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Steinhardt At a Glance (read all posts)

  • Welcome Class of 2013! At Orientation, Faculty Member Shares A Day in the Life

    Joe Salvatore, a faculty member in Steinhardt's program in educational theatre, greeted the Class of 2013 and their parents at the New Student Orientation in July.  Here is a transcript of his greetings:On behalf of the faculty, I’d like to...

    Published: Thursday, July 2nd 2009 01:52 PM
  • C. Cybele Raver Receives Griffiths Research Award for Educational Policy Research on Head Start

    C. Cybele Raver, a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology, is the recipient of Steinhardt 2009 Griffiths Research Award for “Targeting Children’s Behavior Problems in Preschool Classrooms: A Cluster-Randomized Trial, an article published in The Journal of Consulting and...

    Published: Thursday, June 18th 2009 11:13 PM
  • Steinhardt's Pless Hall Lounge Enjoys New Found Celebrity

    The Steinhardt School's Pless Hall lounge, at the corner of Washington Place and Washington Square East, was transformed into a movie set this spring.  The lounge is the site of the Communication Cafe in the 2010 summer adventure film, The...

    Published: Tuesday, June 16th 2009 11:01 PM
  • Steinhardt Fall (and Summer!) New Student Reading

    Triangle, a novel about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, is this year’s required reading for all new undergraduate students entering the Steinhardt School.  Debra Weinstein interviewed author Katharine Weber about her novel.Novelists often begin with a question they want to...

    Published: Tuesday, June 16th 2009 02:20 AM

Steinhardt Spotlights (read all posts)

  • Phuong M. Do’s “Made in Vietnam” Exhibition at Wagner Gallery Space

    Phuong M. Do, an MA graduate of Steinhardt’s studio art program, is a photographer who delves into complex questions of self-identity and cultural displacement. The exquisite lacquered photographs that make up her exhibition, “Made in Vietnam,” present an evocative and...

    Published: Wednesday, May 20th 2009 07:57 PM
  • Bleckner Named UN Goodwill Ambassador

    Ross Bleckner, renowned artist and faculty member at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, has been named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Bleckner, well known for his large-scale paintings,...

    Published: Friday, May 8th 2009 08:14 PM
  • New Grad Hopes to Provide for Communities Most in Need

    For her first undergraduate student teaching job, Phoebe Lee faced a world history class filled with recent immigrants—some of whom older than she was—at Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day High School. Comprised of international students, including a Chinese student...

    Published: Friday, May 8th 2009 08:53 PM
  • MPH Graduate Returns to Iraq with Dreams for the Future

    Ghalib Al-Jibara was a medical school student at Baghdad Teaching Hospital at the start of the U.S invasion of Iraq in 2003. He volunteered to work in the hospital’s emergency room when the war broke out, knowing the ER...

    Published: Friday, May 8th 2009 07:59 PM

Research News (read all posts)

  • Steinhardt’s Ryan Studies Effects of Omega-3s on Cancer Patients

    Aoife Ryan, assistant professor of nutrition, recently published a major study in the Annals of Surgery demonstrating the benefits of omega-3 enriched nutrition for surgical cancer patients. A randomized controlled trial showed that oral nutritional supplements with omega-3 fatty...

    Published: Friday, May 8th 2009 08:43 PM
  • Bello Wins NSF Grant to Study “Building Blocks” of Music

    The ability to quickly and easily search a vast catalog of song titles, artists, albums, and genres makes Apple’s iTunes software popular with millions of users. But for Juan Bello, assistant professor of music and music education, the ability...

    Published: Wednesday, April 15th 2009 04:50 PM
  • Reducing Behavior Problems in Head Start Classrooms, Focus of Study by NYU Researcher

    Web Extras Listen: C. Cybele Raver discusses her decade-long research into human development and social change and the IHDSC Seminar Series (Click Play) A major component of President Barack Obama’s education reform plan is increased funding for Head Start, the...

    Published: Monday, April 27th 2009 04:52 PM
  • Major New Research Alliance to Study Improvement in City Schools

    Web ExtrasSlideshow: IESP Presentation: Why Do Some Schools Get More and Others Less? Faculty Video: Leanna Stiefel (Pictured: Joel Klein, NYC Schools Chancellor; James Kemple, newly appointed executive director of the Research Alliance; Kathryn Wylde, President and CEO, Partnership for...

    Published: Wednesday, December 17th 2008 07:09 PM

Steinhardt Commentaries (read all posts)

  • Appadurai Argues Against Corporate-style Governance of Universities in The Chronicle of Higher Education

    Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, recently published a commentary in the Chronicle of Higher Education in which he described serious threats to colleges and universities. He mentions the tendency of universities to look for leadership from...

    Published: Tuesday, April 14th 2009 05:14 PM
  • Dean Mary Brabeck: Putting Clinical Findings to Work in the Classroom

    Since it now appears that the federal Higher Education Act will finally be reauthorized, it will soon be time to examine the reauthorization of the Institute of Education Sciences. Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, who has transformed this grantmaking office...

    Published: Monday, June 16th 2008 09:49 PM
  • Charlton McIlwain: Clinton Veering Close to Racial Stereotypes

    Many suspected that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent substance-over-mere-words attacks against Sen. Barack Obama smacked of desperation. Some expected these attacks to come to an end once Wisconsin had come and gone, giving the Clinton campaign its expected defeat there....

    Published: Monday, June 16th 2008 09:45 PM
  • Mitchell Stevens: An Admissions Race That's Already Won

    Last month thousands of our best and brightest high-school students found out whether they had been accepted by early decision to the colleges of their choice. Each had spent weeks poring over application forms, polishing essays, and agonizing over where...

    Published: Monday, June 16th 2008 09:46 PM

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