New York University

The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development is one of 16 divisions within New York University and is the oldest professional... school of education in the United States. Founded in 1890 as the School of Pedagogy, New York University's Steinhardt School was the first professional school devoted to teacher education established at an American university. In 1910, the School established the first university chair in experimental education in the United States. From 1920 to 1930 the School saw an expansion in enrollment from 993 to over 9500 students. In 1930, the Education Building on Washington Square was opened and still serves as the School's home. The School was renamed the Steinhardt School of Education in 2001, honoring a $10 million donation -- the largest the school had ever received -- from Michael and Judy Steinhardt. Michael Steinhardt was a highly successful hedge-fund manager who is now retired. In March 2007 the school was renamed the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, to reflect the diverse nature of its academic programs.
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The New York University College of Arts and Science is the oldest and largest academic unit of New York University, founded in 1832. This private... liberal arts college is located at Washington Square in Manhattan and the administrative offices of the college are in the Silver Center for Arts & Science. Over the 180 years following the founding of the university, NYU developed an urban campus around Washington Square. For the 2008-2009 academic year, there were a total of 7,672 students enrolled at the college which represented 36% of all undergraduates. Although the College does not report an individual admissions rate, the overall acceptance percentage for the university is 33% for the class entering in Fall 2011. The undergraduate programs at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, although run independently, is formally associated with the NYU College of Arts and Science. The College of Arts and Science offers two undergraduate degrees: degree is currently only awarded for majors in Chemistry, Neural Science, or Physics in the College.
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Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University . The school was founded in 1965. It has 2,700 undergraduates ... and 500 graduate students . Tisch is best known for its acting program, and its film program . The Tisch School of the Arts offers BFA, BA, MFA, MA, MPS, and PhD degrees. Tisch has five divisions, offering a total of fourteen degree programs: The school also includes an Open Arts curriculum of Tisch classes available to non-Tisch NYU students. The Graduate Acting Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts has, since its inception in 1966, grown to become one of the most celebrated and rigorous MFA acting programs in the country. Yearly pooling from 900 plus actors, a select 16 are chosen to enter into the incoming class. The program has gained an international reputation for its selectivity as well as its distinctive conservatory training. Tisch graduate acting students come from a wide variety of backgrounds. NYU Grad Acting alumni have gone onto various careers in the arts.
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The New York University School of Law is the law school of New York University. Established in 1835, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D.... degrees in law, and is located in Greenwich Village, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. NYU Law was the first law school established in New York City. It is considered to be among the Top Ten most selective and prestigious law schools in the United States and is currently ranked #6 by the U.S. News & World Report. In terms of specialization, NYU Law is ranked # 1 in both International Law and Tax Law by the said report. The school is especially known for its dedication to the public sector, emphasis on diversity, and large firm placement. The median starting salary of NYU Law graduates working in the private sector was $160,000 for the class of 2008 .
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The New York University School of Medicine is one of the graduate schools of New York University. Founded in 1841 as the University Medical College,... the NYU School of Medicine is one of the foremost medical schools in the United States. The School of Medicine is part of NYU Langone Medical Center, named after Kenneth Langone, the investment banker and financial backer of the Home Depot. It is located at 550 First Avenue in New York City. The School of Medicine has 360 full-time faculty and 175 part-time faculty. Additionally, there are 26 endowed professorships, 975 residents/fellows, 76 M.D./Ph.D. candidates and 788 post-graduate registrants as of 2007. The NYU Medical Center is home to the School of Medicine, the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, and the Charles C. Harris Skin & Cancer Pavilion, considered the most prestigious dermatology institute in the United States. In the 2009-10 U.S.
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The Leonard N. Stern School of Business is New York University's business school. It was established in 1900 as the NYU School of Commerce, Accounts... and Finance. In 1988 it was named after Leonard N. Stern, an alumnus and benefactor of the school. Stern is located on NYU's Greenwich Village campus next to the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. A founding member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Stern School is one of the oldest business schools in the world, and is constantly ranked within the top 10 in the US. The Stern School was founded by Charles Waldo Haskins in 1900 as the NYU Undergraduate School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance on the University's Washington Square campus. In 1913 Jeanette Hamill, J.D., M.A., joined the School's Economics department, becoming its first female faculty member. In 1936, women comprised 15 percent of the total enrollment. The graduate business program was launched in New York's downtown business district in 1916. The School's "Wall Street Division" served both full-time and currently employed students.
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The Gallatin School of Individualized Study is a small interdisciplinary college within New York University. Gallatin aims to provide a "small... college" feel, while being located within one of the largest private universities in the United States. Students design their own interdisciplinary program that meets their specific interests and career goals. Coursework can be undertaken at any of the schools that comprise NYU in addition to the school's own offerings. Founded in 1972 as the "University Without Walls", the school is named after Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson, and the founder of NYU. Gallatin believed that the place for a university was not in "the seclusion of cloistered halls but in the throbbing heart of a great city." Herbert London was the school's first dean through 1992. The Gallatin building is situated within the Campus of New York University just east of Washington Square Park at 1 Washington Place. The Gallatin School's facilities on the corner of Washington Place and Broadway underwent a redesign from 2007-2008. It was the first renovation project at NYU to achieve LEED certification.
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Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei lbæˈɾædʕi]; born June 17, 1942 is an Egyptian law scholar and diplomat. He was the Director... General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , an intergovernmental organization under the auspices of the United Nations, from December 1997 to November 2009. ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. ElBaradei was also an important figure in the 2011 Egyptian revolution which ousted the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. ElBaradei was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. He was one of five children of Mostafa ElBaradei, an attorney who headed the Egyptian Bar Association and often found himself at odds with the regime of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. ElBaradei's father was also a supporter of democratic rights in Egypt, supporting a free press and an independent judiciary. ElBaradei is married to Aida El-Kachef, an early-childhood teacher. They have two children: a daughter, Laila, who is a lawyer living in London; and a son, Mostafa, who is an IT manager living in Cairo.
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Elihu Root was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise... man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C. and private-sector legal practice in New York City. Root was born in Clinton, New York, to Oren Root I and Nancy Whitney Buttrick. His father was professor of mathematics at Hamilton College, where Elihu attended college; there he joined the Sigma Phi Society, and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society After graduation, Root taught for one year at the Rome Free Academy. In 1867, Root graduated from the New York University School of Law. He went into private practice as a lawyer. While mainly practicing corporate law, Root was a junior defense counsel during the corruption trial of William "Boss" Tweed. Root also had private clients including Jay Gould, Chester A. Arthur, Charles Anderson Dana, William C. Whitney, Thomas Fortune Ryan, and E. H. Harriman. Root was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York by President Chester A. Arthur.
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Robert Anton Wilson or RAW was a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory... researcher. His writing, which often shows a sense of humor and optimism, is described by him as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations--to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models and no one model elevated to the Truth." And: "My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.
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Felicity Kendall Huffman is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as executive producer Dana Whitaker on the... ABC television show Sports Night , which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination, and as hectic supermom Lynette Scavo on the ABC show Desperate Housewives , which has earned her an Emmy Award. In 2005, her critically acclaimed role as a trans woman in the independent film Transamerica earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. She has also starred in films such as Reversal of Fortune, The Spanish Prisoner, Magnolia, Path to War, Georgia Rule and Phoebe in Wonderland. Huffman was born in Bedford, New York, the daughter of Grace Valle , an actress, and Moore Peters Huffman, a banker and partner at Morgan Stanley. Her parents divorced a year after her birth, and she was raised mostly by her mother. She has six sisters and a brother . She attended The Putney School, a boarding middle school in Putney, Vermont and graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan in 1980.
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Kenneth Silverman is a professor emeritus at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Silverman was born in Manhattan in 1936.

Amir Pnueli was an Israeli computer scientist. Pnueli was born in Nahalal, Israel and received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the Technion... in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. His thesis was on the topic of "Calculation of Tides in the Ocean". He switched to computer science during a stint as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. His works in computer science focused on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems. He returned to Israel as a researcher; he was the founder and first chair of the computer science department at Tel Aviv University. He became a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute in 1981. From 1999 until his death, Pnueli also held a position at the Computer Science Department of New York University, New York, U.S.. Pnueli also founded two startup technology companies during his career. He had three children and, at his death, had four grandchildren. Pnueli died on November 2, 2009 of a brain hemorrhage.
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Peter David Lax is a mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems,... fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher. Lax was born in Budapest, Hungary in Jewish family, and moved with his parents to New York City in 1941, where he studied at Stuyvesant High School. In 1948 he married Anneli Cahn, who also was on her way to becoming a career mathematician. He is an alumnus of New York University, where he received both his bachelor's degree in 1947 with Phi Beta Kappa honors and his PhD in 1949 with thesis advisor Kurt O. Friedrichs. In a 1958 paper Lax stated a conjecture about matrix representations for third order hyperbolic polynomials which remained unproven for over four decades. Interest in the "Lax conjecture" grew as mathematicians working in several different areas recognized the importance of its implications in their field, until it was finally proven to be true in 2003.
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Kenneth Silverman is a professor emeritus at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Silverman was born in Manhattan in 1936.