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

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A tall hospital building complex with three towers that display purple N.Y.U Langone Health logos.

AI makes MRIs 4 times faster, NYU and Meta researchers find

Researchers from NYU Langone’s radiology department created artificial intelligence that produces high-quality images in partnership with Meta AI, using just a quarter of the data needed in previous scans.
Annabelle Wang, Contributing Writer January 30, 2023

Artificial intelligence improves the speed and clarity of MRIs as compared with traditional scanning, according to a recent study from the radiology department at NYU Langone...

NYU’s new Center for Social Media and Politics is studying how social media impacts politics, including how fake news is spread. (Photo by Christian Forte)

NYU Launches Center for Social Media and Politics After Rise of Fake News, Russian Trolls

The center will study the role of social media in politics, including how social media influences political ideologies and how fake news is spread.
Akiva Thalheim, Social Media Editor October 14, 2019

The university has received approximately $12 million in funding to establish a new Center for Social Media and Politics, which will research topics like how social media affects...

Entrance to the NYU Academic Resource Center, one of the NYU Courtesy Meals locations. (Staff Photo by Julia McNeill)

Food Insecurity Program Assisted Over 1,000 Students Last Semester

After the end of the fall semester, WSN obtained data on the usage of the courtesy meals program.
Victor Porcelli, News Editor January 28, 2019

Over 1,000 students were helped by NYU’s Courtesy Meals Program last semester, according to data released to WSN. The program seeks to aid students facing temporary food shortage...

President Andy Hamilton delivered a remark before the Being@NYU results presentation on April 24 in Kimmel Rosenthal.

17 Percent of Students Have Experienced Hostility at NYU, Being@NYU Survey Reveals

Sayer Devlin, Managing Editor April 24, 2018
NYU released preliminary results for its widely promoted Being@NYU survey, a campus-wide initiative taken in the Fall 2017 semester.
Facebook is partnering with NYU Langone.

NYU Opinions on Facebook User-Data Controversy

Louise Choi, Staff Writer April 23, 2018
WSN looks into students' opinions on Facebook following the Cambridge Analytica data collection scandal.
A student taking measurements of the way that millimeter waves travel and react in Downtown Brooklyn at Tandon.

Professors Work to Develop 5G Wireless Testbed

Sarah Jackson, Deputy News Editor April 23, 2018
Three professors from the Tandon School of Engineering are part of a team working on a testbed of 5G wireless networks.
Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, speaking at Web Summit 2017 in Lisbon. Nix and Cambridge Analytica have come under controversy for unethical data mining and usage of as many as 50 million Facebook users

Marketing, Cyber Security Professors Weigh in on Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Sunanda Gaskins, Staff Writer March 27, 2018
NYU Professor Scott Galloway has been making his voice heard on issues surrounding the Facebook user privacy scandal.
"A Good American" explores the story of the complex terrorist monitoring system established following the events of 9/11.

“A Good American” Fails to Skewer the NSA

Ali Hassan, Contributing Writer February 1, 2017
Though a fascinatingly in-depth look at one of the most contentious issues since, well, Edward Snowden, "A Good American" is still disappointingly biased.
NYU Langone's new data program has students learning how to interpret data rather than just diagnosing patients using public domain data provided by the New York State Department of Health, Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System.

School of Medicine introduces big data training

Greta Chevance, Staff Writer November 12, 2015
The School of Medicine's new "big data" program encourages medical students to analyze all the available data at their fingertips.
WSN sits down with OECD deputy head

WSN sits down with OECD deputy head

March 5, 2014
DeBoer discusses Student Ambassadorship program.
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Information overloads stage in Off Broadway play

February 25, 2014
“Love and Information” is a series of vignettes featuring an ensemble cast of 15 actors playing dozens of different characters.