On Nov 26, NYU Shanghai Assistant Arts Professor of IMB Yuan Yanyue, who is affiliated with NYU Shanghai Program on Creativity + Innovation, co-organized a workshop on "Innovating for Inclusion: The Third Mission of Higher Education" with German think tank Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Shanghai Representative Office. Thirty NYU Shanghai students and guests from the fields of education, design, and business attended the event.
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NYU Shanghai’s Interdisciplinary Colloquium offered students and faculty an opportunity to learn and engage with each other’s research. This was NYU Shanghai's first such colloquium, and there are plans to hold them at the end of each semester. Thirty undergrads, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty from all three NYU campuses joined in person and online.
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On Dec 2, Kubrick Bookstore in Qiantan welcomed professors from NYU Shanghai, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Fudan University, and ShanghaiTech University, to present their recent research. In his opening remarks, NYU Shanghai Dean of Business and CBER Director Chen Yuxin called the event "a prelude to the rich academic experience NYU Shanghai expects to bring to the area."
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NYU Shanghai Distinguished Global Network Professor and NYU Shanghai-ECNU Center on Global History, Economy and Culture Director Chen Jian shared the Center’s history, mission and vision, and some of the inspiring projects they’re working on.
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• On Dec 1, English for Academic Purposes students held their annual Poster Show. Over 70 first-year students exhibited and explained their work. Poster topics included algorithmic stablecoins, body dissatisfaction, LIBOR & shareholder activism, deepfakes, string theory, special purpose acquisition companies, how animals in legends and films reflect a human mindset, and the Disney company's challenges with globalization, labor, utopian urban planning, and the politics of LGBTQ representation in schools. The event was organized by Lecturer Paul Meloccaro with the assistance of administrator Jun Yang and intern Mengfei Ren.
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• In honor of World AIDS Day (Dec 1), the Student Health Center and Academic Affairs Office for Community Engaged Learning (CEL) offered a week of programs to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. Shanghai HIV prevention NGO Qing Ai and GPS Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Andrew Wortham presented their work on gay and trans stigma in China and community public health organizing efforts in Kunming. The Student Health Center hosted activities including a Sexual Health Social Hour with campus doctor Stephen Misch and a sexual-health Jeopardy, hosted by Ariana Fahl '26 and Crystal Yu Morui '25. Student Health & Wellness Ambassadors also collaborated with the Queer & Ally Club to raise HIV/AIDS awareness within the community by handing out red ribbons.
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• On Nov 11, TEDxNYUShanghai held a salon featuring faculty from NYU Shanghai and NYU School of Professional Studies (SPS) presenting live talks to share their perspectives on the overall theme of the essential and nonessential aspects of life, including universal communication "frameworks" that work across cultures, the benefits of a nonessential mindset, and the merits of new AR/VR technologies. Seventy people from all three NYU campuses attended.
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• Students from Associate Professor of Practice of Biology Wenshu Li’s Foundations of Biology Lab presented a poster symposium, "A Tour in the Cell: From Gene to Protein." Each group chose their own samples, ranging from papayas to tomatoes to Dorito chips, and used molecular biology techniques such as DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and gel electrophoresis to test whether the food samples were GMO or not. Student team Hao Wu '25 and Tyson Phonesavanh '25 used gel electrophoresis to examine the efficiency of different restriction enzymes. Phonesavanh said the process helped them learn how to understand or analyze unusual test results. Ruoyu Wu '25 and Patricia Troncoso Riveira '25 won an award for best poster. Their results showed that papayas from the supermarket were genetically-modified.
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Mean field game theory is a relatively new topic in mathematics that studies strategic decision making. Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science Mathieu Laurière launched a three-day mixed mode mini-course on mean field games. The mini-course is open to the entire NYU Shanghai community and teaches the theory through a combination of lectures and interactive discussions. "The overarching goal is to understand how global outcomes emerge as the consequence of small individual decisions," said Laurière, citing greenhouse gas emissions and macroeconomic markets as examples. "We feel that our decisions have zero impact on the system, and yet, the general situation is the result of all our individual choices." One focus he hopes to explore with students is understanding how governments can incentivize companies or people to reduce carbon emissions. "It’s a nice application for this topic and for the real world," he said.
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At the "Growing Up in Physics Salon," organized by the NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai and ECNU School of Physics and Electronic Science on Nov 23, thirty ECNU undergrads met with faculty and learned about their research experiences. Professor E Wu, a member of the Institute and a professor of the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, moderated. Professors Tim Byrnes, Hanghui Chen, and Jun Zhang participated. Professor Byrnes enjoyed the conversations that he had with the students, commenting that "my impression of the students is that they were exactly the type that we would like to work with. It was great to get ourselves out there and interact with the students who are passionate about the work that we do."
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"Once I started embracing my queerness and really thinking about it, I found it to be an incredible opening – like a window. I was no longer tethered to certain expectations, because once I started deconstructing and reanalyzing these social norms, I realized that I didn’t have to fulfill them or be a certain way. In many ways, I feel emancipated by my queerness."
— GPS Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Andrew Wortham at Faculty Tea Talks #1: Navigating Academia as a Queer Person, Dec 7, 2022
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As you prepare for the big move from Century Ave to Qiantan, don’t forget to document your packing with pictures and short videos (max 1 min). We would like to collect and archive memories of this important transitional moment for our community. Please capture the moments which touch you the most. These memories will be with us for a long time…
Send to shanghai.gazette@nyu.edu before Jan 1, 2023 with a caption. Landscape format preferred. UC will announce Best Big Move Picture and Best Big Move Video once we settle down in the new Qiantan Campus.
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Dancing for Inclusion
Dancers perform in a 24-hour, live-streamed event at the Shanghai Museum of Glass, featuring performances from over thirty countries around the globe in observance of International Day of Persons With Disabilities (Dec 3). Social Work Clinical Assistant Professor Qian Xie and grad student Judy Zhu MSDABC '23 performed in a dance arranged by Heidi Latsky Dance, an inclusive dance company that brings together performers of all abilities, ages, sizes, and backgrounds.
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| From the NYU Global Network
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Homeless guests benefitted from long-term hotel stays during the COVID-19 pandemic. The FEMA-funded initiative had numerous benefits, according to new research in the Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness conducted by NYU Silver School of Social Work Professor Deborah Padgett. The qualitative study is based on in-depth interviews with 13 homeless persons who stayed in private hotels.
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Sociology Lens interviewed CASER Director and Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science Wu Xiaogang about his research and his new role as Associate Editor of online journal Sociology Compass’s Social Stratification Section, along with Dr. Zhang Zhuoni. Wu said he will strive to bring new voices to the publication. "I wish the insights and perspective based on evidence and experience from non-western societies can be heard in particular," he said.
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End-of-Semester Concert
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Impurities (disorder) can dramatically alter the properties of certain quantum systems. For example, a material that normally conducts electrical current will behave like an insulator in the presence of sufficiently strong impurities, i.e., the wave function of the electron is localized in space when it moves in a medium with random impurities.
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