On Monday, Feb. 17, CAS senior Kaya Walker publicly resigned as president of the NYU College Republicans after facing backlash for calling Stern first-year Barron Trump “an oddity on campus” in an interview with Vanity Fair. Both her comments and her resignation were reported by major publications like The New York Times, People Magazine and The Daily Mail. In the wake of the controversy and in response to Walker’s “inappropriate” words, Will Donahue, the president of the College Republicans of America, invited Trump to join the student organization. Over one month after her resignation, Walker opened up to WSN about her side of the story. She discussed what it is…

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s rollbacks on environmental policies, NYU’s Institute for Policy Integrity is gearing up to tackle the administration’s executive orders countering climate-friendly legislation. Housed at the School of Law, the institute hosts NYU researchers as they work with lawyers and economists to guide federal and state government decisions that promote sustainable environmental and energy policies.  Since its founding in 2008, the IPI’s research has helped advocate for environmental proposals facing scrutiny in the U.S. Supreme Court, improved calculations on the impact of atmospheric carbon dioxide and more. The non-partisan think tank publishes evaluations of policies with environmental implications, such as a recently-reintroduced act requiring that…

NYU’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which sued the federal government last week for its detainment of noncitizens on college campuses protesting the war in Gaza, asked a Massachusetts court on Tuesday to block the Trump administration from carrying out mass arrests and deportations of student and faculty protesters during the ongoing lawsuit.  The March 25 complaint — in conjunction with AAUP chapters at Harvard University and Rutgers University, as well as the Middle East Studies Association — claims the government has arbitrarily discriminated against noncitizens and created a “climate of repression and fear” on university campuses. It specifically challenges the detainments of nine pro-Palestinian protesters over…

An NYU Langone cardiologist led nationwide efforts to update guidelines on treating acute coronary syndrome and reducing the risk of heart attacks in patients. The guidelines, which recommend that doctors use modern technologies and treatments in line with NYU’s practices, had not been updated since 2013.  The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association published the guidelines on ACS — a condition characterized by restricted blood flow to the heart — in a February report. Sunil Rao, the director of interventional cardiology at NYU Langone Health, chaired a committee tasked with writing the guidelines. Nearly 1.2 million people in the United States are hospitalized with ACS symptoms each…

NYU Langone Health tapped Alec Kimmelman to succeed Robert Grossman as its next CEO and dean of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Kimmelman, who directs the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center and chairs the radiation oncology department, will begin his term in September. The medical center’s board of trustees voted unanimously to appoint Kimmelman, concluding a 10-month search for a replacement. Grossman, who has led NYU Langone since 2007, will step down as CEO and dean of the medical school in August.  “I am humbled and excited to be the next CEO and dean of NYU Langone and appreciate the confidence the Board of Trustees and the search…

NYU is facing 10 class action lawsuits alleging that it mishandled applicants’ personal information and failed to meet national cybersecurity standards after a hacker leaked files with more than 3 million names, hometowns and GPAs on the university’s website last week.  The lawsuits, each filed by an individual applicant, claim that NYU’s cybersecurity practices do not follow guidelines set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Center for Internet Security, leaving those who applied to the school at risk of identity theft. Cybersecurity experts Zack Ganot and Arnaud de Saint Méloir, who help run databreach.com, told WSN that the amount of information included in the files —…

NYU’s Center for Neural Science relocated an event co-hosted by an Israeli scientific institute last week to keep it “secured from disruptive protest,” the director of the center told event registrants in an email obtained by WSN. The move from the Silver Center for Arts & Science to the NYU Grossman School of Medicine came after pro-Palestinian groups on campus publicized plans to protest the meeting. At the annual event, “Progress in Neuroscience: The Forseen and the Unforseen,” neuroscience researchers from NYU and the Weizmann Institute of Science — a research school with ties to the Israeli military and weapon manufacturers amid its ongoing siege in Gaza — were set…

The two candidates for next year’s Student Government Assembly chairperson are slated to begin campaigning on Thursday, after being officially approved at the group’s last meeting before spring break. The candidates are running in SGA’s first popular election, which will allow the NYU student body to vote rather than leaving it up to members of the student government. The approvals came after around an hour of deliberations, where candidates discussed how to handle political concerns on campus and advocate for international and minority students. While there were three applications for the position, one candidate did not show up and subsequently did not advance. The other two candidates will now be…