On the morning of August 21, NYU Shanghai welcomed more than 400 Chinese and international students from the Class of 2027 to the school's 11th University Welcome, the first to be held at its newly opened New Bund Campus. While students arrived on campus on August 20 for Move-In Day, the ceremony marked the first time the students joined together as an entire class.
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NYU Shanghai's New Bund Campus and Jingyao Residence Hall welcomed incoming students from the Class of 2027 on the Move-In Day. They came from all around the world, bringing their unique personal stories, and adding a jolt of new energy to the New Bund Campus.
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This fall, NYU Shanghai welcomes 33 new faculty members from 12 countries. Spanning 19 disciplines -from Computer Science to Physics to Sociology, these new faculty members will expand and enrich NYU Shanghai's academic environment.
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After dropping their bags off at their new residence hall rooms, NYU Shanghai's violet-clad Class of 2027 jumped headfirst into Orientation Week – their schedules jam-packed with activities designed to familiarize them with the spaces, resources, protocol, and people of their new home campus, while making meaningful connections with each other.
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Professor William Glover's team developed a computational technique to find molecule configurations that stabilize charge-separated states. With this approach, they were able to explore how changes in DNA's molecular configurations can affect the rate at which an electron transfers between the nucleobases. Their paper was featured on the cover of the Journal of Chemical Physics in May.
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Over 50 scholars and students from across the globe gathered at NYU Shanghai for the Symposium on Urban Social Survey and Quantitative Social Science in Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS). The symposium consisted of four parallel forums featuring keynote speeches by 28 sociologists from nearly 20 universities.
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NYU Shanghai alum Vittoria Vitucci '20, a previous Fulbright grantee, is the first NYU Shanghai graduate to be awarded the Global Korea Scholarship. Fully funded by the Korean government, the Global Korea Scholarship is one of the most prestigious awards offering international students the opportunity to study in undergraduate or graduate programs in South Korea.
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• IMA Professor Stavros Didakis' exhibition Synthetic Cities: An Exhibition of Human-Machine Creativity will be on display at Riverside Project Space on the West Bund at 2380 Longteng Rd. until September 28.
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• This fall, 23 NYU Shanghai students were selected from among 44,000 applicants for Millennium Fellowships, a semester-long leadership development program run by the United Nations Academic Impact and the Millennium Campus Network. They are among 4,000 students selected to be Millennium Fellows from 260 campuses in more than 119 nations. NYU Shanghai is proud of its 2023 Millennium Fellows, including Angel Chang, Caitlin McMahon, Christine Wijaya, Corrina Poindexter-Benbow, Doris Zhang, Hansini (Hansa) Mirpuri, Hideko Mitani, Jiale Zheng, Jiayin Fang, Tyrone Midzi, Xiaoqing Xu, Xinchen Hu, Yawen Zheng, Yucheng Bao, Yunhsin Fang, Yuqing Yang, Yuxuan Li, Zeqi Li, Florence Zhang, Whiting Yuan, Zhixuan Wang, Ziyi Zhu, and Ziyun Xu.
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• Seventeen student workers working in eight departments have been honored as NYU Shanghai Outstanding Student Workers of 2023 by Center for Career Development (CCD), to acknowledge them for their genuine commitment to serving the NYU Shanghai community. Learn more about the students' experiences. As the new semester begins, students can learn about on-campus job positions and submit their resumes through Handshake.
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• On the evening of August 25, the spotlights of the grand auditorium shone on the members of the Class of 2027 and the many emerging talents among them. Owen Roubeni '27 (US), won Most Popular Performance for his heartfelt piano and vocal performance of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Eric Liang '27 (China) won Most Creative Performance for performing a voiceover of two roles from a scene from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Esther Shi '27 (China) won Best Talent after captivating the audience with a Chinese martial art performance of "Soul of the Sword," and Emma Song '27 (US) was awarded Best Performance for her dance performance of the song "You & Me."
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US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo Visits NYU Shanghai
"I saw the benefits of American students and Chinese students learning side by side, challenging one another and having open dialogue and discussion. That's all the business we should be doing, all of that people-to-people exchange and business we need to be encouraging." - US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, speaking about her visit to NYU Shanghai
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| From the NYU Global Network
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For students who study at NYU Shanghai, arriving on campus can be both exciting and nerve-racking. But there’s a way they can get to know the city they will call home while serving the community around them: Project OutReach.
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Washington Post, Kankan News, and Beijing Daily are among the media that reported on US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s visit to NYU Shanghai on Wednesday. At the presser, she raved about the benefits of exchange between American and Chinese students on campus.
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Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman shared with Jiefang Daily why he enjoyed reading Angela’s Ashes and Antifragile written by an NYU graduate and a faculty member.
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