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NYU picks president of future Abu Dhabi campus

New York University has appointed the president of Swarthmore College to run its Abu Dhabi campus in the United Arab Emirates.

Met director Montebello to teach at NYU

Philippe de Montebello, who is retiring as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will teach at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.

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Culture of Old Europe Is Uncloaked in an Exhibit at N.Y.U.
Source: The New York Times

Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.

Scholars Race to Preserve Guantanamo Records for History
Source: chronicle.com

To make sure the details of Guantánamo endure, Mr. Denbeaux and some colleagues are creating a Guantánamo Bay Detention Center archive. It will be a repository of the records and first-person accounts of hundreds of defense lawyers who have worked on detainee cases.

Clothes that show when you're in love - or when you're hungry
Source: Discovery.com

Kate Hartman makes apps that allow plants to twitter when thirsty, and clothes that show when you're in love.

Retirement Planning in the Aftermath of the Crisis - Professor Anthony Lynch

An important issue facing investors as the economy emerges from the current financial crisis is what they should do with their retirement accounts. Going forward, investors should not drastically reduce the fractions of stock holdings (direct holdings plus holdings of U.S.

After the Wreckage: What's Next for Universal Banks?

The dramatic actions in the last few days of the European and American central banks and treasuries suggest the beginning of the end of the global debt crisis.

Another Great Depression??? - Professor Cooley

What's the difference between a financial crisis and a Depression? At least initially, the symptoms appear similar. Banks won't lend to one another, even overnight.

Credit Derivatives, Crises, and Clearing Houses - Professor Joel Hasbrouck

To bring order to chaos in group activity, it is not uncommon to suggest a clearing house, i.e., a vehicle for sharing information to improve coordination.

A Potential Alzheimer's Vaccine
Source: ABC Action News

NYU researchers are hoping that an Alzheimer's vaccine that aims to improve one's memory by helping destroy Tau Protein works well.

N.Y.U. Plan Threatens Historic Theater
Source: The New York Times

Another chapter is being written in the never ending novel entitled, "The Univerversity that ate Greenwich Village." NYU seems to believe in the old saw "Time heals all wounds."

Islamic Reformer: ''The Challenge Today is to Transform the 'Us vs. Them' of Identity Politics & Religion'' [Irshad Manji]
Source: NYU News

''SCPS senior Rena Kokalani said that Manji offers a new way to look at international politics and faith. "Her words are provocative and interesting and a nice contrast to the polarity we hear about fundamentalism vs. the West," Kokalani said. Manji agreed.

The Education of Ben Bernanke
Source: The New York Times

By cutting rates by a total of one point since August, Bernanke has clearly moved toward a policy of stimulus.

Poll: NYU Students Would Sell Their Right to Vote for Free Tuition
Source: FOXNews.com

Parents: this is what thousands of dollars a year gets you...

Cult Of Mac: 1 in 5 NYU students would swap their right to vote for an iPod Touch
Source: Valleywag

There's one thing dorky-sexier than Barack Obama: An iPod Touch, the $300 toy that 20 percent of New York University students would trade for their vote in the next presidential election.

Asian Supremacist Kenneth Eng Arrested on Federal Charges
Source: villagevoice.com

We told you last week how Kenneth "Why I Hate Blacks" Eng was sentenced to counseling for attempting to assault his neighbors with a hammer, only to be picked up moments later on federal charges.

Police: Boyfriend slits wrists, implicates self in NYU death
Source: CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The boyfriend of the 20-year-old college coed whose decomposed body was found over the weekend in a New York University apartment building is in police custody after trying to commit suicide, authorities say.

Joseph LeDoux's heavy mental
Source: Salon.com

Back in the '70s, when neuroscientists considered emotion too subjective for serious research, LeDoux made it the focus of his work, tracing the pathway in a rat's brain that leads to the fear response. The implications of this finding launched his career.

Closet NIMBY Looks at NYU, Columbia

NY Times features New York University seeking to engage Greenwich Village neighbors in its expansion plans.

NYU Republican Student Group Plans 'Find the Illegal Immigrant' Game
Source: ShoutWire.com

'College Republicans' Already Taking Heat All Over Campus Feb 21, 2007 7:28 pm US/Eastern Tanya Rivero Reporting

Whoops - We Promoted Terrorism
Source: Talking Points Memo

A new NYU study indicates that the US war in Iraq has led to a sevenfold increase in jihadist terrorist attacks.

Israel Lobby Stifles Honest Debate
Source: The Biz of Knowledge

Politics. Prejudice. Ignorance.

EPA Whistle-Blower Says U.S. Hid 9/11 Dust Danger
Source: The New York Times

A senior scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency has accused the agency of relying on misleading data about the health hazards of World Trade Center dust.

NYU Student Killed While Escaping Robbery in Harlem
Source: ny1.com

An NYU student was struck by a Mercedez-Benz as he attempted to escape robbery by a group of four 13 and 15-year-olds in Harlem. He died days later. The boys allegedly shouted, "Get the white boy" during the incident.

Pentagon spied on gay student groups
Source: The New York Blade

What exactly is the Pentagon doing spying inside the US? While I think it's ridiculous that there is spying like this going on, shouldn't this be the job of the FBI?

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