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Alumni In Action
Sam Berzok… to pursue the MPA-PNP degree, I was fascinated to take urban planning courses as well. What was your favorite …
Stories
NYU Wagner Students Demonstrate Exemplary Impact on the NYU CommunityThree NYU Wagner students and two NYU Wagner student organizations were honored at the 35th Annual President's Service Awards. The ceremony honored nearly 50 groups and 100 individual students from across the entire NYU community in NYC, Abu Dhabi, and …
Alumni In Action
Michelle R. Wong… finance, policy analysis, international development, and urban planning. After weighing all of these … service, so a range of public service interests--from urban planning to public finance--is reflected in our …
Publication
Maps Expand Asthma Hazards Awareness: GIS Helps Policy Makers See Where Childhood Asthma, Schools, and Pollution Sources Collide… important information for making decisions related to urban land-use planning and environmental policy. GIS …
Publication
Setting an Agenda for Local Action: The Limits of Expert Opinion and Community Voice… The experience of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Health Initiative suggests that although consultation …
News
A US-Colombia university collaboration launches the Colombian Studies: Past, Present, and Futures initiative… Tickner, from the Faculty of International, Political, and Urban Studies at URosario. Announcements and “save the dates” …
Publication
Perseverance Despite the Perception of Threat: Marginalized Students’ High Grit in Grad School and Implications for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Higher Education… a survey of graduate students over four years in a large urban university setting. Our results indicate that though …
Capstone Projects
Evaluation of "Where Women Have No Doctor" and "A Book for Midwives"… a case study of midwives who use the books in rural and urban Guatemala. The data collected from both aspects of the …
Faculty Profile
Julia Lane… has held positions at the National Science Foundation, The Urban Institute, The World Bank, American University and NORC …
News
NYU Wagner ranks high in U.S. News & World Report… City peer schools. In specialty areas, NYU Wagner is #1 in Urban Policy, #2 in Health Policy & Management, #4 in Public …
Doctoral Student
Poorvi Goel… economic vulnerability and labor market outcomes in urban contexts. Poorvi has seven years of prior professional …
News
Study Finds New York City's Small High School Reform "Lifted All Boats"… Leanna Stiefel and Amy Ellen Schwartz finds that small urban high schools produced better results than their larger … The article, entitled “Does Small High School Reform Lift Urban Districts: Evidence From New York,” investigates …
Capstone Projects
Development of a Marketing Strategy Toolkit for Providers to Facilitate Take-up of MicroinsuranceThe Microinsurance Innovation Facility (MIF), housed within the Social Finance Programme of the International Labour Organization, is a leader in investigating microinsurance as a solution to protecting low-income households against unexpected financial …
Publication
E-Hail Regulation in Global Cities… government regulation. Regulation targets the same urban challenges the services were expected, but have yet, to …
Faculty Profile
Alexander Gleason… a professor at The New School, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, the New York City College of Technology, and …
News
Gentrification: It's complicated… Michael Greenberg went toe-to-toe with Columbia University urban planning expert Lance Freeman in a thoughtful debate on …
Publication
Improving Language Access on NYC Transit… is considered one of the most linguistically diverse urban areas in the world. This report considers the need for …
Publication
State of New York City’s Housing and Neighborhoods, 2012… the crisis. In 2001, the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy released the first edition of the State of the …
Capstone Projects
SMART CURBS INITIATIVE… goal of the “Smart Curbs” pilot is to address the evolving urban transportation landscape marked by the e-commerce boom …
Faculty Profile
Sonia M. Ospina… Born in the U.S. to Colombian parents, Sonia grew up in urban Bogotá, where she got a BA in Education and worked in … She has now lived more than half her life in another great urban space, New York City, where she and her husband raised …
Publication
Causality vs. Correlation: Rethinking Research Design in the Case of Pedestrian Environments and Walking… and generally compares distinct neighborhoods, such as urban vs. suburban or transit-oriented vs. auto-dependent. …
Publication
Consumer Borrowing After Payday Loan BansHigh-interest payday loans have proliferated in recent years; so too have efforts to regulate them. Yet how borrowers respond to such regulations remains largely unknown. Drawing on both administrative and survey data, we exploit variation in …
Faculty Profile
Veronica Manning, MPAVeronica Manning is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Veronica is an experienced nonprofit executive, consultant, and facilitator. She has led multiple organizations focused on …
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CapstoneNYU 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 …