📣 Announcing the
#NYU2024
honorary degree recipients for our 191st Commencement:
🎓 Martha Minow, Doctor of Law (Commencement Speaker)
🎓 Ouided Bouchamaoui, Doctor of Humane Letters
🎓 Katalin Karikó, Doctor of Science
More:
"I know it can be really overwhelming figuring out who to be, and when. Who you are now and how to act in order to get where you want to go. I have some good news: it’s totally up to you. I also have some terrifying news: it’s totally up to you." -
@taylorswift13
"1. You have a right to want things and to want things to change.
2. Wanting is not enough. To change things you have to take over.
3. You have to stop being afraid."
—Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient
@MarinSanna
's three pieces of advice to
#NYU2023
.
@MarinSanna
—the youngest person, at the time of her appointment as Finland’s prime minister, ever to serve as a head of any government—receives a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, and will speak on behalf of all the honorees.
#NYU2023
2/2: Other than acts of violence, NYU does not consider any form of school disciplinary action as part of our admissions process. Therefore we would not take account of school discipline in a circumstance of peaceful protest on a pressing matter of national debate.
"There are not nearly enough women in leadership positions. Not nearly enough young people. Not enough people of different backgrounds in our democratic decision-making systems. The face of the power is not the same as the face of the people. And this has to change." —
@MarinSanna
"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are...doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something." —Neil Gaiman
"I’m hopeful that yet more people will feel empowered to embrace their disabled identity, and that everyone will finally realize that disability is difference - not deficiency." -
@judithheumann
THEY DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NYU Women's Basketball WINS the Division III National Championship with a 51-41 victory over Smith!!! They finish the season with a picture perfect record of 31-0.
And they have us all feeling some serious
#VioletPride
. 🏀
President Hamilton argues for reversing the 1996 Dickey Amendment, which outlawed the use of federal CDC funds to advocate for or promote gun control. “With more thorough research on mass shootings, we could start answering some critical questions”:
It was a big night for NYU at the
#Oscars
! 🤩💜🎉
Congratulations to:
• Professor Spike Lee (Tisch '82), Best Adapted Screenplay
• Mahershala Ali (Tisch '00), Best Supporting Actor
•
@ladygaga
(
@NYUTischSchool
), Best Original Song
More
#VioletPride
:
In the midst of a graduation season unlike any other, we're proud and moved to see the
@EmpireStateBldg
lit violet and white tonight in honor of our resilient
#NYU2020
grads. 💜
“Taylor Swift is one of the leading creative music entrepreneurs of the 21st century,” said
@CliveDavisInst
chair
@jasonkingsays
of the subject of a recent course taught by
@ohheybrittany
.
@WSJ
sat in as Swifties sharpened their critical thinking skills:
Today we mourn Aretha Franklin—“Queen of Soul,” winner of 18 Grammy Awards, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom—who received a Doctor of Fine Arts degree, honoris causa, from President John Sexton during NYU's 2014 Commencement ceremony.
NYU has received bomb threats for three locations: the Stern School of Business, Center for Neural Science, and Hebrew Union Collage (an independent institution). Police are responding. Buildings are being evacuated.
.
@clarkgregg
(
@NYUTischSchool
'86): "Avoid the sucking vortex of 'chasing work'—an often futile and soul deadening task for recent grads—by making, producing, and writing your own." Advice for
#NYU2018
:
NYU undergrad Bincheng Mao interviewed Canadian Prime Minister
@AKimCampbell
about gender equality, minority inclusion, and youth engagement in public service:
#VioletPride
"Both on our own and in association with other universities, NYU will be reaching out to Federal officials urging them to revoke or modify this rule." A statement from President Andrew Hamilton on the new ICE policy regarding international students:
Today we mourn US Congressman and civil rights legend John Lewis, who received a Doctor of Human Letters degree, honoris causa, from President Andrew Hamilton during NYU's 2016 Commencement ceremony at Yankee Stadium.
NYU grads—it’s all about you tonight! We’re turning the town violet & white in honor of
@nyuniversity
’s 2021 Commencement!
#NYU2021
📷: keankburke/IG
#ESBright
As the sun sets over Grad Alley tomorrow night, be sure to look up 5th Ave. to see the
@EmpireStateBldg
lit in
#NYU
violet in honor of
#NYU2019
! 🎓💜✨
The Empire State Building image ® is a registered trademark of ESRT Empire State Building, L.L.C. and is used with permission.
NYU has sent offers of admissions to the Class of 2027. From nearly 120,000 applicants, 8% received offers to attend NYU's New York campus—a record. The class includes 19% of students who identify as first in their families to attend college and 20% who are Pell Grant recipients.
This is the view from Kimmel right now, thanks to wildfires in Canada that have led to smoky, hazy conditions and an air quality alert in NYC. It's a good day to stay indoors! (NYUers: check your email for a message from Dr. Carlo Ciotoli, Vice President for Campus Health.)
The lights of the
@EmpireStateBldg
will glow violet tonight, May 16—the night before our all-University Commencement at
@yankeestadium
with speaker
@MarinSanna
—to salute our
#NYU2023
class. Catch them via webcam beginning at dusk and through 2 a.m. 🤩:
The NYU community mourns the death of Judith Heumann, human and disabled rights activist, recipient of an honorary doctorate from NYU in 2022, and admired commencement speaker for the classes of 2020 and 2021. She set an example for us all, and she will be missed.
An important update on new coronavirus-related measures: For NYU in NYC, from 3/11-13, classes will move to remote instruction, and will continue that way for 3/23-27 (after spring break).
“This is for anyone who has the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves and to hold on to the goodness in each other no matter how difficult it is to do that.” —Chloé Zhao (
@NYUTischSchool
) in her
#Oscars
acceptance speech for Best Director,
@nomadlandfilm
"We reconvene at Yankee Stadium with a renewed sense of appreciation for the act of celebrating together in person, a recognition of our graduates’ enormous achievements, and a respect for their character and perseverance."
#NYU2020
#NYU2021
#NYU2022
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NYU! 🎂 Albert Gallatin founded
#NYU
on this day in 1831. He said: "My wish was to devote what may remain of life to the establishment, in this immense and fast-growing city, of a general system of rational & practical education fitted for all &...opened to all."
"The goal is to allow aspiring physicians 'from all walks of life' pursue their passion with less stress, according to Dr. Robert Grossman, dean of
@nyuschoolofmed
and CEO of
@nyulangone
"
.
@JustinTrudeau
challenged graduates to summon the courage to be vulnerable to different points of view: "Do you want to win an argument, or do you want to change the world?"
#NYU2018
Jelena Kovačević—head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University—has been named dean of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is the first woman to hold the position in the 164 year history of the school.
Three campuses, three cities glowing violet in honor of our 2019 grads. 💜 From left: Empire State Building (NYC), ADNOC Headquarters (Abu Dhabi), Pearl Tower (Shanghai).
#TBT
Today, President Hamilton announced NYU's Hurricane Maria Assistance Program, which will allow—free of charge—qualified undergrads currently enrolled in accredited Puerto Rican colleges & universities to spend the Spring 2018 semester at NYU’s NYC campus:
In a message to the NYU community, President Andrew Hamilton called the events of Jan. 6 in Washington "the worst desecration of American democracy perhaps any of us have known" and a "heartbreaking, damaging, and disgraceful ordeal." Full statement: