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Tandon to improve emergency response times in Brooklyn with AI system

With the 3D simulation model, engineers aim to provide victims of car accidents with medical assistance as fast as possible, despite traffic congestion in urban areas.
Vaishnavi Girish, Contributing Writer February 4, 2025

Researchers at the Tandon School of Engineering will develop an artificial intelligence-powered simulation system that can design a virtual model of downtown Brooklyn to improve...

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NYU AAUP report reveals ‘special relationship’ between Mills and pro-Israeli Facebook mom

President Linda Mills has repeatedly communicated with a parent now calling for the deportation of pro-Palestinian protesters.
Audrey Abrahams, Staff Writer February 3, 2025

President Linda Mills has maintained close correspondence with an NYU parent and founder of an influential Facebook group that pressures universities to sanction pro-Palestinian...

(Alex Woodworth for WSN)

Researchers find gender-based negotiating differences in kids

The study aimed to understand what factors have propagated the ongoing wage gap.
Vaishnavi Girish, Contributing Writer February 3, 2025

NYU researchers found that gender-based wage gaps could potentially be affected by psychological behaviors that develop during childhood — when boys consistently request larger...

(Kevin Wu for WSN)

NYU Langone silent after denying gender-affirming care to 2 children

The medical center, a leading institution for transgender health care, cancelled appointments for children in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order earlier this week.
Yezen Saadah, Editor-in-Chief February 2, 2025

NYU Langone Health has denied gender-affirming care to at least two patients under the age of 19, following a Jan. 28 executive order from the Trump administration that directed...

(Alisia Houghtaling for WSN)

Student gov’t opens elections to entire student body

Since NYU’s Student Government Assembly was founded, only its voting committee has been able elect a chairperson.
Dharma Niles, News Editor January 31, 2025

NYU’s Student Government Assembly will allow all students to vote in its chair elections, a process reserved for SGA leadership since its founding in 2017. While most members...

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Club Fest relocated to Kimmel after Paulson Center flood

The damage from a burst drinking water pipe on Thursday was contained to the cellar and subcellar floors of the Paulson Center’s athletics facility, which are currently closed until further notice.
Aashna Miharia, News Editor January 31, 2025

This semester’s Club Fest was relocated to the Kimmel Center for University Life due to a flood in the Paulson Center, where Friday’s event was scheduled to take place.  NYU...

The Soapbox is a weekly news column rounding up stories worth reading for a global university. (Max Van Hosen and Kyra Reilley for WSN)

The Soapbox: Asylum seekers in Italy, a Chinese AI model shocks stock market, France offers to send troops to the Arctic

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.
Amanda Chen, Deputy News Editor January 31, 2025

In Italy, dozens of migrants sent to Albania for asylum processing  On Tuesday, the Italian navy intercepted a ship carrying 49 migrants and redirected its passengers to Albania,...

(Lauren Sanchez for WSN)

NYU to hire Title VI coordinator ‘later this semester’

The appointee will oversee issues relating to race, color and national origin.
Omar Drissi, Contributing Writer January 30, 2025

NYU will hire its first Title VI coordinator, who will oversee discrimination cases relating to race, color and national origin, by the end of the spring semester, the university...

(Courtesy of Madi Kaplan)

Beyond NYU: Mixing acting with activism

Madi Kaplan, a first-year at NYU, decided to combine her passions for performance and nonprofit work into both a Gallatin concentration and a theater organization.
Amelia Hernandez Gioia, Deputy News Editor January 30, 2025

Gallatin first-year Madi Kaplan has always loved performing on stage, but she wanted to have a larger role behind the scenes. In high school, she decided to create a space where...

President Donald Trump addresses the press outside of the courtroom during his New York civil fraud case in New York City on Oct. 17, 2023. (Jason Alpert-Wisnia for WSN)

Trump rescinds federal aid freeze, delays future NYU grant cancellations

Higher education researchers are still skeptical of how their work could be affected.
Dharma Niles, News Editor January 30, 2025

President Donald Trump rescinded an order to freeze trillions of dollars in federal aid on Wednesday, delaying NYU’s potential loss of nearly $800 million in research funding.  Federal...

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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.
Dido Trowell, Contributing Writer January 30, 2025

Students have reported mobile billboard trucks from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression circulating Washington Square Park, directing passers-by to an email template...

(Krish Dev for WSN)

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.
Dharma Niles, News Editor January 29, 2025

At least two NYU grants have been terminated after President Donald Trump’s executive cutoff to trillions of dollars in federal aid, which puts more than half of the university’s...