Representatives from Singapore’s Ministry of Social and Family Development recently visited Associate Professor Sudha Arunachalam’s Language Experience and Acquisition Research at NYU (LEARN) Lab to incorporate her expertise into their recommendations about children and language for Singaporean parents.
Doctoral student Michelle Pfeifer has received a dissertation fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The award will support her research into how media technologies are being utilized for border policing and control.
In “The Segregation of ‘Failures': Unequal Schools and Disadvantaged Students in an Affluent Suburb,” published in JESPAR,, Sean Drake shows how the hidden institutional practice of segregating low-performing students in an affluent Southern California adversely affects black, Latinx, and working-class students.
This fall, Professor Esther Lamneck and the NYU New Music Ensemble celebrate a twenty-five-year partnership with Professor Alfonso Belfiore and the Department of New Technologies and Musical Languages at the “Luigi Cherubini" Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy.
This Spring, the School is expanding its graduate study abroad portfolio to include two new courses, Cross-Cultural Counseling and Multicultural and Professional Issues in Communicative Sciences and Disorders. The courses will travel to NYU’s Academic Centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Accra, Ghana respectively.
NYU Abu Dhabi invites doctoral students in the humanities and social sciences to apply for a year-long dissertation writing fellowship. Applications are due January 15, 2020.
Maki Thomas Livesay, Vice President of the Food Studies Graduate Society (FSGS), served in the United States Air Force. Department Chair Dr. Krishnendu Ray and Program Director Dr. Jennifer Berg selected Maki as the inaugural fellow for the Mana Contemporary x NYU Food Studies Fellowship.
NYU Tel Aviv hosted an international symposium on November 11, 2019 that brought together scholars, educators, administrators, students, alumni, and others from Israel, the region and across NYU’s global network. The purpose of the symposium was to examine challenges and opportunities in international education in the digital age.
The Institute of International Education released its 2019 Open Doors report, which tracks both international students studying in the US and students from US institutions studying abroad. Once again, NYU has captured the top spot in each category, with growth in both areas from the year prior. These outcomes demonstrate NYU’s critical role in shaping innovative international higher education in the 21st century.
Professor Raul Lejano and a team of NYU colleagues are bringing disaster preparedness workshops to Rohingya refugees living at the Bangladeshi/Myanmar border.
We sat down with the 2019 MA in Occupational Therapy cohort, composed of students from the Philippines, Taiwan, India, Saudi Arabia, China, Israel, and beyond, to discuss their experience joining together in New York City as classmates.
