Q&A with Middle East Expert Alon Ben-Meir, NYU Center for Global Affairs



 



  Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU-SCPS. With more than 25 years of direct involvement with foreign affairs, focusing on the Middle East, Ben-Meir offers a unique and invaluable perspective on the nature of world terrorism, ethnic conflict, and international negotiations.

To watch the interview with Dr. Alon Ben-Meir or read the full Q&A, click here.
 











Who's Who? Who's New? @ NYU-SCPS


 
NYU-SCPS personnel announcements for spring 2007.
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Faculty Shorts



  A WOMAN OF INFLUENCE...
Lisa A. Bing, president of Bing Consulting Group, Inc. and an adjunct professor teaching leaderships and management at NYU-SCPS, has been selected as one of The Network Journal's 2007 "25 Influential Black Women in Business" honorees. The March issue of The Network Journal will profile Ms. Bing as well as the other honorees.

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...
Sonya Sinha, NYU-SCPS adjunct professor of interior design, helped create the "Greenroom" for this year's Oscar ceremonies, used by celebrity presenters to gather and prepare before they appear on stage. Sinha works for design firm White Webb LLC, which also designed Architectural Digest's Greenroom for the Emmy Awards this past summer.
 











Teaching Excellence and Outstanding Service Awards Winter 2007





  At the Winter 2007 Faculty Meeting, held February 26, Dean Robert Lapiner presented the School’s Teaching Excellence and Outstanding Service honors. Click through the following links to read about the award recipients, including the commendations from their department heads.

Award for Teaching Excellence

Award for Outstanding Service
 











More photos from Corporate Reputation Management Roundtable



 









 







29-year-old nontraditional student, Marc Gustafson, founded successful educational nonprofit before returning to complete undergraduate degree.

Marc Gustafson, a senior at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies, has been awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford to pursue an advanced degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Read the full article.







NYU professor and students pose with Palauan ambassador, UN Mission Staff, and National Planner.

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Congratulations to the following NYU court interpreting program alumni and students: Selvia Nebbia, Natalia Bondonno, Linda Bergnes, Mariana Scardino, Jonathan Forte, and Monica Palacios for passing the recent court interpreter exam for New York State civil service positions. Out of nearly 1,700 applicants to take the exam, these six were among the 116 successful candidates who are now eligible for full-time interpreting positions in New York.







Left to right: Ron Alsop, Bruce Baulch, Barri Rafferty, John Doorley, Helio Fred Garcia, and Dennis Garritan.

In January, the Division of Graduate Programs in Business at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies (www.scps.nyu.edu) hosted a roundtable discussion on the topic of "Recent Lessons in Reputation Management: Are Corporations and Other Organizations Heeding Them?".

The roundtable was moderated by John Doorley, academic director and clinical assistant professor in the M.S. in Public Relations and Corporate Communications program at NYU-SCPS, and speakers included: Helio Fred Garcia, adjunct professor at NYU-SCPS, who teaches crisis communications and reputation management; Ron Alsop, news editor and senior writer at the Wall Street Journal, who writes about business education, corporate reputation, and marketing; Barri Rafferty, instructor at NYU-SCPS who specializes in public relations and brand marketing; Dennis Garritan, academic director and clinical associate professor of the M.S. in Human Resource Management and Development program at NYU-SCPS; and Bruce Baulch, senior director of information technology and administration at the NYU Medical Center.

Please click here to read the highlights from the roundtable and listen to the audiocast.





South Korean NYU alumni welcome director of the Real Estate Institute, D. Kenneth Patton, to South Korea.




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