Aashna Miharia, News Editor
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NYU Law admin threatens pro-Palestinian students with disciplinary action
The student group alleged that the administrator disrupted a silent demonstration, where law students displayed signs accusing NYU of funding “genocide” amid the war in Gaza.
Aashna Miharia and Yezen Saadah
• December 5, 2024
Books beyond Bobst: An activist’s self-help book, a new Percy Jackson novel and more
Books beyond Bobst is a book-rec column highlighting what NYU students are reading now, outside of their classes. If you’re in need of a new read, look no further.
Alexa Donovan, Anjali Mehta, Aashna Miharia and Mariana Arboleda
• November 18, 2024
International voters at NYU: How students from abroad view election season on campus
Aashna Miharia, News Editor
• October 28, 2024
Photo: Jewish students set up Gaza Solidarity Sukkah in Schwartz Plaza
Aashna Miharia, Dharma Niles and Yezen Saadah
• October 22, 2024
Beyond NYU: How a Gallatin alum built her brand up from flea markets to fashion shows
Dissatisfied with her experiences in the fashion industry, Leah Gans decided to change the trajectory of her career by creating a clothing label.
Aashna Miharia, News Editor
• September 30, 2024
RAs win majority vote to unionize
The union, which now officially represents hundreds of RAs at NYU, is demanding increased compensation and improved working conditions for resident assistants on campus.
Aashna Miharia, News Editor
• September 27, 2024
Dozens of NYU students protest updated student conduct policy
Student protesters collaborated with pro-Palestinian groups from three other college campuses in lower Manhattan to protest the schools’ ties to Israel.
Aashna Miharia and Dharma Niles
• September 13, 2024
Summer recap: What you missed on campus since May
A student sues roommate for stealing over $50,000 in luxury items, a $6 million donation for artificial intelligence research and more news around campus you missed over the last few months.
Aashna Miharia, Dharma Niles, Liyana Illyas, Mariapaula Gonzalez and Rory Lustberg
• September 3, 2024
NYU cites ‘code words, like ‘Zionist’’ as discriminatory in updated student conduct policy
In response to listening sessions over the summer, NYU changed its student conduct policy to further define protest regulations and non-discrimination policies ahead of the fall semester.
Aashna Miharia, News Editor
• August 26, 2024
NYU leadership proposes budget of $4.3 billion for next academic year
With a proposed 5% increase in budget over the 2023-24 academic year, the university will launch the NYU Promise, reopen Rubin Hall and Goddard Hall, and increase its endowment fund.
Aashna Miharia, News Editor
• May 23, 2024
Students protest war in Gaza at graduation ceremonies
Pro-Palestinian disruptions, including students chanting and waving Palestinian flags, occurred at the ceremonies for Tisch, Gallatin and NYU Law.
Aashna Miharia, Bruna Horvath and Dharma Niles
• May 21, 2024
Over 100 protesters rally outside Bobst Library, condemn Mills’ leadership
The demonstration took place hours after the New York City Police Department swept the pro-Palestinian encampment outside the Paulson Center.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• May 3, 2024
Beyond NYU: Maintaining memories through shared albums
How a Tandon student is helping college students keep connections from a night out.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• May 2, 2024
Over 100 picket in front of Stern after NYU barricades Gould Plaza
Two days after NYU put up a barricade in front of Gould Plaza, pro-Palestinian demonstrators picketed on the sidewalk, condemning the university’s response to the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and demanding that NYU divest from Israel.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• April 26, 2024
Beyond NYU: Writing to help women combat social media’s toxic impact
Kara Alaimo used her interest in gender studies to help create sustainability goals within the United Nations, write articles for CNN Opinion and publish books.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• April 18, 2024
RAs unionize, demand university recognition
A majority of resident assistants on campus recently unionized, and are now demanding that NYU recognize them as a formal union.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• April 17, 2024
3 professors named Guggenheim Fellows
Two Steinhardt professors and one Institute of Fine Arts professor were awarded fellowships to expand their work in the arts.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• April 15, 2024
What to do this week: Earth Day, farmers markets and more
The Daybook is WSN’s weekly column listing in-person and online events at NYU and across New York City. This week: April 15 - 21.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• April 14, 2024
University research hub receives over $1 million in funding from New York senator
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer is gifting $1.15 million from the United States’ annual federal budget to allocate toward NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• April 5, 2024
Beyond NYU: From books to ballads
Ambrose Getz was unsure where she would end up when she first arrived at NYU. Now, she is releasing music and performing it across New York City.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• April 4, 2024
Campus Safety responds to wave of assaults near Washington Square Park
The Department of Campus Safety said it “is aware of reports on social media” of women being assaulted in several New York City neighborhoods, including near NYU’s Washington Square campus.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• March 29, 2024
Beyond NYU: A shy guy’s transformation into Broadway success
After studying music composition and musical theater writing at NYU, Steinhardt and Tisch alum Joe Iconis is creating musicals in unconventional ways.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• March 28, 2024
‘It’s better than nothing’: NYU partially reopens Kimmel stairs
The university reopened a section of the Kimmel stairs this week, five months after closing it due to heightened protest activity near campus.
Aashna Miharia and Dharma Niles
• March 27, 2024
NYU moves to dismiss antisemitism lawsuit brought by Jewish students
The university called for the lawsuit, which accuses it of indifference toward antisemitic incidents on campus, to be dismissed earlier this month.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• March 25, 2024
What to do this week: Ax throwing, an Easter parade and more
The Daybook is WSN’s weekly column listing in-person and online events at NYU and across New York City. This week: March 25 - 31.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• March 24, 2024
Beyond NYU: A global jazz singer’s journey to becoming a Grammy winner
From studying vocal performance at NYU to winning a Grammy, Steinhardt alum Nicole Zuraitis is finding ways to share her love for jazz with the world.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• March 14, 2024
NYU Langone expands its health care practices to Queens
The new facility marks the medical center’s second location in the borough and aims to serve 13,000 patients each year.
Aashna Miharia and Maisie Zipfel
• March 8, 2024
Beyond NYU: Mastering movies and music videos
Tisch alum Jason Baum moved across the country to produce music videos for some of the music industry’s biggest artists. He now has five Grammy nominations and one Grammy win under his belt.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• March 7, 2024
Students protest NYU Bookstore’s ties to Nike
The students are demanding that the university cut ties with Nike until the company pays wages owed to workers at a factory in Thailand.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• March 4, 2024
Beyond NYU: Switching medicine for music business
CAS alum Mir Hwang co-founded GigFinesse to help emerging artists reach the big stage.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 29, 2024
Ex-NYU finance director pleads guilty in $3.5 million fraud scheme
Cindy Tappe, who worked as an administrator for the university until 2018, will face five years of probation and pay restitution for embezzling around $3.5 million in New York state grants.
Aashna Miharia and Maisie Zipfel
• February 28, 2024
What to do this week: Violet 100, a salsa dancing event and more
The Daybook is WSN’s weekly column listing in-person and online events at NYU and across New York City. This week: Feb. 26 - March 3.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 25, 2024
Beyond NYU: How 2 brothers went from creating art to opening a gallery
Sam Kapp and his twin brother always had a passion for making art. Now, they work together to run their own gallery in New York City.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 22, 2024
Court dismisses claims in alum’s Title IX suit over Tisch ‘blacklist’
A Tisch alum accused of sexual misconduct on an anonymous “blacklist” sued NYU over how the university addressed his concerns. The court dismissed his federal claims earlier this month.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 21, 2024
Beyond NYU: Making musicals come to life in the Midwest
Steinhardt alum Kelsey McDaniel is taking her passion for musical theater across the country by creating her own production company in Indianapolis.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 15, 2024
‘Publish or Perish’: The dark side of tenured professorship
As tenured professorships become harder and harder to find, the pressure to publish research is taking priority over quality and integrity in academia.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 11, 2024
Beyond NYU: When music meets ‘Mean Girls’
Steinhardt sophomore Mahi Alam marked his big debut on the silver screen with the musical remake of the iconic early 2000s film “Mean Girls.”
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 8, 2024
Langone purchases $33 million building in Florida
The new building will expand NYU Langone Health’s presence in Florida, where it will now have four locations.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• February 5, 2024
What to do this week: A book talk, Lunar New Year celebrations and a film festival
The Daybook is WSN’s weekly column listing in-person and online events at NYU and across New York City. This week: Jan. 29 - Feb. 4.
Aashna Miharia, Deputy News Editor
• January 28, 2024
Winter recap: The news you missed at NYU over break
A recent donation to president Linda Mills’ new financial aid initiative, the end of an anti-racism workshop and all the other news on campus since you’ve been gone.
Aashna Miharia, Adrianna Nehme, Bruna Horvath, Dharma Niles and Maisie Zipfel
• January 22, 2024
NYU Law Policing Project to collaborate on Minneapolis public safety plan
The Minneapolis City Council recently approved a $1 million contract with NYU Law’s Policing Project that will help the city define future strategies for public safety.
Aashna Miharia, Staff Writer
• December 13, 2023
Village residents threaten to sue NYU if local Morton Williams isn’t saved
Greenwich Village residents demanded that NYU and city authorities preserve the Morton Williams supermarket near the Paulson Center — which is at risk of being demolished — on Sunday afternoon.
Aashna Miharia, Staff Writer
• December 12, 2023
SGA calls for Gov. Hochul to sign reparations bill at rally
Members of the student government called on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill that would establish a commission to study reparations to African American New Yorkers at a rally in Washington Square Park.
Aashna Miharia, Staff Writer
• December 4, 2023
What is NYU’s Prison Education Program?
Last month, President Linda Mills announced that the university’s Prison Education Program — which has helped hundreds of incarcerated people in New York earn college credit at no cost — will now provide bachelor’s degrees.
Aashna Miharia and Dharma Niles
• November 30, 2023
Pro-Palestinian students and faculty call JPMorgan, universities ‘complicit’ in Israel-Hamas war
Students and faculty at NYU, Columbia University and the City University of New York held a teach-in at JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s New York headquarters on Friday.
Aashna Miharia, Staff Writer
• November 21, 2023
Students and faculty join nationwide strike at Astor Place Starbucks
Members of NYU’s Young Democratic Socialists of America and NYU faculty joined a protest outside the Astor Place Starbucks on Thursday, calling on the company to improve working conditions for employees in a daylong nationwide strike.
Aashna Miharia and Luke McCrory
• November 17, 2023
NYU Langone to study AI detection for blood clot conditions
The medical center is working with ultrasound artificial intelligence company ThinkSono to study how it could help health care workers detect blood clots in deep veins using AI.
Aashna Miharia, Contributing Writer
• November 16, 2023
Bobst Library to undergo more renovations in coming months
The library’s newly designed ground floor was revealed to the NYU community last week, with more changes, including a coffee shop and new carpeting, to come within the next few months.
Aashna Miharia, Contributing Writer
• October 24, 2023
Tisch establishes new master’s degree in virtual film production
The Tisch School of the Arts will offer a graduate program in virtual production beginning next fall in an effort to train students to work with contemporary filmmaking technology.
Aashna Miharia, Contributing Writer
• October 11, 2023
NYU researchers measure anti-Asian bias across the country
Researchers at the university found that a state’s party leaning and its population of people of Asian descent are associated with its levels of anti-Asian bias.
Aashna Miharia, Contributing Writer
• September 29, 2023
Author Clint Smith speaks on bestselling book at NYU Reads event
This year’s NYU Reads author, Clint Smith, spoke about his book, “How the Word Is Passed” at a Monday discussion with Interim Provost Georgina Dopico.
Aashna Miharia and Yasmeen Rifai
• September 20, 2023
Karina Rower, Under the Arch Editor • December 6, 2024
Allina Xiao, Illustration Editor • December 6, 2024
Chantal Mann, Contributing Writer • December 6, 2024
Sawyer Gouw Ranzetta, Staff Writer • December 6, 2024