2009

With the 2009 season in full swing, baseball fans are still debating their feelings about favorite players who have (or might have) used steroids. Performance enhancing drugs, and whether their use in sports is illegal, immoral, or unfair, was the topic of a timely discussion and debate at The Ninth Annual Cal Ramsey Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by NYU's Preston Robert Tisch Center of Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management.

Wayne McDonnell, clinical assistant professor of sports management at the NYU Tisch Center, addresses the concerns and criticisms many baseball owners and pundits have and clearly explains why the New York Yankees are Major League Baseball’s “necessary evil” in the latest podcast issued by the NYU Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management.

In a reversal of roles, Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, will be interviewed by Jonathan M. Tisch, chairman and chief executive officer of Loews Hotels, at the 31st Annual NYU Hospitality Industry Investment Conference.

In today's constantly evolving job market and turbulent economic times, techniques for recession proofing your career have never been more essential, even for those who are still employed. Career expert Michele LoBianco offers four key ways to be successful and career resilient in any economy downturn.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will be the featured luncheon speaker at the 31st Annual NYU Hospitality Industry Investment Conference.

PRWeek magazine gave its inaugural PR Education Program of the Year award this year to the Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communications program at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS).

Graduate student Martha Batalha is the recipient of the 2009 Oscar Dystel Fellowship, announced the Master of Science in Publishing program at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS). The award committee also gave an honorary scholarship to graduate student Kimberly Bayley.

New York University today named Vyomesh (VJ) Joshi, Executive Vice President of the Imaging and Printing Group at HP, the winner of the 2009 Prism Award.

To answer the business needs of the fashion sector and to give professionals in the industry a competitive edge in the current job market, NYU-SCPS is offering a new course, Fashion Business Management, which will run in spring 2009.

Following years of record spending levels, 2009 is forecast to be the first year since 2003 that the U.S. lodging industry will spend less on capital expenditures than the prior year.