Special Features

Listen to a Yale University podcast devoted to exploring the big questions animals raise about what it means to be human. This episode features Charles Siebert, Professor of Practice of Literature and Creative Writing, NYUAD.  Listen to the podcast here.

Vegetarian food producers must revise names if MEPs agree new rules to protect meat terms".   Read this article published by The Guardian discussing the replacement of veggie burgers with veggie discs here.

Professor Merita Dollma is a pioneer in the discourse of Heritage and Environment in Albania. Check out snippets of our interview with Merita below.  Dollma was a Rachel Carson Fellow in 2018. To read the complete interview with Merita, click here. You are a considered a pioneer in the discourse of Heritage and Environment in Albania. What sparked your interest to examine these kinds of linkages...

Archaeo-botany is a growing field. Why are we taking such an interest in human plant relationships now? Why Central Asia in particular? I think the trends in archaeobotany can be attributed to two things right now.  The first is improvement in methods – more archaeologists are employing the basic techniques that recover plant remains from archaeological excavations, and these data are now being...

This summer I joined Professor David Holland and his team from NYU Abu Dhabi’s Centre for Sea Level Change in an eye-opening expedition to Greenland. For five days we went aboard the icebreaker Adolf Jensen to deploy new moorings and maintain perviously deployed moorings along the Greenland continental shelf. The moorings consisted of multiple scientific instruments like tsunameters that detect...

You are a considered a pioneer in the discourse of Heritage and Environment in Albania. What sparked your interest to examine these kinds of linkages in your native country?  I am a Professor at the University of Tirana in the Department of Geography and teach natural and cultural heritage, human ecology and economic evaluation of natural resources. In the new political, social and economic...

Yannis Hadjinicolaou is a research fellow in the humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research interests are: Art and art theory of the Early Modern Period, Theory and history of the history of art, Synagonism in the Arts, Political Iconography and Falconry. In NYUAD he will be working on a project entitled, Falconry in Art: A Heritage in Global Perspective. Falcons and the Arab world are closely...