School of Medicine Commencement ’19
Last Wednesday evening, 149 students piled into Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for NYU School of Medicine’s 178th graduation ceremony. They were clad in the university’s iconic purple gowns, but thanks to their elite...
Graduate Student Union Demands NYU Fire Professor Who Sexually Harassed A Student
Graduate students have demanded NYU fire Professor Avital Ronell, who was suspended for a year in August 2018 for sexually harassing a student and is set to return this fall.
The Graduate Student Organizing Committee...
SPS Commencement ’19
On Thursday, the School of Professional Studies held its 30th baccalaureate convocation. The celebration took place in the famous Hammerstein Ballroom of the Manhattan Center, where graduating seniors, their families, friends and partners gathered...
Steinhardt Commencement ’19
Madison Square Garden’s Hulu Theater was awash in violet on Tuesday morning as the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development graduated its undergraduate class of 2019.
Students began trickling in to the...
President Hamilton Denounces GSAS Commencement Speaker’s Praise of BDS
A speaker at NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science doctoral commencement advocated for the boycott of Israel during his speech on Monday.
“I am so proud of NYU’s chapters of Students for Justice in...
Liberal Studies Commencement ’19
As excited family members and friends took their seats in the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Liberal Studies graduating class lined up backstage, whispering about their plans after the ceremony and...
NYU’s Class of 2019 Graduates With a Challenge to Foster Unity
A sea of violet gowns replaced the white and navy pinstripes that typically fill Yankee Stadium. On Wednesday morning, NYU held its 187th Commencement ceremony for the class of 2019, made up of over...
Hamilton, in Interview With WSN, Says NYU Should Not Be Democratic
For the first time in three years, President Andrew Hamilton sat down with student journalists from WSN and answered questions about NYU’s relationship with the United Arab Emirates, university governance, diversity and his relationship...
Excerpts From Andrew Hamilton’s Interview With Washington Square News
President Andrew Hamilton spoke with Editor-at-Large Sayer Devlin, Editor-in-Chief Sakshi Venkatraman and News Editor Victor Porcelli last week in his office on the 12th floor of Bobst. With him was university spokesperson John Beckman.
The...
Board of Trustees Announces Law Firm Aiding Investigation Into Steinhardt
The Board of Trustees announced in an email to the NYU community on Monday that law firm Ropes & Gray LLP is aiding it in its investigation of trustee Michael Steinhardt — who was...
SGA Condemns the Return of Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment
The Student Government Assembly published a letter on Friday condemning the return of German and Comparative Literature Professor Avital Ronell — who was found responsible for sexual harassment last year.
SGA’s letter states that Ronell’s...
Academics Voice Support for Social and Cultural Analysis Department’s Boycott of NYU Tel Aviv
Multiple groups of academics have written two different letters of support for the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis' boycott of NYU Tel Aviv that started last week.
NYU’s chapter of the American Association of...
