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Grad student council member holds one-person ‘sit-in’ against election procedures
The student is claiming that their senator-elect role was unfairly nullified after the majority of the student body did not vote in elections of the Graduate School of Arts & Science.
4 Tisch and CAS professors honored as Guggenheim Fellows
The professors were given financial support to further their projects in filmmaking, creative writing and historical scholarship.
Students picket outside Vanderbilt Hall, demand NYU Law cut anti-protest contract
Demonstrators encouraged passers-by to call and send emails to Dean Troy McKenzie, calling for the law school to revoke sanctions against 31 pro-Palestinian students.
Maggie Rogers to speak at Tisch graduation
The singer-songwriter and Clive Davis alum will speak at the school’s 2025 Salute at Radio City Music Hall on May 16.
31 law students barred from campus, offered contract to cease protests
The School of Law stipulated that students will be unable to access classrooms and other on-campus buildings until they agree to “not participate in any protest activity.”
Mayoral candidates talk housing affordability at Kimmel forum
Three politicians running for New York City mayor discussed ways to effectively use public resources to combat a longstanding affordable housing crisis in the city.
‘Civil rights warrior’: Title VI coordinator talks neutrality at student gov’t meeting
NYU’s inaugural Title VI coordinator defended his resume and discussed his approach to tackling heightened on-campus tensions.
Early education program at NYU canceled after federal funding cuts
Jumpstart, a work-study program that sends students to work with underresourced preschools, will close its chapter at NYU, among dozens of other universities.
Students and faculty join citywide May Day rallies
Members of NYU’s faculty and student worker unions called on the university to negotiate new deals and rewrite protections for international students.
The Soapbox: Blackout in Spain, mosque murder suspect surrenders in France, weapons shipment thwarted in UAE
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.
NYU has a ‘moral obligation’ to protect noncitizen students, immigration experts say
WSN spoke to three legal experts about the federal government’s recent onslaught against student visa holders and the university’s responsibility to protect its noncitizen affiliates.
NYU Langone patient lives with pig kidney for 130 days
The genetically engineered animal organ rejected in the patient’s body after a record-breaking stretch, leading her to return to kidney failure treatment.
