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Posted April 3rd, 2012

Sing to Me, O Mentor!

Step one of creating something iconic — an epic poem, a visual masterpiece, even a rock song — has, for centuries in Western culture, meant invoking the muse. What’s step one for...

Posted April 2nd, 2012

Linking Up with Super Connector Jasmin Hume

The audience of 70 middle-schoolers and teachers from IS 59 and JHS 189 in Queens, New York, listened as Jasmin Hume shared a little-known fact about her background: She had been a cheerleader during...

Posted March 29th, 2012

Revolutionaries Ahmed Salah and Mahitab al-Gilani Visit NYU-Poly

The farmer’s almanac lists March 20 as the official start of spring, establishing a common point for the one-year anniversary of the “Arab Spring,” the series of uprisings that...

Posted March 20th, 2012

We Accept Your Challenge: OpenIDEO Comes to NYU-Poly

How would you make NYU-Poly’s campus a more vibrant, inviting place? What inspires you? What would make it feel more like home?  These were the seemingly simple questions posed by the...

Posted March 20th, 2012

Understanding Galileo: Students and Faculty Collaborate to Explore Brecht's Play

This month, students and faculty from NYU's College of Arts and Sciences and NYU-Poly collaborated to consider the legacy of Bertolt Brecht’s play Life of Galileo. In the years around World...

Posted March 20th, 2012

Women's History Month: Breaking Through the Gender Barriers in Science and Engineering

NYU-Poly celebrates Women's History Month with a glimpse at the journey of students and faculty at the Institute over the last hundred years.  Women at the Polytechnic Institute of New York...

Posted March 19th, 2012

NYU-Poly Alumnus Judea Pearl Wins Prestigious Turing Award

Judea Pearl, PhD ’65 EE, has been named winner of the annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize in Computing," recognizing...

Posted March 16th, 2012

Striving for the Magic Number: 4.0 Workshop Draws Crowds

On a blustery Friday night in February with a steady rain falling, students from NYU and Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) trooped into Pfizer Auditorium at the latter’s...

Posted March 13th, 2012

The End of Intuition: Daniel Kahneman Speaks at 14th-Annual Lynford Lecture

A decade ago Daniel Kahneman received the Nobel Prize in economics, despite never having taken a single course on the subject. Could anyone have looked into a crystal ball and predicted such a future...

Posted March 6th, 2012

One of a Kind: R. Luke DuBois in Multiplicity

The artists featured in Multiplicity, an exhibition currently showing at the Smithsonian American Art Museum reads like a Who’s Who of major 20th-century artists: Kiki Smith, Sol LeWitt, Ed...