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…

NYU placed an immediate hold on hiring and will lower salary increases for faculty and staff in response to the Trump administration’s threats to withdraw federal funding from research institutions and universities, President Linda Mills told faculty, administrators and staff on Monday. The joint-letter from Mills, Provost Georgina Dopico and Executive Vice President Martin Dorph stipulated that administrators have identified “a number of financial risk areas,” including federal threats to slash research spending, heightened tariffs and “a range of other proposals” that could influence the university’s budget for the 2025-26 academic year. An NYU spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the specific risks or long-term…

NYU Langone Health is partnering with an Israeli hospital to provide Israel Defense Forces soldiers with pioneering limb reconstructive surgeries and train local doctors to do the same, amid the country’s ongoing war in Gaza.  The initiative is facilitated by Israeli wound rehabilitation center Belev Echad, and partners NYU Langone’s Center for Amputation Reconstruction and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. NYU Langone surgeons will perform osseointegration procedures — which treat “complex limb injuries” by attaching prosthetics directly to a patient’s bone — and teach Israeli doctors how to replicate the surgery. In a statement to WSN, NYU Langone spokesperson Marlene Naanes said the CAR unit has previously provided advanced orthopedic…

NYU’s School of Law will offer a joint program with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit focused on advancing social justice through legal advocacy for wrongfully convicted incarcerated people, with an inaugural class set to begin work in September. The Innocence Project Post-Conviction Clinic will guide 12 second and third-year law students through direct work with clients who present strong claims of innocence, with some assignments tackling decades-old cases. During the yearlong program, students will open reinvestigations, search physical evidence and court records, and research legal arguments for wrongful convictions cases to support clients’ litigation. NYU Law dean Troy McKenzie said the two institutions had been looking to collaborate “for some…

NYU scientists developed a new framework to better understand how people set goals when trying to win a game, hit a benchmark or achieve some other objective. The researchers aimed to generate effective artificial intelligence models that can mimic human behavior in goal-oriented settings. First, researchers collected a dataset of human-generated goals by asking participants to describe a scorable game using objects such as cubes, balls and walls. Then, the researchers translated the games into a computer program to create “domain-specific language” — a programming language tailored to a specific goal — that modeled the semantics of human-created games’ rules and scoring methods.  “There’s wonderful work on what the utility…

The NYU School of Professional Studies has partnered with The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation to create a $5 million apprenticeship fund for students pursuing an associate of applied science in hospitality, with the degree offering set to launch in the spring 2026 semester.  Through the Workforce Apprentice Program, incoming SPS students will be able to complete up to 30 credits — half of what is needed to earn an associate’s degree — through a mentorship-focused work experience in the hospitality industry. The program will operate in tandem with New York City mayor Eric Adams’ “Apprenticeship Accelerator,” a 2023 initiative to support apprenticeships for 30,000 residents by 2030. …

Parents are more likely to read articles about the negative impacts of their children’s screen times than those that document a less consequential effect, NYU researchers found in a February study.   Steinhardt professor Erin O’Connor and Steinhardt doctoral student Robin Neuhaus, who co-authored the study, evaluated 136 articles about how excessive screen time affects the cognitive development of children. The researchers analyzed social media shares and engagement to quantify each articles’ success, and evaluated the article’s content — such as alarmist rhetoric and advice for readers — to measure its sensationalism. They also considered the articles’ scientific framing, assessing how extensively each story referenced a study. Researchers found that articles…