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What to do this week: Halloween 3D printing and Bryant Park ice skating

The Daybook is WSN’s weekly column listing in-person and online events at NYU and across New York City. This week: Oct. 24 to Oct. 30.
Carmo Moniz, Deputy News Editor October 23, 2022

Visit a garden inside of a prison cell All day at the Museum of Modern Art PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens Visit “Growing Abolition,” an art installation featuring a...

Mobile 3D printers can have many potential uses, including building infrastructure on construction sites. (Via NYU)

Moon Base-Building, Self-Aware Robots Are in Development at Tandon

A team of robotic engineers hopes to develop robots that will revolutionize the construction industry.
Akiva Thalheim, Social Media Editor October 15, 2019

Tandon School of Engineering researchers are hoping to bring together a team with lofty goals, like repairing U.S. infrastructure and building bases on the Moon, or even Mars....

A sign in Times Square allows you to scan a barcode to demand regulations on 3D-printed guns. The sign and statue titled ‘Guac is Back,’ was installed by the ALMA Advertising Agency and the Change the Ref foundation, founded by Manuel Oliver and the as a dedication to his late son Joaquin “Guac” Oliver, a victim of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting. (Photo by Tianne Johnson)

3D-Printed Guns: A Cause for Concern?

Students and faculty comment on whether or not we should be afraid of printers.
Elise Birkett, Contributing Writer November 12, 2018
Students and faculty comment on whether or not we should be afraid of printers.
A sample mask, featuring Leslie Bernstein, administrator for the Hansjӧrg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery and Face Transplant Program at NYU Langone Health.

Langone Pioneers ‘Death Masks’ for Deceased Facial Donors

Sakshi Venkatraman, News Editor January 23, 2018
NYU Langone scientists pioneer 3-D printed "death masks" to encourage families to donate faces of lost loved ones and help those in need.
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Brina Jeffries, Staff Writer November 3, 2016

We all know the traditional designs that appear in New York Fashion Week and in glossy Hearst and Conde Nast magazines. While these fashion houses have shaped the industry world...

Students, faculty decide What Matters Most in 2013

Students, faculty decide What Matters Most in 2013

November 22, 2013
Snapchat and the HIV/AIDS vaccine are two of the selections faculty and students chose mattered the most in 2013.
Chuck Kuan for WSN

Museum of Modern Art plays with video games as creative medium

March 3, 2013
Technology and design come together seamlessly in this new rotating exhibit at the Museum of Modern art.