Board of Overseers Arts and Science is pleased to introduce you to the extraordinary men and women who constitute the Arts and Science Board of Overseers.The Board meets regularly to advise and work with the Dean of Arts and Science on identifying the resources to build state-of-the-art academic facilities, attract leading faculty from the around the world, and provide students with the financial assistance they need. The members of the Arts and Science Board of Overseers contribute not only with their generosity but also with their involvement with programs, faculty, and students and with their efforts to engage other alumni and friends. ... read more »
Ashok C. Sani Scholar-in-Residence Lecture On March 11, the 2008 Ashok C. Sani Scholar-in-Residence lecture took place. This year’s lecture, "Polio: A Look Back at the 20th Century's Most Successful Public Health Campaign," was given by Pulitzer Prize winner David M. Oshinsky, who holds the Jack S. Blanton Chair in History at the University of Texas. ... read more »
Germ Cells are Forever: a lecture by Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D. The lecture will take place on May 22, 2007 at 7 p.m. in the Jurow Lecture Hall with a reception following in the Silverstein Lounge. ... read more »
2006 Silver Professors Announced In 2002 the estate of Julius Silver provided NYU with a spectacular gift, which not only strengthens the University as a whole, and Arts and Science in particular, but also recognizes the outstanding scholars who have made NYU one of the greatest research and teaching centers in the country. That recognition is in the form of named chairs, known as the Silver Professorships. ... read more »
New Faculty Hired 2006-2007 The heart of Arts and Science is our faculty. Our focus is finding, recruiting and retaining outstanding leaders in both teaching and research. The quality and reputation of our faculty has transformed NYU into a university nationally recognized for its excellence. ... read more »
Report of the Analysis of Equity for FAS Faculty In Fall, 2005, the FAS Policy and Planning Advisory Committee charged a sub-committee comprised of representatives from the committee and the Women's Faculty Caucus to examine the issue of gender equity for Arts & Science faculty. ... read more »
NYU Announces 2.5 Billion Campaign and Major Faculty Hiring Initiative in the Arts and Sciences Over the next four years, the campaign -- the University's largest -- will raise $1 million per day for scholarships and financial aid, faculty building, new academic initiatives, and enhancing NYU's physical facilities. ... read more »
NY Plant Genomics "Dream Team" Wins $5 Million NSF Grant A consortium of four of New York's top science institutions-New York University, The New York Botanical Garden, The American Museum of Natural History, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory-has been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a "Virtual Center for Plant Evolutionary Genomics." The grant will support the creation of cutting-edge genomic DNA analyses and bioinformatics tools to understand the evolution of seeds and other traits of ecologically and economically important plants in an effort to ultimately improve seed quality. ... read more »
NYU Physicist Isolates First Source of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays Professor Glennys R. Farrar, a physicist at New York University, today announced that, for the first time, a source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays has been isolated and studied, a major breakthrough in the field. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays-which rarely hit the earth-are believed to be the result of extremely powerful cosmic phenomena, such as the creation or accretion of massive black holes. ... read more »

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