From Lab to Gold: NYUAD Triumphs at the Paris iGEM Competition

The iGEM competition brings together cross-disciplinary students on a shared synthetic biology project. iGEM students and instructors share glimpses of the beauty, pain, and power of this 10-month journey.

United in Grief | Part 2: When Home Is No Longer Safe, Where Shall We Be?

Against a backdrop of violence, instability, and fear back home, international students at NYUAD engaged in different ways to emotionally cope with the limbo they found themselves in.

Learning Beyond the Classroom: Arabic Program Students in Amman

From Amman’s bustling souqs to tea under olive trees, NYUAD Arabic students took their learning beyond the classroom, immersing in dialects, culture, and everyday Jordanian warmth.

From Mirrors to Teleportations: Personal Identity and The Self

Reflections on the philosophical views on the body-soul duality.

The Gazelle DOES NOT Recommend: Saving Your Time

Things the editors of The Gazelle found lacking and would recommend you skip so you save yourself time and money.

Artificial You: Bridging the Divide Between AI and Human Consciousness

Have you ever had a moment where you suddenly notice everything: the music in your headphones, the people around you, even your own breathing, and wonder what it really means to be you?

Kintsugi: Inside the Japanese Art that Finds Beauty in Broken Things

How a kintsugi workshop helped me rethink what it means to heal

United In Grief | Part 1: Social media exploded, and everything’s inescapably in your newsfeed

For international students of NYUAD, facing socio-political instability back home and keeping up with the news from their homeland is a mentally-draining must-do.

Zohran Mamdani and the Democratic Establishment

What the mayoral race reveals about the Democratic Party and its future.

Home, #it’scomplicated: a Conversation with Saba Karim Khan

“Even a few lives can push the needle.”

Thus Spoke the Sun

It was nighttime and the sun was shining brightly. Some things were strange about this sun. Not just its human face – it was trying to express itself, or maybe, say something to me.

The Gazelle Blind Recommends: TBRs, TBWs, TBLs

The writers and editors of The Gazelle share the books, movies, and music they want to start soon.

My Great-grandmothers Never Saw the Sea

Growing up, the world seemed open and welcoming to me. Yet the possibilities did not make me a dreamer, but an envious storyteller.

The Achilles’ Heel of Idealization: What Leaving Home Taught Me About Broken Systems Everywhere

The grass is not always greener, or at the very least, the grass I stand on is not as dull as I perceived it to be. Progress is not leaving, but having the courage to face the world as it is. To hold its contradictions without looking away.

Nova of Celestoria: How Two NYUAD Students Turned Science into Story

*Nova of Celestoria* is NYUAD’s first original graphic novel: a coming-of-age space adventure shaped by late-night writing sessions, real astrophysics, and the honest struggles of growing up.