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NYU Steinhardt News

Bringing the Voices of the Incarcerated into the Limelight

NYU Steinhardt alum creates a groundbreaking prison arts performance with help from the Educational Theatre program's Verbatim Performance Lab and students.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Emerita Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies Marion Nestle Publishes Memoir

“Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics” chronicles Nestle’s late-in-life career as a food studies pioneer and food politics expert and advocate.
Areas of Study: Health

Warren Zanes to Perform as Part of Muldoon's Picnic

Songwriting faculty member Warren Zanes will be performing as part of Muldoon's Picnic at New York City's Irish Arts Center on Nov. 14th.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Award-Winning Performer Allison Russell Visits Songwriting Students

Award-winning songwriter/performer Allison Russell visited NYU Songwriting, speaking with students during a class of Songwriters Forum.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Drama Therapy Alumnus Honored by NY State Office of Mental Health

During Latinx Heritage Month, the OMH profiled Latinx mental health professionals who have made significant contributions to the field and to their communities. Among them, Carlos Rodriguez was acknowledged for his dedication.
Areas of Study: The Arts

NYU Metro Center Brings Diverse Stakeholders Together to Publish Our Latest Issue of Voices in Urban Education

NYU Metro Center publishes an open-access journal, Voices in Urban Education (VUE). Volume 50 Issue II, entitled Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (Part II): Toward Agency, Abolition, and Freedom.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New Senior Equity Associate

NYU Metro Center is pleased to announce Dr. Andolyn Brown as the new Senior Equity Associate

NY Times Features Doctoral Student Nicole Johnson’s Goal for DEI

As a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director on Broadway, Nicole Johnson seeks to strengthen a company's capacity to maintain systems and initiatives that will further inclusion and equity on and off stage.
Areas of Study: The Arts

To Form a More Perverted Union

Associate Professor Brett Gary details the successes of attorney Morris Ernst against obscenity laws from the 1920s-1950s in his 2021 book, Dirty Works: Obscenity on Trial in America’s First Sexual Revolution.
Areas of Study: Media Studies

New Research Brief by Global TIES for Children's Play to Learn Team

Global TIES researchers show that through analyses of instruments measuring caregivers' perceptions of refugee camp environment, caregiver mental health, and children's social-emotional development, there are reasons for optimism in using these particular scales with the Rohingya community in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

Moniz Presents at The Voice Foundation’s 51st Annual Symposium

Presentation included assessing the impact of Vocal Pedagogy outreach activities on geographically, culturally, and economically disadvantaged communities.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Studio Art Professor Linda Sormin Shares New and Upcoming Work

With a focus on clay, the work of Studio Art Associate Professor Linda Sormin explores fragility, upheaval, migration, survival, and change through sculpture and site-responsive installations.
Areas of Study: The Arts

50 Years of Media Studies at NYU Steinhardt

The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication celebrates 50 years since Neil Postman founded the Media Ecology program, launching media studies at the university.

Digital Interests Lab Funded by Microsoft

Generous award to fund two postdoctoral fellowships on racial equity in technology and data justice.
Areas of Study: Media Studies

New Publication by Janet Njelesani on the Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Qualitative Health Research

Janet Njelesani, assistant professor of occupational therapy and IHDSC faculty affiliate, has recently published an article in PLOS One titled “Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Qualitative Health Research, ” with Vongai Mlambo, Tsendenia Denekew, and Jean Hunleth.

Screen Scoring Alumni Win Student Academy Award Winning Documentaries

NYU Steinhardt Screen Scoring congratulates Aurélie Webb (MM 2020), Elizabeth Phillipson-Weiner (MM 2021), and Cal Freundlich (MM 2022) who respectively scored the three Student Academy Award winning documentaries of 2022!
Areas of Study: The Arts

New Publication by Paula Chakravartty on the Politics of Reforming Global Labor Supply Chains

Paula Chakravartty, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt and Gallatin and IHDSC Faculty Affiliate, recently published, “From Indenture to ‘Good Governance’: eMigrate and the Politics of Reforming Global Labour Supply Chains,” in Antipode with Michelle Buckley and Sahiba Gill.

New Research Points to Link Between Heavy Policing and Lower Graduation Rates

The Research Alliance for New York City Schools released a new brief highlighting starkly different experiences with neighborhood policing across racial/ethnic groups—and providing evidence that these inequities contribute to well documented gaps in high school graduation rates for NYC’s Black and Latinx students.

Brass Studies is Honored to Welcome Trombonist David Langlitz

The NYU Brass Program is honored to have the great David Langlitz lead several NYU Brass Orchestra Rep Classes this Fall 2022 semester.
Areas of Study: The Arts

NYU Steinhardt Welcomes New Faculty

NYU Steinhardt's newest faculty members include educators, scholars, poets, activists, writers, artists, and more.