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Recap of "Pursuing Equity in NYC Schools: Progress, Challenges and the Road Ahead"

The presentation highlighted steady improvement during the last two decades across a number of key student outcomes.

Student Spotlight: Future SLP Supports Son’s Paralympic Dreams

Jayna moved across the country to help her son turn his Paralympic table tennis dreams into reality — all while working toward her master’s in speech-language pathology.
Areas of Study: Health

NYU Percussion Ensemble and Thomas Kozumplik Release "Child of the Earth"

Percussion Studies program director Jonathan Haas, the NYU Percussion Ensemble, and composer/percussionist Thomas Kozumplik have collaborated on the album Child of the Earth, released on the Music Starts from Silence label.

Faces of Food Safety: Joseph Ndungu (MA ’12)

Department alum Joseph Ndungu was selected from approximately 10,000 US Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service employees to be honored with a feature in the agency’s monthly newsletter.

Areas of Study: Health

Global Perspectives: OT Students Study Rehab in Israel

Associate Professors Yael Goverover and Jerry Voelbel traveled to Israel with students to participate in a course entitled “Disability in a Global Context.”
Areas of Study: Health

NYU Metro Center's Deputy Director Participates in Robust Equity Evening

Metro's Center for Community Organizing and Engagement (COE) Director Richard Gray, recently participated in an evening dedicated to social justice and equity featuring the writings of of James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

“Coffee is Crucial”: An Interview with Jordan Cohen (BS ’11), The New York Times

Jordan Cohen (BS ’11) serves as Executive Director of Communications at The New York Times.
Areas of Study: Media Studies

NYU Metro Center Hosts Autism & Inclusive Education Intensive

Metro's ASD Nest Support Project will host a five-day Autism & Inclusive Education Intensive this summer. This seminar-style training is geared towards educators supporting students with autism spectrum disorder, and...

NYU Metro Center Hosts CRC Scorecard Event with NYC DOE

Recently, Metro's Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative partnered with New York City Coalition for Educational Justice & the NYC Department of Education to use the Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard

NYU Metro Center Hosts CRC Scorecard Event with NYC DOE

Recently, Metro's Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative partnered with New York City Coalition for Educational Justice & the NYC Department of Education to use the Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard

Fabio Parasecoli of Nutrition and Food Studies Receives Fulbright Award

Fabio Parasecoli, a professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright Award to study food heritage in Spain. He will be working on a research project led by UNESCO Chair Director, Dr. F. Xavier Medina at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Stocking-shaming in the 19th Century: An Interview with MA Candidate, Kate Sekules

Kate Sekules is a degree candidate in the MA in Costume Studies program. Her research interests are vernacular clothing, the dress of the poor, and uncovering the untold history of mending. She is currently writing a book about visible mending and the future of fashion, to be published by Penguin in fall 2020.
Areas of Study: The Arts

"Green Door" Soundtrack Brings Together Alumni

The soundtrack team behind a new Taiwanese mini-series called Green Door is mostly made up of alumni of the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions. The six-episode show hit Netflix in America and 190 other countries in March after premiering in Taiwan where the music received good reviews.

In and of the World: Counseling@NYU Students Find Community Online and at NYU Accra

Ambar Gomez and Katherine Lizardo became friends through their online Counseling@NYU program. The two enriched their studies with a trip to NYU Accra to study Global Perspectives in Higher Education.
Areas of Study: Education , Health

Food Studies Students Win Green Grant to Tackle Plastic Waste

Master's students Sarah Dietz and Yvonne Cuaresma won a $2,500 Green Grant to launch a personal waste mitigation challenge aimed at improving the NYU community’s environmental literacy and sustainability efforts.

Fridays in the Food Lab: Cooking Competition Edition

A cooking competition hosted by the Food Lab featured student teams planning and executing menus in various culinary styles: gluten-free, vegan, locavore, kosher, and allergen-free.
Areas of Study: Health

Alexander Galloway Named 2019 Guggenheim Fellow

Professor Alexander Galloway has been awarded a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Areas of Study: Media Studies

Research Alliance 10th Anniversary Event: Pursuing Equity in NYC Schools

What will be required in the next decade—in terms of policy, practice and research—to ensure more equitable learning opportunities and outcomes for NYC students?

Siblings Brew Chai in Brooklyn

Launched by brother-and-sister duo Food Studies MA alum Amy Rothstein (Steinhardt ’14) and Peter Rothstein (Stern ’21), Dona is a spiced-based beverage company focusing on tea concentrates and sodas.

Black Drivers More Likely to Be Stopped Finds Study Co-authored by NYU Steinhardt Researcher

A new study titled, “A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States,” found that in a dataset of nearly 100 million traffic stops across the United States, black drivers were about 20 percent more likely to be stopped than white drivers relative to their share of the residential population.
Areas of Study: Education