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Professor Julian Togelius commented on how video games have long served as testing grounds for AI, noting that games like chess and Go gave early researchers a way to probe new tools. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/BWDOWVV
NYU Tandon in the News: July 23rd, 2026 #NYUTandonMade view.email.tandon.nyu.edu?vawpToken=NZ...
A study from NYU researchers found social media kids’ safety tools are falling short was referenced in a piece discussing the European Commission's claim Meta must make significant changes to address the “addictive design” of the social media platforms. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/XMKPPb8
Professor of the Department of Civil, Urban, & Environmental Engineering at NYU Tandon Masoud Ghandehari spoke with Aimee O. of The New York Times about how wildfire smoke can impact the air quality within your home. #NYUTandonMade www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/r...
Associate Chair Semiha Ergan was named a 2026 Trailblazer in Construction for building an AI and robotics toolkit for the city's construction industry. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/AFvCePA
NYU Tandon School of Engineering opened applications today for the second cohort of the NYC Game Design Future Lab (GDFL), the Brooklyn-based incubator for New York City's digital games industry. #NYUTandonMade engineering.nyu.edu/news/nyu-tan...
Professor Magued Iskander spoke with Reuters about the buckling of a steel beam in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/1679aMY
NYU Tandon in the News: July 13, 2026 #NYUTandonMade view.email.tandon.nyu.edu?vawpToken=UI...
Professor Magued Iskander spoke with abc7NY about the buckling of a steel beam in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper. #NYUTandonMade abc7ny.com/post/midtown...
Professor Magued Iskander spoke with CBS News to discuss the buckling of columns in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper. #NYUTandonMade www.cbsnews.com/video/engine...
Congratulations to NYU Tandon alum Bhavitha Mandava, who has been named on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/ogppXv8
Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Executive Vice President for Global Science and Technology and NYU Tandon Executive Dean Juan de Pablo was named a 2026 Higher Education Trailblazer. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/MSsYV3E
Professor Julian Togelius calls the gaming community's relationship with AI "an ongoing culture war" and a "disaster" in a feature story from MarketWatch on how Big Tech's AI infrastructure spending is driving up hardware costs and leaving gamers behind. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/UKJn8UT
Ph.D. student Lexie Matsumoto was quoted in The New York Times discussing the Cybersafety Research Center study that found social media kids’ safety tools are falling short. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/n5v2j1T
In a TEDxSDSU talk, Assistant Professor Roy Maimon outlined his lab's work reawakening dormant neural stem cells in the mammalian brain, showing that a single injection of a DNA-based drug prompted the appearance of new functional neurons in mice. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/xUB8mdl
NYU's Quantum Institute and IBM have launched a postdoc research program in quantum computing, with fellows working at both institutions on algorithms and applications spanning chemistry, materials science & optimization. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/Arq0okQ
NYU Tandon in the News: June 25, 2026 #NYUTandonMade view.email.tandon.nyu.edu?vawpToken=RI...
Executive Dean Juan de Pablo co-authored an Argonne National Laboratory study showing that tiny differences in how particles attract or repel each other determine whether soft materials flow smoothly, band unevenly, or stop flowing entirely under stress. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/AOhPmyJ
Prof Julian Togelius discussed why games remain the ideal environment for AI research, why consumer backlash against AI-generated assets reflects broader anxieties about the tech and more. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/o6ISmx6
On June 18th, Semiha Ergan, Associate Department Chair of Department of Civil, Urban, & Environmental Engineering, and Joseph Chow, Institute Associate Professor & Deputy Director of C2SMART Center, took part in the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Energy Summit & Expo. #NYUTandonMade
Professor Rachel Greenstat weighed in on fears that Claude Mythos, a new restricted AI model capable of combining multiple software vulnerabilities into a single exploit, could threaten financial systems, saying the risk is real but not unprecedented. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/UbMHOpX
Professor Ludovic Righetti, founding co-director of NYU's Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence, was named to City & State's 2026 Tomorrow's Leaders list for advancing ethical robotics research and helping establish New York as a hub for robotics innovation. #NYUTandonMade
Meet Eric Wengrowski, a former postdoctoral researcher at NYU Tandon who has launched Steg.AI, a startup that uses machine learning to cut through the digital noise. #NYUTandonMade entrepreneur.nyu.edu/blog/2026/05...
Last month, the Integrated Design & Media program hosted the Spring 2026 showcase at 370 Jay Street. This event brought together graduating undergraduate and graduate students in IDM to showcase their projects, prototypes and art installations to the Tandon community. #NYUTandonMade
Can you believe it's been one month since the Class of 2026 officially became alumni? #NYUTandonMade ©Giordano: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau
NYU Tandon in the News: June 11, 2026 #NYUTandonMade view.email.tandon.nyu.edu?vawpToken=C2...
Research from Ph.D. student Felicia Fang-Yi Tan & Prof Oded Nov shows brief delays in chatbot responses can boost perceived thoughtfulness and usefulness, revealing that timing is not just a technical detail but a powerful psychological cue in human-AI interaction. #NYUTandonMade buff.ly/NTRxx8M
On June 3rd and 4th the 2026 NORDTECH Annual Hub Meeting was hosted at NYU Tandon. This year's meeting brought together leaders from across the microelectronics ecosystem to connect of national defense R&D in the areas of secure-edge computing, AI hardware, and quantum tech. #NYUTandonMade
NYU has launched the NYU Earth Systems Institute, a multidisciplinary hub that will deploy AI and computational tools to better predict environmental changes and to advance means to better prepare and respond to these global phenomena. #NYUTandonMade www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
Last month, Management of Technology students shared their capstone projects for their peers and a handful of faculty judges in Pfizer auditorium. #NYUTandonMade