Question: William Heffernan was thrice nominated for a journalism prize administered by what New York University?
Context: Jeff Sharlet (born 1972) is an American journalist and author.  He is a contributing editor for "Harper's", "Virginia Quarterly Review", and "Rolling Stone".  His work has also appeared in "The New York Times Magazine", "GQ", "Esquire", "Lapham's Quarterly", "Oxford American", "Bookforum", "The Washington Post", "Mother Jones", "New York", "Advocate", "Guernica" "The Chronicle of Higher Education", "Columbia Journalism Review", "New Statesman", "The Nation", "The New Republic", "Forward", "Nerve", and "The Baffler".  He has taught at New York University and is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College.  He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the MOLLY National Journalism Prize, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Outspoken Award, and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award. Keith Kloor is a freelance writer who lives in Brooklyn New York City.  He teaches magazine article writing as an adjunct lecturer for the Arthur L. Carter journalism institute at New York University, as well as Urban Environmental Reporting at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and is a former fellow of the Center for Environmental Journalism. William Heffernan (born August 22, 1940) is an American novelist born in New Haven, Connecticut.  Before becoming a novelist, Heffernan was an investigative reporter for the "New York Daily News".  For that work he was thrice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.  Heffernan left journalism in 1978 after receiving his first book contract for the novel "Broderick".  He won the Heywood Broun Award twice, received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has received a number of other local, state and regional honors.  William Heffernan has received the Edgar Award, is a member of the Authors Guild, The Mystery Writers of America, and was once President of the International Association of Crime Writers.  The film rights for the "The Dinosaur Club" were sold to Warner Bros in 1997 for $1 million. Julie Heffernan (born 1956 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American painter whose work has been described by the writer Rebecca Solnit as "a new kind of history painting" and by The New Yorker as "ironic rococo surrealism with a social-satirical twist."  Heffernan has been a Professor of Fine Arts at Montclair State University in Upper Montclair, New Jersey since 1997.  She currently lives in New York, New York. The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service.  The awards, established in 1942 and administered since 1968 by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, are considered by some to be the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, another program administered by Columbia University. The Mark Lynton History Prize is an annual award in the amount of $10,000 given to a book "of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression".  The prize is one of three awards given as part of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and by the Columbia University School of Journalism. Adam Davidson is an American journalist focusing on business and economics issues for National Public Radio.  He was a co-founder of NPR's Planet Money program.  Previously he has covered globalization issues, the Asian tsunami, and the war in Iraq, for which he won the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.  He and Adam McKay were former co-hosts of Surprisingly Awesome from Gimlet Media.  Davidson worked as an economics columnist for "The New York Times Magazine" and in 2016 took a position at "The New Yorker". Nasir Memon is a computer scientist based in Brooklyn, New York.  Memon is a professor and chair of the New York University Tandon School of Engineering computer science and engineering department and affiliate faculty at the computer science department in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.  He is also the Department Head of NYU Tandon Online, the online learning unit of the school.  He introduced cyber security studies to New York University Tandon School of Engineering, making it one of the first schools to implement the program at the undergraduate level.  Memon holds twelve patents in image compression and security.  He is the founding director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy (CRISSP) and CRISSP Abu Dhabi.  In 2002, Memon founded Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW), an annual conference where tens of thousands of students compete in events and learn skills in cyber security Memon is also co-founder of Digital Assembly, a software company that develops digital forensics and data recovery and Vivic, a company that produces malware detection software.  Memon has published over 250 articles in journals and conferences and has contributed to articles regarding cyber security in magazines such as "Crain’s New York Business", "Fortune", and "USA Today".  His research has been featured in "NBC Nightly News", "The New York Times", "MIT Review", "Wired.Com", and "New Science Magazine". The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.  It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) Joseph Pulitzer who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City.  Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories.  In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award (raised from $10,000 in 2017).  The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal. Paul Bartlett Ré (pronounced Ray) is an American artist, writer, poet, and peace worker.  He is known for his book THE DANCE OF THE PENCIL: Serene Art by Paul Ré, his widely shown traveling exhibit of TOUCHABLE ART FOR THE BLIND AND SIGHTED, and most recently for the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace Prize administered by the University of New Mexico Foundation.  His new book ART, PEACE, AND TRANSCENDENCE: Réograms That Elevate and Unite   is published by UNM Press .  It received the 2016 New Mexico – Arizona Book Award for Philosophy.  http://nmbookcoop.com/BookAwards/2016-Winners/2016-Winners.html
Answer: Columbia University