NYU Biology participates in outreach programs to communicate science and reach the communities across New York City.
- Biobus, a mobile science education initiative for underserved schools
- World Science Festival, which holds numerous lab tours, seminars, and activities at the NYU Washington Square Campus,
- NYU-CTY, a one-day outreach event in collaboration with the national Center for Talented Youth (CTY) program at John Hopkins University.
- PlantingScience, a learning community where scientists provide online mentorship to student teams as they design and complete their own experiments.
- Evolution of Food Workshop at the American Museum of Natural History
- NOGN (Neuroscience Outreach Group at NYU)
- Top Honors and The Door, which provide free science and math tutoring.
- 3D Girls Inc., a non-profit organization that educates and empowers young women.
- Clear Direction Mentoring
- Neuroscience Institute Public Outreach & Science Education
- BrainWaves
Our labs serve to enrich science education for students from local schools who come for field trips and our faculty and students also visit schools to give guest lectures. Our faculty and graduate students have donated lab space and served as mentors in science competitions such as the DNA Barcoding Competition and iGEM.