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App To Minimize Food Waste Wins NYU Abu Dhabi’s Annual International Hackathon For Social Good In The Arab World

Wakkalni Food Savour, an application that connects grocery stores with shoppers to minimize food waste, won first place at NYU Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) 2019 Annual International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World, a three-day programming marathon, which was held at NYUAD from Friday, April 26, until Sunday, April 28. Developed by students Zijie […]

Khalifa University Ranked In Asia’s Top 30

The Khalifa University of Science and Technology has announced that it has risen to 28 in the prestigious Times Higher Education, THE, Asia University Rankings 2019 that was released in Abu Dhabi. With the new ranking, Khalifa University, a research university dedicated to the advancement of learning through the discovery and application of knowledge, has […]

Bonnie St. John, Paralympic SKI Medalist, Fortune 500 Business Consultant, Rhodes Scholar, Former White House Official, And Best-Selling Author, To Speak At NYU Abu Dhabi’s Sixth Commencement

Bonnie St. John will offer remarks at NYU Abu Dhabi’s graduation ceremony on May 27, 2019. NYU Abu Dhabi’s graduating class is comprised of some 270 students from more than 75 countries around the world. The graduation ceremony will be held at NYU Abu Dhabi’s campus on Saadiyat Island. Despite having her right leg amputated […]

NYU Abu Dhabi Researchers Show Coral Bleaching In The Arabian Gulf Is Modulated By Cooling Summer Shamal Winds

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 […]

Mariet Westermann Named Vice Chancellor Of NYU Abu Dhabi

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 […]

Dark Matter Detector Observes Universe’s Rarest Decay Process Ever Measured

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 […]

Agricultural Startup, Agrownet, Wins Beyond The Pitch; A Youth Program Aimed At Building The UAE Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

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 […]

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