News and Announcements

• Carras Award Recognizes Research and Scholarship of Junior Faculty Members
• Conti awarded NSF Grant
• Osman secures Research Awards
• NYU and College Board Release Groundbreaking Report on Asian American Academic Success
• Steinhardt Faculty Awarded $2.3 Million to Study South African Families in Crisis
• Doctoral Students receive Global Fellowship to teach in Shanghai and Paris
• Stage Receives Fulbright Senior Specialists Award
• Ph.D. Student wins U.S. Dept of State Critical Language Scholarship
• Steinhardt Doctoral Student wins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
• Sasaki Wins Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship
• Aber Receives $2.3 Million Grant from NIH for South Africa Study
• Llosa Wins Grant from ETS to Study TOEFL-iBT
• Skirball's Chazan Wins Grant from AVI CHAI Foundation
• Steinhardt, Wagner Faculty Honored for Research on Racial Test Score Gap
• Shondel Nero Chosen to be Plenary Speaker at TESOL 2008 Conference
• Steinhardt Grad Aims to Improve Lives of NYC Public Schoolchildren
• Study Proves Optimal High School Size May Be Larger Than Previously Thought
• Steinhardt Launches Policy Series on Gender and Education
• $2.5 Million NSF Grant for Study on Children's Education and Development
• New Interdisciplinary Institute Studies Children, Families in Context of Changing World
• Stereotype Threat Affects Women in High-level Math Courses, Aronson Study Finds
• Metro Center Receives $1 Million from State Ed. Dept. for Contract on Disproportionality in Special Education
• McWayne and Melzi Win Head Start Grant
• Hosay Receives Grant from US Dept of State
• Siskin Wins US DOE Grant to Study International Baccalaureate Education
• Arum's Education and Law Projects Receive Awards
• Haggler Wins Dissertation Fellowship Award
• Sirin of Applied Psychology Awarded Griffiths Research Award
• Joshua Aronson Appointed to Minority Student Achievement Network
• Arum Helps Create Research Partnership for New York City Schools
• NYU's Center for Research on Culture, Development, and Education Wins $2.5 Million NSF Grant
• Pinero, Landcaster, and Dixon Receive Contract from NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Dixon Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• King Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
• Noguera Wins Ford, Goldman Sachs Foundation Grants
• Beck and Llosa Win Spencer Foundation Grant
• "Stereotype Threat" Can be Overcome, Says Aronson
• McWayne, Melzi Receive NIH Grant
• Schwartz Receives Grant from NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygeine
• Aronson Appointed to National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council's Strategic Education Research Plan (SERP)
• Steinhardt Professor Assists With Project Researching California Language-Minority Students
• Steinhardt Doctoral Student Awarded Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
• ECT Doctoral Student Awarded National Science Foundation Fellowship
• Way and Hughes Argue for Making Study of Race and Ethnicity a Part of Middle School Curriculum
• Nestle Says Fad Diets Impossible to Sustain
• Halkitis, in New Documentary, Says Crystal Meth Especially Attractive to Gay Men
• Ravitch Fears Public Education Being Ignored in Favor of School Privatization
• Pinero Separates Fruit From Juice in Gauging Nutritional Value
• Two Grants for Metro Center for Research and Bi-lingual Services
• Ford Foundation Study on Higher Education Subject of Institute Conference
• How can research universities be good community citizens?
• Grad Student Leads Research on Handwriting
• Petrick Links Industrialization of Foods, Rise of Obesity in U.S.
• Noguera Warns Against Stereotyping Asian-American Student Populations as Exceptional in School
• Ravitch Against Including Social Justice Issues in Mathematics Curriculum
• Arum Wins Fulbright New Century Scholars Award
• Allen Receives Pair of Grants to Research Civic Engagement of Minority Youth, Quality of Early Childhood Centers
• Metro Center Receives Gates Foundation Grant to Study Effectiveness of Single-Sex Schools for Black and Latino Males
• Murray Says Television Viewing Takes Many Forms
• Zimmerman Blames Historians for Florida Law on Teaching American History
• Canadian Study Reaffirms Aronson's Findings on Stereotype Threat
• Tobias Offers Cautionary Note on Plan to Assign Grades to NYC Schools