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PRESS & MEDIA COVERAGE

2022/2023

  • Discrimination against Chinese-born Americans continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
    May, 2023
    Featuring Profs. Kinga Makovi, Maria Abascal, & Ph.D. Student Yao Xu
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on LSE

2021/2022

  • Organizing Baghdad as a developmental problem (2/2)
    December, 2022
    Featuring researcher Huma Gupta 
    – In Arabic, it has secured online coverage on Jadaliyya
  • Organizing Baghdad as a developmental problem (1/2)
    December, 2022
    Featuring researcher Huma Gupta 
    – In Arabic, it has secured online coverage on Jadaliyya
  • Internet y Sociedad en el siglo XXI. La arquitectura del vacío
    October, 2022
    Featuring CITIES Research Associate José Balsa-Barreiro & Cebrián, M.
    – In Spanish, it has secured online coverage on Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica
  • Flood maps show US vastly underestimates contamination risk at old industrial sites
    August, 2022
    Featuring Marlow, T., Elliott, J.R., and Frickel, S.
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on The Conversation.
  • Flooding could expose toxic soil in city neighborhoods
    July, 2022
    Featuring Marlow, T.
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on The Center for Public Integrity 
  • Waste from thousands of old industrial sites may be released by floods
    July, 2022
    Featuring Marlow, T.
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on Ars Technica
  • Problemas Intratables
    March, 2022
    Featuring Ortega, A., Balsa-Barreiro, J. and Cebrián, M.
    – In Spanish, it has secured online coverage on Eldiario.es.
  • UAE Dreamers Video Series. Ep. 14: Dr. Kemal Celik – Assistant Professor
    March, 2022
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on YouTube.
  • UAE Dreamers Video Series. Ep. 4: Prof. Monica Menendez – Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
    March, 2022
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on YouTube.
  • “20 Dreamers of Today” at the “Land of Dreamers Who Do” Theme at the UAE
    February, 2022
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on Instagram (UAE PAvilion at Expo 2020)
  • “20 Dreamers of Today” at the “Land of Dreamers Who Do” Theme at the UAE
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020
  • NYUAD Researchers Study Traffic Management in 25 Cities
    February 2022
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez, Daniel Bramich
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in Gulf News, and Write Caliber.
  • Traffic Management in the UAE: Radio Podcast Interview
    February, 2022
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez
    – In English, the interview starts at 34:55 in Dubai Eye 103.8: The Agenda
    – It can also be accessible at this link.
  • The Future of the Morning Commute: Radio Podcast Interview
    January, 2022
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez
    – In English, the interview starts at 35:35 in Dubai Eye 103.8: The Agenda
  • Fisionomía Urbana y Flujos de Tráfico
    Jan 10, 2022
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez & CITIES Research Associate José Balsa-Barreiro.
    – In Spanish, it has secured online coverage in: Foreign Affairs Latino América

2020/2021

  • Life During an Infodemic: A Photo Essay
    2021
    Featuring CITIES Project Assistant Simpreet Singh
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: Engage EPW
  • What More Can We Do with Social Media Data? Library’s Data Literacy Series Introduces a New Tool
    Nov 19, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Bruno Abrahao
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: NYU Shanghai News
  • Where White People Go, Where Black People Go: Cellphone Data Reveals how Segregated Bostonians are in Their Movements
    October 29, 2021
    Featuring paper by Prof. Kinga Makovi, Prof. Bruno Abrahao and CITIES Post-Doctoral Associate Thomas Marlow.
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: Boston Globe
  • OPINIÓN: Cómo Son y Cómo Se Mueven las Redes Urbanas?
    October 27, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez and CITIES Research Associate José Balsa-Barreiro.
    – In Spanish, it has secured online coverage in: Los Angels Times
  • The National: UAE’s Win at the Venice Biennale Can Make Our Cities Greener
    September, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in The National News.
  • Here We Grow | Grow Sustainability
    September, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage on YouTube.
  • A Sustainable Alternative to Concrete: UAE Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
    July, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in Design Boom.
  • Her Excellency Noura Al Kaabi Inaugurates Wetland, National Pavilion UAE’s Tenth Exhibition at the Biennale Architettura 2021
    May, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in National Pavillion UAE.
  • UAE Pavilion Searches for Environmentally Friendly Alternative to Portland Cement
    May, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in Arch Daily.
  • 11 Asian and Middle Eastern pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2021
    May, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in De51gn.
  • Covid-19: Researchers Design Innovative Solutions to Tackle Virus
    May 15, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Azza Abouzied, Prof. Ali Diabat, Prof. Kinga Reka Makovi, and Prof. Monica Menendez
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: Khaleej Times
  • Database Systems Research in the Arab World: A Tradition that Spans Decades
    April 22, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Azza Abouzied, Karima Echihabi, Mourad Ouzzani- in English, it has secured online coverage in: ACM’s CACM
  • On the Design of an Optimal Flexible Bus Dispatching System with Modular Bus Units: Using the Three-dimensional Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram
    April 25, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez & Prof. Joseph Chow
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: NYU Tandon
  • Opportunity Zones Don’t Boost Economic Activity, Research Says
    February, 2021
    Featurig Prof. Robert Seamans
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: PEW
  •  Opportunity Zones: The Early Evidence
    February, 2021
    Featuring Prof. Pablo I. Hernández-Lagos & Prof. Robert Seamans’ work
    – A podcast is available in English in: BROOKINGS

2019/2020

  • The Surprisingly Limited Success of Trump’s Signature Anti-Poverty Program
    September 29, 2020
    Featuring Prof. Pablo I. Hernández-Lagos & Prof. Robert Seamans’ work
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: POLITICO
  • Climate: Is Desalination Dangerous for Our Oceans?
    August 18, 2020
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – An online interview is available in French in: Franceinfo
  • How Mumbai Travels to Work
    August 7, 2020
    Featuring CITIES Researcher Simpreet Singh
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: Scroll.in
  • UAE Architects Make Cement Out of Salt
    June 22, 2020
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: CNN Style
  • #StayHome Made World Greener; Now We Have to Keep it that Way
    May, 2020
    Featuring Prof. Monica Menendez
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: Khaleej Times
  • Greening the Building Industry
    March, 2020
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: Abu Dhabi/Find Wonder
  • A New Breakthrough Lowers the Footprint of Making Both Concrete and Fresh Water
    April 26, 2019
    Featuring Prof. Kemal Celik
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in: Fast Company
  • City Life. It’s in Our Nature
    February, 2019
    Featuring Prof. Saif Jabari & Prof. Kinga Reka Makovi
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in NYU Abu Dhabi Research Report
  • This Digital Life
    February, 2019
    Featuring Prof. Azza Abouzied & Christina Pöpper
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in NYU Abu Dhabi Research Report
  • We Built This City. NYUAD Our Research
    February, 2019
    Featuring Prof. Pablo Hernandez-Lago, Prof. Saif Jabari & Prof. Monica Menendez
    – In English, it has secured online coverage in NYUAD Research