Professor Tapiero launches Risk and Decision Analysis journal - December 17, 2008
Whether it brings great rewards or great losses, risk is an unavoidable factor in the decisions professionals from the worlds of finance to marketing make every day....
Jeremy Grantham, chairman and co-founder of the investment management firm GMO, which manages $150 billion in assets, explains root-causes of global financial meltdown at NYU-Poly's 11th Annual Lynford Lecture....
WATCH: Charlie Rose talks economics with NYU-Poly's Nassim Nicholas Taleb - December 08, 2008
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Polytechnic Institute of NYU's new distinguished professor of risk engineering and author of The Black Swan, sat down with PBS' Charlie Rose on December 3 to talk about the economy....
Wired hospitals in need of critical care - December 05, 2008
Experts from academia, industry, government, hospitals, and medical schools attended the symposium to explore existing and future wireless hospital technologies....
The Art of i2e: student winners announced in poster contest - December 04, 2008
Contest participants entered their visual interpretations of i2e (invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship), NYU-Poly's vision to transform academics and research by arming NYU-Poly faculty and students with the tools, resources, and inspiration to t...
National survey finds NYU-Poly strong in active and collaborative learning - November 21, 2008
According to findings from a national survey of first-year and senior students, one of Polytechnic Institute of NYU's greatest strengths is its active and collaborative learning environment....
Professor Sofou receives $450,000 grant for breast cancer research - November 17, 2008
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has given Polytechnic Institute of NYU Assistant Professor Stavroula Sofou a $450,000 grant for drug delivery research. The foundation, which is dedicated to fighting breast cancer throughout the world, selected ...
Image and Imagination: joint forum looks to generate research collaborations - November 05, 2008
Broadly speaking, by joining forces Polytechnic engineers can build and enhance imaging tools that NYU scientists can use to make medical discoveries that can lead to better healthcare. The forum, the first of its kind since the two institutions became af...
NYU-Poly receives $1.9 million grant to fund Faculty Innovations in Teaching and Learning Center - October 29, 2008
Polytechnic Institute of NYU's commitment to provide its students an educational experience rooted in invention, innovation, and entrepreneurship (i2e) will be bolstered by a $1.9 million grant it has received from the U.S. Department of Education to e...
$2 million state-funded tech and entertainment center will inspire innovation and spark economic activity - October 29, 2008
New York state is providing a $2 million grant to fund the "Center of Innovation for Technology and Entertainment," or "CITE." It will be the first of its kind in NYC, and is envisioned to be not only a hub for student, faculty, and professional c...
Wired for Opportunity, Vulnerable to Deep Risk: students and professionals unite to secure cyber space - October 27, 2008
In only five years since it debuted, the student-run program, which many refer to simply as "CSAW," has become the nation's preeminent forum for advancing the cyber-security community's dialogue on critical issues as it links industry, higher educ...
Ushering in a New Era: Governor Paterson receives first honorary NYU-Poly degree - October 24, 2008
Polytechnic celebrated the dawn of a new era on Wednesday, October 22 as it formally ushered in its first academic year as Polytechnic Institute of New York University during a politically star-studded convocation attended by 500 students, faculty, alumni...
Inventor of the Web cites faculty member's research in Scientific American - October 15, 2008
In "Web Science Emerges," the authors highlight Polytechnic Institute of NYU's Oded Nov's contribution to the new discipline. They write that Professor Nov's research "is beginning to ascertain why Wikipedians post entrie...
Games for Learning: NYU-Poly joins Microsoft Research, NYU and consortium to create 1st scientific-based game research alliance - October 14, 2008
Polytechnic Institute of NYU has teamed up with Microsoft Research, New York University, and a consortium of other universities to create a research alliance that will provide the fundamental evidence to support games as learning tools for math and scienc...
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