From March 15 to 16, high school students from mainland China visited campus for this year’s first Candidate Weekend. They were just a portion of the nearly 1500 students invited by NYU Shanghai’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions to participate in six day-long admissions events hosted over three weekends at the New Bund campus.

• A guest lecture series hosted by Professor of History Zhihong Chen brought three speakers to campus on March 18. Co-sponsored by GHEC and three student clubs — UBA, TAMID, and Econ Initiative — the event drew over 70 participants. Jerry Lou, founder and CEO of Everpine Capital, highlighted how AI is altering societal values and making many traditional skills less marketable. Looking ahead, he said, the world will need individuals with independent thinking and sound judgment, not AI-controlled ones. He added that only by leveraging AI effectively while maintaining critical awareness can we create value amid this transformation.

• Professors Ivan Rasmussen and Jieun Kim engaged the community in a panel dialogue on the 2024 martial law crisis in South Korea, the following impeachment of South Korea's former president, Yoon Suk Yeol, and the acting president Han Duck-soo. 

• Harvesting sprouts, exploring Chinese acupuncture, cooking a vegetarian feast, and even burying their feet into the warm soil for a “compost bath” was how students spent their time at Yungu Farm in Jinshan District on a trip led by Assistant Professor of Global China Studies Zhang Liangliang.

• IMA Associate Fellow Leah Bian's solo exhibition Neither Here Nor There, featuring three video artworks exploring new forms of connections between humans, technology, and other species, opened in the Interactive Media Arts Gallery on March 20 and will be on display till April 9. 

- Wang Ying, founder of non-profit hospice care organization Shanghai Hand in Hand Life Care Development Centre, speaking to Assistant Professor of Global China Studies Zhang Liangliang’s A Good Death class.  

Hailing from nearly 80 countries, NYU Shanghai students are always finding ways to bridge languages and cultures through events that foster personal growth while impacting our community and the city around us.

• Cultivating Students with Dual Perspectives 
China Scholar Abroad published an article about how NYU Shanghai cultivates students to integrate local insights with global visions.