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NYU-Poly in the Media
Engineering a change in the classroom
By Dawn Lim, queensledger.com, August 31st, 2010
Yvon Morin addressed his students at It Takes A Village Academy and told them the task at hand: design a robot that would pick up a ball and toss it into a goal. They stared back incredulously. The high school in East Flatbush, which opened in 2007 with a 9th grade and is growing by a grade per...
Colleges That Will Make You Rich
By Natalie Doss, forbes.com, August 27th, 2010
To find the colleges that make their students rich, Forbes first control for student background, looking at things like the average SAT scores of incoming students, and the percentage of student body that receives financial aid. Then they calculate, based on those background factors, how much you...
New York City Solar Developer Presents at Renewable Symposium
getsolar.com, August 21st, 2010
Sustainable Energy Partners, a solar developer and energy consultancy based in New York City, is winning attention from solar experts in New York State. The company recently presented at the New Energy New York 2010 Symposium, an event organized to help clean-energy companies showcase their...
Prof. Maurizio Porfiri on CNN's Edge of Discovery - video
CNN, August 18th, 2010
Professor Gupta on WNBC
WNBC, August 18th, 2010
Materials Researchers at NYU-Poly and NYU Discover that Foam Isn't Always Protective
NYU Poly Incubator Companies Presented at the 2010 New Energy New York Symposium
benzinga.com, August 18th, 2010
Rentricity Inc. (Rentricity) and Sustainable Energy Partners (SEP) were selected to present during the New Energy New York 2010 Symposium. The objective of the symposium was to unite energy technology organizations for the purpose of pursuing common technology initiatives, promoting New York State...
Smashed Rabbit Bones Hint at Hidden Human Injuries - video
By Eric R. Olson, scientificamerican.com, August 17th, 2010
A Brooklyn lab’s deviant magic
By Dawn Lim, greenpointstar.com, August 17th, 2010
Something is brewing in this Downtown Brooklyn lab. On a white board, someone has scrawled out an intricate sequence of numbers and a flowchart. Students are tapping away on laptops and working through lines of code with the inspired intensity of artists. Nasir Memon is the lab director of the...
Chronicle of Higher Education Features NYU-Poly’s and NYU’s Efforts to Encourage Startups
By Paul Basken, chronicle.com, August 15th, 2010
New York City would seem a logical place to find a corporate leader, such as Richard A. Gross, on the front lines of economic innovation. Yet Mr. Gross doesn't broker deals on Wall Street. Instead, he's a chemistry professor who can usually be found about two miles away, experimenting with plastics...
My Govt serves all
By William Farrington, trinidadexpress.com, August 15th, 2010
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar made her first public appearances in New York, USA, on Friday evening shortly after arriving from Trinidad and Tobago, making stops in Brooklyn and Queens. The atmosphere was markedly different at the two events, but her message was the same: her Government...
