Browse Exhibits (16 total)
What Made NYU to Merge with the Polytechnic Institute in 1973: Historical Backgrounds and Financial Difficulties
Tandon School of Engineering has two different origins: one from Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute and the other from University of the City of New York. There were two mergers in 1973 and 2014, which caused the institution to change their names a couple of times for several reasons. Through this exhibit, I will be investigating about why these transitions happened, focusing on the 1973 merger with the historical background and analyzing the financial difficulties that these institutions went through at that time.
Credits
Justin Hwang
Development and emergence of advertisements in Polytechnic Reporter from early 1940s to early 1970s
Polytechnic Reporter is the student-run school newspaper established at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1914 to 2014. The school newspaper includes all sorts of student-related events, news, student life updates, and advertisements. By collecting various pictures of advertisements and tracking the changes and evolution of them in the student newspaper, the mainstream campus advertisements during certain periods can be analyzed to measure their development in different aspects. The time period is deliberately confined to 30 years starting from the early 1940s to the late 1960s. Two major wars were going on and impacting the whole world: World War II and the Vietnam War. Under the political and commercial unrest, merchants needed to find various ways to promote their products to survive and in turn boost the economy. Students as a stable consumer group are the targeted audience for the advertisements, making campus advertisements prevalent.
Under the context of pervasive campus advertising, Polytechnic Reporter offers a primary and intuitionistic insight into the regime and economic and aesthetic background during that specific time boundary. It serves as a vital factor for us to understand the student body of the time and the campus environment. After the 1970s, advertising content in Polytechnic Reporter reduced gradually, which might be due to the increased funding or school support. Until the 2000s, the advertising component almost disappeared owing to the Journalism classes, where student newspapers were no longer a voluntary task in need of sponsors.
The Exploration of the Expansion of NYU-Poly Real Estate throughout Downtown Brooklyn and Abroad
The objective is to dive deep into the history of NYU and it's NYU-Poly real-estate expansion in downtown Brooklyn and explore all of the sacrifices it took to achieve the downtown Brooklyn we see today. Also, the exploration of how NYU was able to expand it’s real estate abroad in other countries/continents, i.e. NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Shanghai, etc.
Rise of Downtown Brooklyn
My project focuses on exploring the reason why Downtown Brooklyn come to rise from early 1980s even to the present day. In simple words, I would want to explore how Downtown Brooklyn transformded so drastically from an industrial land to a technology hub. If possible, I might also try to figure out what roles Poly played during the process.
As we read Sullivan’s article of "Directions to Brooklyn" about his own understanding and analysis concerning Brooklyn, I became particularly interested in this part of the topic : the rise of Downtown Brooklyn. To begin with, I came up with this idea out of curiosity. As I moved to the New York Metropolitan Area, I was always told that the most prosperous and hectic area of the City of New York used to be Manhattan, and in the past Brooklyn wasn’t part of New York. I learned the surprising fact that Brooklyn used to be a diverse borough with a high crime rate. I would focus on what role Poly played in the rise of Downtown Brooklyn and how the industry of technology supplemented its rapid growth.
The Muslim Experience at NYU Tandon
Muslims have had an immense impact on the creation of the world we all share. This website hopes to contextualize and highlight the accomplishments of everyday Muslims belonging to our community at NYU Tandon.
Noll and the PicturePhone
