Our brains respond to language expressing facts differently than they do to words conveying possibility, a team of neuroscientists from NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi has found. Its work offers new insights into the impact word choice has on how we make distinctions between what’s real vs. what’s merely possible. “At a time […]
The United Arab Emirates University, UAEU, has made a great global achievement with 32 researchers among the world’s top 2% most cited scientists. The prestigious list was recently published by a Stanford University led research group and ranked top scholars across academic disciplines in 2019. A total 178 UAE scientists have been ranked including 32 […]
Repton Abu Dhabi, part of the prestigious Repton Family of Schools, announces the launch of the region’s first AI driven smart pricing platform for schools, called Artificial Intelligence Driven Algorithm (AIDA). The state-of-the-art smart pricing platform includes an analytics-based approach, which calculates real-time discounts based on contextual academic, operational and behavioural variables derived from historical […]
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Senior Lecturer of Arabic Nasser Isleem has launched the second edition of his book, Kalima wa Nagham, volume one. First published in October 2014, the second edition of Kalima wa Nagham co-authored by Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies at the College of Charleston, South Carolina Ghazi Abuhakema, grants students […]
Aldar Education, Abu Dhabi’s leading education provider has announced today its official partnership with the Special Olympics UAE in a MOU signing ceremony, which took place virtually between Sahar Cooper, CEO of Aldar Education and Talal Al Hashmi, National Director at Special Olympics UAE. The ceremony cemented Aldar Education’s commitment towards inclusion and a unified […]
Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority launches an educational campaign at Umm Al Emarat Park starting tomorrow to raise awareness among the local community with the important ways and mechanisms of caring for children during their early years of development (0 – 8 years old), the campaign is based on a series of activities and signages […]
A student of Aldar Academies’ The Pearl Academy has had her first-ever book published at the tender age of just six years old. The fantastically talented author, VaishikaSatheshwaran, who dreams of becoming an astronaut, has penned the imaginative book taking readers on a fact-filled journey into space. Having a strong passion for Astronomy, Vaishika spends […]
The generation we are born in defines who we are. Be it Millennial, Generation X, or any other generation, they are likely to respond to advertising in a way that aligns with others from the same generation. With Generation Z which mainly comprises of individuals born between 1995 and 2015 now entering the workforce, they […]
One critical barrier in efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic has been the relatively high false-negative rate of the most commonly-used Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing methods. Often, these methods are not able to detect lower viral loads, which are typically present in asymptomatic individuals but below the limit of detection (LoD) of […]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) continues to explore innovative and interactive ways of showcasing performing arts by hosting a virtual residency by Aakash Odedra. The award-winning contemporary dancer and choreographer will screen two performances followed by live online Q&As with the artist: Murmur 2.0 on November 11 and #JeSuis on November 12. […]
