Lost Sketches by Auschwitz Survivor on View at NYU

Displayed at NYU’s Deutsches Haus, members of the Berlin Philharmonic will play at the opening. via WNYC

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WNYC’s blog summed up our Applied Sciences NYC initiative, for which entries were due earlier today:

The deadline for universities to submit their bids to open a new engineering school in the city with the help of the Bloomberg administration is today.

Seth Pinsky, the president of the city’s Economic Development Corporation, described the project this way: “We really believe this is what we like to describe as an Erie Canal moment, a time where we are faced with the ability to make an investment and that investment can lock in a competitive advantage for years to come, just like the Erie Canal did in the 1820s and 30s.”

Listen to the audio above, view the full article on WNYC, and find out more about Applied Sciences NYC on NYCEDC’s website.