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Mitchell Moss, 63, the Henry Hart Rice Professor of Urban Policy & Planning at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, is also the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy. A member of the NYU faculty since 1973, he was raised in Forest Hills and now lives in Greenwich Village with his wife, Candy.

I think I knew all along that NYU was my top choice, but I needed to experience the environment, people and campus in person to be sure. Now, I'm proud to call myself a freshman in the Class of 2016.

Marko Manriquez von der Tisch School of the Arts an der NYU hat ein Stück leckere Technik als Abschlussarbeit entwickelt. Auf Basis einer RepRap-Maschine hat der Absolvent einen Drucker konzipiert, der Burritos produziert. mehr...

Poor everyone who's not Mitt. Is anyone thinking about the poor losers of the Republican primary? The pain they must be feeling? One guy is! Matthew Epler, a student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, has designed a way to bring Michele Bachmann et al. a bit of pleasure. His Grand Old Party is a 3-D data-viz project based on the polling data of Republican presidential nominee...

China said on Friday blind dissident Chen Guangcheng could apply to study abroad, suggesting an end may be near to a diplomatic crisis that has soured relations between Beijing and Washington.

New York University, Tishman Auditorium New York, New York 10:59 A.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Hello, folks.  How are you?  It’s great to be with you all.  (Applause.)  What a great introduction.  I just said I hope she remembers me when she’s President of the United States of America.  (Laughter.) Ladies and gentlemen, it’s great to be before such a distinguished audience at a great u...

Vice President Joe Biden will use a speech at NYU Thursday to criticize Mitt Romney's foreign policy, according to excerpts released by the Obama campaign — accusing the former Massachusetts governor of having a "with us or against us" foreign policy mentality. "Romney’s national security policy would return us to the past we have worked so hard to move beyond. In this regard, it is no differen...

An N.Y.U. class, “Baseball as a Road to God,” aims far higher than clichés about stadiums being “green cathedrals.”

On Wednesday night about 500 students in New York University's Kimmel Center began chanting "Thank you Based God!" before hip-hop folk hero Lil B even stepped on stage He didn't keep his fans waiting long and when he emerged from behind a curtain – sporting a neon yellow t-shirt a...

samazon writes "Online retail shop Etsy announced a living-expenses grant program for women interested in attending the free Hacker School 3-month programming course. The program is hosted in various New York locations (NYU and Spotify have both hosted sessions) and not only is Etsy offering $5,000 grants to ten women who are accepted into the program, they're also hosting the summer course, an...

New York University’s latest proposal to expand in Greenwich Village has caused a storm of protest. Michael Kimmelman considers how to balance development with the local ecosystem.

For the past two years, New York University has had a 30-bike pilot program with 10 locations for its students and employees.

A leading philosopher suggests mankind should consider extreme options - such as taking pills to stop us eating meat or engineering ourselves to be smaller - to reduce our ecological footprint.

In a surprising finding with significant implications for older women, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and NYU School of Medicine have found that high levels of triglycerides (blood fats) are the strongest risk factor for the most common type of stroke in older women – more of a risk factor than elevated levels of total cholesterol or of low-density lipo...

We've all had them, but none quite so annoying as the one that afflicted Dr Caitlin Zaloom of the NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Dr Zaloom gave a simple enough project to her students, to go down to the Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zucotti Park and write an ethnographic analysis. It seems reasonable, but one student, Sara Ackerman, had a melodramatic breakdown over it. She ...

Ken Perlin, a professor of computer science at NYU, and Ilya Rosenberg, an NYU graduate student, show off their pressure-sensitive touch pads.

Filed under: James Franco, TMZ Live, Celebrity Justice, Exclusive James Franco wasn't just lucky to get a "D" in his NYU acting class ... he was lucky to graduate -- this according to the professor who says the University fired him for sticking the actor with a low grade.José Angel Santana and his lawyer,… TMZEx-NYU Professor: James Franco Was Lucky He Passed

Former NYU professor Jose Angel Santana may still have his integrity, but he DOESN'T have a job anymore! While pursuing his graduate film degree at New York University, James Franco received a "D" in his "Directing the Actor II" class for missing 12 out of 14 classes…and soon thereafter his harsh-grading professor was fired! Professor [...]

A disgruntled New York University professor just blew a big hole in James Franco's reputation as the actor who made picking up a master's degree (or three) in his spare time look...

NYU professor sues school, saying he was fired after he gave James Franco a 'D' for routinely skipping classesHAPPENING NOW: Live Chat

James Franco’s tired James Dean act got an NYU professor booted from the school last year — after the teacher dared to give the overhyped Hollywood hunk a “D” for blowing off class, a lawsuit charges.

After the coffee. Before remembering when The Beastie Boys were just punk kids hanging around my NYU dorm. The Skinny: Every day something new happens to make me feel old. On Tuesday it was the official word that The Beastie Boys are going into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their roots were in my New York University dorm, which was also the home of now leg...

The NYU Shanghai project, China's first international university co-established with a US higher-learning institute, started to break ground on Monday.