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NYU says it ‘never offered’ to disclose Israel investments, despite protesters’ claims
The university responded to a series of on-campus demonstrations, which alleged that administrators had prepared to detail NYU’s investments and endowment.
The Soapbox: Puberty blocker ban in the UK, new president in Ghana and Netanyahu’s trial in Israel
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 Langone outlines climate change initiatives in 2024 report
The medical center is striving to cut its building-based carbon emissions in half by next year, according to its annual sustainability report.
2 faculty members arrested at Bobst demonstration
The New York City Police Department arrested at least eight protesters, including faculty, since they began demonstrating outside the library’s entrance early this morning.
Students and faculty call for divestment from Israel at Bobst
Members of the on-campus group Shut it Down NYU occupied the library’s 12th floor, where they criticized administrators for allegedly retracting an agreement to disclose the university’s investments.
NYU ranks top in New York for research spending
The National Science Foundation reported that federal grants at the university covered over half of its research in the 2022-23 academic year.
The names behind NYU’s buildings
From billionaire donors to notorious nightclubs, NYU’s property honors decades of city and school history.
Sociology and Environmental Studies deps. to relocate to the former Goddard Hall
The departments will move into the former residence building 79 Washington Square East in late January and early February.
Accreditation agency drops complaint against NYU
The free speech organization criticized NYU’s response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus after ranking it third to last in an evaluation of free speech policy.
Students protest Tandon ties to Israeli military weapon manufacturers
Members of NYU’s Students for a Democratic Society criticized Tandon hosting General Dynamics, a military contractor that makes weapons for Israel, at its career fair in October.
Strand Bookstore workers go on strike, demand higher wages
New Yorkers joined unionized workers at a picket outside the bookstore’s flagship East Village location in the wake of the employees’ contract expiring in November.
STEM gender gap smaller at selective universities, NYU study finds
Researchers are asking why gender-based disparities in higher education have improved at the country’s most selective institutions while worsening at others.
