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unusual facts about NYU



'Tis

Frank McCourt: The narrator and author of the book and an immigrant from Ireland, he has a deep love for literature and eventually goes on to marry Alberta after attending NYU.

1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season

NYU won the post-season Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national championship tournament by defeating Rutgers, 49-24.

Andrew Lear

He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Pomona College, and NYU and is now the owner of Oscar Wilde Tours, a company organizing gay history tours of Europe.

Anthony M. Townsend

He is currently a visiting professor NYU in the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management.

ArtBots

The show is promoted by arts organizations, engineering groups such as the Robotics Society of America, and educational institutions like Columbia University, New York University (NYU), and Pratt Institute.

Barrett Pall

From 2006 Pall attended Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at the New York University and was recruited to NYU competitive swim team.

Biodontics

The first class was made up of nine students from UConn; while the 2006 class was made up of 24 students from the Howard University, Marquette University, UConn, and New York University (NYU) dental schools.

The ABS has chapters developed or developing at New York University (NYU), Howard University, UConn, and Marquette University.

Bonnie Marranca

She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in the UK, and Fulbright Senior Scholar who has taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, NYU, Duke University, the University of California-San Diego, Free University of Berlin, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona Institute for Theatre .

Campus in Multidisciplinary Perception and Intelligence of Albacete 2006

The first speaker of the conferences was Rodolfo Llinás, who is the Thomas and Suzanne Murphy Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the department of Physiology & Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine, director of the Neurolab of the NASA and considered as one of the fathers of neuroscience.

Charles L. Brieant

Investigation determined that the chocolates had been sent by John Buettner-Janusch, the former chairman of the New York University (NYU) Anthropology Department, who had been sentenced to prison by Judge Brieant after being convicted of making illegal drugs.

Clubscene

Shot in April 2008, Clubscenewas Valentini's Advanced Film Project while studying under director Susan Seidelman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

Kenji Yoshino, the author, is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU School of Law.

Dorothy Nelkin

She rose to the rank of University Professor at the New York University (NYU) despite holding no advanced degrees.

Earl Owensby Studios

Television producer Ray Livesay, Director/NYU Film professor Tierry Pathe, Ginger and Terri Alden, as well as numerous other actors first worked or honed their skills in Owensby productions.

Eva Norvind

In 1970, Eva gave birth to her daughter Nailea Norvind in Mexico City and returned to New York City in 1980 to study film at New York University (NYU), graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree.

Financial Access Initiative

Led by Managing Director Jonathan Morduch (NYU), Dean Karlan (Yale), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard), the Initiative seeks to provide rigorous research on the impacts of financial access and on innovative ways to improve access.

Giorgi Dvali

Before joining the NYU faculty in 1998, he worked at two renowned international research centers: the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and later at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Harry C. Bentley

He sold the school and enrolled at New York University as part of the initial class at NYU's School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, but Bentley was not given his degree in 1903 because he did not have a high school diploma.

Hebrew High School of New England

Virtually all students go on to four-year colleges after graduation, and HHNE students have been accepted to top schools such as Cooper Union, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barnard College, Brandeis University, Boston University, New York University (NYU), Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Yeshiva University.

Herbert J. Wallenstein

Following the war, he went back to NYU Law School where he received his Master of Laws in 1951 on the GI Bill.

Ira Silverberg

Silverberg contributed the Serpent's Tail/High Risk Archives to the Fales Library of NYU.

Isabel Gillies

She went to Rhode Island School of Design as a freshman before dropping out to film "Metropolitan," and then finished college at NYU.

Iulia Motoc

She visited NYU School of Law as a Fulbright scholar co-teaching courses in International Law and Yale Law School as Senior Schell Fellow.

Jean-Marie Guéhenno

He is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the NYU Center on International Cooperation.

Jefferson Han

Jefferson Y. Han (born 1975) is a research scientist for New York University's (NYU) Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and one of the main developers of "multi-touch sensing," which unlike older touch-screen interfaces was able to recognize multiple points of contact.

John Tintori

John holds the membership of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the IATSE, member the Tisch/Kanbar faculty(since 1997), Chairperson, the Graduate Film Program, NYU (since 2005), and ex-chair, the Graduate Film Program at TischAsia in Singapore.

June Diane Raphael

The two women, who had first met in a clowning class during their freshman year at NYU, went on to win the ECNY Award for "Best Comedy Duo" in 2005.

Lea Brilmayer

In addition to teaching at Yale, Chicago, and NYU, Brilmayer has taught at University of Texas School of Law, the University of Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School.

Lisa Sokolov

She continued to sing and compose while she worked as a music therapist and began teaching in NYU's graduate music department.

Milena Palakarkina

After her undergraduate studies at UCLA and NYU, the Bulgarian born artist meets Pierre Restany in 1983 in Milan.

Miriam Mahdaviani

She also choreographed ballets for Pacific Northwest Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Jacob's Pillow, Vassar College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, and others.

Nancy Balbirer

After NYU, Balbirer landed a featured role on MTV's first-ever nonmusical program, Remote Control, playing what she referred to as "a rotating succession of floozies", alongside comics like Adam Sandler, Denis Leary, Ken Ober and Colin Quinn.

Neal Flomenbaum

Dr. Flomenbaum has held academic appointments as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University (NYU) School of Medicine.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Paul Schiff Berman

He earned his A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1988 and his J.D. in 1995 from New York University School of Law where he served as Managing Editor of the NYU Law Review and received the University Graduation Prize for the graduating law student with the highest cumulative grade point average.

Raúl daSilva

daSilva has been an adjunct instructor on the script scenario at St. John Fisher College and a lecturer in screenwriting and directing at NYU, Rochester Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, and Ithaca College.

Roger M. Milgrim

He did graduate comparative law studies at NYU and the University of Paris School of Law as a Ford Foundation Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.

Rutsel Martha

Dr Martha is an Adjunct Professor of Law and the New York University, in which capacity he has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore since 2007 in the NYU@NUS program.

SETL

David Bacon, who was previously a PhD student in NYU with Jack Schwartz still actively maintains the compiler for SETL and its website.

Sleazoid Express

Founded as a one-sheet (later to expand to four to six pages) by Bill Landis, an NYU grad, projectionist and devotee of the crime-ridden sleaze houses, the magazine not only captured the genre affections but the whole Times Square milieu of drugs, violence and prostitution.

Stephen Gilson

Gilson has received invitations to keynote at national and international conferences on disability studies and distinguished lectures at University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Smith College, NYU, University of North Carolina, Ono Academic College, Research Institute for Health and Medical Professions, and others.

Steven J. Burakoff

Before joining Mount Sinai, he was recruited by NYU to revitalize the research and treatment mission of NYU's Cancer Institute, which during his tenure experienced a 31 percent growth and a 50 percent increase in NCI funding.

Still Life with Crows

The following novel, The Book of the Dead, ends with a letter, purportedly written by Corrie to Preston and Child, telling them that she has graduated Exeter and plans to spend a year in New York City, working and learning, before attending university at NYU.

Sylvain Cappell

Sylvain Edward Cappell (born 1946), a Belgian American mathematician and former student of William Browder at Princeton University, is a topologist who has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where he is now the Silver Professor of Mathematics.

Theresa Amato

At NYU Law, Amato was the Root-Tilden Scholar from the 7th Circuit, the Senior Note and Comment Editor of the New York University Law Review, the recipient of the Orison S. Marden for first place oralist in Moot Court, and the recipient of the NYU Vanderbilt Medal for "extraordinary contributions to the School of Law".

Tyley Ross

Ross is currently an adjunct instructor of voice at NYU’s Tisch and Steinhardt schools.

William Alexander Levy

Also at NYU, he had as an instructor of English famed writer Thomas Wolfe, whose The Party at Jack's (UNC-Chapel Hill, 1995, pp. 41–42) shows remarkable writing on architecture, perhaps related to his strong association with the school and its students, whom he considered among his best.


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