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New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards

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12/07/2016

... love for science and mathematics, often inspiring students to pursue careers in science, math and other STEM fields. The seven winners, who were chosen from applications submitted by parents, students,...

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Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times

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02/07/2017

... Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times At times of dramatic change in a nation’s history, fear and ... for those historical rhymes can provide perspective at times of disquiet, such as this...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Co-Hosts 'A Populist Revolt? The Transformation of the World Order in the Trump Era'

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02/08/2017

... Group, Roger Cohen of The New York Times, and Pippa Norris from Harvard University share their thoughts... Carnegie ...

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Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health Reform

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02/16/2017

Commonwealth Fund's President Says Republicans Need to Act Fast to Enact What History Will Call Republican Health ... Wilbur Cohen, then assistant secretary of legislation at the U.S...

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New York Community Trust Supports Artists at Museum of Arts & Design

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03/03/2017

New York Community Trust Supports Artists at Museum of Arts & Design The Museum of Arts and Design presents Jes Fan: No Clearance in Niche, running from March 2 through April 30. This marks the inaugural .....

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The New York Community Trust

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Call for Applications: Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab

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04/04/2017

... in the Arts Innovation Lab Race Forward is delighted to invite your organization to apply for our 2017-2018 Racial ... multiracial conference on racial justice. With support from the Cultural...

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

... II of its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New ... 2016 with $310,000 in UHF funding, data was collected from 31 clinics across nine health...

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Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center

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05/24/2017

Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center The ambitious new arts center known as ... the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, has received $75 million from Michael R. Bloomberg, showing just how much the...

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Ford-supported Research Finds Friends Help Female Vampire Bats Cope with Loss

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05/24/2017

... closely related bats. Gerry Carter, post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), and ... they remove a major food donor, like a mother or daughter, from a bat's social...

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Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas

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08/28/2017

Trump Administration Considering Cuts to Cultural Exchange Visas The Trump administration is ... for au pairs and summer workers, that allow young people from foreign countries to work in the U.S...

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Workforce Development

More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer

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08/30/2017

... toll would rise along with the floodwaters. According to the United Nations, at least 41 million people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal ... directly affected by flooding and landslides resulting from...

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Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

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08/31/2017

Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing ... will issue a request for expressions of interest from development teams for plans to build ...

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China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change

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09/05/2017

China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change Chinese President Xi Jinping on ... the world economy faces growing risks and uncertainties from countries turning inward on trade and resisting .....

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Businesses Donate Over $157 Million to Harvey Relief Efforts

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09/05/2017

Businesses Donate Over $157 Million to Harvey Relief Efforts Corporate giants are making big contributions to disaster relief organizations to help victims of Tropical ... efforts as of Saturday...

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LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

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09/06/2017

... History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That Teachers sit at square tables in a college classroom here poring over ... his sexual orientation. There are copies of FBI documents...

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College Activists March on the Cafeteria: What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro!

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09/07/2017

... What Do We Want? Hydroponic Cilantro! Students returning to the University of Texas at Austin this fall will have twice as much help wrestling ... lifestyle choices. “I have had a little pushback from...

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The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... news leaked on Monday that President Trump had decided to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) ... — the 2012 policy that granted administrative relief to some 800,000 undocumented...

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City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs

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09/08/2017

City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs ... are expected to be built under the deal — 1,700 of them at the site of a partially-abandoned...

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A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis The opioid crisis is so complex ... programs, an approach highlighted in the draft report from President Trump’s Commission on Combating Drug ... Crisis. The epidemic has...

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