NYU President Linda G. Mills visited China over the weekend, stopping by Shanghai and traveling to Beijing to meet with Vice Minister of Education Chen Jie. The two shared their views on international higher education and the role NYU Shanghai plays in strengthening Sino-US relations.
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First-generation students, whose family members may not have attended university, face some special challenges. A student-run initiative under the Center for Student Belonging is building a stronger support network for first-gen students by pairing them up with faculty and staff mentors.
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In a recent study led by Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Policy Guan Chenghe and published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, researchers explored landscape sensitivity within trails located in the wildland-urban interface.
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Amy DeCillis '20 says she has learned how important teamwork is, whether on the field, in the classroom, or in the workplace. While at NYU Shanghai, she was a star soccer player, and the lessons she learned on the team have stayed with her. Now DeCillis has moved onto a bigger pitch, working for the Football Association of Ireland in Dublin.
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• Global China Studies hosted a mini-lecture series on "The Users of Dunhuang Manuscripts" by Cambridge University Emeritus Professor of Chinese Imre Galambos, a leading scholar in the study of Dunhuang manuscripts. The lecture series included four sessions: Dunhuang Booklets Commemorating the Dead, Piecing Together the Lotus Sūtra, Scribbles on the Back of Manuscripts, and A Wooden Tablet from Dunhuang. Professor Galambos shared his recent findings about some manuscripts' codicological features and their implications. NYU Shanghai's Assistant Professor of Global China Studies Zhai Minhao, who moderated the four sessions, said the lecture series reminds us of the importance of materiality in studying ancient manuscripts.
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• On March 13, Edinburgh College of Art Research and Teaching Fellow Vassilis Galanos delivered an online talk to the NYU Shanghai audience on "From AI Grotesque to GenAI Kitsch: Choreographies of Content Moderation and Political Correctness." In his presentation, Galanos suggested that the vast majority of contemporary generative artificial intelligence art is kitsch, and demonstrated aspects of visual AI's last ten years of development as a sociotechnical construct and a combination of technical programming corresponding to social factors.
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• University of Notre Dame Associate Professor of Politics Joshua Eisenman spoke about "China’s Relational Power in Africa" in a talk hosted by Associate Professor of Practice in Political Science Ivan Rasmussen. He described how the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (ID-CPC) is building relations with African political parties by using bilateral and multilateral host diplomacy and cadre training to enhance its influence and share its governance methods.
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• More than 40 companies across 15 industries, including business, finance, and technology, joined a career fair hosted by the Center for Career Development and Lujiazui Financial City on March 8. Students applied for more than 150 job opportunities at the in-person fair at the New Bund campus. It was an opportunity for both Chinese and international students to interact with industry professionals and learn about potential career paths.
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Help us recycle! Notice a poster from an event that has already passed? Do a favor by stashing it in the handy bags hanging on each poster wall so that our campus cleaning staff can clear them out. Fun fact: the bags were made out of recycled plastic banners thanks to the handiwork of students, faculty, and staff who joined an activity hosted by Senior Language Lecturer of Chinese Chai Jing, Associate Arts Professor of IMA Marcele Godoy, and Assistant Arts Professor of IMB Yuan Yanyue. Want to upcycle old poster paper for your own projects? Visit the box outside of the Re-makerspace (N402) and take what you need.
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Temple Run
Resident Advisors under NYU Shanghai's Office of Residential Education and Housing organized a Temple Run, where students had the opportunity to visit three Shanghai historical temples in a row: Xichang Temple, Ningguo Chan Temple, and Longhua Temple. Here they are pictured at Longhua pagoda, adjacent to Longhua Temple, the oldest and largest temple in the region with a history of more than 1700 years.
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"Regardless of what kind of service you're doing, don't let inexperience be a disqualifying factor for you. There are ways to give back in large, grand ways and other subtle, and less celebrated ways, and they are all meaningful and all valuable and all needed."
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| From the NYU Global Network
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An NYU study shows that one particular animal, worms, overcame ecological hazards associated with the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear plant tragedy. Biology postdoctoral associate Sophia Tintori asked, "Did the sudden environmental shift select for species, or even individuals within a species, that are naturally more resistant to ionizing radiation?"
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• Gender in Academia: Four Faculty Give Their Take
In honor of International Women's Day, the Paper and East Day reposted an NYU Shanghai article on faculty perspectives on gender in academia, featuring Visiting Associate Professor of Psychology and Head of Social Sciences Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Assistant Professor of History and Global Distinguished Assistant Professor at NYU Heather Ruth Lee, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations Tanya Yuan Tian, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Yuan Yuan.
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• "Make the World Your Major" – This University Cultivates Students' Global Perspective and Intercultural Communication Skills
Associate Vice Chancellor Ding Shuzhe wrote an op-ed in Wenhui about how NYU Shanghai cultivates globally-minded students for success.
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• The Trauma Experienced in Gaza Is Beyond PTSD
Professor of Global Public Health Brian Hall's research on how people describe and process trauma differently across cultures was quoted in a New York Times' opinion piece calling for culturally competent mental health support for Gazans.
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In this talk, Professor Ma Xiongfeng from Tsinghua University will present the intrinsic computational limitation and entanglement generation capabilities of noisy quantum devices without error correction.
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As part of the exhibition École du soir, artist Christian Nyampeta co-convenes a "scriptorium" working group to collectively translate a text on "thinking Africa" into Chinese. Open sessions invite the public to experiment with other methods of translation through movement, performance, storytelling, and other creative expressions. Registration is required.
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