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In 1973, Polytechnic Institute acquired the College of Engineering from NYU, but in 2008, Polytechnic was absorbed by NYU to become its new engineering school. In 2015 NYU renamed the engineering school in honor of NYU Trustees Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon following their donation of $100 million to the school.
Freire did her undergraduate studies at the Federal University of Ceará in Brazil, and earned her doctorate from Stony Brook University.Prior to joining NYU-Poly in 2011, she was a researcher at Bell Laboratories, and a faculty member at the Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Utah.
She is primarily known for her business ventures as the first Indian-American woman to be elected partner at McKinsey and Company. In 2015, Chandrika Tandon and her husband, Ranjan Tandon, donated $100 million to the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, now named the NYU Tandon School of Engineering , in what was the largest donation by an ...
Wang has bachelor's and master's degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, awarded in 1983 and 1985, respectively.She completed her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering in 1990 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and in the same year joined the faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of New York, the predecessor institution to the NYU Tandon School.
Co-founder of Def Jam while at NYU William Oscar Smith: B.A., 1942 Jazz double bassist, known for 1939 Coleman Hawkins recording of Body and Soul: Eileen Southern: Steinhardt 1961, Ph.D. First African American woman appointed a tenured full professor at Harvard: Louise Talma: B.A., 1927 Composer Mary Wilson: Gallatin: The Supremes Austin Wintory
Zenyuk was born in Ukraine [3] and emigrated to the US at age 15. She received a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University [4] where she worked on the fundamental understanding meso-scale interfacial transport phenomena and electric double layers in fuel cells.
After the war, she pursued graduate education in chemistry in the United States, earning a master's degree in 1947 and completing doctoral studies in 1949, at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering). [5] She was one of the last students of Carl Neuberg, the "Father of Biochemistry." [6]
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, [13] NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin [14] as a non-denominational all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education.