All content by Herman Lee
![While expensive to acquire, green carts equipped with EBT machines lead to significantly higher sales.
NYU researchers found that while expensive](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/food-stamps.jpg)
EBT Cards Make Produce an Easy Choice
Herman Lee, Contributing Writer
• October 5, 2017
![The advancement of technology is accelerating exponentially. The NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology was launched this week. (Staff Photo by Euan Prentis)](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/050117_printservice_euanprentis.jpg)
NYU Sophomores Stumble Upon IT Hack
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• May 1, 2017
![Lipton Dining Hall is going vegan for Earth Week thanks to the Animal Welfare Collective, a student activist group at NYU.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/lipton_juliamoses.jpg)
Lipton Dining Hall Going Vegan This Week
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• April 24, 2017
![Operation ID is a free program that allows people to register their valuable items so they can be returned if misplaced or stolen. NYPD and NYU Public Safety hosted an Operation ID event at Founders Hall on April 18 to get students to sign up.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/operationID_tayler_97-900x675.jpg)
NYPD and Public Safety Host #OperationID at Founders
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• April 18, 2017
![Tandon professor Nasir Memon, along with other researchers, found that smartphones' fingerprint authentication systems can be hackable through a master print, which has many users' partial fingerprints.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/18042996_1165240786954841_1273568175_o-900x600.jpg)
Tandon Professor Discovers Faults in iPhone Fingerprint Sensor
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• April 17, 2017
![Lipton Dining hall is going vegan from April 23 to April 26 for Earth Week, which starts April 22. The AWC, a student group for animal rights, advocated the three day event at Lipton.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/IMG_2104-900x600.jpg)
Lipton to Become Temporarily Plant-Based
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• April 10, 2017
![NYU student Leah Nouriyelian has created a petition to convince NYU’s University Senate to vote against the current academic calendar in order to observe Jewish High Holy Days.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Jewish_PolinaBuchak-900x600.jpg)
Student Petitions Against School on Jewish Holidays
Herman Lee, Contributing Writer
• April 6, 2017
![NYU Law’s Policing Project serves to strengthen policing policies through democratic governance. Administrators, students and faculty are currently working with the LAPD on reevaluating body camera footage policies.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/policing_via-wikipedia.org_-900x523.jpg)
NYU Law Advises LAPD Through Policing Project
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• April 3, 2017
![The $500 million building that is to be built at NYU Tandon could potentially generate significant revenue for the university.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/expansion_htoo.jpeg-900x675.jpg)
NYU Expansion Targets Tandon
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• March 27, 2017
![The six NYU faculty members — Heidi White, Elena Cunningham, Gregory Erickson, John Halpin, Benard Dreyer and John Gorshman — have been awarded the 2017 University Distinguished Teaching Award. The recognition — received by nominations from students, faculty and alumni — is given to faculty who show prowess in their teaching ability.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/award_complied-900x600.jpg)
NYU Professors Identified as Distinguished
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• March 27, 2017
![The International Youth and Students for Social Equality was rejected for club status yet again by the Student Activities Board. The club appealed the rejection, but the decision was not changed.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/bertell.jpg)
Politics Professor Speaks out Against IYSSE Club Rejection
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• March 9, 2017
![The NYU Antifascist group has been in the public eye recently after a protest it organised against NYUCR event speaker, Gavin McInnes, resulted in 11 arrests.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/022117_antifa_twitter-900x900.jpg)
Who Are the NYU Anti-fascists?
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• February 21, 2017
![Arrests of students are not isolated events, such as when 11 reported arrests were made on Tuesday outside Kimmel.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/020617_arrested_EuanPrentis-900x600.jpg)
Q&A: NYU Protester Arrested
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• February 6, 2017
![Despite the many strides NYU takes to prevent substance abuse on campus, students are consistently finding new ways to break the rules.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/012917_drugs_RyanQuan_01-900x600.jpg)
Administration, Student Groups Combat Drug Use
Herman Lee, Contributing Writer
• January 30, 2017
![Earlier in the semester SLAM members protested the student voice should be heard on the Board of Trustees.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/113016_slam_PolinaBuchak.jpg)
Despite Resistance, SLAM For Student Representation on Board of Trustees
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• November 30, 2016
![President-elect, Donald Trump, proposed many ideas during his presidential campaign, but due to their equivocation on the major issues, here are the top 6 that will impact NYU students.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/trumpman-easton-self.jpg)
How Will Trump’s Policies Affect You? We Broke It Down
Miranda Levingston, Herman Lee, Téa Kvetenadze and Coco Wang
• November 18, 2016
![Although the Republican Party may have majority in congress and taken the presidency, student republicans are not completely in support of Trump.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/republicans_annaletson-600x900.jpg)
NYU Republicans Double Down on Trump
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• November 14, 2016
![The National Science Foundation has given NYU-X a $2.9 million grant to create a holodeck similar to virtual technology in Star Trek.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/holodeck_annaletson.jpg)
Not Star Trek: NYU Building Holodeck
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• November 7, 2016
![Sol Patches, a freshman in Tisch, plays the lead in Michael Paulucci’s new film “Pronouns,” utilizing slam poetry as a means to tell the story of a black transgender teen.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/pronouns_Chian-Hon-Herman-Lee-600x900.jpg)
Tisch Freshman Leads ‘Pronouns’
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• November 7, 2016
![NYU is planning on making dental hygiene great again.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Dental_Veronica-Liow-900x600.jpg)
NYU Dentistry Serves Underprivileged Communities
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• October 31, 2016
![Women play video games just as much as men but are vastly outnumbered on the design side of the industry. A new NYU scholarship hopes to change that.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/unspecified-13-900x601.jpg)
New Scholarship Increases Gender Equality in Game Design
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• October 24, 2016
![The Disabilities Studies minor will be an interdisciplinary course taught at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/disability_euan-prentis-600x900.jpg)
Steinhardt Adds Disability Studies Minor
Herman Lee, Staff Writer
• October 24, 2016
![The Long Island Rail Road service resumed on Monday after a crash that injured over 30 people.](https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/unspecified-3-900x561.jpeg)
Commuter Students Talk NYC Transit Safety
Herman Lee, Contributing Writer
• October 12, 2016
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