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Posted December 20th, 2012

When Left Meets Right: Poly Students Who Do It All

What happens when the imagination takes root and grows in different directions within the same person? Three NYU-Poly students—Wanda Molineros ’13BMS, Yangzi (Isabel) Tian ’13CBE,...

Posted December 20th, 2012

Nassim Taleb Releases Antifragile

Last Month, Nassim Taleb, author of the New York Times best seller The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable and Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering and Co-Director of the Research...

Posted December 20th, 2012

Founders Showcase Celebrates Entrepreneurship, Collaboration

Have you ever been stuck in a taxi during rush hour, famished and wishing you could grab a snack? The founders of TaxiTreats are betting that you’d be happy to have a vending machine handy. Or...

Posted December 18th, 2012

Poly’s Artist-in-Residence Gaming in Style

In case you think NYU-Poly begins and ends with STEM education, think again. The university actually has an artist-in-residence, in the Game Innovation Lab: Kaho Abe, who researches and builds games...

Posted December 17th, 2012

NYU Affiliation, Campus Expansion Covered at Town Hall

The business cards and letterhead will soon look different here at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly). By 2014, as Acting President and Provost Katepalli R. Sreenivasan...

Posted December 11th, 2012

Planning for Tomorrow’s City Today

Sipping sodas in Regna Lounge, Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) students listened raptly on Thursday night during a talk titled “Smart Cities: How Technology Giants,...

Posted December 6th, 2012

Mobile Security Conference Comes to 2012 CSAW

With more than 6 billion cell phone users around the globe, a very relevant question to ask is just how secure are these devices – the subject of a recent day-long NYU-Poly conference (THREADS...

Posted December 4th, 2012

Eugene Kaspersky Talks Cyber Threats, the Future of Security

Eugene Kaspersky, co-founder and current CEO of one of the world’s largest IT security companies, Kaspersky Lab (KL), is a worried man – and he thinks students at the Polytechnic...

Posted November 15th, 2012

Livable Cities of the Future Honors George Bugliarello's Legacy

Late last month, NYU-Poly hosted Livable Cities of the Future, a symposium honoring the legacy of George Bugliarello, who served as President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-...

Posted November 9th, 2012

NYU-Poly Competes in US Department of Energy’s Biennial Solar Decathlon

August 2013 will see participants in the US Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon, a program that challenges college students around the world to design, build and operate solar-...