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Trucks criticizing NYU speech policy circulate campus
The mobile billboards direct viewers to an email template condemning the university’s responses to pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Trump’s aid freeze terminates at least 2 NYU grants
Provost Georgina Dopico said in a Monday memo to faculty and graduate students that there are “likely” more grant cancellations to come.
23 NYU alumni featured on Forbes’ latest ‘30 Under 30’ list
The annual Forbes magazine list recognized 23 alumni and one incoming assistant professor, representing seven of the university’s 11 schools.
CAS opens new building across from Stern
The site holds six floors of offices, classrooms and lounges, and is NYU’s first building dedicated entirely to the College of Arts & Science.
Nationwide dementia cases to double by 2060, NYU Langone researchers find
The study found that dementia is significantly more prevalent in minority groups when compared to earlier reports.
NYU breaks private university record for first-year applications
The university received more than 120,000 applications — approximately 25,000 of which were early decision.
Students protest Trump presidency with march on campus
The group met in Washington Square Park, where they demanded that the university escalate its actions against the new administration before marching to the Paulson Center.
Researchers work on $56 million initiative for vision restoration
Experts from NYU Langone and the Grossman School of Medicine are researching surgical techniques for successful whole-eye transplants.
Dozens protest onslaught of pro-Palestinian student suspensions
A group of faculty delivered a petition to President Linda Mills, calling on the university to revoke sanctions for students who engaged in a demonstration last semester.
The Soapbox: Housing tax in Spain, the UK to join pan-European agreement, raids in occupied Palestine
The Soapbox is a weekly column by WSN covering major news developments at NYU’s campuses and study away sites abroad. Global consciousness for a global university.
Admin responds to nonprofit criticizing updated student conduct policy
The New York Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to NYU’s administration earlier this month, criticizing the university’s updated student conduct guidelines.
‘Collective punishment’: NYU suspends 13 students after pro-Palestinian sit-in
Multiple students told WSN that the charges misrepresented the December demonstration and criticized the university’s escalated crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.
