FACTS ABOUT NEW YORK AND NYU

DID YOU KNOW THAT NEW YORK CITY....

• Has been the home of at least 127 Nobel Prize winners who have either taught or studied here
• Has the highest concentration of science students and postdocs (the city grants more Ph.D.s in life science than 48 states; only California and New York State exceed it).
• Is tied with Boston in top biology Ph.D. programs
• Leads - in a virtual tie with Boston - all other research areas in NIH grant dollars (the two cities received more than $1 billion in 2002!)
• Is unmatched in its cross-disciplinary strengths (one of New York's physicists, to offer just one example, received a $55 million NSF grant this year to lead a path-breaking particle physics project at CERN from his base, not in Geneva but at Columbia University)

(Text taken from Science & the City, NYAS President Ellis Rubenstein's letter in the March 2004 New York Academy of Science Update Magazine)

SOME FAMOUS NYU ALUMS...

Alan Greenspan
Woody Allen
Rudy Giuliani
Ang Lee
Spike Lee
Angelina Jolie
Marv Albert
Midori
Christy Turlington
Caleb Carr
Debra Messing
Neil Simon
Judy Blume
Howard Cosell
Martin Scorsese
Alec Baldwin
Meg Ryan
Morgan Spurlock

…many more celeb NYU grads at amiannoying.com

FAMOUS SCIENTISTS WHO HAVE STUDIED AT NYU:

Eric Kandel (Nobel Laureate, Phyisology or Medicine, 2000)
Arthur Kornberg (Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine, 1959)
Saul Krugman (hepatitis B vaccine)
Matt Scharff (B cell biology)
Clifford Shull (Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1994)
George Todaro (invented 3T3 cells)
Rosalyn Yalow (Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine, 1977)

Famous faculty members:
Severo Ochoa (Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine, 1959)
Lewis Thomas (Author, “The lives of a cell”)
Baruj Benacerraf (Nobel Laureate, Physiology or Medicine, 1980)
Robert Engle (Nobel Laureate, Economics, 2003)
Avram Hershko (Nobel Laureate, Ubitquitin-Mediated protein degradation, 2004). Adjunct Professor of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine.