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Ellen Schall Experience Fund On May 6, the Wagner Experience...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:18:29 -0400

Ellen Schall Experience Fund

On May 6, the Wagner Experience Fund was renamed the Ellen Schall Experience Fund to recognize Dean Schall’s ten years of leadership at NYU Wagner.

Wagner Students Capture $50,000 Prize in Entrepreneurs...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:08:00 -0400

Wagner Students Capture $50,000 Prize in Entrepreneurs Challenge

Three NYU Wagner students won the $50,000 Social Venture Prize in the 2012-13 Entrepreneurs Challenge sponsored by NYU Stern. Their winning idea, called Kinvolved, is a digital app that aims to reduce truancy by providing real-time data on classroom attendance to teachers, families, and students. Learn more.

Five NYU Wagner Groups and Individuals Win President’s...

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:19:17 -0400

Five NYU Wagner Groups and Individuals Win President’s Service Awards

Five outstanding NYU Wagner groups and individuals have been recognized by New York University as receipients of the 2013 President’s Service Awards. The recipients, who were honored at a ceremony on April 17, include: Wagner Environmental Policy and Action (WEPA), Wagner Health Network (WHN), The Wagner Review, Claudia Espinosa, and Matthew Guidarelli. Read more.

Did you know? Registration is open for NYU Wagner’s two summer...

Wed, 01 May 2013 13:47:01 -0400

Did you know? Registration is open for NYU Wagner’s two summer undergraduate courses. Learn about the politics of public policy and how to change the world through advocacy movements. Sign up today!

Getting Into Government: A Guide for High Achievers Our very own...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:43:00 -0400

Getting Into Government: A Guide for High Achievers

Our very own Paul Light, Professor of Public Policy, and Toni Harris, Director of Career Services, provide insight on pathways into government careers in the recently published guide “Getting Into Government” by Govloop

Urbanism Case Study Roundtable: The Urban Tech Shift – Lessons...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:30:27 -0500

Urbanism Case Study Roundtable: The Urban Tech Shift – Lessons from New York and London

Neil Kleiman, Director of NYU Wagner Innovation Labs, explained how cities can attract entrepreneurs, start-ups, and technology to drive economic development in his talk at START-UP CITY: MIAMI.

Suze Orman and Governor Chafee discuss “The Cost of...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:44:00 -0500

Suze Orman and Governor Chafee discuss “The Cost of Marriage Inequality”

Suze Orman, financial expert and host of The Suze Orman Show, moderated a panel discussion on February 21 at NYU on the economic impact caused by the Defense of Marriage Act. Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee served as a panelist at the event, which was co-sponsored by the Respect for Marriage Coalition and NYU Wagner’s Rudin Center for Transportation.

NYU Wagner Prof. David Elcott receives the 2013 MLK Jr. Faculty...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:27:10 -0500

NYU Wagner Prof. David Elcott receives the 2013 MLK Jr. Faculty Award

Congratulations to NYU Wagner Professor David Elcott for receiving the Provost’s prestigious 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award on February 6. Nominated by students, the award recognizes a faculty member who exemplifies the spirit of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. through teaching excellence, leadership, commitment to social justice, and community building.

In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. week, join us for a...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:33:00 -0500

In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. week, join us for a Univeristy-wide Event: A Conversation w/ Reverend Al Sharpton & NYU Wagner’s Melody Barnes and Shankar Prasad, along with other featured guests on February 7, 2013, 7:00-9:00pm, Kimmel Center Eisner and Lubin Auditorium. For more information visit nyu.edu/MLKWeek

Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data Just...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:20:00 -0500

Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data

Just released, a new report by NYU Wagner Visiting Professor Beth Noveck and co-author Daniel Goroff entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data addresses the challenges to obtaining better, more usable data about the nonprofit sector to match the sector’s growing importance.

Banking The World Jonathan Morduch, professor of public policy...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:31:00 -0500

Banking The World

Jonathan Morduch, professor of public policy and economics at NYU Wagner, has co-edited a new collection about the world’s vast “unbanked” population. The book, Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion, examines how to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to the estimated 2.5 billion people, just over half the adult population globally, who lack them. It. is published by The MIT Press and can be ordered here.

Murdoch, a contributor to the volume, is the executive director and co-founder of the Financial Access Initiative, an inter-university research center housed at the Wagner school. The full gamut of essays explore such topics as the complexity of surveying people about their use of financial services; evidence of the impact of financial services on income; and the occasional negative effects of financial services on poor households, including disincentives to work and over-indebtedness. Along with Murdoch, the book’s co-editors include Robert Cull and Asli Demirglic-Kunt.

American Milestones: A Window on NYU Wagner

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:26:11 -0500

American Milestones: A Window on NYU Wagner

Happy Holidays! Wishing you a wonderful holiday season from Dean...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:59:33 -0500

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season from Dean Ellen Schall and the entire NYU Wagner Community.

NYU Wagner Partners with NYC in “Reinvent Payphones Design...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:26:19 -0500

NYU Wagner Partners with NYC in “Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge”

Today the City of New York manages over 11,000 payphone kiosks – but the way that New Yorkers share information is changing rapidly. In order to modernize this powerful communications infrastructure, the City is hosting Reinvent Payphones, a public design challenge that seeks to rally urban designers, planners, technologists, and policy experts to create physical and/or virtual prototypes that imagine the future of payphones. NYU Wagner and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts are partnering with the Bloomberg administration to promote the Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge to a wide range of talented and forward-thinking students and faculty in a number of local universities.

Have ideas on how New York City can reinvent payphones to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable, accessible and informed city? Submit your prototype by February 18th and you could help to shape the City’s future.

NYU Wagner Student Receives NHHF’s Health Professional...

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:17:00 -0500

NYU Wagner Student Receives NHHF’s Health Professional Student Scholarship

Christopher Nolan, a student at NYU Wagner, has been chosen to receive the National Hispanic Health Foundation’s 2012 Health Professional Student Scholarship, and was honored at the Ninth Annual New York Hispanic Health Professional Student Scholarship Gala Dinner on Nov. 29.

Christopher is in the MPA/Health Policy & Management program at Wagner and is Vice President of Operations for the Wagner Student Association. His specialization is Health Services Management.

(Image: Dr. Elena Rios, President of the National Hispanic Health Foundation, with Christopher Nolan at the 9th annual gala)

Foreign Policy Magazine Names Prof. Beth Noveck on Its List of...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:38:49 -0500

Foreign Policy Magazine Names Prof. Beth Noveck on Its List of “Top Global Thinkers”

NYU Wagner Visiting Professor Beth Noveck is featured in the December issue of Foreign Policy magazine as one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers 2012,” and joins five others at New York University also recognized on the magazine’s list — including: Danah Boyd of Steinhardt, Chen Guangcheng of the School of Law, and, from Stern, Jonathan Haidt, Paul Romer, and Nouriel Roubini.

Beth will be a featured guest at a Foreign Policy gala today, November 29 in Washington, D.C.

Click here to read the full news story

Opening Government Video: “The Pre-Network” Prior to...

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:00:00 -0500

Opening Government Video: “The Pre-Network”

Prior to getting together at 10 Downing Street on November 9 to begin coordinating a MacArthur Foundation-supported research project on the future of government transparency in the digital age, members of the Opening Government’s “Pre-Network” brainstormed their ideas in a series of recorded interviews. Among the participants are NYU Wagner visiting professor Beth Noveck and clinical professor Shankar Prasad.

For more information, visit http://www.openinggovernment.org/

NYU Students distribute solar lanterns to those affected by...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:01:46 -0500

NYU Students distribute solar lanterns to those affected by Hurricane Sandy

Students in an NYU Wagner/NYU Stern undergraduate class – “Practicum and Incubator for Social Innovation” – have connected with Sun Giant Energy to distribute solar lanterns to New Yorkers still living without electric power as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

Urban Mobility in the 21st Century Rapid population growth in...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:18:26 -0500

Urban Mobility in the 21st Century

Rapid population growth in cities world-wide will lead to a shift in transportation from car ownership to a networked fleet of smaller, more efficient, sustainable shared vehicles, predicts Urban Mobility in the 21st Century, a report for the NYU BMW i Project on Cities and Sustainability prepared by Mitchell L. Moss, Director of the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management at NYU Wagner and Hugh O’Neill, President and Founder of Appleseed.

Click here to view the report

Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High Performing...

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:21:00 -0500

Do Federally Assisted Households Have Access to High Performing Public Schools?

A new report from the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and its Moelis Institute finds that households participating in one of three major federal housing programs reach lower performing schools than poor households as a whole.

The report was prepared by NYU Wagner Professor Ingrid Gould Ellen and Keren Mertens Horn, former Doctoral Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Click here to view the report