New York University

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New York University

Latin:Universitas Neo-Eboracensis
Former name	University of the City of New-York (1831–1896)
Motto	Perstare et praestare(Latin)
Motto in English	"To persevere and to excel"
Type	Privateresearch university
Established	April 21, 1831(April 21, 1831)
Founder	Albert Gallatin
Accreditation	MSCHE
Academic affiliations	AAU AITU NAICU Space-grant
Endowment	$5.9 billion (2023)
Budget	$14.7 billion (including Langone); $4.1 billion (excluding Langone) (2021)
President	Linda G. Mills
Provost	Georgina Dopico (interim)
Academic staff	Total: 9,835 (fall 2018) (5,723 full-time / 4,112 part-time)
Administrative staff	2,242
Students	59,144(fall 2022)
Undergraduates	26,733 (Fall 2018)
Postgraduates	25,115 (Fall 2018)
Location	New York City , United States 40°43′48″N73°59′42″W
Campus	Large city,230 acres (0.93 km2) (Manhattan campus)
Other campuses	Brooklyn Englewood Cliffs Los Angeles Mineola Washington Abu Dhabi Accra Berlin Buenos Aires Florence Havana London Madrid Paris Prague Shanghai Sydney Tel Aviv
Newspaper	Washington Square News
Colors	Violet and white
Nickname	Violets
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division III–UAA
Mascot	Bobcat
Website	nyu.edu

New York University(NYU) is aprivateresearch universityinNew York City,United States.Chartered in 1831 by theNew York State Legislature,NYU was founded in 1832 byAlbert Gallatinas anon-denominationalall-male institution nearCity Hallbased on a curriculum focused on asecular education.The university moved in 1833 and has maintained its main campus inGreenwich VillagesurroundingWashington Square Park.Since then, the university has added an engineering school inBrooklyn'sMetroTech Centerand graduate schools throughoutManhattan.

NYU is one of the largest private universities in the United States by enrollment, with a total of 51,848 enrolled students in 2021.It is one of the most applied-to schools in the country and admissions are considered selective.

NYU's main campus inNew York Cityis organized into ten undergraduate schools, including theCollege of Arts & Science,Gallatin School,Steinhardt School,Stern School of Business,Tandon School of Engineering,andTisch School of the Arts.NYU's 15 graduate schools include theGrossman School of Medicine,School of Law,Wagner Graduate School of Public Service,School of Professional Studies,Silver School of Social Work,andRory Meyers School of Nursing.The university's internal academic centers include theCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,Center for Data Science,Center for Neural Science,Clive Davis Institute,Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,Institute of Fine Arts,and theNYU Langone Health System.

NYU is a global university systemwith degree-granting portal campuses atNYU Abu DhabiinUnited Arab EmiratesandNYU ShanghaiinChina,and academic learning centers inAccra,Berlin,Buenos Aires,Florence,London,Los Angeles,Madrid,Paris,Prague,Sydney,Tel Aviv,andWashington, D.C.Past and presentfacultyandalumniinclude 39 Nobel Laureates, 8 Turing Award winners, 5 Fields Medalists, 31MacArthur Fellows,26Pulitzer Prizewinners, 3heads of state,5U.S. governors,12U.S. senators,and 58 members of theU.S. House of Representatives.

History

Main article:History of New York University

Albert Gallatin (1761–1849) byGilbert Stuart

Albert Gallatin,Secretary of the TreasuryunderThomas JeffersonandJames Madison,declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city... a system of rational and practical education fitting and graciously opened to all."A three-day-long "literary and scientific convention" held inCity Hallin 1830 and attended by over 100 delegates debated the terms of a plan for a new university. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based upon merit rather than birthright or social class.

On April 18, 1831, the institution that would become NYU was established with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the city'smerchants,bankers,andtraders.Albert Gallatinwas elected as its first president.On April 21, 1831, the new institution received itscharterand was incorporated as the University of the City of New York by theNew York State Legislature;older documents often refer to it by that name. The university has been popularly known as New York University since its inception and was officially renamed New York University in 1896.In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, situated near City Hall.In 1835, theSchool of Law,NYU's first professional school, was established. Although the impetus to found a new school was partly a reaction byevangelicalPresbyteriansto what they perceived as theEpiscopalianismofColumbia College,NYU was creatednon-denominational,unlike many American colleges at the time.TheAmerican Chemical Societywas founded in 1876 at NYU.

NYU Building in Washington Square, 1850

The University Heights campus, now home toBronx Community College

Soon after its founding, it became one of the nation's largest universities, with an enrollment of 9,300 in 1917.The university purchased a campus atUniversity Heightsinthe Bronxbecause of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York City's development further uptown. NYU's move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of ChancellorHenry Mitchell MacCracken.The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was. As a result, most of the university's operations, along with the undergraduateCollege of Arts and Scienceand School of Engineering, were housed there. NYU's administrative operations were moved to the new campus, but the graduate schools of the university remained at Washington Square.In 1914, Washington Square College was founded as the downtown undergraduate college of NYU.In 1935, NYU opened the "Nassau College-Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead, Long Island." This extension would later become a fully independentHofstra University.

In 1950, NYU was elected to theAssociation of American Universities,a nonprofit organization of leading public and private research universities.

Financial crisis gripped the New York City government in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the troubles spread to the city's institutions, including NYU.Feeling the pressures of imminent bankruptcy, NYU PresidentJames McNaughton Hesternegotiated the sale of the University Heights campus to theCity University of New York,which occurred in 1973.In 1973, the New York University School of Engineering and Science merged intoPolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn,which eventually merged back into NYU in 2014, forming the presentTandon School of Engineering.After the sale of the Bronx campus, University College merged with Washington Square College. In the 1980s, under the leadership of PresidentJohn Brademas,NYU launched a billion-dollar campaign that was led byNaomi B. Levineand was spent almost entirely on updating facilities.The campaign was set to complete in 15 years, but ended up being completed in 10.

In 1991,L. Jay Olivawas inaugurated the 14th president of the university.Following his inauguration, he moved to form theLeague of World Universities,an international organization consisting ofrectorsandpresidentsfromurbanuniversitiesacross six continents. The league and its 47 representatives gather every two years to discuss global issues ineducation.

In 2003, PresidentJohn Sextonlaunched a $2.5 billion campaign for funds to be spent especially on faculty and financial aid resources.Under Sexton's leadership, NYU also began its transformation into a global university, including the opening of a campus in Abu Dhabi in 2010.

Mortgage loans issued to some administrators and faculty by the university were criticized following published reports of August 2013, detailing terms of the loans, including that the school had issued some which approached zero percent interest rates, and some that were partially forgiven.Uniquely, among universities,the school had also issued multi-million-dollar loans for luxury vacation homes. President Sexton would step down at the end of his term in 2016, in the wake of a vote of no confidence in March 2013,closely followed by controversy over having received a vacation home loan from NYU.

In August 2018, theNew York University Grossman School of Medicineannounced it would be offering full-tuition scholarships to all current and future students in its MD program regardless of need or merit, making it the only top-10 medical school in the United States to do so.

In Spring 2022, PresidentAndrew D. Hamiltonannounced that the 2023 academic year would be his last, and that he would be returning to research.He will be succeeded byLinda G. Mills,the university's first female president.

Enrollment

From 2007 to 2018, NYU experienced a 114% increase in applications to its university system, increasing from around 35,000 applicants to more than 100,000 in 2020.This has also caused the acceptance rate to drop significantly, with a record-low acceptance rate of 8% in 2023 and 2024.In parallel to NYU's expansion in the early 1900s, the university similarly expanded vigorously in the early 2000s, becoming the largest private university in the United States with a combined undergraduate/graduate enrollment of over 59,000 students as of 2018.

University logo

The university logo, the upheldtorch,is derived from theStatue of Liberty,signifying NYU's service to New York City.The torch is depicted on both the NYU seal and the more abstract NYU logo, designed in 1965 by renowned graphic designerTom Geismarof the branding and design firmChermayeff & Geismar.There are at least two versions of the possible origin of the university color,violet.Some believe that it may have been chosen becausevioletsare said to have grown abundantly in Washington Square and around the buttresses of the Old University Building. Others argue that the color may have been adopted because the violet was the flower associated withAthens,the center of learning inancient Greece.

Cultural setting

Washington SquareandGreenwich Villagehave been hubs ofcultural lifein New York City since the early 19th century. Much of this culture has intersected with NYU at various points in its history.Artistsof theHudson River School,the United States' first prominent school of painters, settled around Washington Square.Samuel F.B. Morse,a noted artist who also pioneered the telegraph and created the Morse Code, served as the first chair of Painting and Sculpture. He andDaniel Huntingtonwere early tenants of the Old University Building in the mid-19th century. (The university rented out studio space and residential apartments within the "academic" building.) As a result, they had notable interaction with the cultural and academic life of the university.

In the 1870s, sculptorsAugustus Saint-GaudensandDaniel Chester Frenchlived and worked near the Square. By the 1920s, Washington Square Park was nationally recognized as a focal point for artistic and moral rebellion. As such, the Washington Square campus became more diverse and bustled with urban energy, contributing to academic change at NYU.Famed residents of this time includeEugene O'Neill,John Sloan,andMaurice Prendergast.In the 1930s, the abstract expressionistsJackson PollockandWillem de Kooning,and the realistsEdward HopperandThomas Hart Bentonhad studios around Washington Square. In the 1960s the area became one of the centers of the beat and folk generation, whenAllen GinsbergandBob Dylansettled there. This led to tension with the university, which at the time was in the midst of an aggressive facilities expansion phase.In 1975, the university opened TheGrey Art Galleryat 100 Washington Square East, housing the NYU art collection and featuring museum quality exhibitions.

Budget and fundraising

NYU has successfully completed a seven-year, $2.5 billion campaign, surpassing expectations by raising more than $3 billion over the seven-year period.Started in 2001, this campaign was the university's largest in its history, in which they planned to "raise $1 million per day for scholarships and financial aid, faculty building, new academic initiatives, and enhancing NYU's physical facilities."The campaign included a $50 million gift from the Tisch family (after which one building and theart schoolare named) and a $60 million gift from sixtrusteescalled "The Partners Fund", aimed at hiring new faculty.On October 15, 2007, the university announced that the Silver family donated $50 million to theSchool of Social Work,which will be renamed as a result.This is the largest donation ever to a school of social work in the United States.

The 2007–2008 academic year was the most successful fundraising year to date for NYU, with the school raising $698 million in only the first 11 months of the year, representing a 70% increase in donations from the prior year.The university also recently announced plans for NYU's Call to Action, a new initiative to ask alumni and donors to support financial aid for students at NYU.

The university has announced a 25-year strategic development plan, scheduled to coincide with its bicentennial in 2031. Included in the "NYU 200" plans are increasing resident and academic space, hiring additional faculty, and involving the New York City community in a transparent planning process. Additionally, NYU hopes to make their buildings more environmentally friendly, which will be facilitated by an evaluation of all campus spaces.As a part of this plan, NYU purchased 118 million kilowatt-hours of wind power during the 2006–2007 academic year – the largest purchase of wind power by any university in the country and any institution in New York City.For 2007, the university expanded its purchase of wind power to 132 million kilowatt-hours.As a result, theEPAranked NYU as one of the greenest colleges in the country in its annual College & University Green Power Challenge.

NYU consistently ranks as one of the top fundraising institutions in the country, raising $506.4 million in 2015 and $648 million in 2016.NYU is also the 19th wealthiest university in America with $5.3 billion in cash and investments in fiscal year 2014.

Campus

Main article:Campus of New York University

NYU'sNew York Citycampus includes more than 171 buildings spread betweenManhattanandBrooklyn.Most of the school's buildings in Manhattan are located across a roughly 230-acre (93 ha) area bounded byHouston Streetto the south,Broadwayto the east,14th Streetto the north, andSixth Avenue(Avenue of the Americas) to the west. The core of NYU consists of buildings that surround Washington Square Park.In addition to its New York campus, NYU has 49 additional buildings overseas located throughout two 'portal' campuses and 12 Global Academic Centers.

Washington Square campus

Washington Square Park,with its gatewayarch,is surrounded largely by NYU buildings and plays an integral role in the university's campus life.

Since the late 1970s, the central part of NYU has been its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village. The Washington Square Arch is an unofficial symbol of NYU. Until 2007, NYU had held its commencement ceremonies in Washington Square Park, but because of renovations to Washington Square moved the 2008 ceremonies to theoriginal Yankee Stadiumand all subsequent ones to thecurrent Yankee Stadium.

TheSilver Center for Arts and Science,home to theCollege of Arts & Scienceand theGraduate School of Arts & Science,is one of the main academic buildings on the Washington Square campus.It is located on Washington Square East, between Washington Place andWaverly Place,and many individual departments of the two schools it houses are located in its vicinity. Meanwhile, Vanderbilt Hall, the main building for theSchool of Law,is located near the southwest corner of Washington Square betweenMacdougal StreetandSullivan StreetonWashington Square South.The Kimmel Center for University Life is also on Washington Square South, and is the primary hub for student life at the university, providing event and meeting space for student organizations and other gatherings.Located closer to the eastern edge of the campus along Broadway are the main buildings for theTisch School of the Artsand theGallatin School of Individualized Study,as well as the main office forLiberal Studiesand NYU's Bookstore andStudent HealthCenter. Other nearby university buildings and complexes of note include 5 Washington Place, which houses NYU's distinguishedDepartment of Philosophy,7 East 12th Street, which serves as the main building for theSchool of Professional Studies,theBrown Building,which was the location of the infamousTriangle Shirtwaist Factory Firebefore its acquisition by NYU, as well asWashington Square VillageandUniversity Village,two housing complexes for faculty members and graduate students. Undergraduateresidence hallsin the immediate surroundings of Washington Square include Goddard Hall, Lipton Hall, and Weinstein Hall, while those that are slightly farther but still nearby include Brittany Hall and Rubin Hall.

In the 1990s, NYU became a "two square" university by building a second community aroundUnion Square,in close proximity to Washington Square. NYU's Union Square community primarily consists of the priority residence halls of Carlyle Court,PalladiumResidence Hall, Alumni Hall, Coral Tower, Thirteenth Street Hall, University Hall, Third North Residence Hall, and Founders Hall.

On its Washington Square campus, NYU operates theaters and performance facilities that are often used by the Tisch School of the Arts as well as the university'smusic conservatory,which is within theSteinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.External productions are also occasionally held in NYU's facilities. The largest performance accommodations at NYU are theSkirball Center for Performing Arts(850 seats) at 566 LaGuardia Place, just south of Washington Square South, and the Eisner-Lubin Auditorium (560 seats) in the Kimmel Center. Notably, the Skirball Center has hosted important speeches on foreign policy byJohn KerryandAl Gore.The Skirball Center is the largest performing arts facility south of42nd Street.

NYU also has international houses meant to foster the study of particular cultures and languages on its Washington Square campus, including the Deutsches Haus,La Maison Française,Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò,the Glucksman Ireland House to fosterIrish studies,theKing Juan Carlos I of SpainCenter, theHagop KevorkianCenter, an Africa House, and a China House.Most of these international houses are located onWashington Mews,a private street north of Washington Square Park.

The closestNew York City Subwaystations servicing the Washington Square campus areEighth Street–New York UniversityandWest Fourth Street–Washington Square.In addition, NYU runs its own shuttle service, University Transportation Services, linking the Washington Square campus to other university locations and major transit hubs.The nearest major highway is theWest Side Highway(NY 9A) to the west. The campus is located less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from theHolland Tunnel,and 4 miles (6.4 km) from theBrooklyn Bridge.

Gould Plaza

Main article:Gould Plaza

Courant Institute

Stern School of Business

The Jeffrey S. Gould Plaza, located betweenWashington Square EastandMercer Streeton West 4th Street, is surrounded by the buildings for some departments of the College of Arts and Science as well as the main buildings for theStern School of Businessand theCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.Other NYU buildings near the plaza include the Bonomi FamilyAdmissionsCenter, the Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center, the Alumni Relations building, Goddard Hall, Frederick Loewe Theatre, and the main building for the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, as well as unrelated religious institutions such asJudson Memorial Church,theIslamic Centerat NYU, andHebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion.Because of its high student traffic during the academic year, Gould Plaza has become a popular meeting spot for NYU students and a performance area forstreet musicians and buskers.

Bobst Library

Main articles:Elmer Holmes Bobst LibraryandNew York University Library

Bobst Library

The Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, built between 1967 and 1972, is the largest library at NYU and one of the largest academic libraries in the United States. Designed byPhilip JohnsonandRichard Foster,the 12-story, 425,000-square-foot (39,500 m²) structure sits on the southern edge of Washington Square Park (at 70 Washington Square South) and is the flagship of an eight-library, 4.5 million-volume system. Bobst Library offers one Multidisciplinary Reference Center, a Research Commons, 28 miles (45 km) of open-stacks shelving, and approximately 2,000 seats for student study. The library is visited by more than 6,800 users each day, and circulates more than one million books annually.

Bobst's Avery Fisher Center for Music and Media is one of the world's largest academic media centers, where students and researchers use more than 95,000 audio and video recordings per year.

Bobst Library is also home to many special collections. TheFales Collectionhouses collections of English and American fiction in the United States, the unique Downtown Collection, documenting the New York literary avant-garde arts scene from the 1970s to the present, and the Food and Cookery Collection, which documents American food history with a focus on New York City. Bobst Library also houses the Tamiment Library, which holds collections in labor history, socialism, anarchism, communism, and American radicalism for scholarly research. Tamiment includes the Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, the Archives of Irish America, the Center for the Cold War and the U.S., and the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Center.

Bobst Library made headlines in the early 2000s whenSteven Stanzak,who is also known as "Bobst Boy", gained a following for living in Bobst Library after he was unable to pay for board at the university and began to write about his life on a self published blog.The story was reported byWashington Square Newsbefore becoming an overnight national sensation, which helped Stanzak receive financial assistance from NYU until graduation.

Brooklyn campus

Bern Dibner Library of Science and Technology on the Brooklyn campus

NYU's Brooklyn campus is located atMetroTech Center,an urban academic-industrialresearch park.It sits on top of theJay Street–MetroTech station,is only a few blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge, and is connected to NYU's Manhattan campus via the NYU Shuttle Bus System.It houses the Tandon School of Engineering, theCenter for Urban Science and Progressand also several of Tisch School of the Artsand Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's degree programs.

MetroTech Commons, the 3.5-acre (14,000 m²)privately owned public spaceat the heart of the MetroTech complex, functions as a quad for students at the Brooklyn campus in much the same way that Washington Square Park does for students at the main campus, hosting events including concerts, health fairs, chess tournaments and holiday celebrations. Bounded by Lawrence and Duffield Streets, the square is frequently adorned by modern art exhibits. Two pieces calledAlligatorandVisionaryare part of the Commons' permanent public art collection by the well-known sculptorTom Otterness.

The Brooklyn campus is home to NYU's Game Center Open Library, which is the largest collection of games held by any university in the world,as well as the NYU MakerSpace and Design Lab, which allows all NYU students who undergo training sessions to access advanced3D printing,prototyping,CNC machining,andstress testingdevices.

In 2014,NYU Langone Medical Centeracquired a 125,000 square feet (11,600 m²) healthcare facility in Brooklyn.Quickly following this announcement, NYU announced in 2017 that it would invest over $500 million in the coming years to renovate and expand its Brooklyn campus, including370 Jay Street,which opened in December 2017.

Other NY metropolitan area facilities

NYU Langone Health

The NYU Langone Health medical center is situated near the East River waterfront at 550 First Avenue between East30thand34thStreets. The campus hosts theNYU Grossman School of Medicine,Tisch Hospital, Kimmel Pavilion, Hassenfeld Children's Hospital, and theRusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine.Other NYU and NYU-affiliated medical centers across the city include the NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, theNYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn,and theBellevue Hospital.In Mineola, Long Island, theNYU Langone Hospital – Long Islandcampus is home to NYU's second medical school, the NYU Long Island School of Medicine.

NYU's Silver School of Social Work (formerly Ehrenkranz School of Social Work) manages branch campus programs inWestchester CountyatSarah Lawrence Collegeand inRockland CountyatSt. Thomas Aquinas College.

InSterling Forest,nearTuxedo,NYU has a research facility that contains various institutes, in particular the Nelson Institute of Environmental Medicine.The Midtown Center at 11 West 42nd Street is home to the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. TheWoolworth Buildingin the financial district is home to some of NYU's professional studies and education programs.

NYU has two units located on theUpper East Side.TheInstitute for the Study of the Ancient World,a discrete entity within NYU, independent of any other school or department of the university, is located on East 84th Street,while theInstitute of Fine Arts,a graduate school of art history and fine arts, is located at theJames B. Duke Houseat 1 East 78th Street.Additionally, the nearby Stephen Chan House at 14 East 78th Street houses the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, which boasts the oldest graduate degree-grantingconservationprogram in the world.

Global campuses and sites

NYU has a host of foreign facilities used forstudy awayprograms, referred to as Global Academic Centers. As of 2012,NYU operates 12 academic sites in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, including undergraduate academic-year and summer study away programs inAccra,Berlin,Buenos Aires,Florence,London,Los Angeles,Madrid,Paris,Prague,Sydney,Tel Aviv,andWashington, D.C.One of the most noteworthy sites is the 57-acre (230,000 m²) campus of NYU Florence, located atVilla LaPietrain Italy. The estate was bequeathed by the late SirHarold Actonto NYU in 1994, and at the time it was the largest donation to a university in history.In spring 2014, NYU Paris moved to a new campus, formerly occupied by theÉcole Spéciale des Travaux Publics(ESTP Paris), in the student area of theQuartier Latin,where NYU Law also set up an EU Regulatory Policy Clinic in partnership withHEC Paristaught byAlberto AlemannoandVincent Chauvet.

In addition to the Global Academic Centers, NYU also maintains 10 Global Research Initiative Institutes, 9 of them are located in the academic centers at Berlin, Florence, London, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, and Washington DC, with the other being located in Athens.Meant to provide faculty and graduate students with NYU infrastructural support while conducting international research projects, those who are interested can apply for fellowships at all sites during the academic-year and a limited number of sites during the summer.

Abu Dhabi campus

NYU Abu Dhabi

Spearheaded byJohn Sexton,president of the university during 2002—2015; in Fall 2010,New York University Abu Dhabi(NYUAD) opened as the university's first overseas "Portal Campus" with an inaugural class of 150 students.

The campus faced controversy even before it opened. In 2009, the university responded to a series of interviews inThe New York Timesthat showed a pattern of labor abuses at its fledgling Abu Dhabi location (which would open for classes the next year), creating a statement of labor values for Abu Dhabi campus workers. A 2014 follow-up article found that while some conditions had improved, contractors for the university were still frequently subjecting their workers to third-world labor conditions. The article documented that these conditions included confiscation of worker passports, forced overtime, recruitment fees and cockroach-filled dorms where workers had to sleep under beds. According to the article, workers who attempted to protest the NYU contractors' conditions were promptly arrested.Reports also claimed that those arrested by police were later abused at the police station. Many workers who were not local were then deported to their home countries.The university quickly responded to the reports with an apology to the workers.Though the campus construction costs were entirely funded by the Abu Dhabi government, as will be the operational costs and any future expansions, in 2015, NYU additionally compensated thousands of migrant workers on its Abu Dhabi complex.

Unlike NYU's other study abroad centers, NYUAD functions as a separate liberal arts college within a university, offering complete degree programs to students admitted directly to NYUAD. NYUAD recruits students from all over the world and describes itself as the "World's Honor College". The main campus for NYUAD is onSaadiyat Islandand opened in 2014. Until then, the school operated from a campus located in downtown Abu Dhabi.

Shanghai campus

NYU Shanghai

In 2011, NYU announced plans to open another portal campus, NYU Shanghai, for the fall semester of 2013. It was set to have about 3,000 undergraduate students, the majority of whom would beChinese.It was approved by theMinistry of Education of the People's Republic of Chinain January 2011.NYU's local partner would beEast China Normal University(ECNU). ECNU's presidentYu Lizhongwould be the chancellor and play a major role in government relations whileJeffrey S. Lehman,former president ofCornellamongst other positions, would serve as vice chancellor and have "free rein in academic affairs".Since late summer of 2014, NYU Shanghai has been based inPudong, Shanghai,at 1555 Century Ave. The main campus is contained in a single building, the Academic Center, a new 15-story building with two underground floors.On May 30, 2019, the groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new campus building in theQiantan International Business Zone.The Qiantan campus building will also be located in Pudong, and is being designed and built by architectural firmKohn Pedersen Fox (KPF).The design features four buildings arranged in a pinwheel shape reminiscent of NYU Shanghai's logo, that are connected as one building above the fifth floor. The university hopes to move up to 4,000 undergraduate and graduate students into the new campus by 2022.

Former global campuses

Tisch School of the Arts, Asia was NYU's first branch campus abroad. The result of a partnership between Tisch School of the Arts and the Singapore Government, it offered Master of Fine Arts degrees in animation and digital arts, dramatic writing, film and international media producing. The campus opened in fall 2007 with the intention to enroll approximately 250 students.Anticipated enrollment figures were not achieved, financial irregularities were alleged, and President Pari Sara Shirazi was dismissed from her post by NYU in November 2011.She subsequently announced her intention to commence legal proceedings against NYU alleging wrongful termination and defamation.In a letter to the Tisch Asia community dated November 8, 2012, Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell announced that the campus would close after 2014 with recruitment and admission of new students suspended with immediate effect.In 2016, three former students of the now defunct Tisch Asia sued NYU.

Before moving to its current location at the former campus of ESTP Paris, NYU Paris was located in a small building in the historic neighborhood ofPassy.

Residence halls

Main article:New York University residence halls

Washington Square Village,home to NYU faculty and graduate students

NYU houses approximately 12,000 undergraduate and graduate residents,and had the seventh-largest university housing system in the U.S. as of 2007,and one of the largest among private schools.NYU's undergraduate housing system consists of more than 20 residence halls and is governed by theInter-Residence Hall Council(IRHC), an umbrella student council organization.

Uniquely, many of NYU's residence halls are convertedapartmentcomplexes or old hotels. In general, NYU residence halls receive favorable ratings, and some are opulent. Many rooms are spacious and contain amenities considered rare for individual college residence hall rooms, such as kitchens, lavatories, living rooms and common areas.The university operates its own transit system to transport its students bybusto its campus.A few of the residence halls are considered to be among the nicest in the nation, being furnished with granite counter-tops, stainless-steel appliances, in-hall gyms, wood flooring, marble bathroom fixtures, large floor lounges, floor to ceiling windows and extensive views of lower and midtown Manhattan.

Undergraduate students are guaranteed housing during their enrollment at NYU and are split into two categories, FYRE (First-Year Residential Experience) and TRUE (The Residential Upperclassmen Experience). Most FYRE halls are located near the Washington Square area. While nearly all TRUE halls are located near the Union Square area, two former residence halls were located in theFinancial Districtand one is still in use inChinatown.Two residence halls are located in and around the MetroTech Commons, intended to serve NYU's Brooklyn Campus.

In 2007, theNational Association of College and University Residence Halls(NACURH) named NYU the National School of the Year for IRHC andNRHH's strong efforts over the past year. In addition, NYU was named the National Program of the Year for UltraViolet Live, the annual inter-hall competition that raises funds forRelay For Life.

Sustainability

NYU has made the greening of its campus a large priority. For example, NYU has been the largest university purchaser of wind energy in the U.S. since 2009.With this switch to renewable power, NYU is achieving benefits equivalent to removing 12,000 cars from the road or planting 72,000 trees. In May 2008, the NYU Sustainability Task Force awarded $150,000 in grants to 23 projects that would focus research and efforts toward energy, food, landscape, outreach, procurement, transportation and waste. These projects include a student-led bike-sharing program modeled after Paris' Velib program with 30 bikes free to students, staff, and faculty. NYU received a grade of "B" on the College Sustainability Report Card 2010 from the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

NYU purchased 118 millionkilowatt-hoursofwind powerduring the 2006–2007 academic year – the largest purchase of wind power by any university in the country and any institution in New York City.For 2007, the university expanded its purchase of wind power to 132 million kilowatt-hours.

The EPA ranked NYU as one of the greenest colleges in the country in its annual College & University Green Power Challenge.

NYU 2031

In 2007, NYU created a strategic plan for a six billion-dollar, 25-year, 6,000,000-square-foot (560,000 m²) expansion scheduled to conclude by the university's bicentennial in 2031.Details of the plan include 2,000,000 sq ft (190,000 m²) of additional on-campus housing and 3,500,000 sq ft (330,000 m²) of modern academic spaces spread between NYU's New York City campuses.

The expansion started in earnest in 2017 with the groundbreaking of181 Mercer Street,a new multi-purpose building that will act as the flagship athletic facility for NYU, while also accompanying a 350-bed Residence Hall, 58 general purpose classrooms and a 350-seat theater.The roughly 800,000-square-foot (74,000 m²), $1.1 billion building is directly adjacent to the south eastern corner of the Washington Square campus and represents a significant focus on the university owned super blocks. Work on the plans second project, 370 Jay Street, a 500,000-square-foot (46,000 m²) addition to the Brooklyn campus is scheduled to conclude in 2019. The building will house 'the digital arts and sciences' such as the Tandon School of Engineering departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Tisch School of the Arts Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music and Game Center and various other NYU initiatives such as the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) and NYU Wireless (5G research).

To date, NYU has confirmed specific construction details for its NYU 2031 plan to the tune of 1,300,000 sq ft (120,000 m²) at a cost of $1.6 billion with roughly 12 years to go until the university's bicentennial. In order to meet the plans outlined goals on time, the university would have to significantly increase spending, fundraising and construction over the next decade.

Academics

Admissions and scholarships

Admission to NYU is highly selective. For the undergraduate first-year class of 2028, 8% were admitted from an applicant pool of more than 118,000. Three of NYU’s undergraduate colleges offered admission to fewer than 5% of applicants.In 2021, NYU became the first private university in the US to top 100,000 applications.

Admission statistics, including global network

Class of	2028	2027	2026	2025	2024
Applicants	118000	120,000	100,500	100,131	85,000+
Admits	9440	9,600	12,810	12,500	13,000
% Admitted	8	8	12.2	12.8	15
Enrolled		6,500	6,500	6,500	6,700

Of those admitted, about 6,500 made up the total enrollment for the class, representing 102 countries, all 50 US states, and theDistrict of Columbia.Most freshmen have a typical unweighted GPA of 3.7/A (90–95%) and are in the top 10% of their high school graduating class. The medianSATscore was 1540 out of 1600 (within the 99th percentile).The student-to-faculty ratio at the New York campus is 9:1, and less than that at the Abu Dhabi and Shanghai campuses. The average scholarship amount awarded to freshmen is over $35,000, and 20% of freshmen received Pell Grants.

As of 2016,NYU's graduate schools have acceptance rates of 1.8% to the School of Medicine, 23% to the School of Business,28% to the School of Engineering,29% to the Graduate School of Arts and Science,and 34% to the School of Law.

AverageMCATscore of students at the School of Medicine is 522,averageGMATscore of graduate students at the School of Business is 723,and the medianLSATscore of students at the School of Law is 170.

Schools and leadership

NYU is a private, global, non-sectarian andnot-for-profitinstitution of higher educationorganized into 10 undergraduate schools and 15 graduate/professional schools, with a roughly even split of students between the divisions.Arts and Science is currently NYU's largest academic division. It has three subdivisions: the College of Arts and Science, the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Liberal Studies program.The College of Arts and Science and Liberal Studies program are undergraduate divisions, and the former has existed since the founding of NYU.

NYU Graduate/Professional Schools

College/School	Established
School of Law	1835
Grossman School of Medicine	1841
Tandon School of Engineering	1854
College of Dentistry	1865
Graduate School of Arts and Science	1886
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development	1890
Stern School of Business	1900
School of Professional Studies	1934
Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service	1938
Rory Meyers College of Nursing	1944
Silver School of Social Work	1960
Tisch School of the Arts	1965
Gallatin School of Individualized Study	1972
Center for Urban Science and Progress	2013
College of Global Public Health	2015

According to NYU, it has created a "global network university" with its primary campus, two "portal" campuses, and 12 academic sites. The portal campuses atNYU Shanghaiand NYU Abu Dhabi function as full-fledged colleges, allowing students to study all four years of their undergraduate studies and receive a degree, never having set foot on NYU's traditional campus in New York.The academic sites at Accra, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Florence, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Prague, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Washington, D.C. function as study away sites, allowing students to spend up to a year away from their home campus. NYU, citing a report by theInstitute of International Education,asserts that it has sent more students abroad and brought more international students in than any other university for five continuous years.

NYU Undergraduate Schools

College/school	Established
College of Arts and Science	1832
Tandon School of Engineering	1854
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development	1890
Stern School of Business	1900
School of Professional Studies	1934
Rory Meyers College of Nursing	1944
Silver School of Social Work	1960
Tisch School of the Arts	1965
Gallatin School of Individualized Study	1972
Global Liberal Studies	2009

The President of New York University,is selected by the board of trustees and serves as the primary executive officer of the university for an unspecified term length. On July 1st, 2023,Linda G. Millsbecame the 17th and current President of NYU.

Research

NYU isclassifiedamong "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and research expenditures totaled $917.7 million in 2017.The university was the founding institution of the American Chemical Society.The NYU Grossman School of Medicine received $305 million in external research funding from theNational Institutes of Healthin 2014.NYU was granted 90patentsin 2014, the 19th most of any institution in the world.NYU owns the fastestsupercomputerin New York City.As of 2016,NYU hardware researchers and their collaborators enjoy the largest outside funding level for hardware security of any institution in theUnited States,including grants from theNational Science Foundation(NSF), theOffice of Naval Research,theDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA), theUnited States Army Research Laboratory,theAir Force Research Laboratory,theSemiconductor Research Corporation,and companies includingTwitter,Boeing,Microsoft,andGoogle.

In 2019, four NYU Arts & Science departments ranked in Top 10 of ShanghaiAcademic Ranking of World Universitiesby academic subjects (economics,politics,psychology,andsociology).

Rankings

Academic rankings
National
Forbes	49
U.S. News & World Report	35(tie)
Washington Monthly	64
WSJ/College Pulse	273
Global
QS	43
THE	27
U.S. News & World Report	32

2021U.S. News & World Reportrankings

Business	10
Economics	11
Education	6
Engineering	36
Law	5
Mathematics	9
Medicine: Primary Care	41
Medicine: Research	2
Nursing: Doctor of Nursing Practice	24
Nursing: Master's	12

Nationally, NYU is ranked 17th in theCenter for World University Rankings,9th byQS World University Rankings,17th in theAcademic Ranking of World Universities,27th byBusiness Insider,and 25th byU.S. News & World Report.

Globally, NYU is ranked 23 in theCenter for World University Rankings,25th in theAcademic Ranking of World Universities,26th in theTimes Higher Education World University Rankings,and 35th in theQS World University Rankings.Additionally, NYU is ranked 26th in theTimes Higher Education World University RankingsReputation Rankings.

U.S. News & World Reportranks NYU's graduate schools 6th for law, 10th for public policy, 9th for mathematics (1st for applied mathematics),8th forOccupational therapyunder Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 10th for business, 11th for economics, 12th for political science, 4th for medical school research, 10th for education, 19th for nursing doctorate, 38th for physical therapy, 30th for computer science, 36th for psychology, and 38th for engineering.

Globally, NYU's social sciences are ranked 8th by theAcademic Ranking of World Universities,15th by theTimes Higher Education World University Rankings,and 16th by theQS World University Rankings.NYU is globally ranked 11th for psychology by theQS World University Ranking.TheSocial Psychology Networkranks NYU 5th for industrial/organizational psychology, 14th for clinical psychology,andU.S. News & World Reportranks NYU 9th for social psychology and 9th for behavioral neuroscience.

U.S. News & World Reportranks the New York University School of Law 1st for tax law, 1st for international law, 1st for business and corporate law (tie), and 1st in criminal law. The publication also ranks The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service 10th in public policy.TheNYU Department of Philosophyis globally ranked 1st byThe Philosophical Gourmet Reportand theQS World University Rankings.The annual Global Employability Survey inThe New York Timesranks NYU 11th nationally and 29th globally for employability.NYU ranks 19th in the world based on the number of patents generated.

Globally, NYU is ranked 7th by theTimes Higher Education World University Rankingsfor producing alumni who are millionaires, 5th among universities with the highest number of alumni worth $30 million or more, and 4th by Wealth-X for producing ultra high net-worth and billionaire alumni.

Student life

Student body composition As of May 2, 2022

Race and ethnicity	Total
Foreign national	24%	24
White	23%	23
Asian	19%	19
Hispanic	17%	17
Other	9%	9
Black	8%	8
Economic diversity
Low-income	19%	19
Affluent	81%	81

Student government

The Student Government Assembly (SGA) is thegoverning student bodyat NYU. The SGA has been involved in controversial debates on campus, including a campus-wide ban on the sale ofThe Coca-Cola Company's products in 2005 to protest its refusal to investigate apparent human rights violations at their Colombian bottling plantand theGraduate Student Organizing Committeeunionization in 2001 and subsequent strike in 2005.The Coke ban was lifted by the University Senate on February 5, 2009.SGA consists of 75 voting members from subsidiary student government organs including theStudent Senators Council (SSC)and the Presidents Council, which are elected from their respective individual undergraduate and graduate colleges.

In 2018, the structure of the university's student government was called into question by students through school newspapers and social media pages calling for "sweeping changes to itsbyzantinestructure. "Advocates claimed the structure of SGA failed to represent all students, wasted university funds and operated in an undemocratic manner. Opponents claimed that advocates were merely motivated by legislation supporting theBDSmovement that was likely to pass.

Student organizations

A bus system transports students to and from the far ends of campus.

NYU has over 450 student clubs and organizations on campus.In addition to the sports teams, fraternities, sororities, and study clubs, there are many organizations on campus that focus on entertainment, arts, and culture.

Journalism, media, and broadcast organizations

These organizations include various student media clubs: for instance, the dailystudent newspapertheWashington Square News,theNYU Localdaily blog,The Plaguecomedy magazine, "Washington Square Localweb-based satire news source, and the literary journalsWashington Square ReviewandThe Minetta Review,as well as student-run event producers such as the NYU Program Board and the Inter-Residence Hall Council. It also operatesradio stationWNYU-FM89.1 with a diversecollege radioformat, transmitting to the entireNew York metropolitan areafrom the original campus, and via booster station WNYU-FM1 which fills in the signal inlower Manhattanfrom atop one of the Silver Towers, next to thefootball fieldat the Washington Square campus.

Students publish a campus comedy magazine,The Plague.Like manycollege humor magazines,this often pokes fun atpopular cultureas well as campus life and the idiosyncrasies of New York University.The Plaguewas founded in 1978by Howard Ostrowsky along with Amy Burns, John Rawlins, Joe Pinto and Dan Fiorella,and is currently published once per semester.It is not NYU's first humor magazine, asThe Medleywas a humor magazine published by theEucleian Societyfrom 1913 to 1950.

Debate team

Since winning the national championship in the 2003–2004 season, the NYUCross Examination Debate Association(CEDA) debate team is considered one of the perennial collegiatepolicy debateteams in the country.For the 2020–21 season, they placed 5th in the nation at CEDA Open Nationalsand 2nd in the nation at JV Nationals,along with students named the 1st and 4th place speakers at Novice Nationals.In 2021, they ranked 10th in the nation, finishing ahead of Harvard and Cornell.This marked 14 years of Top 20 National finishes dating back to the 2007 season.

Mock trial team

The New York University Mock Trial team is consistently ranked as one of the best collegiate mock trial teams in the country. NYU has qualified for the National Championship Tournament for 10 consecutive seasons and placed in the top 10 during each of those years. In the 2009–2010 season, NYU won the 26th National Championship Tournament in Memphis over rivalHarvard.The following season, they qualified for the final round once more only to be the runners-up toUCLA.In the American Mock Trial Association's 2015–2016 power rankings, NYU ranks third, behind Harvard andYale.

Campus traditions

NYU has traditions which have persisted across campuses. Since the beginning of the 20th century initiation ceremonies have welcomed incoming NYU freshmen. At the Bronx University Heights Campus, seniors used to grab unsuspecting freshmen, take them to a horse-watering trough, and then dunk them head-first into what was known colloquially as "the Fountain of Knowledge". This underground initiation took place until the 1970s.Today freshmen take part in university-sponsored activities during what is called "Welcome Week".In addition, throughout the year the university traditionally holds Apple Fest (an apple-themed country fest that began at the University Heights campus), the Violet Ball (a dance in the atrium of Bobst Library), Strawberry Fest (featuring New York City's longestStrawberry Shortcake), and the semi-annualmidnight breakfastwhere Student Affairs administrators serve free breakfast to students beforefinals.

A cappella groups

NYU is home to a number of student-run a cappella groups, several of which compete regularly at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). Most notable of these groups is The NYU N'Harmonics, who won the ICCA title in 2019.In 2020, The A Cappella Archive ranked The NYU N'Harmonics at #6 among all ICCA-competing groups.

Greek life

Some of the firstfraternitiesin the country were formed at NYU.Greek life first formed on the NYU campus in 1837 whenPsi Upsilonchartered its Delta Chapter.The first fraternities at NYU were social ones. With their athletic, professional, intellectual, and service activities, later groups sought to attract students who also formed other groups. Since then, Greek letter organizations have proliferated to include 25 social fraternities and sororities. As of 2014,approximately 13% of NYU undergraduate students are members of fraternities or sororities.

Four governing boards oversee Greek life at the university. The Interfraternity Council (IFC) has jurisdiction over all twelve recognized fraternities on campus. Eight sororities are under the jurisdiction of the Panhellenic Council (PhC), which features seven national sororities (ΔΦΕ, ΑΕΦ, ΑΣΤ, ΠΒΦ, ΚΚΓ, ΖΤΑ, ΔΓ) and two local sororities (ΑΦΖ and ΘΦΒ). Five multicultural organizations maintain membership in the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC), including two fraternities and three sororities. All three of the aforementioned boards are managed under the auspices of the Inter-Greek Council.

Greek organizations have historical significance at NYU.Delta Phi Epsilon,Zeta Psi,Alpha Epsilon Pi,Tau Delta Phi,Alpha Kappa PsiandDelta Sigma Piwere founded at NYU. Zeta Psi was chartered in 1847,Delta Sigma Pi in 1907,Alpha Epsilon Pi in 1913Delta Phi Epsilon was founded in 1917.The NYU Gamma chapter ofDelta Phi,founded in 1841, is the longest continuously active fraternity chapter in the world, having never gone inactive since its establishment. Delta Phi is also the oldest continuously active fraternity in the United States, being the only organization in the original Union Triad to remain active since its institute.The NYU Gamma chapter ofZeta Beta Tauis the oldest active ΖΒΤ chapter in the country.

Secret societies

During the University Heights era, an apparent rift evolved with some organizations distancing themselves from students from the downtown schools. The exclusivePhilomathean Societyoperated from 1832 to 1888 (formally giving way in 1907 and reconstituted into theAndiron Club). Included among the Andiron's regulations was "Rule No.11: Have no relations save the most casual and informal kind with the downtown schools."The Eucleian Society,rival to the Philomathean Society, was founded in 1832. TheKnights of the Lampwas a social organization founded in 1914 at the School of Commerce. This organization met every full moon and had a glowworm as its mascot.TheRed Dragon Society,founded in 1898, is thought to be the most selective society at NYU.

In addition, NYU's firstyearbookwas formed by fraternities and "secret societies" at the university.There have been several attempts to restart old societies by both former and incoming undergraduate classes.

ROTC

NYU does not have an ROTC program on campus. However, NYU students may participate in theU.S. Army ROTCprogram through NYC Army ROTC (Yankee Battalion), headquartered atFordham University.Students may also participate in the U.S. Air Force ROTC program through AFROTC Detachment 560 headquartered at Manhattan College.

Athletics

Main article:NYU Violets

NYU's sports teams are referred to as theNYU Violets,the colors being the trademarked hue "NYU Violet" and white. Since 1981, the schoolmascothas been a bobcat, whose origin can be traced back to the abbreviation then being used by the Bobst Library computerized catalog—short: Bobcat.NYU's sports teams include baseball, men's and women's varsity basketball, cross country, fencing, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and wrestling.Most of NYU's sports teams participate in theNCAA'sDivision IIIand theUniversity Athletic Association,while fencing and ice hockey participate inDivision I.While NYU has hadAll-Americanfootball players, the school has not had a varsityfootballteam since 1952.

NYU students also compete in club and intramural sports, includingbadminton,baseball,basketball,crew,cycling,equestrianism,ice hockey,lacrosse,martial arts,rugby,softball,squash,tennis,triathlon,andultimate.ThePalladium Athletic Facilityserves as the home base of NYU's Varsity and Club intercollegiate athletic teams, while NYU's 404 and Brooklyn athletic facilities offer additional space for the NYU fitness community. Many of NYU's varsity teams play their games at various facilities and fields throughout Manhattan because of the scarcity of space for playing fields near campus. NYU is currently in the process of building a new billion dollar flagship athletic facility known as181 Mercer Street.When complete, the new home of NYU Athletics will host a six-lane swimming pool, four full basketball courts, a complete in-door running track and other sports related offerings.

Notable faculty

Main article:List of New York University faculty

Notable alumni

Main article:List of New York University alumni

As of 2020,multipleheads of state,royalty,one U.S. Supreme Court justice,fiveU.S. governors,17billionaires,38 Nobel Laureates,8 Turing Award winners, 5 Fields Medalists, 31MacArthur Fellows,167Guggenheim Fellows,threeastronauts,sevenAbel Prizewinners, sevenLasker Awardwinners, aCrafoord Prizewinner, 26Pulitzer Prizewinners, 37Academy Awardwinners, 30Emmy Awardwinners, 25Tony Awardwinners, 12Grammy Awardwinners, multipleForbes30 under 30andTime100notables, and numerous members of theNational Academies of Sciences,American Academy of Arts and Sciences,United States Congress,andU.S. diplomatshave been affiliated withfacultyoralumni.MultipleRhodes Scholars,Marshall Scholars,Schwarzman Scholarsand aMitchell Scholarare affiliated with the university, with NYU Abu Dhabi producing more Rhodes Scholars per student than any university in the world.

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  Jack Dorsey,American billionaire and internet entrepreneur, founder and CEO ofTwitterandSquare, Inc.;CAS(dropped out)
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  Robert Mueller III,American public official; lead director of theSpecial Counsel investigation,author of theMueller Report,formerDirectorof theFederal Bureau of Investigation;GSAS'67
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  Alan Greenspan,American economist and public official; former long-timeChairmanof theFederal Reserve;Stern'48, '50, '77
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  Carol Bellamy,American politician; former executive director of theUnited Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF);Law'68
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  Ma Ying-jeou,Taiwanese politician; FormerPresident of the Republic of China;Law'76
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  Jonas Salk,American biologist; creator of thepolio vaccine;founder of theSalk Institute;Medicine'39
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  Martin Scorsese,American filmmaker, director and actor;AFI Life Achievement Awardwinner, 20-timeAcademy Awardwinner, 23-timeBAFTAwinner, 11-timeGolden Globeswinner;CAS'64,Steinhardt'68
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  Spike Lee,American filmmaker, director and producer; two-timeAcademy Awardwinner; two-timeEmmy Awardwinner;Tisch'83
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  Ang LeeOBS,Taiwanese film director; three-timeAcademy Awardwinner; two-timeGolden Lionwinner;Tisch'83
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  Alan Menken,American composer, songwriter, and record producer; one of only eighteen people to have wonan Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony;Steinhart'71
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  Suzanne Collins,American television writer and author; Author ofThe New York Timesbest-selling seriesThe Underland ChroniclesandThe Hunger Gamestrilogy;Tisch'89
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  Alec Baldwin,American actor, writer, comedian and philanthropist; three-timeEmmy Awardwinner; three-timeGolden Globewinner;Tisch'94
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  Lady Gaga,American singer, songwriter, and actress; nine-timeGrammy Awardwinner; thirteen-timeMTV Video Music Awardwinner;Tisch(dropped out)
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  Angelina Jolie,American actress and humanitarian; three-timeGolden Globe Awardwinner; Special Envoy to theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;Tisch(non-degree seeking)
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  Mahershala Ali,American actor; two-timeAcademy Awardwinner;Golden Globe Awardwinner; three-timeScreen Actors Guild Awardwinner;Tisch'00
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  Woody Allen,American director, actor and comedian; four-timeAcademy Awardwinner; nine-timeBAFTA Awardwinner;Tisch(dropped out)
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  Adam Sandler,American actor, director and comedian; five-timeMTV Movie & TV Awardwinner; eight-timePeople's Choice Awardwinner;Tisch'88
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  Donald Glover,American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and singer; two-timeGolden Globe Awardwinner; five-timeGrammy Awardwinner;Tisch'06
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  Anne Hathaway,American actress;Academy AwardandGolden Globe Awardwinner;Gallatin(dropped out)
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  Tom Ford,American fashion designer and filmmaker; former creative director atGucciandYves Saint Laurent;CAS(dropped out)

NYU has more than 500,000 living alumni as of 2015.As of October 2020,38 Nobel Prize winners are affiliated with NYU. The university is also associated with a great number of important inventions and discoveries, such ascardiac defibrillatorandartificial cardiac pacemaker(Barouh Berkovits), closed-chest cardiac defibrillator (William B. Kouwenhoven),laser(Gordon Gould),atom bomb(Frederick Reines),polio vaccine(Albert Sabin),RFID(Mario Cardullo),telephone handset(Robert G. Brown),wireless microphone(Hung-Chang Lin), first digitalimage scanner(Russell A. Kirsch),television(Benjamin Adler),light beer(Joseph Owades),non-stick cookware(John Gilbert),black hole thermodynamics(Jacob Bekenstein),polymer science(Herman Francis Mark),microwave(Ernst Weber),X-ray crystallography(Paul Peter Ewald),barcode(Jerome Swartz), structure of theDNA(Francis Crick),tau lepton(Martin Lewis Perl), processes for creatingfood coloring,decaffeinationandsugar substitute(Torunn Atteraas Garin), processes for the mass production ofpenicillin(Jasper H. Kane),X-ray generatorand rotationalradiation therapy(John G. Trump),nuclear reactorandhydrogen bomb(John Archibald Wheeler), andcontact lenses(Norman Gaylord), among many others. AlumnusFred Wallerwho inventedCineramaand theWaller Gunnery Trainer,also obtained the first patent for awater ski.The first patents for touch screencash machine(Richard J. Orford),andzoom lens(Leonard Bergstein),were also obtained by NYU alumni.

Some of the most prolific inventors in American history are NYU alumni, for exampleJerome H. Lemelsonwhose 605 patents involved thecordless telephone,fax machine,videocassette recorderandcamcorder,among others;Samuel Rubenwhose inventions includeelectric battery;James Woodwho invented cable-liftelevator,fabricated the steel cables for theBrooklyn Bridgeand contributed to the development oflockmaking,submarine,electric generator,electric motor,transformerand the design of therefrigerator;andAlbert Macovskiwhose innovations include the single-tube color camera and real-timephased array imagingforultrasound.NYU is the birthplace of thetractor beamand5G.Before and duringWorld War II,NYU's Tandon School of Engineering worked on problems whose solution led to the development ofradar,and later broke ground in electromagnetic theory, electronics in general, and solved re-entry problems of the crewedspace capsules,as well as helped develop and design theNASDAQAutomated Quote System and trading floors.Developer of the early telephone systems in the United StatesBancroft Gherardi Jr.,developer of the submarine communications facilitiesJack M. Sipress,inventor ofItaly's first computerMario Tchou,designer of thePanama Canal locksHenry C. Goldmark,designer ofthe PentagonHugh John Casey,designer of theApollo Lunar ModuleThomas J. Kelly,as well as the designer of virtually every major bridge in New York City from theGeorge Washingtonto theVerrazzano,Leopold Just,are also NYU alumni.

Many of the world's most renowned companies, such asIBM(Charles Ranlett Flint), Twitter (Jack Dorsey),Bloomberg L.P.(Charles Zegar),Jacobs Engineering Group(Joseph J. Jacobs),Hudson Group(Robert B. Cohen),MTV(Tom Freston),Barnes & Noble(Leonard Riggio),Northrop Grumman(William T. Schwendler),Automatic Data Processing(Henry Taub),Duracell(Samuel Ruben),Bugle Boy(William C. W. Mow),Virgin Mobile USA(Dan Schulman), among many others, were founded or co-founded by NYU alumni. Many of the world's most famous companies were either owned or led by NYU alumni. These include,Lockheed Martin(Robert J. Stevens),Xerox(Ursula Burns),Yahoo!(Alfred Amoroso),TPV Technology(Jason Hsuan),20th Century Fox(Marvin Davis),BAE Systems Inc(Mark Ronald),AECOM(John Dionisio),Pfizer(John Elmer McKeen),Ingersoll Rand(Herbert L. Henkel),General Motors(Alfred P. Sloan), andSears(Arthur C. Martinez).

Others includeThe New York Times(Spencer Trask),Stanley Black & Decker(John Trani),American International Group(Harvey Golub),American Express(Edward P. Gilligan),Qwest(Joseph Nacchio),Chase Bank(Walter V. Shipley),CBS(Laurence Alan Tisch),Bristol-Myers Squibb Company(Charles A. Heimbold, Jr.),Citigroup(Robert I. Lipp),Morgan Stanley(Robert A. Kindler),Marvel Entertainment(John Turitzin),ConocoPhillips(John Carrig),Deloitte(Barry Salzberg),Sony Pictures Entertainment(Peter Guber),GQ(Steven Florio),Viacom(Thomas E. Dooley),Liberty Media(John C. Malone),Verizon(Lawrence Babbio Jr.) andChemtura(Vincent A. Calarco). A pioneer ofSilicon Valley,Eugene Kleiner,and theWorld Trade Center siteowner,Larry Silverstein,are also alumni.

See also

• Silicon Alley

Further reading

• Dim, Joan (2000).The Miracle on Washington Square.Lanham, MD: Le xing ton Books.
• Frusciano, Thomas & Pettit, Marilyn (1997).New York University and the City: An Illustrated History.New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
• Gitlow, Abrahm L. (1995).NYU's Stern School of Business: A Centennial Retrospective.New York: NYU Press.
• Harris, Luther S. (2003).Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village.Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Hester, James M. (1971).New York University; the urban university coming of age.New York: Newcomen Society in North America.OCLC140405.
• Jones, Theodore F. (1933).New York University, 1832–1932.London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press.
• Lewis, Naphtali(1968).Greek papyri in the collection of New York University.Leiden: E.J. Brill.
• Tonne, Herbert A., ed. (1981).Early Leaders in Business Education at New York University.Reston, Virginia: National Business Education Association.
• Potash, David M. (1991).The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University: A History.New York: NYU Arts and Sciences Publications.

External links

• Official website
• NYU Athletics website
• New York Universitycollected news and commentary atThe New York Times
• "New York University".Collier's New Encyclopedia.1921.
• "New York University".New International Encyclopedia.1905.