NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), created 10 years ago as part of the City of New York’s Applied Sciences NYC initiative, has consistently expanded and refined its innovative Masters of Science in Applied Urban Science and Informatics… Continue Reading 2023 Award Recipients

March 29, 2023 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  Honeybees foraging in urban environments could provide valuable information about the communities of fungi and bacteria that exist there, some of which impact people’s health and well-being, a study published in Environmental… Continue Reading Honeybee hives may reveal the microbial signatures of urban aerobiomes, researchers at NYU Tandon find

Last week NYU Tandon hosted a series of events in the frame of NYC Open Data Week 2023. One of the highlights became an informative seminar related to housing, the goal of which was to inform participants about the Department… Continue Reading NYC Housing Preservation and Development Data Deep Dive: Affordable Housing Production

March  20, 2023 Originally published by NYU Tandon. Image source: unesco.org Under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), NYU Tandon School of Engineering is co-organizing and hosting the inaugural Metropolitan Water Research & Innovation Workshop… Continue Reading NYU Tandon School of Engineering hosts inaugural Metropolitan Water Research & Innovation Workshop, a UNESCO initiative

March  1, 2023 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  Robotics expert Chen Feng aims to alleviate long-standing problems in occupational safety, productivity, costs, and labor shortages in the construction industry. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected an NYU Tandon School… Continue Reading NYU Tandon professor wins NSF CAREER Award for boosting the perception and navigation capabilities of construction-site robots

March 14, 2023 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  A student on the NYU RoboMaster Team UltraViolet, a Vertically Integrated Project, demonstrates a rover as NYU President Andrew Hamilton looks on at last year’s Research Excellence Exhibit At NYU Tandon, students… Continue Reading Reengineering the graduate engineering curriculum

September 1, 2022 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  The application is linked to a growing network of flood sensors that provide user-friendly data via an interactive map to alert users to rising waters in flood-prone areas. New York City Mayor… Continue Reading New data dashboard reporting street-level flooding in NYC gives government, responders, the public, and researchers real-time information on rising waters

CUSP selected and funded five research proposals to enlighten the areas of urban environment, urban health, urban infrastructure and urban sustainability. Congratulations to the 2023 SEED Grants winners! CUSP’s mission includes developing novel data- and technology-driven solutions to advance understanding… Continue Reading CUSP congratulates Seed Grant Winners 2023

September 29, 2022 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  A unique collaboration between the engineering sector (NYU Tandon), the clinical sector (NYU Langone), and the regulatory sector (the U.S. Food and Drug Administration) will bring biomarker data to bear on neurorehabilitation… Continue Reading NYU researchers partner with FDA to identify biomarkers for stroke rehabilitation

September 28, 2022 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  Still from “Underground Periscope,” a multi-channel video installation that considers the underground as a living organism by showing underground utilities and infrastructure thereby revealing the complex and often messy  interconnected nature of what… Continue Reading With month-long event, Sunset Park gets a “deep dive” into underground infrastructure

September 21, 2022 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  Our faculty members spend countless hours in the lab, devote themselves fully to their students, and continually seek to apply their knowledge and skills to better the world. While the work may… Continue Reading 2022 Tandon Faculty Awards

November 4, 2022 Originally published by NYU News.  New York University, Carnegie Mellon, and NYC Health experts test and develop new pre-surveillance method.   A dire threat to public health can emerge from a huge variety of sources – for… Continue Reading Researchers Unveil Data-Driven, Automated Machine-Learning System for Detecting Emerging Public Health Threats

September 12, 2022 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  Institute Professor Maurizio Porfiri to lead Center for Urban Science and Progress How do animals behave? How do people reach a consensus? How does a pandemic spread? What drives gun purchases? What… Continue Reading Complex environments pose complex challenges, but the new director of CUSP thrives on complexity

August 29, 2022 Originally published by NYU Tandon.  Each year, NYU Tandon’s Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) invites government agencies, private-sector companies, non-profit organizations, think tanks, and academics from schools all over the world to submit project proposals and then collaborate with… Continue Reading Capstone projects from Tandon’s Center for Urban Science + Progress result in data-driven policy recommendations and real-world solutions