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    INCREASING IMPACT BY IDENTIFYING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR KEY INTERNATIONAL ISSUES The Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens (BKMC) is committed to promoting human dignity and protecting the planet. With support from corporate funding, BKMC highlights international issues in the areas of climate and sustainability, public health, and …
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    Time Thieves: A New Computer-Driven Traffic Model Reveals the “Time Costs” of TrafficSpace and time are joined, pronounced Einstein at the start of the 20th Century, detonating a revolution in physics that still reverberates. Nowadays, drivers connect space and time a bit differently: they discover daily that taking up space takes away …
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    The evolution of infant mortality and neighbourhood inequalities in four world cities: 1988–2016Objectives: To determine the level of neighbourhood ine-qualities in infant mortality (IM) rates in the urban core of four world cities and to examine the association betweenneighbourhood-level income and IM. We compare our findings with those published …
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    Tuberculosis: History and Its DiscontentsBy Kayla M. Foster (MPA 2025) “Underfunded, underdiagnosed, and undertreated.” These are the characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) highlighted by  Dr. Carole Mitnick as she primed the standing-room only crowd …
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    Your Alumni News for September 2018Dear Alumni, Happy first week of fall! I’m excited to introduce myself as the new Director of Alumni Relations at NYU Wagner. For the past four years, I’ve been a proud member of the Wagner community as Assistant Director with the Office of Career …
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    Bolstering the Housing Safety Net: The Promise of Automatic StabilizersWhile social insurance programs help to buffer the effects of economic downturns, these programs have many gaps in coverage. In the face of income losses and unexpected expenses, households are not able to quickly adjust housing consumption. Homeowners …
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    Centralization of Radical Prostatectomy in the United States… hospitals with the greatest volume increases are specialty centers already performing a high volume of radical …
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    How Immigrants—and Their Kids—Have Remade New York CityAs part of the annual Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum on May 9, NYU Wagner hosted a lecture and discussion on the impact of immigration on New York City featuring Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. More …
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    The Rise and Fall of a Micro-Learning Region: Mexican Immigrants and Construction in Center-South PhiladelphiaThis paper documents the rise and fall of a micro-learning region in Philadelphia. The central actors in this region are undocumented Mexican immigrants who until recently were able to draw on the intensity of their workplace interactions and their …
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    Study Finds New York City's Small High School Reform "Lifted All Boats"     A new study by NYU Wagner professors Leanna Stiefel and Amy Ellen Schwartz finds that small urban high schools produced better results than their larger counterparts, and “lifted all boats” across all types of schools, whether large or small, old or …
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    New York Building Congress and NYU Wagner Launch New Fellowship to Expand Research and Advocacy ProgramsThe New York Building Congress and NYU Wagner have partnered to launch a new Fellowship in Urban Policy and Planning. The Fellowship Program places Wagner graduate students into part-time employment with the Building Congress. The program offers graduate …
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    SI3 Student + Alumni Speed NetworkingBy Loren Sass (MPA 2025) and the SIIA Board On December 1, 2023, the Social Innovation & Investment Alliance (SIIA) graduate student group, co-hosted its first Student + Alumni Speed Networking event! Think speed dating, but with a professional twist. The …
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    Student GroupsAll Wagner Student Groups and Organizations are open to any interested Wagner student Wagner Student Association (WSA) As the school’s governing association, WSA fosters community, promotes leadership and professional development opportunities, …
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    Prof. Mitchell Moss Named to Gubernatorial Panel on NYC Traffic and Transit ConcernsMitchell L. Moss , professor of urban policy & planning at NYU Wagner, has been named to a new advisory panel formed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to come up with proposals to address traffic congestion on New York City roads and highways, while producing …
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    Office of Alumni RelationsOffice of Alumni Relations   ALUMNI RELATIONS AND STUDENT GROUPS The Office of Alumni Relations (OAR) can be a helpful resource as you plan events and programs. Whether you’re looking to secure alumni panelists for a career-focused program, host a …
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    New Academic Year Features Five New Full-Time FacultyAs we welcome our students, faculty, and staff to the start of the 2017-18 academic year, NYU Wagner is thrilled to issue a special welcome to our five newest full-time faculty members: Thom Blaylock, Atul Pokharel, Travis St. Clair, Martha Stark, and …
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    "Shaping Tomorrow Today: Evaluating and Implementing Long-Term Decisions"In March 2009, the RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition hosted a workshop called “Shaping Tomorrow Today: Near-Term Steps Towards Long-Term Goals.” The workshop gave policymakers and analysts an …
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    NYU Wagner President's Service Award Recipients for 2017On April 13, one NYU Wagner student and three NYU Wagner student organizations were honored at the 33rd Annual President's Service Awards . The ceremony, held at the NYU Kimmel Center for University Life, honored more than 40 groups and nearly 100 …
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    Getting AroundMetropolitan Transportation Association (MTA) Trip Planner Website : Visit the MTA Trip Planner site to get custom directions and the quickest transit routes between two destinations. MTA TravelTime Apps :  Visit the MTA site to download their TravelTime …
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    Recent & Upcoming ProjectsAnnouncing the Release of Launching the MicroBuild Fund, a First-of-its-Kind Impact Investing Case Study Launching the MicroBuild Fund, developed in partnership with The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Law, explores the …
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    Professor Mitchell Moss named to MTA advisory boardNYU Wagner Professor Mitchell L. Moss has been named to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority panel formed to provide advice to the agency's leadership on the execution of the just-announced New York City Subway Action Plan. Moss is the Henry Hart Rice …
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    Alumni Spotlight: Mustafa Babak (Global EMPA 2017)Where do you work? I am the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Afghan-American Foundation (AAF), a non-profit organization founded in 2020 to elevate and advance the interests of Afghan-Americans through policy and cultural advocacy, education, …
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    Climate Resilience Strategies to Mitigate the Risk of Climate ChangeBy: Katherine Key (MUP)   On Wednesday, October 2, NYU Wagner hosted Matthew Kahn as part of this year’s Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum. Professor Kahn, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics at John Hopkins University (JHU) and the director …
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    How to Be an Effective Activist: 90-Minute Training in Nonviolent Action Draws 400Amid increased grassroots protests nationwide since the 2016 elections, about 400 students and others came together for a 90-minute training on nonviolent action hosted by NYU Wagner and the school's Taub Professor of Practice in Public Service and …
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