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Five Wagner Alumni Named in City & State's 2022 Nonprofit Power 100Five NYU Wagner alumni have been named in City & State’s Nonprofit Power 100 for 2022. This award recognizes the invaluable and often overlooked role that nonprofits play in working to improve the lives of the most vulnerable New Yorkers. The leaders …
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Identifying predictors of opioid overdose death at a neighborhood level with machine learningR. C. Schell, B. Allen, W. C. Goedel, B. D. Hallowell, R. Scagos, Y. Li, M. S. Krieger, D. B. Neill, B. D. L. Marshall, M. Cerda, and J. …
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Learning in Place: Immigrant Spatial and Temporal Strategies for Occupational AdvancementStudies of low-wage workers have long recognized the role of space in mediating access to employment. Significantly less attention has been paid to the ways in which space informs workers' ability to develop the attributes that would make them more …
Faculty Profile
Allen Zerkin… initiatives, extensive stakeholder interviews that lead to recommendations and final discussions, and …
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Dear Chief Executive Officer: The Perceptions of a Recently Discharged PatientDetails the hospital experience of a health professional who underwent cardiac arterial bypass graft on the said urban medical center. Errors or potential errors that were cited in the way that ancillary staff, nurses and even some physicians failed in or …
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Confrontation and loss of control: Masculinity and men’s fear in public spaceExisting research typically examines fear in publicspace from women's perspectives. To date, environment–behavior researchers have largely overlooked men'sfear in publicspace, and the role of masculinity in shaping men's perceptions of fear and safety. …
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Insight from Hindsight: The New Education Finance of the Next DecadeInsight comes from hindsight. By reviewing enduring problems in education finance and policy, observing what we did right and seeing when we were surprised and why, we can identify research issues that we missed, avoid similar mistakes in the future, and …
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Learning from Diversity: A Comparison of Non-Profit and For-Profit OrganizationsNon-profit and for-profit organizations are both engaging with the opportunities and challenges of a demographically diverse workforce. However, their different missions, structures and constituencies can result in varied approaches to addressing …
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The Collapse of the World Trade Center: Learning from Urban DisastersThe collapse of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, was one of the worst urban disasters in the history of the United States. Almost 3,000 people perished as a result of the disaster. The economy was dealt a severe blow, the …
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Vice Dean and Professor Anthony Bertelli Elected as NAPA FellowAnthony M. Bertelli, NYU Wagner's Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of the Politics of Public Policy, has been elected to serve as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). NAPA was established under a Congressional …
Stories
Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Richard Buery in Conversation with Congressman Hakeem Jeffries… who represents large parts of Brooklyn and Queens, was the lead Democratic sponsor of the FIRST STEP Act , a bipartisan …
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Student SpotlightQuamid Francis "What was valuable for me at NYU Wagner was being connected with other first-generation college students and the platform we were provided to share our stories. This is what led to my network expanding and, as a consequence, the …
Capstone Projects
IMPROVING MONITORING, EVALUATION, AND LEARNING TOOLS FOR LONG-TERM IMPACT ASSESSMENTThe Uganda Village Project (UVP) is a nonprofit organization that facilitates community health and well-being projects in rural Uganda. Their programming focuses on access to education and preventative services for HIV/AIDS, malaria, reproductive health, …
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The Pearls and Pitfalls of Initiating a Neurosurgery Discharge Huddle: One Institution's Experience… patients. Literature has shown that disjointed care can lead to poor utilization of resources and suboptimal …
Capstone Projects
Improving Process and Providing Measurement Tools for the Early Learning GroupChildren of Bellevue (COB) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to initiating, funding and developing special programs, and to acting as an advocate for children and their families within Bellevue Hospital Center. The Early Learning Group (ELG), a …
Capstone Projects
Documentation and Analysis of the City of New Yorks Heat, Light, and PowerNew York City currently spends over $500 million on the energy required to run city government operations. The Capstone team evaluated the computer model the City uses to forecast those costs for budget purposes. The model estimates costs for …
Alumni In Action
Hailey Adler… to NYU Wagner? Before NYU Wagner, I served as a Project Lead in Patient Care Services at Hospital for Special Surgery …
Alumni In Action
Michelle Yanche… In partnership with the board and staff, I lead Good Shepherd Services, which is one of New York City's …
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Merit-Based Scholarships… enrollment. NYU Wagner is not a Segal matching program. Lead for America and/or American Connection Corps …
Publication
From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment… calendar year, and mothers’ labor force participation lead to lower extrapolation error. As experimental evidence …
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How New York Housing Policies Are Different -- and Maybe Why… and building codes. Do unusual housing market conditions lead to these unusual policies? Do some common factors cause …
Alumni In Action
Julissa SorianoCan you tell us a bit about your job responsibilities? In the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development, I investigate and mediate claims of housing discrimination brought forth by the public and determine whether there has been a violation under the …
News
Professor Vanessa L. Deane Receives Award for Paper On Haiti's Institutional Challenges NYU Wagner Professor Vanessa L. Deane is the winner of the Outstanding Decentralization Paper Award for Latin America and the Caribbean (2021/22). This blog post provides a summary overview of her paper, "Towards a Decentralized Haitian State: The …
Capstone Projects
Responding to Exponential Organizational Growth with Limited Resources… linguistic, and cultural barriers to healthcare, which lead to racial and ethnic disparities in access to health …