Guillermina "Willie" Jasso has received the American Sociological Association (ASA) 2026 Cooley-Mead Award and will deliver the Cooley-Mead Address at the ASA's August meeting. The honor is awarded annually by the ASA Social Psychology Section in recognition of a lifetime of distinguished contributions to scholarship in social psychology.
Several Liberal Studies faculty have collaborated on a special issue of Contingencies: A Journal of Global Pedagogy. The work stems from a 2023 curriculum symposium convened by Liberal Studies at NYU London. Contributors include Dina M. Siddiqi, Peter C. Valenti, Eugenia Naro-Maciel, Tilottama Tharoor, and Ida Chavoshan.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's guest essay on the Trump administration in historical context appeared in The New York Times.
Optica has announced that Eero Simoncelli has won the society's 2026 Edgar D. Tillyer Award for fundamental discoveries and development of important mathematical tools in the areas of visual perception, visual neuroscience, computer vision, and image processing.
Leif Weatherby's take on Moltbook, the social media platform touted as exclusively for AIs, appeared in The New York Times.
Sarah Cowan's study disputing negative health implications of cash transfers was covered in Must Read Alaska and Berliner Zeitung.
Mohamad Bazzi's opinion piece on the crypto deal between the Trump family and the UAE appeared in The Guardian.
David Grier's discovery of levitating particles that defy Newton’s Third Law of Motion appeared in Bioengineer.org, Quantum Insider, the Brighter Side of News, The Debrief, The Quantum Observer, Gizmodo, The Free Sheet, Science Alert, IFL Science, and Newsweek.
Azadeh Moaveni wrote a piece in Time magazine about the founding of Iran's Islamic Republic.
Diana Taylor has received the Rodolfo Usigli Medal, granted by the Government of Mexico's National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature, and the Department of Literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
Forbes reviewed Civility Unbound: Contesting a Democratic Value (NYU Press, 2026), which includes essays by Catharine Stimpson and K. Anthony Appiah.
Dan Fagin spoke to the Los Angeles Times for an article about the decline in monarch butterfly populations.
