Four NYU professors are recipients of this year’s Guggenheim Fellowship, earning grants to further their projects in the creative arts, sciences and humanities. They were each selected alongside 194 other scholars across 53 fields and 83 North American universities for the prestigious program’s 100th class.  Tisch professors Jessica Bardsley and Rubén Polendo were honored for their work in film and performance, respectively, while CAS professors Katie Kitamura and Nicole Eustace were selected under the fiction and American history categories. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation allocated varying amounts of funding to each recipient, reflective of their other resources and scope of their projects.  In an interview with WSN, Eustace said…

Around 20 students picketed outside Vanderbilt Hall on Monday afternoon, calling on the NYU School of Law to pause its demands for 31 students to contractually pledge to halt protests,  following a pro-Palestinian sit-in outside Dean Troy McKenzie’s office last week.  The picket, organized by NYU Law Students for Justice in Palestine, featured students and faculty as well as members of the Columbia Law Coalition for a Free Palestine. The protesters, wearing keffiyehs, circled around the entrance of the building while holding signs with phrases like “BAN BOMBS NOT STUDENTS” and chanting “We will march till Gaza’s free.” They also handed out flyers with a number to call and a…

Maggie Rogers, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and Clive Davis alum, will address students at the Tisch School of the Arts’ graduation ceremony next week as this year’s honorary speaker.  “See you at graduation,” Rogers said in an Instagram post, which showed a 2016 photo of Rogers in NYU graduation attire.   Rogers will speak to the class of 2025 at Radio City Music Hall next Friday, following “words of wisdom” from lame duck Tisch dean Allyson Greene, department chairs and a member of the graduating class. The singer-songwriter graduated from the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music in 2016, and later Harvard Divinity School in 2022. The announcement was posted to the…

The NYU School of Law is demanding that 31 students contractually pledge to halt protests in order to access campus buildings following a pro-Palestinian sit-in outside Dean Troy McKenzie’s office last week. The move has sparked criticism from hundreds of students and legal organizations who argue that it violates the First Amendment and inhibits students from completing clinical work. The contract was sent on Wednesday to three students who were part of a Tuesday sit-in outside McKenzie’s office, as well as 28 students who have been barred from most campus buildings since a Bobst sit-in on March 4. It stipulates that the students will be unable to access classrooms, religious…