanna River, two brothers named John and Edmund Cartlidge would assault a Seneca man named Sawantaeny and leave him for dead. Rival investigations by…

Older adults with more harmful than healthy bacteria in their gums are more likely to have evidence for amyloid beta—a key biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease—in their cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), according to new research from NYU College of…