NEWS: Add NYU Computational Social Science Course (#131)

* add news article for course

* edits for news item

* replace is with are

Author: mmcky

lectures/intro.md

@@ -14,14 +14,24 @@ kernelspec:
 This website presents a set of lectures on Python programming for economics and finance, designed and written by
 [Thomas J. Sargent](http://www.tomsargent.com/) and [John Stachurski](http://johnstachurski.net/). This is the first text in the series, which focuses on programming in Python.
 
-```{admonition} News
+```{admonition} New Build System
 [QuantEcon](https://quantecon.org) is moving to the [Jupyter Book](https://jupyterbook.org/intro.html)
 build system for all of its projects. We are a founding member of the
 [Executable Books Project](https://github.com/executablebooks), an international collaboration to
 build open source tools that facilitate publishing using the Jupyter
 ecosystem. Please send feedback to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
 ```
 
+```{admonition} News
+Tom Sargent, Chase Coleman, and Spencer Lyon have put together The [NYU Computational Social
+Science: Certificate Program](http://www.tomsargent.com/nyu_css.html).
+It uses many [quantecon](https://quantecon.org/lectures/index.html)
+resources. The program  aims to prepare students for either a graduate program in the social
+sciences or for a career as a data analyst or computational social scientist.
+
+[Applications and additional information are available here](https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/computational-social-science.html)
+```
+
 For an overview of the series, see [this page](https://quantecon.org/python-lectures/)
 
 ```{tableofcontents}