L. Jay Oliva

L. Jay Oliva (born September 23, 1933 in Walden, New York), Italian American, was the 14th President of New York University. Dr. Oliva has a B.A. from Manhattan College (1955), and an M.A. (1957) and Ph.D. (1960) from Syracuse University. He was a University Fellow at Syracuse, a Fribourg Fellow at the University of Paris, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Born to an Italian father, his mother was an Irish-speaker from Ireland, and he has shown much interest and lent NYU to Irish-themed celebrations, exhibitions, etc. under the aegis of his Presidency of New York University, including St. Patrick's Day decorations down First Avenue near the NYU Medical Center buildings every March. Dr. Oliva is the author and editor of numerous works...