How NYU Law is shaping public safety in Minneapolis
https://nyunews.com/news/2025/02/07/nyu-law-minneapolis-research-update/
This article discusses NYU’s law school policing project. The school has a 2 year policing, $1 million contract with Minneapolis to offer tailored policy recommendations for community vitality and law enforcement. NYU Law’s policing project has worked with five U.S Cities to help curate community safety laws. They recommended Minneapolis to implement preventative, responsive and restorative services to hopefully stop recurring issues and improve emergency responses. In the article it says “Alexander Heaton, NYU Law’s director of reimagining public safety and an author of the report, said that Minneapolis should embrace governance structures with complementary community services, and ensure clear communication between city agencies and initiatives.” NYU giving them advice on what to do to stop recurring problems caused Minneapolis to implement the Policing Project’s recommendations to post dashboards that explain community-focused city initiatives to the public and improve the juvenile intervention process. This project will continue to receive feedback from Minneapolis City Council throughout the year to ensure residents like the new policies.
Courant AI tool helps users digest nutrition research
https://nyunews.com/news/2025/02/05/courantstudy/
For my second article – Courant AI tool helps users digest nutrition research – it talks about a developed artificial intelligence system that answers peoples nutrition questions. The model called DietNerd, was launched in January by researchers at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science. Its purpose is to answer users’ questions using a large language model. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign student Zubair Yacub and Courant graduate student Shela Wu led the project. They said they wanted to create something like this to combat false or misconstructed information about nutrition online. The article says “The researchers are now looking to adjust DietNerd’s framework to help people understand other complex subjects.” They are also currently developing other AI assistants like ContractNerd, InvestorNerd and WirelessNerd.
