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A Starving Artist’s Guide to Arts Events This Weekend: March 15 to 17

Stay entertained this weekend for $20 or less.
Alex Cullina, Books and Theater Editor March 15, 2019

St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday — if you want to escape the inevitable onslaught of intoxicated revelers this weekend, check out one of these arts and entertainment events....

NYU Professor’s ‘NYLON’ Makes a Complex Plot Work

NYU Professor’s ‘NYLON’ Makes a Complex Plot Work

The past is at the forefront in this new play by Tisch Dramatic Writing professor Sofia Alvarez.
Dante Sacco, Deputy Arts Editor March 11, 2019

Nylon is a polymer plastic. It’s a long and durable molecule notable for its ability to hold things together, used in products like ropes, stockings and parachutes. In the new...

Sofia Alvarez, a playwright, screenwriter and professor in Tisch’s Department of Dramatic Writing. She co-founded the Blockchain Theater Project, a theater company that seeks to dismantle institutional barriers in theater. (Photo by Min Ji Kim)

Dramatic Writing Professor Brings Blockchain to Theater

Sofia Alvarez, a Tisch professor and the screenwriter of Netflix’s “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” is the co-founder of the Blockchain Theater Project, which draws on blockchain’s peer-to-peer model to dismantle the institutional barriers of the theater world.
Alex Cullina, Theater and Books Editor March 4, 2019

It was late 2017, the height of the bitcoin boom, and Sofia Alvarez, playwright, screenwriter and professor in Tisch’s Department of Dramatic Writing, was looking for a way to...

Miguel Modestino, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, was awarded the H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award. He found a way to produce a fabric similar to nylon using solar energy, plant waste and water, instead of oil.

Tandon Professor Earns Award for Eco-Friendly Textile Manufacturing

Miranda Levingson, Deputy News Editor April 11, 2017
A Tandon professor won the H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award for creating an invention intended to make the textile manufacturing process more eco-friendly.
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NYU artist finds success in student duo

Hannah Treasure, Features Editor October 6, 2014
Gallatin sophomore Jack Staffen and his bandmate at Columbia University, Eliza Callahan released their first EP, "No Wonders."