A hacker took over NYU’s website for at least two hours Saturday morning to expose over 3 million applicants’ names, test scores, majors and zip codes, as well as information related to family members and financial aid dating back to at least 1989.  The university’s website was restored at around noon. The hacked page displayed three charts with what the group claims to be NYU’s average admitted SAT scores, ACT scores and GPAs for the 2024-25 admissions cycle. The group argued that despite the Supreme Court’s takedown of affirmative action in 2023, “NYU continued anyway,” showing that the average admitted test scores and GPAs for Asian and white applicants were…

NYU leadership warned international students and faculty to avoid “non-essential travel” over spring break in a Thursday email following the Trump administration’s travel ban that targets the citizens of 43 countries.  Jason Pina, the senior vice president for university life, and Sherif Barsoum, associate vice president of global services, wrote in the email that they had spoken with international students and faculty from countries currently facing restrictions and advised them to refrain from travel until policy implications for student visas are clarified.  “While we are not extending that same guidance to our entire international community, we would suggest that if you are uneasy or have some hesitancy about international travel…

Faculty at the School of Law criticized the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration and threats to international community members at a forum on Wednesday.  Alina Das, a speaker at the forum and co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic, told WSN that the clinic will hire a second attorney amid heightened fear of federal immigration enforcement. NYU has touted the clinic as a resource for immigration-related procedures to international students — who comprised almost half of total enrollment last academic year — since creating the program during the first Trump administration.  “We have a staff attorney and we’re in the process of hiring a second attorney,” Das said in an interview…

NYU Langone Health has partnered with Amazon to install new palm-scanning sensors in its New York City hospitals that patients can use to identify themselves before appointments with heightened efficiency and security. It is the first health care institution to adopt the technology, called Amazon One — which is slated for availability at all the medical center’s locations by this summer.  Although the hospital center already used contactless palm scanners for check-ins, the Amazon technology was introduced with aims to reduce patient wait times — from around two to three minutes per patient to under one minute — and minimize the strain of front desk staffing shortages. Nader Mherabi, NYU…