Newsletter - Spring 2009

NYU Center for Global Affairs Scenarios Initiative Wins Carnegie Grant The Carnegie Corporation awarded a grant of nearly a quarter million dollars to support the NYU Center for Global Affairs Scenarios initiative—a series of workshops and reports that evaluate U.S. policy options in the context of alternative scenarios and outcomes for pivotal countries. article continues...

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Digital Designs: CADA and Sony Pictures Team Up for Online Mentoring Program

Martians are the focus of Ben Fox’s master’s project, while fellow graduate student Cidalia Costa uses the words of African slaves from 19th-century America as the basis for her project.

Both students want careers in digital animation, and they’re getting phenomenal help through a new online mentoring program—an innovative collaboration between the NYU-SCPS Center for Advanced Digital Applications (CADA) and Sony Pictures.

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McGhee Finds New Classrooms for Its Students—in Cyberspace

The NYU Paul McGhee Division continually re-evaluates how its services and programs are addressing the challenges faced by adult students working toward an undergraduate degree.

To that end, the division has developed, for example, different course formats to fit its students’ demanding schedules, such as expanding Saturday classes and one-week to ten-day intensives. Expanding online is the next, natural step.

 

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NYU-SCPS Grad PR Program Named Nation’s Best by PRWeek

PRWeek magazine gave its inaugural PR Education Program of the Year award this year to the NYU-SCPS M.S. in Public Relations and Corporate Communications program.

Graduate public relations student Ming Hatch (second from left) and adjunct
faculty Lou Capozzi (second from right) accept PRWeek award at March gala.

 

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