Corals in the Arabian Gulf, the most thermally tolerant in the world, are not immune to extreme heat events associated with global warming that are impacting coral reefs elsewhere in the world. Using reef-based temperature loggers and mathematical models, researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi showed that coral in the Gulf become more vulnerable to bleaching […]
NYU President Andrew Hamilton announced the appointment of Mariet Westermann — Executive Vice President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, former provost of NYU Abu Dhabi, former director of NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, and art historian — as the Vice Chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi, effective August 1, 2019. Her selection follows a 10-month long, international […]
As part of its Fikret Science club, NYU Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) Center for Genomics and Systems Biology is organizing its seventh talk On the Wings of the Monarch Butterfly: When Science Meets Film. Taking place on Tuesday, April 30, at The Arts Center at NYUAD, the public talk will highlight the role of science in […]
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers are part of an international team of scientists that has, for the first time, directly measured the rarest nuclear decay process ever recorded by a detector. Using the XENON1T detector, an instrument located at the underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy designed to search for dark matter with unprecedented sensitivity, the researchers were able to […]
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Class of 2022 student Trey Wang is among 17 recipients in the world to be awarded The Future Global Leaders Fellowship this year. The Future Global Leaders Fellowship selects top first-generation university students from all over the world on an annual basis and, over the course of a 3-year program, primes […]
startAD, the Abu Dhabi-based global accelerator anchored at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and powered by Tamkeen, held its annual Startup Showcase event for the Beyond the Pitch Program on Tuesday (April 16). The event was attended by UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment, His Excellency Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, and CEO of […]
Middlesex University Dubai continues to be at the cutting edge of the Higher Education sector as it announces the launch of nine new programmes designed to meet the evolving demands of a rapidly growing industry. Students enrolling for the University’s September intake can now opt to study Bachelor’s Degrees specialising in Fashion Design, Digital Media, […]
The first ever Network of Students in Medicine and Health (NeSMAH) conference shed light on some of the opportunities, challenges, and innovative strategies around the future of the healthcare sector in the UAE. Organized by NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) students on Saturday, April 6, the inaugural conference welcomed more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students […]
NYU Abu Dhabi students have returned to the UAE following a historic, immersive 10-day course that enabled them to witness Brexit as it continues to unfold in Britain and across Europe. Taught by American political consultant and best-selling author Frank Luntz, Europe in Crisis: Brexit and the Future of the EU, was held in London, Brussels, and […]
A team of NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) students won the Tests in Orbits competition, which invited university students based in the UAE to develop, design, and conduct a “nano-experiment” pertaining to the field of space. Organized by the UAE Space Agency and the Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai, the competition attracted 70 applications. The […]