UAE Healthy Future Study
NYUAD has reached a landmark agreement with the Department of Health — Abu Dhabi to better understand the causes of chronic diseases among Emiratis, including diabetes and heart disease.
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Research at NYU Abu Dhabi deepens our understanding of the world and ourselves, generates important new knowledge about local history and culture, and facilitates breakthrough discoveries in science and technology.
NYU Abu Dhabi is leading and growing with Abu Dhabi and the UAE as a global center of groundbreaking intellectual and artistic scholarship for the 21st century.
NYU Abu Dhabi faculty come from over 40 countries and are working on nearly every continent to bring about positive change for a globalized society.
The University's unique location makes it an ideal hub for researchers pursuing answers to boundless questions and solutions to complex problems.
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Latest Research News
Rising Seas, Melting Ice
It's a matter of when, not if. NYU has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to determine if the collapse of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica will start in the next few decades or centuries.
Education for Child Refugees
NYUAD's Global TIES for Children initaitive leads research for a $100 million grant to promote learning and development for children displaced by Middle East conflict.
The Human Brain
Scientists are breaking new ground in brain cell research, which could lead to exciting advancements in the medical field.
Arabic Collections
NYU has received a $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to support its growing Arabic-language digital public library.
Hot Discovery
Scientists have discovered planetary waves of vorticity on and inside the Sun similar to those that significantly influence weather on Earth.
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Are the Rich More Selfish Than the Poor?
Nikos Nikiforakis, professor of economics, challenges the widespread belief that the rich care less about others, by testing people's willingness to return money that doesn't belong to them.
Social Science
Re-Counting the Past
Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History Robert Allen says to understand economic growth in the Middle East, "we must first find information about it."
Social Science
Security in a Digital World
Microchips are found in any device considered "smart" from computers, to phones, to refrigerators, to airplanes. Though these ubiquitous wafers of metal and silicon facilitate our daily lives, they are subject to vulnerabilities.
Engineering
What is Heritage?
On Delma Island, at Liwa oasis, and in the classroom, Robert Partheisus is helping NYU Abu Dhabi students discover UAE heritage — while challenging them to re-think exactly what heritage means.
Arts and Humanities
Drastic Measures
NYU Abu Dhabi is actively contributing to an urgent international research effort to understand how climate change will impact global sea level.
Sophisticated radar systems and GPS equipment placed in the Greeland ice sheet will track its disappearance, says the NYUAD Center for Global Sea Level Change.
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Climate Conversation
The arts "have always created stories of the future that help us understand or process it better."
Arts and Humanities
Deep Sea DNA
Arabian Gulf corals could hold the key to climate change survival.
Science
Flood of Concern
Sea level rise is a significant threat to vital transportation networks in coastal cities.
Engineering
Our Environment and Public Health
Arsenic is all around us in the Earth's crust. A new study links arsenic to fatty liver disease in zebrafish.
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Faculty Accolades
Radcliffe Fellow
Chemist Pance Naumov wins the prestigous Harvard Radcliffe FellowshipSocial Research Award
Rachel Brulé, assistant professor of political science, wins a major award for research on inheritage rules in India
Next Einstein Fellow
A great honor for engineer and smart transportation expert Tembine HamidouHindu Prize
Deepak Unnikrishnan's debut novel Temporary People earns international acclaimBest Professor
Jonardon Ganeri wins the Middle East Education Leadership Award for Best Professor in PhilosophyInspirational Educator
Engineering faculty Ramesh Jagnnathan is the first from NYUAD to win the Rhodes Trust Inspirational Educator AwardResearch Reports
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