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NYU lawyers talk support for international students at Wagner panel

The co-director of NYU’s Immigrant Rights Clinic told WSN that the program is looking to expand in the wake of federal deportation efforts on university campuses.
Amanda Chen, Deputy News Editor March 20, 2025

Faculty at the School of Law criticized the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and threats to international community members at a forum on Wednesday.  Alina...

(Kevin Wu for WSN)

NYU Langone introduces Amazon palm-scanning tech to hospitals

The medical center is the largest user of Amazon’s contactless identification technology, which increases security and diminishes the impact of staffing shortages at hospitals.
Vaishnavi Girish, Staff Writer March 20, 2025

NYU Langone Health has partnered with Amazon to install new palm-scanning sensors in its New York City hospitals that patients can use to identify themselves before appointments...

(Courtesy of Elliot Greenfield)

Beyond NYU: Shaping the image of a top luxury brand

Gallatin alum Elliot Greenfield discussed his journey from a Steinhardt first-year to a leading marketing role at Swarovski, one of the largest jewelry brands worldwide.
Amelia Hernandez Gioia, Deputy News Editor March 20, 2025

Gallatin alum Elliot Greenfield always had a passion for fashion retail, but didn’t realize that he wanted to academically pursue the field until he started going to NYU. After...

NYU President Linda Mills, Provost Georgina Dopico and Executive Vice President Martin Dorph announced the "administrative hiring freeze" in a letter to faculty, staff and administrators on Monday. (Manasa Gudavalli for WSN)

Mills freezes hiring amid federal funding uncertainty

President Linda Mills said that due to “a number of financial risk areas,” the university will pause hiring and lower salary increases as it faces multiple investigations by the Trump administration.
Aashna Miharia, Dharma Niles and Yezen Saadah March 19, 2025

NYU placed an immediate hold on hiring and will lower salary increases for faculty and staff in response to the Trump administration’s threats to withdraw federal funding from...

(Kevin Wu for WSN)

NYU Langone treats Israeli soldiers with advanced prosthetics

The initiative is founded by NYU Langone Health’s Center for Amputation Reconstruction, which has also offered wartime support for Ukraine and Saudi Arabia.
Amanda Chen, Deputy News Editor March 19, 2025

NYU Langone Health is partnering with an Israeli hospital to provide Israel Defense Forces soldiers with pioneering limb reconstructive surgeries and train local doctors to do...

(Kevin Wu for WSN)

NYU Law announces clinic to study wrongful convictions

The program is created in tandem with the Innocence Project, a New York-based legal advocacy group for wrongfully incarcerated people.
Audrey Abrahams, Staff Writer March 19, 2025

NYU’s School of Law will offer a joint program with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit focused on advancing social justice through legal advocacy for wrongfully convicted incarcerated...

(Lauren Sanchez for WSN)

Programmers can model AI after human goal-setting processes, NYU study finds

Researchers used computer programs to mimic the steps humans take to set intermediate targets while playing games.
Gabrielle Panelo, Contributing Writer March 19, 2025

NYU scientists developed a new framework to better understand how people set goals when trying to win a game, hit a benchmark or achieve some other objective. The researchers aimed...

(Jake Capriotti for WSN)

SPS and Marriott Foundation launch $5 million hospitality program

Students in the program will take on an apprenticeship while earning credits toward an associate’s degree in hospitality, which the school will officially begin offering in the spring of 2026.
Graylin Lucas, Staff Writer March 18, 2025

The NYU School of Professional Studies has partnered with The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation to create a $5 million apprenticeship fund for students pursuing an associate...

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Parents gravitate toward sensationalized articles about kids’ screen time, NYU study finds

Steinhardt researchers found that a small group of studies disproportionately shapes online rhetoric about the effects of screen time on children under 10.
Daphne Zhu, Beauty & Style Editor March 18, 2025

Parents are more likely to read articles about the negative impacts of their children’s screen times than those that document a less consequential effect, NYU researchers found...

(Maryam Lootah for WSN)

Tensions soar as College Dems and Reps tackle Trump policies on the debate stage

The biannual debate is a decadeslong tradition between the NYU College Democrats and College Republicans, with this semester’s event focusing on policing, tariffs and aid to Ukraine.
Amelia Hernandez Gioia, Deputy News Editor March 18, 2025

Crime, trade and the Trump administration — today’s top issues took center stage at this semester’s debate between the NYU College Republicans and College Democrats on Thursday....

The Trump administration recently named NYU as one of 52 schools being targeted for diversity-related partnerships. (Kiran Komanduri for WSN)

Education Department to investigate NYU for ‘illegal’ DEI partnership

The university is one of 52 schools under fire by the Trump administration for partnering with a nonprofit focused on increasing diversity in Ph.D. business programs.
Dharma Niles, News Editor March 17, 2025

The U.S. Department of Education will investigate NYU for alleged civil rights violations, citing the university’s partnership with a nonprofit aiming to diversify Ph.D. programs...

Hochul expands AI initiative to support researchers at NYU, other state universities

Hochul expands AI initiative to support researchers at NYU, other state universities

The collaboration between seven universities across New York state grants educational institutions access to technologies usually exclusive to large corporations.
Graylin Lucas, Staff Writer March 17, 2025

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Empire AI initiative has expanded rapidly over the past several weeks, with three more New York colleges slated to join the consortium of research institutions...