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Some Students Welcome Ronell’s Return, Others Denounce It

Despite a Title IX investigation finding Professor Avital Ronell sexually harassed a student — for which some have called on NYU to fire her — many students sought out her first class back from a one-year suspension.
Lisa Cochran and Victor Porcelli September 9, 2019

NYU Professor Avital Ronell — who a Title IX investigation found guilty of sexually harassing a graduate student  mentee — returned on Friday to a crowd of students and one...

Missing Skirt in Kimmel

Missing Skirt in Kimmel

Crime Bot, Crime Bot September 9, 2019

From Aug. 30 to Sept. 6, the NYU Department of Public Safety received one report of attempted fondling / forcible touching, two reports of criminal mischief, two reports of drug...

Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai (via NYU Shanghai)

Tisch and Shanghai Collaborate on Interactive Media Master’s Program

The program teaches students how to create different types of interactive media through a combination of online courses and courses in New York, Shanghai and Berlin.
Andy Kim, Contributing Writer September 9, 2019

A new one-year master’s program in Interactive Media Arts will require students to take classes in Berlin, New York and Shanghai. NYU Shanghai and Tisch School of the Arts partnered...

The Bronfman Center, the center of the NYU Jewish community. (Photo by Euan Prentis)

NYU Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Build Startups

A two-week summer program that taught entrepreneurial skills to survivors of sex trafficking will have participants meet with a mentor on a monthly basis.
Julia Santiago, Contributing Writer September 9, 2019

NYU’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life held a summer program to equip survivors of sex trafficking with entrepeneurial skills, and it will continue to help participants...

The Graduate Student Organizing Committee is calling for NYU to fire professor Avital Ronell, who was suspended last year for sexual harassment. (Photo courtesy GSOC)

NYU Responds to GSOC Petition that Avital Ronell be Fired

The graduate student union called on NYU to fire the professor who was found to have sexually harassed a student.
Victor Porcelli, News Editor September 6, 2019

NYU defended its response to Avital Ronell’s harassment of a graduate student in an open letter to the graduate student union on Thursday. The union had called for the professor’s...

Mahogany L. Browne (right), author of Black Girl Magic and a reader for the event, stands with the founders of Immigrant Families together. (via Twitter)

Students, Staff Speak at ‘Writers for Migrant Justice’

Members of the NYU community participated in a poetry reading event to raise money for those affected by the migrant crisis.
Ronni Husmann, Contributing Writer September 6, 2019

Attendees packed St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery to listen to poetry and raise money for migrants and detainees on Wednesday. Authors, poets, activists and artists — including...

Patients are introduced to Schnoodles and her handler, Angela. (Courtesy of NYU Winthrop)

NYU Winthrop Hospital Institutes Pet Therapy Program

A new program by NYU Langone’s Long Island-based hospital will seek to help patients and staff with stress through the work of a schnauzer poodle, goldendoodle and other pets.
Rocco Fabbro, Contributing Writer September 6, 2019

NYU Winthrop Hospital is providing a different type of medicine to its patients: dogs.  Winthrop’s Animals Give Support, or WAGS, is a pet therapy program that was officially...

NYU introduced several changes to its dining halls this year, including new meal stations in Weinstein food court. (Staff Photo by Marva Shi)

Cheaper Sushi, No More Burger Studio and Other Dining Changes

After 43 years of Aramark as its dining service provider — and dealing with controversies associated with the company — NYU has switched to Chartwells, and the new company is changing things up.
Victor Porcelli, News Editor September 5, 2019

NYU Dining’s name change to NYU Eats marks the end of Aramark’s over-40-year era as its dining service provider; it also marks many more substantial changes, from dining hall...

The facade of Rubin Residence Hall. (Photo by Alana Beyer)

Housing Costs Increase Across the Board This Year

NYU’s residence halls will cost over $400 more for the 2019-2020 school year.
Sebastian Golden, Contributing Writer September 4, 2019

Students will have to shell out a little more money if they are living in university housing this upcoming academic year, as almost all residence hall costs have gone up. NYU...

Jin Kim Montclare, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, led a team at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering to design new protein for regenerative medicine. (via NYU)

Tandon Startup Developed Method for Pesticide-Free Weed, Wine and Tea

Brooklyn Bioscience is a company funded by the National Science Foundation using NYU research to market a process of detoxifying certain substances.
Brooke LaMantia, Contributing Writer September 3, 2019

Lighting up a blunt or sipping a glass of wine can result in ingesting a pesticide listed under one of the most hazardous classes of chemicals being used in the agricultural sector,...

“Bodak Yellow” gets a group of first-years dancing at Bed, Bath and Beyond After Dark in 2018, an annual Welcome Week event. (Photo by Sam Klein)

First-Years Feel Unprepared for NYU Academics After Welcome Week

One week into their NYU careers, first-years told WSN that Welcome Week’s emphasis on events designed for mingling left them unsure of what to expect from their upcoming classes.
Victor Porcelli, Claire Jones and September 3, 2019

With Welcome Week complete for the class of 2023, some first-years have found community through the programming, but feel unprepared going into classes on Tuesday. Welcome Week...

A group of researchers led by assistant professor of physics Javad Shavani discovered a new state of matter that could lead to breakthroughs in quantum computing. (via Adobe Stock)

NYU Physicist and Team Identify a New State of Matter

An NYU assistant professor led an almost four year project which discovered a new state of matter with implications on the computer industry.
Alexandria Johnson, Deputy News Editor September 3, 2019

Led by an assistant professor  at NYU, a team of researchers discovered a new state of matter that could bring us one step closer to optimizing quantum computing, which in...