New York University

New York University was founded on April 21, 1831 by a group of influential New Yorkers, among whom was former US Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin , who is considered the founding father of the university. In contrast to the universities of the east coast, it was supposed to be accessible to all classes, especially the working class, and all religious denominations . Universities of Paris , Vienna and University College London served as a model. The concept of education assumed, in contrast to the accepted classical concept, the availability of new training courses, for example, economic policy, history and modern languages. The university has retained this position today. Family and heredity in the teaching staff, as well as the distribution of high marks to wealthy students are not familiar with this institution.

The first two years the university rented premises in Clinton Hall, then in 1833 he acquired land in Washington Square. Intensive construction began. In 1835, the School of Legal Sciences, the first professional school of the university, was opened.

In 1894, the second university building appeared in the Bronx , next to Columbia University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering were moved here.

The original name, University of New York City, was changed in 1896 to New York University.

In the early 1970s, the university was on the verge of bankruptcy, but managed to cope with difficulties. Today, the university is the third largest real estate owner in New York after the city council and the Catholic Church.

In the 1960s and 1970s, students at New York University took an active part in protests, first against racial discrimination, and then the Vietnam War ^[2] .

Undergraduate:

• College of Arts and Sciences - College of Arts and Science (1832)
• Gallatin School of Individualized Learning - Gallatin School of Individualized Study (1972)
• Tisch School of Art - Tisch School of the Arts (1965)
• Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development (1890)
• Ehrenkranz School of Social Work - Ehrenkranz School of Social Work (1960)
• School of Business Leonard N. Stern - Leonard N. Stern School of Business (1900)
• Polytechnic Institute - Polytechnic Institute of NYU (1973)
• New York University Abu Dhabi - New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) (2010)
• New York University in Shanghai - https://web.archive.org/web/20130318034529/http://shanghai.nyu.edu/en/

Postgraduate studies are also possible in some of these schools.

Master:

• Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1934)
• School of Medicine - School of Medicine (1841)
• Wagner Public Service School - Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (1938)
• School of Law - School of Law (1835)
• Institute of Fine Arts - Institute of Fine Arts (1922)
• School of Continuing Education and Professional Education - School of Continuing and Professional Studies (1934)
• College of Dentistry - College of Dentistry (1865).
• School of Sciences and Arts - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1886)
• College of Medicine - College of Nursing
• Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine

New York University has its branches in Europe:

• New York University Florence,
• New York University in London,
• New York University in Paris,

as well as offices in Madrid, Berlin, Acre, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Tel Aviv and Singapore (School of the Arts).

The university’s main building is located in Greenwich Village , one of New York’s oldest neighborhoods in Washington Square. It consists of the Elmer Horms Bobst Library, Silver Building (main building), Brown Building, Block Judson Hall , Vanderbilt Hall and Vanderbilt Hall, Townhouse Row , and Kaufman Management Center Center ) and Torch Club .

Behind Washington Square there is a campus consisting of houses for the teaching staff and the so-called "international houses" - student dormitories (for example, the German House - Das Deutsche Haus, the French House - La Maison Francaise, the Italian House - Casa Italiana and others).

In recent years, several more buildings have appeared:

The Kimmel Center is the main center of all student activity. All major university events, awards and premieres are held here. Located in the building, the Skerball Center, with its 2,200 seats, is one of New York’s largest theaters.

Ferman Hall was named after university graduate Jay Ferman . Here are the auditoriums, reading rooms, the clinical base of the School of Legal Sciences, as well as the apartments of the teaching staff.

The Bobst Library is a 2000-seat library. It is visited by 6800 readers daily, and issues about a million books annually.

The Elmer Horms Bobst Library, built in 1967-1972, is the university’s largest library and one of the largest scientific libraries in the United States.

The library has 4.5 million books, 20,000 magazines, more than 3.5 million microfilms, and several thousand other media.

The library, designed for 2,000 places, is visited daily by more than 6,800 people, and almost a million books are issued per year.

The library has at its disposal one of the largest audio and video centers in the world, in which students and scientists use more than 95,000 audio and video recordings annually.

Students are admitted to the university, regardless of faculty, very selectively. According to surveys among applicants, the university was named the "Number One Dream University", and in 2004 and 2005 it received the largest number of applications for admission in America.

The number of foreign students at the university is also the largest in the country: about 4,000 students from more than a hundred countries of the world.

The university has more than 350 student clubs and organizations, as well as sports teams, scientific associations and creative groups.

The university publishes several publications: the Washington Square News daily, the Play magazine humorous magazine, the Washington Square Review and the Minetta Review literary magazines, as well as about 100 books each year.

The university also supports student traditions. At the beginning of the 20th century , a tradition of initiation into students appeared. So, in the housing in the Bronx, freshmen were caught and dipped in a drinker for horses. That student, who was first dipped there headlong, was unanimously recognized as the "fountain of knowledge." This kind of initiation existed until the 70s. Today, freshmen are taking part in the university's Open Door Week event. In addition, the University traditionally hosts the Apple Festival (themed folk festival), the Violet Ball (dancing in the library's atrium), the Strawberry Festival (the culmination of which is New York's longest strawberry pie) and twice a year Midnight breakfast before the session.

University sports teams are called "Violets" (in another translation - "Violet").

Nobel Laureates

• Bellow, Saul (1915-2005) - 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Benaserraf, Baruch (b.1920) - Immunologist, 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Gershko, Avram (b. 1937) - chemist, 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Robert Engle (b. 1942) - economist, 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Leontyev, Vasily Vasilievich (1905-1999) - economist, 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics
• Levi, Otto (1873-1961) - Physician, 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Mulliken, Robert Sanderson (1896-1986) - chemist, 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Ochoa, North (1905-1993) - Doctor, 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Other

• Baumol, William (1922) - economist
• Burnham, James (1929-1953) - philosopher, sociologist, economist
• Block, Ned (1942) - philosopher
• Gromov, Mikhail Leonidovich (1943) - mathematician
• Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence (1931) - writer
• Drucker, Peter Ferdinand (1909-2005) - economist
• Jovanovic, Boyan (1951) - economist
• Cantor, Norman (1929-2004) - historian
• Courant, Richard (1888-1972) - mathematician
• Mises, Ludwig von (1881-1973) - economist
• Morse, Samuel (1791-1872) - inventor and artist
• Nagel, Thomas (1937) - philosopher
• Amir Pnueli (1941) - a scientist in the theory of computer systems
• Sargent, Thomas (1943) - economist
• Fromm, Erich (1900-1980) - psychologist

Nobel Laureates

• Axelrod, Julius (1912-2004) - Biochemist, 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Mohammed Al-Baradei (b.1942) - Lawyer, 2005 Nobel Peace Prize
• Elyon, Gertrude (1918–1999) - chemist, 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Kandel, Eric (b.1929) - Physician, 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Raines, Frederick (1918–1998) - Physicist, 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Ruth, Eliu (1845-1937) - US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1912 Nobel Peace Prize
• Schull, Clifford (1915-2001) - Physicist, 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Wald, George (1906-1997) - Physician, 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Oscar Award Winners

• Woody Allen (1935) - director, actor
• Jolie, Angelina (1975) - actress
• Cohen, Joel - Director, Producer
• Stone, William Oliver (1946) - Director
• Whoopi Goldberg (1955) - actress, producer, screenwriter, TV presenter
• Harden, Marsha Gay (1959) - actress
• Tomei, Marisa (1964) - actress
• Herrmann, Bernard (1911-1975) - film composer
• Scorsese, Martin (1942) - Director
• Hoffman, Philip Seymour (1967—2014) - actor
• Hathaway, Ann (1982) - actress

Others

Film Industry

• Bai Lin (1966) - actress
• Bart, Justin (1978) - actor, director, producer
• Benz, Julie - actress
• Bliss Carmen (1861-1929) - Canadian poet
• Baldwin, Alec (1958) - actor (did not finish training)
• Bledel, Alexis (1981) - actress (did not graduate)
• Blair, Selma (1972) - actress
• Diana Gadry (1964) - actress, producer, psychologist
• Delpy, Julie (1969) - actress, director
• Jarmusch, Jim (1953) - Director
• Kerrigan Lodge (1964) - film director, professor at New York University
• Kim, Daniel Day (1968) - actor
• Columbus, Chris (1958) - film director
• Kramer, Stanley (1913-2001) - producer
• Crystal, Billy (1948) - comedian
• Loktev, Julia (1969) - film director
• Messing, Debra (1968) - actress
• Mulgrew, Kate (1985) - actress
• Meg Ryan (1961) - actress
• O'Connell, Jerry (1974) - actor
• Olsen Ashley and Mary Kate - actresses
• Spike, Lee (1957) - actor and director
• Sandler, Adam (1966) - actor
• Shyamalan, M. Knight (1970) - director, screenwriter
• Ang Lee (1954) - Director
• Natalia Dyer - actress

Literature, Media

• Matthews, Cornelius (1817–1889) - writer, playwright
• Levin, Ira (1929-2007) - prose writer, playwright
• Frank McCourt (1930-2009) - writer, Pulitzer Prize
• Reznikoff, Charles (1894-1976) - poet
• Williams, Sol (1972) - writer, actor, musician
• Frankel, Bethenny (1970) - TV presenter
• Mathenopoulos, Debbie (1974) - journalist, television presenter and actress.

Sport

• Jones, Samuel (1880-1954) - athlete

Music

• Glover, Donald (1983) - actor, screenwriter, musician
• Goto, Midori (1971) - violinist
• Diamond, Neil (1941) - singer
• Lady Gaga (1986) - singer

Economics

• Greenspan, Alan (1926) - economist
• Rich, Mark (1934–2013) - businessman, billionaire
• Christy Turlington (1969) - Top Model

Policy

• Alexander, Lamar (1940) - politician, senator
• Mohammed Al-Baradei (1942) - Secretary General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Giuliani, Rudolph (1944) - former mayor of New York (1994-2001)
• Caleja, Carlos (1976) - Salvadoran businessman and politician
• Kahane, Meir (1832-1930) - politician
• La Guardia, Fiorello (1882-1947) - politician
• Muller, Robert (1944) - Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Ruth, Eliu (1845-1937) - politician

Social Sciences

• Sinn, Howard (1922) - historian, political scientist
• Hayek, Friedrich August von (1899-1992) - philosopher and economist
• Nussbaum, Martha (1947) - philosopher

Medicine

• Axelrod, Julius (1912-2004) - biochemist
• Ambati, Balamurali (b. 1977) - ophthalmologist
• Kellogg, John Harvey (1852-1943) - Doctor
• Saybin, Albert (1906-1993) - Virologist
• Salk, Jonas (1914-1995) - researcher, virologist

Mathematics and Technology

• Lax, Peter (1926) - Mathematician, Abel Prize
• Yamasaki, Minoru - architect

Game industry

• Ragnar Turnkvist (1970) is a computer game developer . He works at the Norwegian company Funcom , lives in Oslo .

• New York University official website