May 2009 - Commencement - NYU Steinhardt Email Newsletter

News from NYU Steinhardt

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, joined the faculty at NYU Steinhardt in September 2008 as clinical professor of studio art.

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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.

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Audio Slideshow: Phuong M. Do's "Made in Vietnam"

Phuong M. Do, an MFA 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 highly personal tour of Vietnam by night.

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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. Today, Al-Jibara is a graduating International Community Public Health, MPH candidate at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Returning to Baghdad following graduation, Al-Jibara will oversee the creation of a new public health research center, the first of its kind in Iraq.

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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 who had been in New York for only six days, the class would represent a challenge even for veteran teachers. But with a passion and gusto that is reflective of her spirited personality, Lee dove headlong into the challenge.

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