NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) announced that Health Hero Match, a website that connects medical workers with hospitals currently facing staffing shortages, has won first place at the 2020 Annual NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World, which was held online for the first time, with more than 170 programmers joining the event […]
Aldar Education’s The Pearl Academy is inspiring its pupils to get creative in their homes – by staging its first-ever E-learning Creative Arts Week. Starting from Sunday, April 19, the week-long celebration of the arts aims to encourage The Pearl Academy’s young students to learn and practice a new creative medium and keep students engaged […]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) will present a live streamed cross-cultural exchange event titled “Re-imagining Community: Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Age of Physical Distancing” this Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 8pm (EMT+4). The virtual event, a partnership with the Embassy of the United States in the United Arab Emirates, will bring together […]
NYU Abu Dhabi’s UAE Healthy Future Study will share information on its new research approach and ongoing progress. The study, which commenced in 2017, aims to recruit 20,000 Emirati nationals aged 18-40 by March 2021 to determine the causes of common chronic diseases in the country’s national population. Speakers will include: Director of the Public […]
In line with the government’s instructions and procedures to limit the spread of the coronavirus, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi announced its success in implementing the remote work system. Professor Silvia Serrano, Vice Chancellor of Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, highlighted the importance of maintaining the safety of employees by providing them with all the technological means […]
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) will be hosting the 2020 Annual NYUAD International Hackathon for social good in the Arab World from April 16 to April 19. The ninth edition of the programming marathon will be hosted online for the first time ever and will tackle challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing together aspiring programmers […]
The Education Affairs Office at the Crown Prince Court in Abu Dhabi has announced that despite the restrictions related to COVID-19 virus, including the physical closure of schools, there are currently over 800 teachers working through the National Capacity Building (NCB) Program. While face to face workshops have been postponed, the online program has been […]
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) senior Sussan Garcia has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship that will support her to move to South Korea in 2021 to teach English. Born and raised in New York, Garcia is majoring in Arab Crossroads Studies with a minor in Political Science. She founded the Society of International Affairs at […]
The Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Scholars Program (SMSP) operated by NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and the Stevens Initiative launched a virtual exchange program connecting youth from the UAE and the US. Funded by the Stevens Initiative, the new program provides access to international experiences and fosters dialogue between students. The program will virtually connect students […]
As remote learning and self-quarantine have become the order of the day, the number of monthly users of NYU Libraries’ Arabic Collections Online (ACO) increased from 50,000 to 350,000 in March. This digital library, a partnership between NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi, is a collection of Arabic-language, public-domain content drawn from distinguished libraries […]
