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In the News 2019

• NYUAD holds candlelit vigil to honour victims of New Zealand shooting

  Event also heard from New Zealand students at the university.
  

  The National | March 18, 2019
• NYU Abu Dhabi invites submissions for summer research

  NYU Abu Dhabi has opened applications for its Visiting Undergraduate Research Programme, available to undergraduate students from universities across the UAE. 
  

  Gulf Today | March 16, 2019
• I will change the world, vows UAE's teenage space prodigy

  Alia Al Mansoori, 16, reveals her family - and Brazilian jiu-jitsu - is fuelling her passion for science.
  

  The National | March 11, 2019
• [Book Review] Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu

  In his ethnography Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys, John O’Brien demonstrates how a group of Muslim boys practicing hip hop live “culturally contested lives.”
  

  Maydan | March 07, 2019
• 20-minute walk reduces diabetes risk by 15%

  Cohort study to evaluate importance of various diabetes risk factors among Emiratis.

  Gulf News | March 07, 2019
• Business Extra podcast: StartAD's Ramesh Jagannathan on innovation in the UAE

  Vice Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Managing Director of StartAD talks to us about entrepreneurship, and how vital it is to the UAE's commercial outlook in this week's episode.
  

  The National | March 07, 2019
• NYUAD Art Gallery exhibition tackles sociopolitical themes through art

  Crossing and Corridors features the work of Saba Qizilbash and Linda Adele Goodine, two artists who deal with harsh geopolitical realities in their work through widely different methods.

  Architectural Digest | March 06, 2019
• Life with Alana is a Cabaret

  If you wish life were a cabaret, then consider yourself among the throngs of people in Abu Dhabi who call Alana Barraj their friend and see her one-woman cabaret at NYUAD this March.
  

  Yalla | March 06, 2019
• Grasping motions led by visuo-haptic signals are most effective

  Researchers have found that the availability of both visual and haptic information for a target object significantly improves reach-to-grasp actions, demonstrating that the nervous system utilizes both types of information to optimize movement execution.
  

  Daily Science | March 06, 2019
• Global Abu Dhabi summit to address threat to world's oceans

  Three-day conference will seek to confront issues of pollution and overfishing
  

  The National | March 04, 2019