Dozens of graduates booed and some wearing keffiyehs walked out of Yankee Stadium during NYU President Linda Mills’ commencement address on Thursday, marking the second year in a row that students left the arena in protest of NYU’s continued crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech amid a federal attack on higher education. Mills, whose speech focused on […]
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Molly Shannon told graduates to push through challenges and embrace their talents in a recount of her postgraduate years spent searching for work during her honorary address to tens of thousands of students and guests at NYU’s 192nd commencement exercises on Thursday. Shannon, a three-time Primetime Emmy nominee and Screen […]
A sea of violet robes flooded Yankee Stadium on Thursday morning as nearly 30,000 graduates and guests entered the arena in celebration of NYU’s class of 2025, amid what President Linda Mills called “times of intense change” in the wake of a federal crackdown on higher education. The May 15 ceremony opened with a mashup […]
For 60 years, the NYU Grossman School of Medicine invited students to join its Medical Scientist Training Program — a federally funded, dual-degree MD-Ph.D. program — and develop the specialized skillset of physician-scientists. However, the tradition came to a halt when administrators suddenly rescinded nine prospective students’ acceptances in January after losing the program’s federal […]
For 60 years, the NYU Grossman School of Medicine invited students to join its Medical Scientist Training Program — a federally funded, dual-degree MD-Ph.D. program — and develop the specialized skillset of physician-scientists. However, the tradition came to a halt when administrators suddenly rescinded nine prospective students’ acceptances in January after losing the program’s federal […]
President Linda Mills and Provost Georgina Dopico appointed Kristina Rose as dean of NYU Libraries, closing an eight-month search and continuing Rose’s over two decades of service to the university. Rose, who was announced as dean in a memo last Monday, formally assumed her position on May 1 after serving as the library’s interim dean […]
President Linda Mills and Provost Georgina Dopico appointed Kristina Rose as dean of NYU Libraries, closing an eight-month search and continuing Rose’s over two decades of service to the university. Rose, who was announced as dean in a memo last Monday, formally assumed her position on May 1 after serving as the library’s interim dean […]
NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service ranked No.1 in urban policy in the U.S. News and World Report’s analysis of 268 graduate schools nationwide — marking its seventh consecutive year in the leading spot. As a public affairs school, Wagner fell two spots to No. 11 and tied with Arizona State University, […]
NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service ranked No.1 in urban policy in the U.S. News and World Report’s analysis of 268 graduate schools nationwide — marking its seventh consecutive year in the leading spot. As a public affairs school, Wagner fell two spots to No. 11 and tied with Arizona State University, […]
Graduate Student Council member Danilo Trinidad Perez-Rivera staged a three-hour, one-person “sit-in” outside GSAS dean Lynne Kiorpes’ office on Wednesday, claiming he was unjustly denounced from his elected role as a student senator. Perez-Rivera, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Arts & Science, said the GSC nullified his election result because more […]
