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In the News

Jorge Cuartas
Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology

NPR: Rising Temperatures Could Have a Chilling Impact on Young Children

Susan Neuman
Professor of Childhood and Literacy Education

CNN’s Terms of Service with Clare Duffy: Why Have We Gotten Worse at Reading?

Credit: Peter Menzel

Marion Nestle
Paulette Goddard Professor and Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Food Studies

The New York Times: Several of Kennedy’s Dietary Advisers Have Ties to Meat and Dairy Interests

Insights, Impact, and Innovation
at NYU Steinhardt

It can be easy to get caught in the minutiae of everyday details as we move from one year to another. But, when I take time to reflect on the past year and the new one ahead, I’m struck by the difference our community’s makes locally and globally.

With more than 285 faculty members, nearly 6,500 students, and over 100,000 active alumni, NYU Steinhardt continues to be a force for an interdisciplinary understanding of the human lifespan—and the numbers in our 2025 Impact Highlights below represent just a small piece of our School’s work.

As another year ticks by, I’m excited to see how Steinhardt continues to multiply our efforts to advance the education, health, and well-being of people and communities around the world.

Jack H. Knott
Gale and Ira Drukier Dean
NYU Steinhardt

Top Stories

Hirokazu Yoshikawa Wins the 2025 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize

Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education Hirokazu Yoshikawa earned the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for his pioneering research on how public policies and programs, particularly those related to early childhood and immigration, shape human development.

Four people pose together; Yoshikawa holds an award.

Marking Time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 2023.

Two Faculty Members Earn Mellon Foundation Grants

Nicole Fleetwood, Paulette Goddard Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication, earned a $600,000 grant to continue her groundbreaking Marking Time project (pictured: the Marking Time art exhibit in 2023); and Mara Mills, associate professor of Media, Culture, and Communication and PhD program director, has been awarded a three-year, $1,045,000 grant to support a program called ASAP: Access for Small Arts Partnerships.

Steinhardt Hosts Industry Leaders in Music Publishing and Economics

NYU Steinhardt hosted the Ralph S. Peer Lecture Series, which brought together music publishing leaders David Israelite, Victoria Oakley, and Mitch Glazier (pictured), as well as a Dean’s Public Square event with a Facebook co-founder to discuss his new book.

Victoria Oakley, Mitch Glazier, and David Israelite sit together speaking

2025 Impact Highlights

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children with residual speech sound disorder treated in the biofeedback speech therapy study led by Tara McAllister, associate professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders

autistic NYC high schoolers paired with autistic college students to create science projects for the NYU Making Mentors showcase at NSF STEM Day, a celebration of the National Science Foundation’s 75th anniversary

high school and middle school classrooms developing student-led research projects with MindHive, a program spearheaded by Associate Professor and Program Director of Educational Communication and Technology Camillia Matuk

students from Steinhardt’s Physical Therapy program volunteered at the Special Olympics NYC Region Winter Classic

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interviews conducted by Steinhardt's Verbatim Performance Lab to explore how students, faculty, staff, and alumni feel about academic freedom on campus

18 local middle school students included in an NYU Steinhardt and NYU Tisch devised theatre production, Sonder: The Dreams We Carry

NYC mentor teachers recognized at the Steinhardt Office of School and Community Partnerships Teacher Appreciation Day

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hours of observational video collected for Applied Psychology Professor Catherine Tamis-LeMonda's study of child development at home

Upcoming Event

Masterclass: Marilyn Nonken

Thursday, February 19, 7:30–9:00 p.m. ET

Celebrated by The New York Times as “a determined protector of important music,” Marilyn Nonken is a distinguished pianist, Steinway Artist, and chair of the Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions as well as a professor of Music and Music Education and the director of Steinhardt’s Piano Studies program.

Alumni Spotlight

Known popularly as “Ms. Rachel,” Rachel Griffin-Accurso (MA ’16, Teaching Music, All Grades) sang with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani with preschoolers as part of the announcement of universal childcare for two-year-olds in NYC.

More Good News

Steinhardt's 80WSE gallery and Curator Howie Chen received the 2025 ARTnews’ Best Thematic Museum Exhibition Award for Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in New York City (1969–2001).

Two members of the Department of Applied Psychology earned recognition for their work: The Association for Psychological Science (APS) named Professor Diane Hughes a recipient of the 2026 APS James S. Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award for Transformative Scholarship, and Assistant Professor Jorge Cuartas was named a 2026 Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow.

Alum Isabel Dobarro (MM ’12, Piano Performance; Advanced Certificate ’15, Music Education; PhD ’21, Piano Performance) won the 2025 Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album for her solo recording Kaleidoscope–Contemporary Piano Music by Female Composers from Around the World.