NYU’s acceptance rate dropped to 7.7% for the 2024-25 admissions cycle, the lowest ever recorded at the university’s New York campus. Newly admitted students were selected from a pool of over 120,000 applicants — the highest number of applicants received by any private university. The College of Arts & Science, the Stern School of Business…
A hacker took over NYU’s website for at least two hours Saturday morning to expose over 3 million applicants’ names, test scores, majors and zip codes, as well as information related to family members and financial aid dating back to at least 1989. The university’s website was restored at around noon. The hacked page displayed…
NYU leadership warned international students and faculty to avoid “non-essential travel” over spring break in a Thursday email following the Trump administration’s travel ban that targets the citizens of 43 countries. Jason Pina, the senior vice president for university life, and Sherif Barsoum, associate vice president of global services, wrote in the email that they…
Faculty at the School of Law criticized the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and threats to international community members at a forum on Wednesday. Alina Das, a speaker at the forum and co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, told WSN that the clinic will hire a second attorney amid heightened fear of federal immigration enforcement.…
NYU Langone Health has partnered with Amazon to install new palm-scanning sensors in its New York City hospitals that patients can use to identify themselves before appointments with heightened efficiency and security. It is the first health care institution to adopt the technology, called Amazon One — which is slated for availability at all the…
NYU placed an immediate hold on hiring and will lower salary increases for faculty and staff in response to the Trump administration’s threats to withdraw federal funding from research institutions and universities, President Linda Mills told faculty, administrators and staff on Monday. The joint-letter from Mills, Provost Georgina Dopico and Executive Vice President Martin Dorph…
NYU Langone Health is partnering with an Israeli hospital to provide Israel Defense Forces soldiers with pioneering limb reconstructive surgeries and train local doctors to do the same, amid the country’s ongoing war in Gaza. The initiative is facilitated by Israeli wound rehabilitation center Belev Echad, and partners NYU Langone’s Center for Amputation Reconstruction and…
NYU’s School of Law will offer a joint program with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit focused on advancing social justice through legal advocacy for wrongfully convicted incarcerated people, with an inaugural class set to begin work in September. The Innocence Project Post-Conviction Clinic will guide 12 second and third-year law students through direct work with…
NYU scientists developed a new framework to better understand how people set goals when trying to win a game, hit a benchmark or achieve some other objective. The researchers aimed to generate effective artificial intelligence models that can mimic human behavior in goal-oriented settings. First, researchers collected a dataset of human-generated goals by asking participants…
The NYU School of Professional Studies has partnered with The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation to create a $5 million apprenticeship fund for students pursuing an associate of applied science in hospitality, with the degree offering set to launch in the spring 2026 semester. Through the Workforce Apprentice Program, incoming SPS students will…
