This year's 6th annual TEDxNYUShanghai conference at NYU Shanghai's New Bund Campus marked a comeback of the offline event, with seven talks on the theme of "Flux." Speakers spanning the industries of education, media, graphic design, fashion, management and consulting, and linguistics shared their personal stories of self-discovery.
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On April 22, NYU Shanghai officially unveiled its Mini Course (上纽课) online learning platform, providing the public with high-quality, open-access educational resources.
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On April 21, nearly 30 NYU Shanghai postdoctoral fellows and PhD students shared their research at the 10th Anniversary NYU Shanghai Postdoctoral and Doctoral Research Assembly. Hosted by the Office of Graduate and Advanced Education (OGAE), the full-day assembly was attended by more than 150 audience members.
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During the more than 30 years that China enforced its one-child policy, an estimated over 100,000 children were adopted from China by international families. As they come of age, many are beginning to share their experiences. A series of events held at NYU Shanghai brought together Chinese adoptees who are now living, working, and studying in China.
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On a recent weekend, 12 students left the city and classroom and ventured to Anhui’s Huangshan Mountain as part of Associate Arts Professor of IMB Emily Tsiang's Experience Studio, a course that encourages students to engage with experience design and experiential learning.
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When Adib El Ounani '23 first arrived at NYU Shanghai, both English and Chinese felt like foreign languages to him. A native Arabic speaker, he learned French as a second language from a young age — like many of his classmates in Morocco — and only began studying English in high school. Still, the linguistic barrier did not dishearten El Ounani. He preferred to challenge himself instead.
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Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman and Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen announced the appointment of David G. Atwill as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at NYU Shanghai, effective Summer 2023.
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As a postdoctoral fellow in sociology at NYU Shanghai, Tu Siqi's research explores the relationship between citizenship, education, and migration. After almost a decade studying and researching abroad, Tu returned to her hometown of Shanghai in 2021 with the aim of incorporating global perspectives into her research on local contexts.
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• Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Physics Chen Hanghui, Assistant Professor of Psychology Li Gu, Associate Professor of Political Science Li Xiaojun, and Clinical Assistant Professor of History Erica Mukherjee, who have been selected as the award recipients of the 2023 NYU Research Catalyst Prize (RCP). RCP, formerly known as the University Research Challenge Fund (URCF), aims to support faculty-initiated research on a competitive basis, encouraging faculty who are exploring new areas of research that are likely to attract external funding and faculty engaging in productive scholarship in areas with few sources of support.
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• On April 20-21, Legacies of the Cold War and the Changing World, an international symposium organized by NYU Shanghai-ECNU Center on Global History, Economy and Culture, in cooperation with the Academy of History and Documentation of Socialism at ECNU, welcomed more than 40 scholars in-person and online. ECNU Professor of History Yao Yu chaired the symposium’s opening session and ECNU Deputy Party Secretary Meng Zhongjie welcomed the participants. In their keynote speeches, Fredrik Logevall (Harvard University), Odd Arne Westad (Yale University), Liu Xiaoyuan (UVA), Sergey Radchenko (JHU), Kazuko Mori (Waseda University), Christian Ostermann and Charles Kraus (Wilson Center), Shen Zhihua (ECNU), and Chen Jian (NYU Shanghai) spoke on the legacies of the Cold War. Chen Jian, Distinguished Global Network Professor of History, was invited to give the keynote speech on "Zhou Enlai and the Geneva Conference of 1954" at the 6th International Conference on Zhou Enlai Studies held at Nankai University, Zhou's alma mater, held on April 21-23 in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the late Chinese premier's birth.
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The times may be "a-changing" but how much? A recent study examines the relationship between people’s perceptions of societal progress over time and how much society is actually improving. Published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin by Julia Hur, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at NYU Shanghai, the study found that people often assume that society is making, and will continue to make, linear progress towards social justice, including issues related to gender equality, racial diversity, and environmental protection. When participants across political and geographical lines were asked to estimate society’s progress on issues such as women’s representation in professional fields, participants overestimated the linear progress that society has actually made. "People often assume that society is getting better and that we are making automatic progress, but progress is never automatic," she said, emphasizing that those assumptions can inhibit people’s willingness to call for change and lead to inertia. "[With this assumption,] people may become less concerned about actually making change by going out for protests, making donations, or voting," she said.
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The Research Grants Office recently hosted a Grantsmanship Workshop Series, targeted at faculty, postdoc, and senior graduate students to help them develop a solid grasp on the world of grants and gain insights into finding opportunities, proposal preparation, and grant writing techniques. Associate Professor of Marketing Yan Dengfeng posed a question to the audience in the first session: What can researchers learn from ads? Through engaging content and vivid explanations, participants learned to apply marketing strategies to the art of grantsmanship. Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Yifei Li shared his extensive experience pursuing fellowships as a social scientist and humanist. Going forward, two more sessions will be held this semester, including a session by Professor of Neural Science Li Li about how to become a successful cross-culture grant writer and one by CASER Director and Sociology Professor Wu Xiaogang from the point of view of a review panelist.
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"That is one of the messages that we as a community must send to our cohort of students, that you can make a difference. It’s very easy to claim to destroy the system, to tear down the system. It’s much harder to build solutions, but it can be done. It’s our role as an institution to try to promote these important changes and spread a message to our students that they can do it as well."
— Rodrigo Zeidan, Professor of Practice in Business and Finance and Chief Sustainability Liaison with NYU, speaking at the New York WILD Film Festival
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US Ambassador Visits New Bund Campus
US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns visited NYU Shanghai on Tuesday to tour the New Bund Campus and discuss US-China relations with students, faculty, and leadership.
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| From the NYU Global Network
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An hour-and-a-half-long livestream by International Channel Shanghai showed viewers some iconic spots on the new campus while chatting with students, professors, and chancellors along the way.
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Soliloquy: A Musical Meditation through Classic Piano Repertoire
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Thursday, May 4
Neuroscience Seminar Series |Dynamic neuronal representation in the hippocampus
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Room 264, Geography Building, Zhongbei Campus, East China Normal University & Online via Zoom
Dr. Jiamin Xu is a professor (Zijiang Young Scholar) at the Institute of Brain Functional Genomics at East China Normal University. His research focuses on the neuronal coding heterogeneity of hippocampal pyramidal neurons during replay events, in vivo long-term ephys profile of hippocampal engrams, neuromodulatory effect on hippocampal oscillations, and neuronal coding.
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