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Whether you visit us in-person or wander from where you are, we've got you covered.  There are multiple ways you can get to know our campus locations within New York City.

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Experience the campus without walls with an undergraduate admissions information session, ambassador-led tour, self-guided tour, on demand video tour, or virtual interactive exploration.  We have many options for the many things you can accomplish at NYU.  

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NYU MakerSpace

Upcoming Virtual MakerSpace Workshops!

The MakerSpace is excited to announce the upcoming workshops that are open to all NYU students, staff, and faculty! Due to COVID-19 restrictions, all workshops will be held virtually this semester. We hope to see you at one of the following workshops and that you have all been staying safe!

Our first virtual workshop, EG Series: Intro to Circuitry , will take place on September 15th from 12:30 – 2:00 PM. This workshop will focus on introductory concepts of circuitry such as circuit components, translating circuit diagrams into breadboard circuits, and learning how to build your very own blinker circuit! The materials involved in this virtual workshop include: jumper cables, LEDs, breadboards, resistors, transistors, capacitors, a personal computer, and a TinkerCAD account. To register for this workshop, please visit our Eventbrite page, which can be found here .

Do you want to learn more about recycling, what NYC is doing to help, and Sims operations? Join us on the next virtual workshop, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Tour , on September 15th from 4:00 – 5:00 PM . This workshop is a virtual field trip featuring photos, videos, and graphics detailing recycling in NYC and operations at Sims! Here you will be guided by a Sims recycling expert as you discover the expansive system of equipment which sorts hundreds of tons of metal, glass, and plastic each day, explore the 8,000 square foot Recycling Education Center with virtual displays and informational videos, and see sustainability in action with the city’s only commercial-scale wind turbine, native plants, storm water management, and marine habitats. This virtual tour will also include the opportunity for a Q&A session. This tour is part of the 2020 Design Week organized by the Design Lab at the NYU MakerSpace. Learn more about Sims and register for the virtual field trip here !

Interested in fashion designs and wearables? Do you want to learn more about basic design principles? You’re in luck! This workshop, Hand Sewing and Embroidery , will take place on September 16th from 6:30 to 7:30 PM. Here, you will learn the basics of hand-sewing and embroidery in order to innovate and add your own touch of creativity to your clothes! We will go over basic stitches, borders, and patterns that you can incorporate into your own wardrobe or pattern pieces if you’re constructing a garment. Attendees will design multi-perspective and creative products using basic sewing construction and portray their creations in a professionally appealing way. To register for this workshop, please visit our event page, which can be found here .

The last workshop of this week, Intro to Arduino , will be on September 18th from 2:00 – 3:30 PM. This workshop will focus on the fundamental concepts of an Arduino board and navigating the Arduino interface. We will cover the basics of Arduino including: the different ways to use an Arduino Uno Board, how to program the board in the Arduino IDE, how to wire a breadboard, basic syntax, coding, and common functions. Participants will also work on a project and make a circuit that simulates a blinking LED.  To attend this virtual workshop, please register for the event by visiting our Eventbrite page, which can be found here .

More workshops will be posted soon so be sure to look out for those and check out the calendar for a list of upcoming events for September. We look forward to seeing you at our workshops this week!

Published March 01, 2023

Meet Me at NYU: Plan Your Campus Tour

Cindy Nowicki

Associate Director of Content Strategy and Development

How do you know if NYU is right for you ? You can read all about what makes college here different and the many opportunities you won’t find anywhere else. Still, nothing compares to experiencing NYU for yourself by planning a campus tour!

On a campus tour, you’ll visit the buildings where you will grow as a scholar and person. For example, you’ll check out the residence halls where you will build community. You’ll get a feel for the city’s energy and how it motivates everyone who calls NYU home. What’s more, perhaps most important, you’ll meet students and learn what it’s like to go to college here directly from the source. Even if NYU has been your dream school for years, taking a campus tour is one of the best ways to find out if it is the college for you.

Meet Me in New York City

Can you picture yourself here.

There’s something special about being on a corner outside the College of Arts and Science , the Stern School of Business , or any other NYU building and witnessing students go about their day. You’ll observe an incredible amount of diversity , creativity, and passion for learning. Our student population includes people from many backgrounds and perspectives, with just as many interests. Therefore, no matter who you are, you can find like-minded people at NYU.

Campus Without Walls

What makes NYU different from other colleges, even those located in New York City, is the lack of walls or gates separating the University from the rest of the city. For example, on a single block, you’ll find the NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development ; a friendly, all-gender hair salon; and a Mexican restaurant. At NYU, the city is both your home and your classroom . And a campus tour is a great way to begin to understand just what that means! 

A High-Tech Home Base in Brooklyn for Engineering and the Arts

Your campus tour could take you across the East River , a short ride from NYU’s campus in Greenwich Village, to one of the city’s newest hubs for technology, science, business, and the creative arts: Downtown Brooklyn. This dynamic, growing neighborhood is home to the NYU Tandon School of Engineering as well as exciting programs in the Tisch School of the Arts that merge art and technology. For example, the Game Design , Interactive Media Arts , and Recorded Music programs call Downtown Brooklyn home. Here, opportunities to learn and collaborate abound.

TIP: Start with a Virtual Tour

Can’t wait to experience it all in person? While you’re counting down to your campus visit, get a head start with a virtual tour . Explore NYU’s most important buildings like Bobst Library, the Department of Campus Safety, and the Tandon MakerSpace. As you go, note any questions or observations that come up.

We Can’t Wait to Show You Around

Whether you’re visiting the NYU campus in Greenwich Village or Downtown Brooklyn, you will be welcomed by a team of student ambassadors and admissions staff eager to ensure you learn what you need to make an informed college decision.

Your visit will start with an information session led by an NYU admissions counselor. There, you’ll get an overview and have the chance to ask any application-related questions you might have.

Next, a student ambassador will take you around campus and share what it’s like to be an NYU student. You’ll tour Bobst Library, the Kimmel Center for University Life , a first-year residence hall , and different types of classrooms. You can take as many photos as you’d like and ask any questions along the way. The size of tour groups is kept small on purpose, so each visitor has a personalized experience.

What’s more, during check-in, you’ll receive a 10 percent discount voucher to the campus bookstore. So you can pick up some NYU merch at the end of your tour.

Meet Me in Abu Dhabi

Visiting NYU Abu Dhabi in person is just a preview of what being part of this inclusive, globally minded learning community is like. As you explore the modern, 38-acre campus , you’ll take in the places where you will live, learn, and make lifelong friends.

At the heart of NYU Abu Dhabi is the Campus Center. Students go there to study, enjoy meals, and take advantage of the library and athletic facilities. On your tour, you’ll also visit the Conference Center, home to the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute; the Experimental Research Building, which supports cross-disciplinary collaboration; and the Arts Center, with its state-of-the-art theatres, rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and more.

Getting Around

NYU Abu Dhabi is located on Saadiyat Island, just outside downtown Abu Dhabi. The campus is a short taxi or car ride from Abu Dhabi’s airport and about an hour drive from Dubai. Saadiyat is known as Abu Dhabi’s cultural district, with the recently opened Louvre Abu Dhabi and forthcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and Natural History Museum. Therefore, before or after your campus tour, you and your family can go downtown to explore the city by public bus, bike shares and e-scooters, or abra (water taxi).

Meet Me in Shanghai

Your exploration of NYU Shanghai begins with a tour of the brand-new Qiantan campus and the city of Shanghai—all from your smartphone or computer.

A New Home for NYU Shanghai

NYU Shanghai’s campus, located in the Qiantan district of Pudong, just opened in spring 2023. Qiantan, also known as the New Bund, is one of Shanghai’s newest neighborhoods. It’s an exciting place to be a college student! All within a pedestrian-friendly distance from campus, you can explore international and traditional Shanghai restaurants, cozy coffee shops, unique bookstores, and spacious parks. Local attractions include the Oriental Sports Center, Qiantan Crystal Plaza shopping center, and the New Bund 31 Performing Arts Center. What’s more, the stunning Huangpu River walkway with many pedestrian and bike paths is also nearby. 

Academics and Student Life

The campus is composed of four interconnecting structures surrounding a central, sun-filled courtyard. Its environmentally sustainable design encourages collaboration while uniting Western and Chinese scholarly traditions. Some highlights of the new campus are a new library with a digital studio, visualization and media lab, active learning classroom, virtual reality lab, and curiosity lab; an athletic center featuring multiple sport courts and state-of-the-art fitness equipment; a dining hall that serves both Chinese and international menu items; a recital hall and black box theatre; and Magnolia House, a winter garden where students can relax or study in a comfortable, light-filled setting. In the residence hall, Chinese students and non-Chinese students are paired together. So everyone has the chance to share their culture and unique perspective to learn from each other.

Shanghai has one of the world’s most extensive networks of public transit, including buses, trolley buses, and metro lines. Catch a ride and enjoy everything China’s largest city has to offer!

Get all the information you need to plan your visit to NYU’s campus in New York City, Abu Dhabi, or Shanghai. 

Cindy Nowicki is a writer and content strategist in NYU’s Office of Marketing Communications. She enjoys meeting with students to learn about their experiences and telling the stories of all the wonderful things happening at NYU. Cindy holds a BA in English from the University of Richmond and studied English literature at the University of Bristol, England. A Brooklyn native, she still discovers new things about New York City every day. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two young sons.

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The film is up for an Academy Award, as are the director (Clooney), the writers (Clooney and Grant Heslov), and the actor playing Murrow (Strathairn). Find out why they made the film and what they learned about the Fourth Estate and Edward R. Murrow’s legacy in this one hour discussion held at NYU on December 15, 2005, hosted by broadcast journalism professor Marcia Rock.

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Rostov-on-Don

In southern Russia the new entrepreneurs are enjoying their profits while others struggle to adapt to the new way of life. Produced as part of the Russian-American Journalism Institute—a joint program of Rostov State University, New York University and Ithaca College, 2003.

More stories and photos from Rostov are at RAJI: On Location in Rostov, Russia.

NYU Tonight’s 2004 Election Coverage

Students reported live from election parties around the city, with interviews of campaign volunteers in Ohio and reports from student journalists in Florida and Chicago. They covered immigrant groups around the city as well as stories on the key issues of the campaign, with live updates every ten minutes.

What We See: 9/11/02

Watch the events of September 11, 2002 through the eyes and lenses of NYU broadcast graduate students as they return to the stories they covered last year. See the students and their city a year later as they struggle to reflect on what they learned. See What We Saw and See What We See on Crosswalks, Ch 74 Nov 18, 7-8 pm and repeated on Tuesday, Nov 19, 11-12pm. This is the premiere of our relationship with Crosswalks. Each week either a produced program of NYU broadcast journalism students will be featured or a talk by a guest to the department.

Election 2002

NYU graduate and undergraduate broadcast students are teaming up to produce live coverage of Election 2002. Reporters will be at the election headquarters of the gubernatorial and senatorial candidates. In addition, NYU commentary on national and local races will feature special reports on the Hispanic vote, the death of the Liberal Party, the Lautenberg/Forrester campaigns and New York Governor George Pataki’s support for gay rights. Coverage begins at 9 P.M. EST.

The Terror and How We’re Coping

On September 12, 2001, Professor Marcia Rock gathered graduate and undergraduate students to cover the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks. Students went to ground zero and interviewed volunteers, residents and rescue personnel. They also covered the effect on NYU from the streets being shut down, to displaced students to coping with the trauma. They did a story on alumni who were covering the story, the spontaneous gatherings at Union Square and the Candlelight Vigil in Washington Square Park. All of the stories, plus an emotional interview with NYU president Jay Oliva and others were put together into this hour newscast.

Turning Inward: Ethnic Tensions in Russia

In June 1999, NYU’s Center for War, Peace, and the News Media awarded a grant to six NYU graduate journalism students to produce a documentary examining ethnic discrimination in Russia. New immigrants from the country’s southern regions are routinely victimized in racially motivated attacks. Ethnic Russians say that these immigrants are born different, that they are criminals and should not be allowed in the country. The 28-minute documentary produced by NYU broadcast journalism students explores disparate perspectives on a common problem: formerly equal citizens who find themselves suddenly at odds.

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RAJI: On Location in Rostov, Russia (Year 4)

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Rostov Sites

By Ella Zolotukhina

Rostov-on-Don was founded in 1749 as the Custom-House and became a city only in 1807.

Its territory is 354 sq.km. The city is close to the Black, the Azov, and the Caspian Seas. Rostov is called the southern capital of the country and it is the gateway to the Caucasus.

Rostov-on-Don is a political, economic and cultural center of the country. Among the cultural hotspots of the city are the Gorky and Musical theatres, the statue of the Roman God Nika on the Theatre Square where, on hot summer days, we enjoy the fountains.

I also would like to point out the Rostov Cathedral of the Virgin with its belfry. The cathedral was founded in 1860 by Russian architect Constantine Tone. Tone is famous in Russia for his Russian-Byzantine style. The cathedral is the exact (but a little diminished) copy of the Our Savior Cathedral, which is located in Moscow.

The Byzantine style distinguishes the Cathedral from other buildings in this part of the city. The building with its bells and domes is very beautiful especially when the domes shine from the light of the Sun. Even when the weather is gloomy the golden domes shine.

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Marisa Hicks Presentation

Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz, postdoctoral research associate in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois and board member of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, will present.

Abstract: Over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, archival science has grappled with changing notions of custody. The post-custodial model, which emerged in the 1980s amid new technological advancements, critical theoretical insights, and social justice concerns, sought to challenge traditional custodial norms for their role in supporting dominant narratives. However, recent critical analyses suggest that despite attempts to move beyond these custodial frameworks, they still significantly inform existing post-custodial models.

My presentation examines the convergence of custody, ownership, and digital technology in post-custodial practices, highlighting a shift from physical to digital ownership of community materials. I argue that this shift risks reinforcing and even deepening colonial dynamics. I advocate for a relational ethics approach that prioritizes transparency, informed consent, and equitable resource sharing. Grounded in anticolonial and Chicanx/Latinx feminist principles, this framework marks a significant departure from custodial dynamics to foster relationships based on trust, connection, and collective wellbeing.

Drawing from my experiences working with the ImaginX en Movimiento (IXeM) Memory Collective, I share how we cultivate spaces where community members actively contribute to and benefit from digitally preserving their narratives, as well as actionable strategies for cultivating genuine and equitable archival relations.

Bio: Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz (she/they) is a postdoctoral research associate in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and board member of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. As a cofounder of the IXeM Collective, they develop anticolonial research methods with artists, archivists, and cultural organizations to enhance digital preservation access for at-risk audiovisual media. Their collaborations span organizations like the New American Welcome Center at the University YMCA; Urbana Makerspace; Garífuna Museum of Los Angeles; and Stop LAPD Spying Coalition.

Hicks-Alcaraz’s writing has appeared in journals including the International Journal of Information , Diversity & Inclusion , Journal of Feminist Media Histories , and Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities . She is the former director of programming for the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles and Student Film Festival, and has curated film programs for MoMA, New York; MIX NYC; Markaz Middle East Arts Center; and Vincent Price Art Museum. She has also received various awards, including the Marian and Charles Holmes Performing Arts Fund Grant; CSU Pomona, Outstanding Faculty Award; and Latinx Literary Heritage Recovery Fellowship.

Hicks-Alcaraz obtained a PhD in cultural studies from Claremont Graduate University, while serving as a Fellow of the Digital Studio Center at the Claremont Colleges. They hold an MA in cinema studies from New York University and a BA in Middle Eastern studies from the University of California, Los Angeles.