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New York University's independent student newspaper, established in 1973.

Washington Square News

New York University's independent student newspaper, established in 1973.

Washington Square News

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Opinion: Turning climate anxiety into action

Climate change is perhaps the greatest existential threat to humanity, yet the pressure to solve this crisis can paralyze us before we find a solution.
Antonia Ang, Contributing Writer March 7, 2025

Climate change is not a distant threat to Generation Z, it’s a daily reality. We’ve grown up amid extreme weather crises, government inaction  and rising sea levels. It has...

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5 study cafes near Tandon to get you through midterm season

Washington Square campus students wish they could lock in with a view of the Dumbo skyline.
Antonia Ang, Contributing Writer March 5, 2025

At first glance, NYU’s Brooklyn campus seems to have a lack of comfortable, lively study spaces. But as I enter my third year at the Tandon School of Engineering, I’ve decided...

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Photo: 5 Manhattan cafes where you can actually study

Annie Emans, Staff Writer March 6, 2025

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Opinion: Tandon’s diversity statistics don’t tell the whole story

Despite nearly equal gender enrollment, the engineering school must promote more mentorship and diversity programs for minorities.
Antonia Ang, Staff Writer March 4, 2025

Despite being in the second semester of my junior year, I still have never taken an engineering course taught by a female professor. At NYU Tandon School of Engineering, out of...

Street photograph of the front entrance of the NYU College of Dentistry.

Dentistry school receives $8M to study oral cancer treatments

Researchers from three universities, including NYU, will use the funding to find ways to treat chronic pain without the use of opioids.
Antonia Ang, Contributing Writer April 19, 2024

The National Institutes of Health awarded the College of Dentistry’s Pain Research Center with an $8 million grant to support research toward treatments for oral cancer as an...

A baby wearing a head-mounted camera sits in front of a crib while smiling at the camera.

AI following baby’s development capable of language learning, NYU study finds

Researchers used footage from a camera mounted on a baby’s head to train an artificial intelligence model and test its language-learning capabilities.
Antonia Ang and Max Getty February 14, 2024

Artificial intelligence might be able to learn a language similarly to a baby, even without any prior knowledge of grammar or social interactions, researchers from NYU’s Center...