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Introducing 105 East 17th Street105 East 17th Street will be NYU Wagner’s new home. In the bustling hub of New York City’s Union Square, the renovated building will house brand new state-of-the-art classrooms, a beautifully designed multi-purpose event space, dedicated student life …
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The Pearls and Pitfalls of Initiating a Neurosurgery Discharge Huddle: One Institution's ExperienceOrganized discharge huddles have been implemented in a number of specialties across medicine to improve communication and minimize medical errors that might ultimately harm patients. Literature has shown that disjointed care can lead to poor utilization …
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Getting Started GuidesAll deposited, matriculated students will be sent a link to the Fall 2025 Getting Started Guide in a message to their NYU email address in early May 2025. … All deposited, matriculated students will be sent a link to the Fall 2025 Getting Started Guide in …
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Jasiel Martin-OdoomPlease describe why you chose NYU Wagner for graduate school? I wanted to get a clearer understanding of how policy, entrepreneurship, and innovation intersect. While there are a lot of investment programs in the country that touch on one or two pieces of …
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Paul DiMaggioPaul DiMaggio is Professor of Sociology at New York University with affiliate appointments in the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Stern School of Business, and the Center for Data Science. He has written and taught about cultural policy and …
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Smart, Sustainable Planning in AmsterdamThis one-week travel class to Amsterdam offers an immersive journey into the heart of sustainable urbanism. The course offers a unique opportunity for students to delve deep into the city's pioneering approaches to sustainable mobility, climate …Capstone Projects
ANALYZING THE DEVOLVING WATER SECTOR IN KENYAThe Overseas Development Institute (ODI) is Britain’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues. The ODI Development and Public Finance group has been working with NYU to develop an analytical framework for …
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IDENTIFYING SAVINGS AND CREDIT-BUILDING PRODUCTS TO ACHIEVE FINANCIAL STABILITYLocal Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to community development that works to bridge the gap between government, foundations, and for-profit companies, and community residents and local institutions. …
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Bob Herbert, Lesley Stahl Discuss His New Book at NYU WagnerFormer longtime New York Times columnist Bob Herbert spoke about his new book, “Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America,” in a public conversation at NYU Wagner on October 15 with the noted television journalist Lesley Stahl. Herbert, …
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Capstone Expo Highlights 79 Consulting and Research Projects in Public ServiceThe 2016 Capstone Expo brought hundreds of students, professors, and organizational leaders to the Rosenthal Pavilion in NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life, where soon-to-graduate NYU Wagner students displayed a total of 79 poster-board summaries of …
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PRIMARY CARE AND ITS IMPACT ON POPULATION HEALTHThere has been a consistent decline in the number of physicians pursuing the field of primary care. Because a wide variety of research highlights the importance of early intervention for health outcomes, a Capstone team investigated the relationship …
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ASSESSING THE FINANCIAL LANDSCAPE TO GUIDE ORGANIZATIONAL DECISIONSFor over a century, the Provident Loan Society has been providing access to cash to New Yorkers in need, with a special focus on immigrant and impoverished populations. The nonprofit client engaged a Capstone team to investigate the contributing factors …
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Communicating Tax Penalties to Delinquent Taxpayers: Evidence from a Field ExperimentWe analyze a large field experiment conducted with the Colorado Department of Revenue to study the presentation of financial incentives and social norms in tax delinquency notices. We find that notices that highlight and provide information about …
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Statistical Analysis for Public and Nonprofit ManagersThis is a comprehensive, clearly written guide to the use of statistical analysis in the management of not-for-profit organizations. The book emphasizes statistical models that use more than one variable and is unique in presenting multivariate statistics …
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A Philanthropy Tackles Growth In Health Costs At The State LevelSlowing the rate of growth of health spending is as critical a goal at the state level as it is at the national level. Philanthropy can hardly address this issue alone, yet it has an obligation to take on big and seemingly intractable problems. The …
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Brandraising: How Nonprofits Raise Visibility and Money Through Smart CommunicationsIn the current economic climate, nonprofits need to focus on ways to stand out from the crowd, win charitable dollars, and survive the downturn. Effective, mission-focused communications can help organizations build strong identities, heightened …
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Beyond Normative Models and Development Trends: Strategic Design and Implementation of Decentralization in Developing CountriesThis paper considers recent thinking on and experience with decentralization and local government reform in developing countries, primarily from the perspective of national policy. The paper begins by reviewing why decentralization has re-emerged as an …
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New insights into food safety research teamsReza Sattari, Julia Ingrid Lane, Jason Owen-Smith … New insights into food safety research teams …
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US and NYS Education Chiefs, at NYU Wagner, Back Common CoreNew York State Education Commissioner John B. King, Jr. – joined by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan – addressed approximately 240 students and educators at NYU Wagner on April 10, articulating strong support for the state’s much-debated Common Core …
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Forbes Highlights NYU Wagner Graduates in '30 Under 30' Honor RollRecent NYU Wagner graduates Alexandra Meis (MPA 2013) and Miriam Altman (MPA 2013) have made Forbes ' annual "30 under 30" honor roll of up-and-coming education entrepreneurs—individuals who are "rethinking learning with the three Cs: code, college …
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Social Entrepreneurs ProjectFunded by the Skoll and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundations, this project seeks to uncover the factors that make social entrepreneurship a reality. This research rests on several key assumptions: social entrepreneurs can be organizations as well as …
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Ascendant Public Opinion: The Rising Influence of Climate Change on Americans’ Attitudes about the EnvironmentHere we document an under-studied but important phenomenon that we call ascendant public opinion , which emerges when a new concern is framed as an instance of a broader issue and gains ascendancy over that issue in the public’s mind. We focus on the …
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State Preparation for Recession: The Rainy Day FundThe Capstone team evaluated the effectiveness of Rainy Day Funds on easing the fiscal stress experienced by state governments during a recession. As a result of the last recession which ended in 1992, states have created Rainy Day Funds as a mechanism to …