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NYU’s postdocs win majority vote to unionize
NYU Researchers United Postdocs-UAW now officially represents 400 postdoctoral researchers at the university, following a majority vote to unionize earlier this week — allowing the group to begin the collective bargaining process with NYU for salary raises, increased research…
Contract faculty challenge NYU’s restrictions on committee participation
Contract faculty plan to challenge NYU’s bylaws barring them from participating in various university committee meetings, claiming the updated guidelines violate their union’s agreement with the university. After Contract Faculty United reached an agreement with NYU in April,…
‘It just ate all of mathematics’: NYU math chair talks OpenAI’s math proof
Over 100 NYU faculty and students attended a talk on OpenAI’s recent math proof by Vlad Vicol — chair of NYU’s Department of Mathematics — on Thursday, where he praised the solution’s ingenuity while acknowledging its limitations in the real world. At the hour-long explainer and…
THE CITY
Published 8 hours agoSome NYC After-School Programs Are Flailing Several Weeks Into School Year
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Parents at several schools across New York City last spring were outraged when they lost beloved after-school providers in a contract overhaul overseen by the Department of…
Gothamist
Published 23 hours agoPressure mounts on Mamdani to detail NYC schools plan after Hannah-Jones article
Mayor Mamdani visited a classroom in Brooklyn last month. Mamdani is facing new pressure to present a more expansive vision for how to fix the city's schools, which are the most segregated in the country. [ more › ]
Gothamist
Published October 01School buses still failing to show up for many NYC students with disabilities
School bus service is a common problem around the start of the school year. The annual dysfunction is a growing source of frustration among elected officials. [ more › ]
Gothamist
Published September 30What Trump's Title IX rollback means for LGBTQ+ students in New York
A school bus travels through New York City. State officials say New York’s protections against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation remain in place. [ more › ]
NYU IRL launches 30-day phone-free challenge
This week, NYU launched the “Phone Breakup Challenge” — a 30-day initiative encouraging students to lower their screen times and cultivate in-person connections. Administrators have focused on urging students to put their phones down since February, when they introduced NYU IRL…
NYU researcher helps recreate cosmic ray collisions
Using a particle accelerator, an NYU professor partnered with an international team of researchers in Switzerland to recreate high-energy cosmic ray collisions. In the Sept. 14 study published by the Physical Review Letters, an international research team utilized the Large…
Tandon engineers develop worm-like robot to navigate land and water
NYU Tandon researchers introduced WorMa, an inchworm-like robot that could monitor coastlines by navigating both land and water by moving fluid through its body. Revealed to the public on Sept. 14, WorMa — a portmanteau of “worm” and “mass” — uses two balloons filled with…
NYU Langone named top US health system for 5th year in a row
NYU Langone Health became the first hospital to earn a top ranking from Vizient Inc., the largest U.S. healthcare improvement company, for five consecutive years. Vizient — which evaluates hospital performance based on quality and safety data, patient experience and mortality and…
Mills attends Trump’s state dinner for Xi Jinping
NYU President Linda Mills attended President Donald Trump’s state dinner honoring China’s leader Xi Jinping on Thursday — constituting a “vital opportunity” to highlight NYU Shanghai to U.S. and Chinese leaders, according to administrators. Mills was the only university leader…