NYUAD hosts ‘Living with a Star’ talk
ABU DHABI: In line with World Space Week, NYU Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) will soon host Living with a Star — a talk that will discuss the anatomy of the sun and its impact on the earth’s climate and space instrumentation. It will also shed light on violent solar eruptions and mysteriously long-lived sunspots, all taken by NASA’S impressive billiondollar satellite, the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
Taking place on Tuesday, October 8 from 5-7 pm in NYUAD’S Experimental Research Building (ERB) Café, Living with a Star will be led by Co-principal Investigator at NYUAD’S Center for Space Science Shravan Hanasoge. Interested participants can register via nyuad.cgsb@nyu.edu; seats are limited.
This is the first of the year in the series of Fikret Science Club talks — a programme that is driven towards promoting an understanding of the scientific world to the Abu Dhabi community. The programme covers various topics pertaining to conservation of cultural heritage through science, biological rhythms and mood, climate change and environmental adaptation, and science in society, among others.
Fikret Science Club is open to both established science enthusiasts and those curious to learn more. Details on the upcoming discussion will soon be announced on @nyuad_cgsb_ar via its Instagram page.
NYU Abu Dhabi is the first comprehensive liberal arts and science campus in the Middle East to be operated abroad by a major American research university. NYU Abu Dhabi has integrated a highly-selective liberal arts, engineering and science curriculum with a world centre for advanced research and scholarship enabling its students to succeed in an increasingly interdependent world and advance cooperation and progress on humanity’s shared challenges. NYU Abu Dhabi’s high-achieving students have come from more than 115 nations and speak over 115 languages. Together, NYU’S campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai form the backbone of a unique global university, giving faculty and students opportunities to experience varied learning environments and immersion in other cultures at one or more of the numerous study-abroad sites NYU maintains on six continents.
Separately, to recognise October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) is kicking off its fith Breast Health Awareness campaign to promote breast health education. Once again NYUAD has lit its campus dome pink in order to raise awareness of the importance of breast health.