GSAS Master's College - NYU

📣 GSAS MASTER’S ALUMNI 📣

We want to hear from you! The Master’s College is asking any and all GSAS master’s alumni to share their advice with current graduate students. Give insights on how to navigate graduate school, what life is like after university, how to pursue your chosen career, and more.

Fill out the form below and email us a video of you giving advice! The maximum length for these videos is 1 minute.
🔗 https://bit.ly/MCalumniadvice

We look forward to hearing your stories and suggestions and sharing them with our community 💜

The Master’s College would like to welcome our new students to NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Science! We are thrilled to have you at NYU.

Join us on Friday, June 13th for our summer welcome event, where you will hear about important next steps as you prepare to start graduate school. Learn helpful tips for starting at NYU and moving to New York City and have the opportunity to mingle with other students from GSAS at this event!

🔍 New Student Information Session + Campus Tour: 2-4PM
🥂 New & Current Student Happy Hour: 4-5:30PM

📍 King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
53 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012

RSVP at bit.ly/MCsummerwelcome
Join through Zoom: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93412015756

❕ Due to space limitations, please do not bring additional guests.

Congratulations to our graduating GSAS Master’s students! We toasted to the Class of 2025 at the Half Pint last month. Thank you to all of our students and alumni who joined us to celebrate our graduates and to the Leadership Board and MCAA for hosting this event. We at The Master’s College are incredibly proud of all of the graduating students and wish everyone the best for the next part of their professional and academic journeys 🎓

A special thank you to Calvin Vinitwatanakhun for giving this toast to our graduating students on behalf of the Master's College and MCAA. Graduates — congratulations again and please sign up for the alumni newsletter!

The Master’s College hosted its annual Threesis Academic Challenge in April this year. Congratulations to our first place winner Suha Musa, a Journalism and International Relations student whose research was titled “Two Sides of the Same Coin? What One Minnesota Election Tells Us About Identity Politics”. We would like to thank all other finalists, competitors, judges, attendees, and event organizers for coming together to celebrate master’s level research at NYU. This year’s competition was filled with riveting presentations and compelling research — we look forward to what next year’s challenge will bring!

©Slezak: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau

🎤 The Master’s College is having an Open Mic Night 🎤

Come watch your peers perform poetry, comedy, music and more on Monday, May 5th at Drip Drop Cafe from 5-7:30PM! Enjoy free coffee and pastries while you witness performances by GSAS students.

Sign up as a performer or a guest:
🔗 bit.ly/MCOpenMic55
Guests can also sign up to perform upon arrival.

Join the Master’s College to celebrate the Class of 2025 🍾

Come to The Half Pint on Friday, May 9th from 5 to 7PM to toast to our graduating master’s students and to the end of the spring semester. This event will be hosted by the MC Leadership Board and MCAA and is open to all GSAS students and alumni! Complimentary drinks and food will be provided.

🔗 RSVP to attend: bit.ly/MCgradtoastspring

Join Scholar Joanna Ruth to explore Ph.D. application "research statements” and "personal statements” and brainstorm ideas for your own! This workshop will review successful statements, discuss writing approaches, and build a sense of the form, tone, and general content of application statements. The workshop is open to anyone who is considering applying to doctoral programs, regardless of how far along they are in their considerations.

🧬 Introduction to PhD Application Statements
🗓️ Wednesday, April 9th @ 4PM
📍 In-person, Silver 120
🖥️ Join over Zoom: bit.ly/49workshopzoom
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/49MCPhDworkshop

📣 GSAS ALUMNI: Reconnect with GSAS through Threesis! 📣

Witness some of the best graduate research presented by current GSAS master’s students at the Threesis Academic Challenge this April! Hear seven smart and engaging speeches on graduate research spanning the fields of arts, social science, and STEM.

By attending the event, you will have a chance to vote for the 2025 GSAS Threesis Audience Choice Winner, an honor that comes with a $750 prize! In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to enter a raffle for a chance to win a fantastic NYU merchandise gift basket.

Come support the GSAS community and learn about ongoing student research!

🗓️ Saturday, April 26, 2025
⏰ 12:00 to 4:00PM, doors open at 11:30AM
📍 Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
🔗 RSVP to attend: bit.ly/Threesis2025

Want to watch your peers compete in an academic competition? 🏆

Witness some of the best graduate research presented by current GSAS master’s students at the Threesis Academic Challenge this April! Hear seven smart and engaging speeches on graduate research spanning the fields of arts, social science, and STEM.

By attending the event, you will have a chance to vote for the 2025 GSAS Threesis Audience Choice Winner, an honor that comes with a $750 prize! In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to enter a raffle for a chance to win a fantastic NYU merchandise gift basket.

Come and support your fellow master’s students and learn about ongoing GSAS student research!

🗓️ Saturday, April 26, 2025
⏰ 12:00 to 4:00PM, doors open at 11:30AM
📍 Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
🔗 RSVP to attend: bit.ly/Threesis2025

Thank you to all who attended our Bridges to Beyond: Alumni Career Panel Event last week 🎙️
We loved hearing from our brilliant speakers and having everyone network after the panel. Thank you to Alissa, Anchit, Anly, and Claudia for returning to NYU to share your experiences with our GSAS community. Shoutout to the Master’s College Leadership Board for hosting such a great event!

For our latest student spotlight, meet Karan Kumar Gangadhar (he/him)!

📚 Department: Computer Science

Karan is a second-year graduate student at NYU Courant. He is currently focused on his master's thesis research on programmable computer networks and compiler optimization under Professor Anirudh Sivaraman. His primary research interests are parallelization, program and compiler optimization, and computer networks.

Karan works extensively in the field of programmable network switches, focusing on building highly optimized compilers and transpilation tools for network programs. In addition, he is interested in general language-agnostic task parallelization techniques using thread-level tools. Karan’s research got published at the prestigious APNet conference last year; he recently submitted his work to ACM SIGCOMM and is awaiting a response.

🔗 Fill out the Student Spotlight Sign-Up form (bit.ly/4bJyShZ) for a chance to be featured next! We look forward to showcasing more of our master’s students and their incredible achievements.