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Dr. Cheri Fancsali Co-Authors New Article on the Unique Challenges of Afterschool Research

“The Unique Challenges of Afterschool Research” provides practical advice for evaluators and afterschool practitioners about how they can work together effectively.

Be Nice and Be More Chill: An Interview with Will Roland (BMUS ’11), Musical Theatre Actor

Will Roland (BMUS ’11) is a Brooklyn-based actor who has appeared on Billions, Red Oaks, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and the film, One Penny. On Broadway, Will originated the role of Jared Kleinman in Dear Evan Hansen, for which he won a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for favorite funny performance and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Documenting the World, One Dance at a Time: An Interview with Mickela Mallozzi (BA ’05)

Mickela Mallozzi is the four-time Emmy® Award-winning Host and executive producer of Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi, a travel series highlighting the diversity of dance which airs on PBS stations nationwide and on Amazon Prime globally. A professional dancer and trained musician, Mickela decided to start a journey around the world, taking her camera with her to follow dance in the lives of everyday people wherever she went.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Research Alliance to Present at the SREE 2019 Spring Conference

Researchers from around the country will gather in Washington, D.C. to focus on this year’s theme, “Tensions and Tradeoffs: Responding to Diverse Demands for Evidence.”

Eustacia Cutler, Temple Grandin's Mom, Brings Her Story to NYU's ASD Nest Parents

Eustacia Cutler, Temple Grandin's mother, talks about how parenting and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Areas of Study: Education Health

NYU Metro Center Partners with New York City Coalition for Educational Justice

The New York City Coalition for Educational Justice has partnered with Metro's Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative to release a new report, Chronically Absent: The Exclusion of People of Color...

New Study Finds that 1 in 8 NYC Elementary Students Experience Homelessness Before 5th Grade

NYU Steinhardt's Research Alliance for New York City Schools followed the 81,699 NYC students who began kindergarten in fall 2012 and found that over 12 percent of them experienced homelessness before 5th grade.
Areas of Study: Education

What We're Learning: Human Anatomy Lecture and Cadaver Lab

Human Anatomy, a lecture and lab course, teaches graduate occupational therapy students about the skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems through direct contact with a human cadaver.
Areas of Study: Health

NYU Metro Center Celebrates 30 years of LPP

The Liberty Partnerships Program turns 30 years old! There are 47 LPPs statewide, represented in 14 geographic regions.

Meet Superstar Composer, Alum Joe Iconis

Be More Chill, the story of an unpopular kid in suburban New Jersey, began its life as a young adult novel. It has now made its way to Broadway, and alum Joe Iconis has been nominated for a 2019 Tony Award for Best Original Score.

NYU Metro Center Participates in Release of NYC DOE's SDAG Report

New York City Department of Education recently took another small step toward equity and one giant leap toward integration with the release of the initial recommendations by the School Diversity Advisory Group,....

Some Children Find It Harder to Understand What Strangers Are Saying

New research by Associate Professor Susannah Levi finds that children with poorer language skills are at a disadvantage when given tasks or being spoken to by strangers because they cannot, as easily as their peers, understand speech from people they do not know.
Areas of Study: Health

Face Transplant Surgery Can Improve Speech in Victims of Severe Face Trauma: A New Case Study

A new case study by NYU Steinhardt's Maria I. Grigos finds that face transplant surgery can improve speech in victims of severe face trauma.
Areas of Study: Health

Music Tech Alumna Emily Lazar Wins Grammy

Emily Lazar becomes the first woman mastering engineer ever to take home the Best Engineered Album (Non-Classical) Grammy for her work on Beck’s “Colors”.

NYU Metro Center Partner Releases CRE Video

Metro Center's partner organization, the NYC Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ), released a short video of NYC parents, students and educators talking about the importance of Culturally Responsive Education (CRE).

CYCLE Screens NYU Metro Center's CRE Film Series

Recently, at a Nellie Mae Education Foundation Understanding Root Causes of Inequities district grantee convening Center for Youth & Community Leadership in Education screened Metro's Center for Strategic Solutions...

NYU Metro Center Hosts Curriculum Scoring Party

NYU Metro Center Hosts Curriculum Scoring Party

Rubén Blades, Scholar-in-Residence, Addresses Music and Social Change

Rubén Blades, three-time Emmy-nominated actor, activist, lawyer, and politician from Panama, is the School’s first scholar-in-residence.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Dr. Lisa Merrill Contributes to Update on Landmark 30-Year Study of American Teaching Force

The report examined various trends in CPRE’s landmark 30-year study of the American teaching force.

A Prize for Bright Signals: A History of Color Television

Bright Signals: A History of Color Television by Professor Susan Murray won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ 2019 Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award.
Areas of Study: Media Studies