Clinical Instructor of IMB Noel Joyce built his fourth adaptive bike on the New Bund campus in under two days. The first adaptive mountain bike in China, it costs roughly USD 4000 to make, just a third of the price of a store-bought adaptive mountain bike. Joyce is releasing the design as open-source to promote accessible sports for people with disabilities.
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Whether encouraging students to head off campus to encounter China, bringing faculty to engage with the general public, or opening up the campus to the local community, an important aspect of NYU Shanghai is connecting and exchanging with the outside world. Read on for some examples of outward engagement in the past semester.
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Even in the midst of Shanghai's concrete sprawl, pockets of nature can be found all over, and NYU Shanghai is no exception. Plant life can be found all over the campus, from trees to shrubs and grasses on the ground level all the way up to the rooftop garden spaces. Follow this guide to take your own nature walk on campus.
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Anyone who's survived a Shanghai summer can agree on one truth: it's extremely hot. But you might be surprised to learn that there's a reason for the city's heat. Because of urban heat island effect, cities tend to be much hotter than rural areas, but careful climate change-oriented urban planning can mitigate the rise in temperature.
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Sang Rong '17, after experiencing firsthand the challenges of being a family caregiver, has embarked on a journey to improve patient-centered digital healthcare – first through her master’s project at Columbia University and now with a team of experts at Yale University School of Medicine.
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• Congratulations to Associate Professor of Physics Qi Bing for being elected as a 2024 Optica Fellow. Qi is being honored for his "outstanding and sustained contributions to the research and development of quantum secure communication and fiber optic sensing." Qi joined NYU Shanghai as an Associate Professor of Physics and a member of the NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai in Fall 2023.
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• Congratulations to Associate Professor of Practice in Political Science Ivan Rasmussen for being selected as one of the third cohort of the Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars Network. The program identifies and connects American scholars and professionals specializing in Northeast or Southeast Asia to participate constructively in the policymaking process in the mid- and long-term and contribute to better understanding within US-Asia relations by teaching and inspiring future generations.
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• On November 27, Wen Hai, Chair Professor of Economics and Founding Dean of Peking University HSBC Business School (PHBS), and former Vice President of Peking University, delivered a talk at NYU Shanghai on "China's Economy: Present and Future," introduced by Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman. Professor Hai discussed China's current economic development and its long-term growth potential, highlighting key forces likely to drive future growth, including higher level opening up, service sector development, urbanization advances and manufacturing innovation.
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• On November 21, English for Academic Purposes students held their annual Poster Show. Over 50 first-year students exhibited and explained their research. The top three posters, as voted on by attendees, were about AI face swapping technology, the survival of niche subcultures in the increasingly commercialized online public sphere, and how small changes in our habits can make us happier. The event was organized by Lecturer Paul Meloccaro with the assistance of administrator Jun Yang and intern Xinran Shi.
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NYU Shanghai Study Away Programs will be hosting a 再会, Study Away event at the Magnolia House on Thursday, November 30th from 1pm to 3pm to honor the hard work of student workers and student leaders who will be leaving campus to study away. All community members, including students who will study away next semester, are welcome to join in this end of semester farewell event.
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Get ready to welcome two pop-up campus stores with NYU Shanghai-branded products starting from Monday. Neili (内里百货) is located on the 4th floor of Magnolia House in the East Hall and Xinguofeng (新国风) is on the 1st floor of the Pavilion, near the quad. Drop by to have a look and please give your feedback!
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Peek behind the scenes of the GreenShanghai 2023 Trash Fashion show, the first held on our New Bund campus. We asked student designers about the materials they chose and what inspired their sustainable ideas.
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"Storytelling is another form of combat, because you find that you have to arrest your own story from other people… There is always this tendency for people to tell other people's stories, to justify their own ambitions, their own plans, exploitation. So storytelling is also an act of retrieving your own reality from other people in one way or another. It's integral, as long as there is struggle between human beings and human communities, storytelling is going to continue to play a critical part, almost at the level of warfare by other means… Reformulating your own identity on your own terms. It's an obligation of dignity, self assertion, recognition."
— Wole Soyinka, 1986 Nobel Laureate and Arts Professor of Theater at NYU Abu Dhabi, in conversation with NYU Shanghai students on December 1.
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| From the NYU Global Network
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Created in collaboration by graduates of NYU Abu Dhabi and University of Sharjah, the art installation was awarded The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award for its innovative reflections on climate change and resilience. The biodegradable installation, titled Shaheeq, was created using rammed earth, an ancient sustainable construction technique.
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Follow CGTN to explore some of the iconic spots at NYU Shanghai's New Bund campus.
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• Telling My Father's Stories in Sanlin TownChancellor Tong Shijun wrote in Shanghai Tan magazine about his late father's stories in Sanlin Town.
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December 4
End-of-Semester Concert
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Thomas la Cour Jansen from University of Groningen will discuss the development and application of efficient quantum dynamical simulation methods for predicting both the energy flow and two-dimensional electronic spectra in such extensive systems involving hundreds or even thousands of coupled chromophores.
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