As seen in Popular Mechanics. The Air Force and Whole Foods top this year’s Green Power Top 25 list, released annually by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to commend organizations for buying renewable energy from solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2006
First GAs’ Stipends To Be Cut at NYU
As seen in The New York Times. NEW YORK — NYU will cut the stipends of several striking graduate assistants who continue to abandon their teaching assignments for the spring semester, WSN has learned. Letters indicating the cuts, sent from … Continue reading
J-dep’t unveils new req’s for majors
As seen in the Washington Square News. The journalism department announced sweeping changes to its undergraduate curriculum Friday intended to strengthen students’ reporting skills and counter the department’s reputation as an easy major. Set to launch in the fall, the … Continue reading
Staying Cool Under Pressure
As seen in Popular Mechanics. No one working under deadline wants a power failure to blow the air conditioning, providing yet one more reason to break into a sweat. That’s why engineers funded by the California Energy Commission have developed … Continue reading
Center helps students cope with strike
As seen in the Washington Square News. The Academic Resource Center has been a timely and useful tool since its inception for managing the effects of the graduate assistant strike, NYU students said in a recent informal survey conducted by … Continue reading
NYU official named in racial suit
As seen in the Washington Square News. A federal judge will review a Stanford University alumnus’s lawsuit against two NYU administrators for racial discrimination allegedly perpetrated during their employment at Stanford five years ago, according to a court document obtained … Continue reading
Unwrapping The Galaxy
As seen in Popular Mechanics. When Rochester Institute of Technology astronomers peeled off a layer of Milky Way, it wasn’t caramel and nougat that they found inside. They discovered a massive star cluster on the verge of exploding. The group … Continue reading