Academics

Antonios Vouloudis helped Abu Dhabi adapt to the climate crisis. Now, as the inaugural Director of Sustainability and Stewardship, he’s helping to advance sustainability efforts at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Biology and Genomics Professor Stephen Small wants you to love life science as much as he does.

Michele Crespo-Fierro teaches future nurses to always put the patient first.

Gallatin professor Millery Polyné connects students to the Caribbean through in-depth Caribbean studies courses.

Students of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai work with Professor Anna Greenspan to study the intersection of technology, art, and society.

"The Core Curriculum is an opportunity for students to discover interests and passions in disciplines they didn't know. We engage with topics from a local and global perspective. It is a holistic, well-rounded set of classes of a student’s choosing, in four different categories and with two seminar-based colloquium courses."

Learn how NYU professor Wendy Suzuki taps into the neuroscience of exercise in her lab, in the classroom, and in her life.

This Big Ideas Course Series brings together students and speakers from across disciplines—and around the world—to academically explore important topics and challenges. In the Identity course, they joined forces to discuss the complicated nature of identity through many lenses.

This NYU Trailblazers session explains how can we work to make our globalized system of fashion more sustainable and more ethical.

In this undergraduate history course, NYU students across the world look to history to understand the present—and find hope for the future.