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Creating the Next Generation of Leaders through Quality Academic Instruction and Cultural Immersion
When Jeff Robinson (MPA-PNP) learned that he could use his former experiences inside the classroom to eliminate learning loss and create a pipeline for student success from middle school to high school in his hometown, he knew he had the opportunity to combine his passion with action.
Creating Sustainable Solutions in Developing Countries through Gender Equality
As a summer analyst within the Africa Gender Innovation Lab at the World Bank, Handaa Enkh-Amgalan supported the analysis and research of the organization’s impact evaluation projects focusing on women's economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
How a Wagner Associate Dean Helped Bring the AIDS Crisis to the Big Screen
David Schachter reflects on starring in the first feature film about the disease.
NYU Wagner Capstone Team works with alumna to improve education in Nicaragua coffee fields
NYU Wagner alumna Kristin Van Busum founded Project Alianza, which provides educational opportunities for children at risk of child labor in rural coffee communities, and she enlisted a Capstone team to help figure out how to expand the organization's reach.
WAGTalk: Atul Pokharel, "Communities and Fairness: From Irrigation Canals to Cryptocurrencies"
What do thousand-year-old irrigation canals have in common with digital cryptocurrency? Both are examples of community-governed shared infrastructure. Professor Pokharel will examine some of the possibilities and limits of communities for fairly governing shared infrastructure—both digital and physical—using his work on farmer-managed irrigation canals in Nepal.
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Health Spending In 2017: What Policy Can Do, And What It Can’t
Sherry Glied in Health Affairs
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Affordable Care Act: Sherry Glied
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Presidency: Tim Naftali; Paul Light
December 7, 2018
NYU Wagner’s Amy Auton-Smith (EMPA 2018) presented FairFrame, an AI-enabled language processing platform, at the Barclays Techstars Demo Day and the AI Summit at the Javits Centre in New York this week. FairFrame, cofounded by Auton-Smith and Paul Becker (EMPA 2018) with team members Maham Khan (Gallatin) and Vishwali Mhasawade (Tandon), is a product designed to help managers make informed decisions about people in the workplace, helping organizations to achieve their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals. #NYUWagner