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Posted March 1st, 2013

Groundbreaking NSF Program to Support Academic Entrepreneurs

The National Science Foundation selected a consortium of CUNY, NYU and Columbia to establish a regional node for its groundbreaking Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program that prepares academic...

Posted February 26th, 2013

NYU-Poly's Engineering and Technology Spring Career Fair

“I am already excited for the Class of 2013. My optimism about this year’s graduating students is based primarily on three things: 1) the caliber of NYU-Poly students, 2) the continued...

Posted February 26th, 2013

Who Has That Spark?

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Association (EIA) -- the largest club at NYU-Poly and one of the largest entrepreneurship clubs at any NYU school -- has had more than its share of success stories...

Posted February 26th, 2013

Accreditation Leads Town Hall Agenda

Acting President and Provost Katepalli (Sreeni) Sreenivasan opened with a long wish list of things to discuss at the latest Town Hall meeting, held in Pfizer Auditorium on February 21: student...

Posted February 25th, 2013

Global Idea Exchange Fellows Go Global

  On October 1, 2012, NYU students were posed with a question: “How might we activate the potential of cities to ignite a modern renaissance?” More than 1,600 responded during NYU...

Posted February 21st, 2013

NYU-Poly Physics Club Members Earn Accomplished Competitor Ranking in 2012 University Physics Competition

Congratulations to Daniel Berkowitz, Shane Strickland and Louis Tessler, members of the Physics Club at NYU-Poly, for earning an accomplished competitor ranking in the 2012 University Physics...

Posted February 6th, 2013

Professor Shivendra S. Panwar Speaks at FCC Post-Sandy Field Hearing

When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast in late October of 2012, about a quarter of the cell phone tower sites in the region shut down, causing millions of lost calls. With flood waters rising and...

Posted February 4th, 2013

Collaboration and Innovation Find a New Home at NYU-Poly’s Greenhouse

The basement level of 6 MetroTech buzzed with energy on Wednesday, January 30, as students, faculty members and administrators from NYU-Poly and across NYU, gathered with representatives from...

Posted February 2nd, 2013

The Dangers of too Much Java

Justin Cappos, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU-Poly, has long been wary of the security risks inherent in Java, the programming language...

Posted January 29th, 2013

NYU-Poly Mourns the Loss of Trustee Michael Hegel Kappaz

The Polytechnic Institute of New York University mourns the sudden passing on January 27, 2013 of a treasured alumnus and trustee, Michael H. Kappaz ’70. NYU-Poly has lost a dear friend,...