US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his delegation stopped by NYU Shanghai on Thursday, April 25 during his visit to Beijing and Shanghai. He was welcomed by leadership and then spent more than half an hour speaking with students.
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The second annual Postdoctoral and Doctoral Research Assembly, hosted by the Office of Graduate and Advanced Education (OGAE) on April 18-19, highlighted the research work of two postdoctoral fellows and 18 PhD students across a variety of disciplines.
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Memoir-writing, mother-daughter relationships, and ancestral discoveries were at the heart of the dialogue between award-winning American writer and Visiting Professor Gish Jen and NYU Shanghai Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen, held April 23 on campus.
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Huang heads off to Beijing this summer for an eight-week biomedical research program at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Tsinghua University. As a 2024 Amgen Scholar she will be assigned a faculty mentor and will join a lab for research.
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From April 20 to 21, the Academy of History and Documentation of Socialism at ECNU, together with the NYU Shanghai-ECNU Center on Global History, Economy, and Culture (GHEC), hosted an international workshop for about 30 attendees to discuss the origins of the global Cold War. ECNU Professor Shen Zhihua gave the keynote address.
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Biology classes first captivated him at NYU Shanghai, but Gustave Li Hongzhou ’24 ultimately pursued a degree in neural science. Li’s fruit fly research led to the publication last year of his co-first authored paper in STAR Protocols, an open-access peer-reviewed protocol journal from Cell Press. In the fall, Li heads to Caltech for a PhD in neuroscience.
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• NYU Shanghai faculty and staff visited Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine for a tour organized by the Human Resources Department. They visited the Museum of TCM, joined a hands-on activity crafting sachets infused with aromatic herbs, and learned the practice of baduanjin, ancient qigong exercises renowned for promoting physical health and spiritual well-being.
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• City as Classroom, a gathering for experiential learning educators hosted by the Program on Creativity + Innovation, welcomed over 80 attendees to activities on and off campus on April 20. Vice Chancellor Jeff Lehman kicked off the event, followed by talks and workshops on incorporating experiential learning in curriculum. Later, participants joined an urban sketching event with Xinhua Community Center, an IDEO studio tour, and a walking tour with social enterprise Bottledream. The event concluded with a dinner at a former toy factory and community space.
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• Associate Professor of Practice in Political Science Ivan Rassmussen took 28 students from his US-China Relations course to meet the US Consul General for Shanghai Scott Walker and the Deputy CG Daniel Delk last Friday. They discussed everything from contemporary US-China relations, debates on political-economy and trade between the countries, as well as life experiences of being in the Foreign Service. Students are currently engaged in a simulated negotiation between the US and China on four major issue areas to create a new Shanghai Communique for 2024.
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• O n April 22, the Beautiful China Forum, one of the main forums of the Shanghai Climate Week 2024, was co-hosted by the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science (LOUD) and the Shanghai Climate Week Executive Committee. The forum focused on the theme "Green Future, Harmonious Coexistence." Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen and Steven Rockefeller III delivered speeches at the forum. Provost Waley-Cohen emphasized international collaboration in researching climate change and its impact. LOUD Co-Director Guan Chenghe delivered a keynote speech, while Co-Director Li Ying moderated the roundtable discussion of the Sino-American Charitable Foundation.
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• Professor of Practice of Biology and Area Head of Natural Sciences Yu Danyang took her Organismal Systems and Developmental Biology classes on a field trip to the Human Science Museum of Fudan University Medical School to explore human body anatomy, physiology and pathology. Students learned the history of Fudan Medical School and took a guided tour of the human embryonic and fetal development specimens, disease specimens, anatomical and whole-body specimens on exhibition (some are over a hundred years old). The majority of students from these classes are pre-health students.
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Jumping for JoyStudents let their hair down at the Senior Carnival on the quad Thursday afternoon. Despite a brief downpour, they enjoyed the bouncy house, games, and free giveaways. Pictured are: Korrina Poindexter-Benbow ’25, Deng Junzhe ’25, Wang Yujia ’25, Jessica Li ’24, Anand Nizamkar ’27, Jennifer Wu ’27, and Cynthia Deng ’24.
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“Everyone is so excited about technology investment, but we should be aware of AI risks. They are the things that we need to take action on. During IDAIS-Beijing, the red lines proposal was presented and consensus was reached. Like the statement says, humanity again needs to coordinate to avert a catastrophe that could arise from unprecedented technology.”
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| From the NYU Global Network
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The Fab Tree Hab Project, a structure featuring a canopy of 70 willow trees, offers a compelling example of what sustainable architecture could look like in the future. “It represents a radical rethinking of how humans can live in and interact with the natural world,” said NYU Associate Professor of Practice Mitchell Joachim, whose nonprofit built the project.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Visits NYU Shanghai
• The New York Times, Jiefang Daily, and Phoenix TV are among the news outlets that reported on the Secretary of State's visit to the University’s New Bund campus, where he had a meaningful conversation with student representatives on the importance of people-to-people exchange.
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Wang Gengsheng is a professor at the Center of Applied Mathematics at Tianjin University. He will introduce several observabilities, as well as the corresponding controllability in control theory, in abstract settings.
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