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Alumni Spotlight: AiLun Ku (MPA 2008)… at NYU Wagner, the Equal Justice Initiative, and the Research Center for Leadership in Action, among other social impact organizations. When asked to reflect on how she got to …
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Driving Social Change: How to Solve the World's Toughest Problems… and replace the prevailing wisdom. Based on the latest research from author, professor, and Washington Post online … even more extraordinary is the creation of durable social impact through whatever means necessary. Driving Social …
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MUP Links and Resources… Planning Association is a non-profit public interest and research organization representing 30,000 practicing … message of the list of past influences is the overwhelming impact of the federal government on the American metropolis, …
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Announcing the 2021 Herbert Roback Scholarship Winners… to increase state minimum wages. This spring, as a research assistant at the NYU Furman Center, she contributed research and writing to the Furman Center's collection of … who craft them, and the researchers who study their impact. Celebrate this year’s winners at the 2021 National …
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Health & Wellness… sensitivity, and equal opportunity in academic excellence, research, teaching, scholarship, and service. New York …
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Passengers’ Travel Behavior before and after the adjustment of Regular Bus Collinear Sections: A Case study in the Incipient Phase of Metro Operation in Xiamen… routes along the metro corridor. This paper evaluates the impact of the introduction of a new metro system on the … collinear section becomes longer or shorter. Further, the research results indicate that passengers on the collinear …
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Intersecting Sectors? The Connection Between Nonprofit and Government Spending… merged with charitable spending, we empirically test our research question. Overall, we find a positive correlation …
Alumni In Action
Charles Cohen… building. I chose Wagner because it allowed me to work, research, and learn in New York City, the greatest metropolis … was something I really wanted. Please describe what impact you hope to make through your career and/or organization? I hope that I can make a real impact on the overall accessibility of the city's subway and …
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Enduring inequalities: Revascularization before and after the ACA… We use data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)'s National Inpatient Sample (NIP) …
Alumni In Action
Peter Grace… of the Office of Strategic Planning, Technology and Research at the New York City Department of Housing … all program improvement, information technology and research activities with those priorities. Prior to my … development? How? Ingrid Gould Ellen had a significant impact on my interest and development in the area of housing …
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NYU Tandon and Wagner project to look below the surface to make NYC more resilient… the NYU Tandon School of Engineering , and Rae Zimmerman , Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Planning and … global consortium of 500 businesses, government agencies, research organizations, and universities united with a desire …
Alumni In Action
Nick Molinari… park development initiatives and environmental assessment/impact reviews for the Parks Department. It also files grant … the Agency at project meetings, determining courses of action to resolve community problems and needs, and propose … These courses required critical thinking and independent research which is quite similar to the work that I now do on …
Alumni In Action
Seth Kerr… a rail system, and the World Trade Center campus, so the impact of reaching a zero-waste goal is great. What were you … I managed medical logistics for hospitals and medical research in Germany and Kenya. While in Kenya, I supported … urban planning. Second, I wanted a curriculum focused on action and tangible impact. Wagner is all about how we do …
Alumni In Action
Luciana Mermet… made my time in NY easier. I also worked part time as a research assistant with the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) in my second year. …
Alumni In Action
Anne Montesano… a lot of the incredible work that RFA is doing. What impact do you hope to make through your career and/or … journey has been to try and figure out where I can make an impact. RFA is working on systems-wide change. The work I’m … Ingrid Gould Ellen, where we had to read complicated research and policy articles and challenge some of the …
News
Grameen Foundation appoints NYU Wagner grad Fernando Henao Velasco as Country Director for Colombia … of the Colombian Corporation for Agriculture and Livestock Research (Corpoica), the government agency that leads research and technology transfer for farmers. He also worked …
Alumni In Action
Margaret diZerega… Program at the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera). The research shows that when people who are incarcerated stay …
Publication
Twitter Response to the United States Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations against Screening with Prostate Specific AntigenObjective : To examine public and media response to the United States Preventive Services Task Force's (USPSTF) draft (October 2011) and finalized (May 2012) recommendations against prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing using Twitter, a popular social …
Alumni In Action
Marc Minor… accountability and using complex modeling to evaluate the impact of our actions, were given a lower priority than …
Faculty Profile
Hewett Chiu… Network; as a Founding Committee Member of the Make An Impact Data Advisory Council; on the Advisory Council of the … Board; and on the NYU Langone Traumatic Brain Injury Research Advisory Council. In 2022, he was invited to join …
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CYC: The S.E.E. Strategies… of NYU Wagner's faculty? (e.g. which professors have done research or are working in my fields of interest, are there … and how the external environment is shifting in ways that impact your field. Note the authors whose work had the most impact on you from class assignments and see what else they …
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Allen Zerkin… of fare restructuring options. Conducting stakeholder research For the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and …
Stories
#MyWagnerLife: Ashley Putnam (MPA-PNP)… For more information on Professor Elcott (his background, research, and courses he teaches), check out …