If you are coming into Dubai as a new citizen or tourist, you will most likely want to explore the beautiful landscapes and serene environments offered by the city. Moving around in a public transportation system will not allow you to know the city very well. Therefore, you have to buy or rent a car […]
An international team of researchers, including some from NYU Abu Dhabi, have identified a global cooling event 4,200 years ago, as a key factor in the evolution of rice. The study indicates that the cooling may have created new varieties of rice, and driven the subsequent spread across Asia of this global staple. Using a […]
Just 6 weeks in business, ONLY webinars has had a busy opening. The ‘Webinars As A Service’ (WAAS) platform is hosting and promoting a bunch of webinars this week. – The Video Content Creation Formula by Reim El Houni on Saturday, 11 July at 4 pm UAE time – Making that giant leap for humankind: […]
As many diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, have been linked to the defective functioning of motor proteins in cell transport systems, understanding the intricacies of how motor proteins work in their native crowded cell environments is essential to understanding what goes wrong when they function incorrectly. Molecular motors are specialized proteins that bind […]
Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK)is launching a campaign to continue engaging with students and parents during the summer months, and beyond. The #NeverStopLearning campaign features a trifecta of initiatives catering to everyone in the Abu Dhabi education community: from a virtual university fair for students embarking on their higher education journey, to […]
Researchers at Global TIES for Children, an international research center based at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU New York, examined a variety of post-migration risks faced by Syrian refugee children enrolled in Lebanese public schools and found that students being older than expected for the grade in which they were placed was most consistently and […]
Ten years ago, NYU Abu Dhabi opened with an ambitious vision to become one of the world’s leading research universities, addressing complex challenges of local and global significance. Anchored at NYU Abu Dhabi and powered by Tamkeen is startAD, an Abu Dhabi-based global accelerator steering seed-stage technology startups to launch, develop, and scale their ventures. A core […]
In a newly-published study, researchers from the Center for Space Science at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and colleagues used helioseismology and analyzed several data sources to find that the Sun’s meridional flow is a single cell in each hemisphere that carries plasma toward the Sun’s equator 200 thousand km below the surface. The meridional flow […]
Parents and students will play a major role alongside the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) in shaping a safe return to in-class education following the UAE Ministry of Education (MoE) announcement that a plan is in place to assess the potential reopening of schools for the new academic year. With regulators in […]
A team of mathematicians and economists from NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) examined how to balance the need to “flatten the curve” and reduce the spread of COVID-19 while trying to prevent economies from sustaining prolonged, severe, and potentially permanent damage. The team developed a mathematical model that could offer a template for policy-makers looking for […]
