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Posted August 15th, 2011

PolyPods Latest Addition to i²e Campus Transformation

New furniture groupings, nicknamed PolyPods, have been installed throughout NYU-Poly’s campus in an effort to inspire spirited, impromptu collaboration among faculty, students and staff and...

Posted August 10th, 2011

Got Game: Alumnus Adrian Gordon Establishes His Cricket Credentials

Earlier this summer when newly-graduated NYU-Polytechnic alumni were seeking gainful employment in the slowly recovering economy, Adrian Gordon, Biomolecular Science ’11, was doing the same....

Posted August 3rd, 2011

Leitheuser Lands Assistant Coach Position at NJCU

JERSEY CITY, NJ - Former NYU-POly, two-time All-Skyline Conference standout Kristin Leitheuser, has been selected as assistant women's basketball coach at New Jersey City University for the 2011-...

Posted July 20th, 2011

Educators Get Energized at Summer Institute

Kurt Becker, the associate provost for research and technology initiatives at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU, said people use a lot of words to describe physics, and “fun” isn’t...

Posted July 15th, 2011

From Biographies to Ballots, Jonathan Soffer Tackles American Politics

After Jonathan Soffer’s first book, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York, was published in the fall of 2010, you’d think the associate professor at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU...

Posted July 12th, 2011

Polytechnic Alumni Elects New Officers and Directors

On Sunday, May 22, 2011 members of the Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association (PIAA) gathered for the association's annual meeting in Pfizer Auditorium. The meeting featured a keynote...

Posted July 1st, 2011

Inspired by Teflon, Researchers Create Super Durable Proteins

More than 50 years ago, NYU-Poly alumnus John Gilbert was asked to evaluate a newly- developed material called Teflon. His experiments using the fluorinated polymer as a surface coating for pots and...

Posted July 1st, 2011

“Beyond Awesome”: Michael Knox Receives 2011 Distinguished Teacher Award

If course evaluations were an extreme sport, those written for Michael Knox, an industry associate professor at NYU-Polytechnic’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), would...

Posted July 1st, 2011

Betaville Featured at the Center for Architecture

Betaville will be featured in the exhibition "Mapping the Cityscape" at the Center for Architecture from July 6-30. This exhibition celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Manhattan Grid....

Posted June 24th, 2011

Carl Skelton Speaks at New York Hall of Science

Carl Skelton, director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, was invited to present an exhibit on Betaville at the New York Hall of Science. Carl's work will be featured as part of...