When the academic year officially ends on May 17, the growing season will be at its height. That’s why the Corbin Hill Farm CSA (community-supported agriculture organization) is offering membership to New School students right through the summer. But The New School is far more than a drop-off point for the kale, apples, eggs, and [...]

In a recent cover story in the New York Times Magazine, a reporter uncovered the world of addictive, mobile games. He placed one Parsons alumnus at the center of it all: Zach Gage. Gage is one of a group of young visionaries practicing at the intersection of art, design and technology who have emerged from [...]

José Rivera, the Obie Award-winning playwright and Academy Award nominee (The Motorcycle Diaries) will move from the page to the director’s chair on May 29 and 30, when The New School for Drama hosts a workshop production of his play Brainpeople. This special collaboration will run for three performances and features Drama alumni and current [...]

As the semester draws to a close the News hit the streets to ask students what they had planned for the summer. Ramon, Eugene Lang College, Writing I’m going to be in the city, I’m going to get a job, and I’m going to be writing and shooting short films.  They’re mainly comedies, and I’ll [...]

Alumni of the Certificate in Documentary Studies program at The New School for Public Engagement can often be found at international film festivals screening their latest works. The Sixth Annual Truth Be Told Documentary Film Festival gives this year’s 15 graduating students the chance to show off the fruits of their labors, a starting not [...]

Drama directing faculty member Suli Holum was recently nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Chimera, a piece she co-created with fellow directing faculty member Deborah Stein.  The show premiered at HERE as part of the 2012 Under the Radar Festival. Chimera tells the story of a woman who discovers she [...]

The New School has just launched a curated page on Kickstarter that features current projects by students, faculty, alumni, and staff. The page is a platform for The New School community, across all eight divisions, to share their current projects. As of April 2012, Kickstarter had more than $175 million dollars pledged and more than [...]

Two faculty members at The New School for Public Engagement have recently published books reflective of The New School’s interdisciplinary approach to cultural scholarship: food studies coordinator Fabio Parasecoli has co-edited A Cultural History of Food  and professor of History Claire Potter has co-edited and contributed to Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional [...]

On Thursday, April 26, a lively room of students and staff came together to celebrate excellence in student programming, leadership, and community building throughout The New School. Hosted by the Office of Student Development and Activities, the tenth annual Student Leadership Awards Banquet presented twenty awards in thirteen different categories, including Outstanding Student Leader of [...]

Student writers across disciplines, divisions, and levels will be honored on May 9th’s celebration of the winners of the 2012 Vera List New School Art Collection Writing Award for criticism, fiction, poetry and drama about a piece in The New School’s collection. Award winners actively engaged the university’s art collection and found inspiration in the [...]

On May 31, a team of New School students will travel to the city of Manizales in Colombia’s coffee region as part of DEED (Development through Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, and Design), a research project designed to support artisan-owned small businesses in the developing world. Led by Cynthia Lawson, assistant professor of Integrated Design at Parsons, and [...]

On Monday May 7, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music will host the first concert in a new collaboration with the world-renowned downtown performance venue, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Consistent with at Joe’s Pub’s reputation as a premier showcase for up-and-coming musicians and emerging artists from a variety of disciplines, each semester [...]

When The New School announced its first-ever New Challenge, a social entrepreneurship contest offering winners up to $10,000 in funding, the response on campus was huge. The New Challenge, part of The New School’s Social Innovation Initiative, received more than 60 student submissions from across the university’s divisions, with projects ranging from films to apps [...]

Take two community activists, one psychologist of war, one media-savvy journalist, and mix roughly 3,000 caps and gowns. Season with musical performances, speeches, and commendations. Let sit for two hours.  The result? A New School commencement. As the semester winds down, thoughts turn to the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, where this year’s university-wide graduation [...]