For 60 years, the NYU Grossman School of Medicine invited students to join its Medical Scientist Training Program — a federally funded, dual-degree MD-Ph.D. program — and develop the specialized skillset of physician-scientists. However, the tradition came to a halt when administrators suddenly rescinded nine prospective students’ acceptances in January after losing the program’s federal grant amid an indefinite “pause” in admissions.  As dozens of medical schools opened applications earlier this month, Grossman kept its MSTP application closed — pointing to a second year with no students matriculating into the program. In conversations with WSN, four MSTP students, who requested to remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation, discussed how…

President Linda Mills and Provost Georgina Dopico appointed Kristina Rose as dean of NYU Libraries, closing an eight-month search and continuing Rose’s over two decades of service to the university.  Rose, who was announced as dean in a memo last Monday, formally assumed her position on May 1 after serving as the library’s interim dean since January. She was previously the associate dean for collections and content strategy at the library, after leading its Access, Delivery and Resource Sharing Services department.  “Each role has taught me something new about our mission, our people, and our potential,” Rose said in a statement to WSN. “My colleagues have been among my greatest…

NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service ranked No.1 in urban policy in the U.S. News and World Report’s analysis of 268 graduate schools nationwide — marking its seventh consecutive year in the leading spot.  As a public affairs school, Wagner fell two spots to No. 11 and tied with Arizona State University, Princeton University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Texas, Austin. U.S. News’ rankings for all 12 speciality programs under public affairs — including urban policy, environmental policy and technology management — remained stagnant from last year, after the publication faced an “error” in curating the list of institutions to include on an updated…

Graduate Student Council member Danilo Trinidad Perez-Rivera staged a three-hour, one-person “sit-in” outside GSAS dean Lynne Kiorpes’ office on Wednesday, claiming he was unjustly denounced from his elected role as a student senator.  Perez-Rivera, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Arts & Science, said the GSC nullified his election result because more students abstained than voted in the most recent election. He said the GSC has not previously upheld a rule regarding a majority abstained vote, and noted that he was the only candidate who fulfilled the campaign requirements — leaving the position otherwise vacant. The sit-in was staged after GSC adviser Randi Amalfitano did not respond…

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…