Gratitude to the New York University faculty.

As NYU's president and a scholar-practitioner of social work and law, she leads a global university while keeping her research focus on helping families heal from violence.

A scholar of early-modern Spanish literature and culture who joined NYU in 2000, she now stewards the academic life of the whole university as provost.

After serving as US Deputy Secretary of Transportation and New York City's transportation commissioner, she brings a lifetime of public service to leading NYU Wagner.

A Turing Award laureate whose work on convolutional networks helped ignite the deep-learning era, he has kept teaching and mentoring at Courant through it all.

His Unique Games Conjecture reshaped how theorists understand what problems computers can and cannot approximate, earning him the Nevanlinna Prize.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he has spent a career illuminating the deep structure connecting integrable systems and random matrices.

Her work on the Ginzburg-Landau equations of superconductivity earned her the Poincare Prize and the Mirzakhani Prize, and she is a generous voice for women in mathematics.

Known worldwide as the dean of valuation, he has taught since 1986 and gives away his lectures and data freely so anyone can learn to value a business.

A Nobel laureate for his empirical work on cause and effect in the macroeconomy, he still teaches the rigorous econometrics that reshaped modern policy analysis.

The economist who famously warned of the 2008 crisis before it struck, he spent decades at Stern teaching the world to take systemic risk seriously.

A Howard Hughes investigator, his lab revealed how the gut microbiome shapes the immune system, opening whole new paths for treating inflammatory disease.

A leading cancer biologist and the medical school's chief scientific officer, she has advanced our understanding of how inflammation drives pancreatic cancer.

A physician-scientist who studied multiple sclerosis and then led NYU Langone for nearly two decades, he built one of the country's most respected academic medical centers.

An authority on wavelets who became the first woman to lead Tandon, she championed data science and brought many more women into engineering.

He brought cybersecurity education to NYU in 1999 and co-founded its Center for Cyber Security, training a generation of defenders through CSAW and the OSIRIS Lab.

A philosopher of ethics and identity whose writing on cosmopolitanism reaches far beyond academia, he also answers readers' moral questions as The Ethicist with rare humanity.

Her elegant experiments show how attention literally changes what we see, and she has mentored a remarkable number of young vision scientists into their own careers.

His work mapping how the brain processes fear reshaped the science of emotion, and he explains it to the public with unusual clarity and even in song.

She founded NYU's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics and pursues one of science's biggest questions, the identity of the dark matter that fills the universe.

His essay asking what it is like to be a bat became one of philosophy's most beloved meditations on consciousness, and generations of students learned to think alongside him.

His concept of covering gave millions a language for the pressure to downplay who they are, and he leads NYU Law's work on diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

He founded the Policing Project to bring democratic accountability to public safety, working patiently with communities and departments alike to make policing fairer.

A boundary-pushing theater artist and founding director of Theater Mitu, he now leads one of the world's great arts schools while still teaching and making work.

She founded NYU's pioneering food studies program and, through books like Food Politics, taught the public to think critically and honestly about what they eat.