Esteemed Chinese diplomat Cui Tiankai will address the Class of 2023 at NYU Shanghai's commencement ceremony on May 22. Ambassador Cui, China's longest-serving ambassador to the United States, served in the role for eight years from 2013 to 2021.
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As NYU Shanghai announced its final round of admissions offers to international students for the Class of 2027, Chinese admitted students and their families from all over the country were invited to visit the New Bund Campus on April 30 and May 1. The last welcome session will be held by the Undergraduate Admissions Office this coming weekend.
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On April 28, NYU Shanghai's recital hall filled with the sounds of Mexican music as Mexican diplomat Cristóbal MarYán NYUAD '15 performed with the NYU Shanghai String Ensemble and then shared his story of using music to build cross-cultural exchange in a dialogue with Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen.
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At NYU Shanghai's LEGO Game Jam, held in the IMA studio, students answered the challenge to create digital games in just 48 hours. Students from Tongji University, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and Shanghai Normal University teamed up with NYU Shanghai students to design games.
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Occupying four different spaces on NYU Shanghai's new Qiantan campus, the Visual Arts program provides access to art equipment — brushes, paints, and palettes — alongside state-of-the-art technology. Learn about the resources available to help you channel your creative side on campus!
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As Social Science major Zhang Yaqi '23 developed her capstone project in education, she looked back to her own high school experience at a cram-focused, discipline-heavy boarding school to inspire her. This fall, Zhang will study for a masters in Human Development and Education at Harvard, focusing on education in the context of Asia from a psychological and anthropological perspective.
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"I love graphic novels," says Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts Monika Lin. "I love graphic stories and I make them, I just haven't ever published them because they tend to be really, really personal. I wanted to bring that to students– that a personal story is deepened by an investigation into some of the adjacent narratives that obviously influence it and are embedded in their own subjectivity."
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• To recognize the excellence of students learning one of the six languages offered at NYU Shanghai, the World Languages Program hosted its first annual Book Awards Ceremony. The award, inspired by French tradition where professors nominate outstanding students and present them with books, honors students who have shown excellence in learning foreign languages. NYU Shanghai faculty nominated students who achieved high marks, showed significant progress, and put in a lot of effort. Recipients spoke about their classroom experiences (in their target language, of course!) and afterwards enjoyed a reception in the World Languages Lounge.
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• On April 24th, NYU Shanghai-ECNU Center on Global History, Economy and Culture (GHEC) hosted a bilingual lecture by Zhang Jishun, Professor of History at ECNU, entitled "The World Has Changed: From St. John's to NYU Shanghai." Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen chaired the event, Professor Chen Jian served as Zhang's interpreter and commentator and Professor Zuo Lala served as another commentator. Zhang reviewed the history of NYU Shanghai's founding, which she was involved in, and compared the process with that of the rise and fall of St. John's University during the first half of the 20th century. She argued that by casting away the "American centrism" that plagued St. John’s, NYU Shanghai embraces a more global while also more "local" approach, and thus can achieve the University's mission of "making the world your major." The event attracted more than 70 community members both onsite and via Zoom.
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• The NYU Shanghai student body has elected Li Peirong '24 as Student Government President and Carson Decker '26 as Student Government Vice President for the 2023-2024 school year. The students said their vision is to create pragmatic and effective diversity initiatives that would bring together students from different backgrounds, while ensuring transparent communication between the student body, the Student Government, and the University administration. NYU Shanghai’s Student Government is comprised of the presidential committee, class representatives, and seven individual committees including Events, Global Affairs, Student Organizations (clubs), Student Life & Residence, Environmental Sustainability, Wellness Initiatives, and External Affairs. Check out the roster of newly elected student leaders here.
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An unveiling ceremony was held on April 24 for NYU Shanghai’s first Shanghai municipality key laboratory — Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urban Design and Urban Science. LOUD’s three research directions: Smart City, Low-Carbon City, and Resilient City – will emphasize innovative research and collaboration between academia and industry, and apply research to better serve Shanghai's urban development, providing new paths for urban development.
NYU Shanghai Chancellor Tong Shijun welcomed the participants and congratulated LOUD members for launching the University's first key laboratory, a major accomplishment for NYU Shanghai. "NYU Shanghai is committed to cultivating high-quality international talents, and always giving back to society," he said.
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“Showboat was the grand-daddy of all American musicals. Before that they barely talked about serious social issues within their art. With Showboat, they talked about miscegenation, racism, and social issues in a very serious way. Musicals had generally been called musical comedies, but after Showboat, people started calling them musical theater.”
— -Clinical Assistant Professor of Arts Gabriel Song speaking on the Golden Age of Broadway musicals
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New Sounds in Qiantan
Afternoon performances by NYU Shanghai Jazz Ensemble and Chamber Singers brought the community together on the sunny quad during the "New Sounds in Qiantan" concert.
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Please note: NYU Shanghai’s postal code has been updated to 200124
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| From the NYU Global Network
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A team of NYU Abu Dhabi researchers studied changes in the brain that can lead to improvements in visual skills. The investigators teamed up with Project Prakash, a combined humanitarian and scientific effort to restore sight in children in rural India with curable blindness.
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As NYU Shanghai celebrates its 10th anniversary, China Education Daily revisited its founding and first decade of development.
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China Daily mentioned US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns' visit to NYU Shanghai last Tuesday, where he enjoyed the discussion with students, faculty, and leadership about Sino-US relations.
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Tuesday, May 9
CGA Lecture Series | Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Online via Zoom
The speaker will focus on the afterlives of the ship Belitung and its cargo, the controversy that has accompanied its discovery and display, and the new knowledge it has brought to the surface about the maritime silk route.
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Thursday, May 11
Neuroscience Seminar Series | Deconstructing the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine function
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Room 264, Geography Building, Zhongbei Campus, East China Normal University & Online via Zoom
The speaker will present new results from experiments that quantify subtle force exertion while recording and manipulating DA activity in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) during stimulus-reward learning. They found two major populations of DA neurons that increased firing before forward and backward force exertion.
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