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Steinhardt Spotlights (read all posts)

  • Ed Theatre’s Salvatore Wins Overall Excellence Award for a Play at NYC Fringe Festival

    Joe Salvatore, a theatre artist and educator in Steinhardt’s Program in Educational Theatre, recently presented his play, III, at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. Following five packed-house performances at Greenwich Village’s Cherry Lane Theatre, the play received the...

    Published: Thursday, September 4th 2008 06:30 PM
  • Surprise Kiss Immortalizes Steinhardt Alum in Photo

    Edith Shain (Steinhardt '47) was unexpectedly captured in one of history's most iconic photographs on August 14, 1945, the day the Japanese surrendered and World War II was officially over. Read about Edith Shain's appearance in this famous photo....

    Published: Wednesday, June 18th 2008 08:10 PM
  • Jeremijenko Profiled in NYU Alumni Magazine

    NYU Alumni Magazine offers a profile of Natalie Jeremijenko, assistant professor of visual art at NYU Steinhardt. Jeremijenko is the founder of NYU's Environmental Health Clinic, which combines conceptual art with social activism. Read the Profile of Natalie Jeremijenko...

    Published: Monday, June 16th 2008 09:38 PM
  • Steinhardt Researchers Make Case for Keeping Children at Forefront of Immigration Debate

      The recent book Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society (Harvard University Press) is the culmination of a five-year interdisciplinary study-the largest of its kind ever funded by the National Science Foundation's cultural anthropology division. Co-authors Carola...

    Published: Wednesday, June 18th 2008 08:12 PM

Steinhardt Commentaries (read all posts)

  • Dean Mary Brabeck: Putting Clinical Findings to Work in the Classroom

    Since it now appears that the federal Higher Education Act will finally be reauthorized, it will soon be time to examine the reauthorization of the Institute of Education Sciences. Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, who has transformed this grantmaking office...

    Published: Monday, June 16th 2008 09:49 PM
  • Charlton McIlwain: Clinton Veering Close to Racial Stereotypes

    Many suspected that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's recent substance-over-mere-words attacks against Sen. Barack Obama smacked of desperation. Some expected these attacks to come to an end once Wisconsin had come and gone, giving the Clinton campaign its expected defeat there....

    Published: Monday, June 16th 2008 09:45 PM
  • Mitchell Stevens: An Admissions Race That's Already Won

    Last month thousands of our best and brightest high-school students found out whether they had been accepted by early decision to the colleges of their choice. Each had spent weeks poring over application forms, polishing essays, and agonizing over where...

    Published: Monday, June 16th 2008 09:46 PM

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