Videos

NYU Abu Dhabi faculty are confronting questions that are important for human progress. In these short videos, researchers explain the significance of their work, across a range of subjects from traffic congestion to poetry.

Science and Tech
Social Science
Arts and Culture

Seeing falcons differently

Center for Genomics and Systems Biology

How we remember things
Kartik Sreenivasan

Coral survival in the hottest sea on Earth
John Burt

A robot that writes perfect Arabic
Mohamad Eid

Can arsenic cause liver disease?
Kirsten Sadler Edepli

Why scientists need virtual galaxies to understand real ones
Andrea Maccio

Traffic congestion is getting worse
Monica Menendez

A worrying "dead zone" in the Arabian Sea
Zouhair Lachkar

High rates of diabetes in the UAE
Youssef Idaghdour
Are the rich more selfish than the poor?
Nikos Nikiforakis

Your career path may be influenced by your gender
Ernesto Reuben

A potential explanation for hung juries
Rebecca Morton

There's a youth unemployment crisis in Ghana
Morgan Hardy

Hope for Congo
Peter Cornelis van der Windt

Pakistan's migrant labor problem
Daniel Karell

Wildlife in peril: a conversation with Jane Goodall
Charles Siebert
Literature and Creative Writing

Why societies stop doing bad things
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Philosophy
Mastering self (not selfie) photography
Tarek Al-Ghoussein

Life with Bedouin poets
Marcel Kupershoek

At the intersection of art and architecture
Sandra Peters

How to make it as a writer: a conversation with best-selling author Michael Pollan
Charles Seibert

Videos

Seeing falcons differently