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2 months ago | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
LondonU.S. defender Naomi Girma is the most expensive player in women’s soccer history after transferring to Chelsea for $1.1 million.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
ParisSpanish midfielders Rodri and Aitana Bonmatí were honored as the best men’s and women’s soccer players at this year’s Ballon d’Or awards ceremony. Rodri won his first Ballon d’Or — an award presented by the magazine France Football since 1956 — following his fourth Premier League title with Manchester City and a European Championship victory with the Spanish national team.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
The Soapbox: Elections abroadThe Soapbox is a weekly column by WSN covering major news developments at NYU’s campuses and study away sites abroad. Global consciousness for a global university. Krish Dev, Director of Creative & Digital Strategy | Oct. 28, 2024 2024 has been a pivotal year for global democracy, with nearly half of the world’s population — the largest number of voters in history — taking part in democracy across more than 60 countries.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
NYU saw a sharp drop in enrollment from underrepresented minorities in its first class of students admitted after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action last year — a trend the university said was “concerning” in a Wednesday press release.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
At the start of the semester, NYU sent out the first two modules of its How We Engage Toolkit, including a Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy Training, to all students via Brightspace. While seemingly well-intentioned, this compulsory training is not only ineffective, but also requires students to attest to a new policy that continues the university’s crackdown on student speech.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hua Hsu, who wrote this year’s NYU Reads selection, told hundreds of students and faculty that “certain aspects” of a universitywide email from President Linda Mills that referenced his book made him “uncomfortable” and that it was not an “accurate reflection” of his words at a discussion on Monday.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
In France, Macron announces new prime ministerFrench President Emmanuel Macron announced conservative Michel Barnier as the nation’s new prime minister on Thursday, two months after the 2024 French legislative election left the country without a clear majority.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
Experimental play “If Words Could Talk,” written by Tisch sophomore Jenn Amelia Martin and directed by Tisch junior Stéphanie Stowers, opened to a full audience at Theater For the New City as part of this year’s Dream Up Festival. The play explores love, cyclical grief and the mother-daughter relationship between characters: Ali (Tisch sophomore Maya Gelber), who has passed away, and Mama (Tisch alum Juyeon Song), who survived.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev
NYU president Linda Mills encouraged students to be a “model for others” in a Wednesday email as the university nears the start of a new academic year amid a “drumbeat of division” and on-campus protests against the war in Gaza — some of which Mills said “escalated in violation” of the university’s standards. In the email, Mills said “many of us” spent the summer “trying to do better” and reflecting on on-campus tensions in response to the war.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
nyunews.com | Krish Dev |Rory Lustberg
NYU president Linda Mills welcomed thousands of first-year students at two showings of the Presidential Welcome Reality Show at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday. The show, a biannual event at the university, took place at 9:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. and featured a speech from Mills, as well as a musical sketch performed by students. “For some of you, this is your first time at NYU — it might be your first time ever setting foot in New York City,” Mills said.
