After over three years of anticipation, the NYU Shanghai New Bund campus has finally been unveiled for the 2023 spring semester. The campus is located at 567 West Yangsi Road with the unique design of four interlinked buildings surrounding a spacious courtyard. "It is truly thrilling to finally be able to move into our new, permanent home." Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman said.
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Our students are doing what they do best–exploring, adapting, and thriving in their new homes at Jingyao Residence Hall while beginning classes at NYU Shanghai’s brand new campus.
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On January 11, the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD) at NYU Shanghai hosted a joint seminar with Tokyo City University’s Urban Spatial Information Science Laboratory (USIS LAB) on the topic "Planning Post-pandemic Urban Green and Blue Space: Urban science and Mobile Phone Big Data Application."
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Established in 2022, and led by Professor of Global Health Brian Hall, NYU Shanghai Center for Global Health Equity works to reduce health disparities by improving the health of diverse populations through research. Hall shared with us about the Center’s growth and focus, and the faculty team’s ongoing projects. "We want to make sure our work has high levels of cultural relevance and humility and is grounded in the lived realities of the people who are experiencing health concerns," he said.
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Stavros Didakis, an artist, academic, and researcher who has been an associate arts professor of Interactive Media Arts (IMA) at NYU Shanghai since 2019, creates works that explore the relationship between humans and machines.
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• Congratulations to NYU Shanghai Chief Scientist and Professor of Neuroscience Lu Zhong-Lin, Professor of Psychology Pekka Santtila, and Professor of Global Public Health Brain Hall on being named “Best Psychology Scientists in China” for their outstanding and groundbreaking research contribution to Research.com, a renowned world-wide scientific data research website. In this first edition of Research.com, top psychology scientists are ranked based on data collected from Microsoft Academic Graph on December 6, 2021. Position in the ranking is based on a scientist's D-index (Discipline H-index), which only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline.
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• Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and Money, taught by Associate Professor of Practice in Economics Ilaf Elard, and Natural Language Processing, taught by Professor of Practice in Computer Science Wilson Tam, have been recognized by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission as two of the "2022 First-Class Undergraduate Courses of Shanghai Higher Education Institutions."
Professor Elard’s course focuses on blockchain as an interdisciplinary scientific innovation combining foundational concepts from finance, economics, and computer science, while Professor Tam’s course introduces students to various natural language processing techniques covering statistical and deep learning approaches and shows how these techniques have real-world applications.
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• The Library recently launched its new website on Jan 30, with easier navigation and a user-friendly interface. Feedback is welcome here. Submissions have been extended for the Neo-Library AI Art Open Call. Upload your art and invite friends to vote for you! The winning piece will appear as a banner on the library's newly-launched website. For those who have items on semester-long loan, the due date has been extended to May 19, 2023.
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"Dear Friends of Denzel,
We join you in mourning the loss of Denzel and that the world has lost a young and talented individual. We thank the efforts that you and your classmates have put forth in helping Denzel. At this time, the funds you’ve generated will be used urgently and critically to support his family with medical and funeral costs. Our registrar's office has been notified, and we will be sending his diploma to his family as a memorial to recognize his academic achievements. His remaining balance will be canceled. You are invited to send messages and share your memories of Denzel with his family through this Facebook group here."
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In a recent study, NYU Shanghai Assistant Professor of Mathematics Jinzi Mac Huang and Professor of Physics and Mathematics Jun Zhang propose a new approach to controlling thermal convection by adding an additional, horizontal heat flux. The study has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, a leading international journal in the field. "The purpose of this study is to explore whether there’s a way to realize the control function of transistors in a fluid system," Huang said.
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The Physics Institute co-sponsored one of Asia’s top quantum information conferences, the 22th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2022), held on December 17 and 18. The conference provided a platform for scholars to share the research progress in quantum information processing, communication and cryptography, an interdisciplinary field bridging quantum physics, computer science, mathematics, and information technologies.
"The talks given at the conference were all at an extremely high level, and the posters were among the best I have ever seen," said Professor Tim Byrnes, associate director of NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai, who co-organized the conference as the Co-Chair of Program Committee.
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Explore parks, shopping centers, food spots, and more in this tour led by NYU Shanghai students Sarah and Travis who take us around NYU Shanghai's new campus neighborhood located on the New Bund.
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| From the NYU Global Network
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In June 2020, due to the pandemic, New York City launched its outdoor dining initiative, which drove a 12-fold increase in the dining scene. Researchers from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service recently published a report comparing NYC’s older, pre-pandemic Sidewalk Café outdoor dining program with its replacement, Open Restaurants. It highlights how Open Restaurants has led to new outdoor dining opportunities outside Manhattan, in communities that had no prior outside dining options. Communities of color doubled their share of outdoor dining establishments, while low-income communities nearly doubled theirs.
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Shanghai Observer reported that more than a hundred Chinese students from NYU Shanghai’s undergraduate graduates went to study at top 50 universities in the USNEWS world university ranking. The report also highlighted the employment fields of Chinese graduates who have entered the workplace, among which the financial industry has the highest proportion at 39%.
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Chancellor Tong Shijun shared his review of the book, To Have or to Be by Erich Fromm, with Wenhui Daily. Tong explained in detail the author’s discussion on the two lifestyles of "having" and "being" and which one is more important when thinking about life and social issues.
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Shanghai Education TV reported on NYU Shanghai’s New Bund campus and interviewed the directors from the school’s IT and Facilities departments. The video introduced the new campus to the public and showcased the efforts each department has put into preparing the new campus facilities and services.
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Journal of International Education published Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman’s article regarding cultivating innovative talents. "A real innovator must have both broadness and depth of knowledge," Lehman writes, recounting many stories of scientists and experts. "Since its founding, NYU Shanghai has applied this concept to its curriculum system and teaching methods to cultivate innovative talents."
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Friday, February 10
Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Info Session
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM / Online
Are you interested in applying to do summer research through the Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund (DURF)? Come to this information session to hear helpful advice from past DURF students and Faculty Mentors. Hosted by Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Diane Geng and Clinical Associate Professor of Literature & Director of Global Awards Anna Kendrick.
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