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Posted October 18th, 2012

Cliff Friedman Speaks at Innovation and Technology Forum

Students buzzed with energy last Monday as they filed into Pfizer Auditorium for the second Innovation and Technology Forum guest lecture of the semester featuring Cliff Friedman, one of the school...

Posted October 16th, 2012

Learning to Fight the Modern Fire in a Modern Way

Until this week, revolutionary firefighting research faced a hurdle higher than the scientific discoveries themselves: How to inform the nation’s 1.1 million firefighters – 70 percent of...

Posted October 15th, 2012

Brooklyn Atlantis: A Robot Captures Life, Litter in the Gowanus With the Help of Citizen Scientists

As Maurizio Porfiri and Oded Nov lowered their submersible robot, Brooklyn Atlantis 1, into the water, the two professors and their four students, Jarred Humphrey, Vladislav Kopman, Jeffrey Laut, and...

Posted October 11th, 2012

Update on Completing the Steps to Make NYU-Poly the School of Engineering of NYU

Frequently Asked Questions about the Affiliation It is with great pleasure that we share with you the news that the boards of both NYU and NYU-Poly have approved beginning the technical process for...

Posted October 2nd, 2012

NSF Grant Upgrades Educational P2P Platform

The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $346,338 grant to upgrade a novel educational peer-to-peer networking platform that fosters the development of computer applications. The free and...

Posted October 2nd, 2012

Shifting Sublime: Charugundla Collection Opens at NYU-Poly

Thursday night’s opening of “Shifting Sublime,” a contemporary art exhibition at NYU-Poly, began with a toast to alumni Kent and Marguerite Charugundla, who have loaned works from...

Posted September 20th, 2012

Claudio Silva Wins Best Paper

NYU-Poly Professor Claudio T. Silva was awarded Best Paper honors for new technique to a vexing problem encountered by animators, digital game designers and others who want their video images to move...

Posted September 17th, 2012

Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang has been awarded a three-year research grant by National Science Foundation

Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang has recently been awarded a three-year research grant by National Science Foundation to develop, in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Liberzon at UIUC, tools for hybrid and...

Posted September 13th, 2012

Securing Our Future in Cyberspace and the Workplace

“You are going to be needed,” Jerry M. Hultin, President of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), stated emphatically to students in the Pfizer Auditorium, where a...

Posted September 11th, 2012

Creation of ultra-sensitive biosensor gains attention from science press

The science press has recently taken notice of the research results from the Microparticle Photophysics Lab at NYU-Poly, headed by Dr. Stephen Arnold.  In particular, an article published in...