NYU Shanghai congratulates 58 colleagues who reached their 10-year anniversary and 49 colleagues who reached their 5-year anniversary by the end of last year. The annual Service Award Ceremony brings together the NYU Shanghai community to celebrate full-time faculty and staff members’ contributions.

•  On Thursday, Associate Professor of Practice in Political Science Ivan Rasmussen spoke on contemporary geopolitical tensions and the perception that the world has entered a New Cold War. He examined five cases: proxy conflicts, economic decoupling, technological divisions, ideological differences, and international institutional orders and explored whether countries allied with the United States were more or less likely to participate in the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

• The Chinese Language Program, in collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Community-Engaged Learning office, hosted a delegation of 16 Chinese language instructors from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University’s Modern Language Center on February 14. During their visit, participants discussed language education and pedagogy. Evgeniya Efremova provided an overview of NYU Shanghai’s CTL initiatives and shared insights on the application of GenAI in language teaching. Diane Geng and Susan Dai from CEL introduced the visitors to NYU Shanghai’s community engagement efforts and related activities.

• An exhibition, co-hosted by NYU Shanghai’s 字圆其说 · I Got One project, opened this week on East 4th floor and will remain on display till March 26. “A Cosmos Within Chinese Characters: Creative Chinese Characters in a Multicultural Lens” showcases intercultural perspectives on Chinese characters from students coming from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 

“We ultimately aimed to choose words that would feel like artifacts excavated from another time, like something long dead coming back to life. This is how we treated the tricky subject matter of history, not as something distant, but as something always incredibly close, something all of us are living and inheriting each and every day.” 

– Paige Aniyah Morris, co-translator of We Do Not Part by 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Han Kang

Instead of trashing damaged belongings, NYU Shanghai community members brought broken typewriters, umbrellas, shoes, chairs, and even a laptop to Interactive Media Arts for a DIY repair workshop led by Assistant Arts Professor Andy Garcia and volunteers.

• Opening Up High-Level Education to the Outside World

Chancellor Tong Shijun spoke to Shanghai Education TV about how NYU Shanghai cultivates young talents across different academic areas, while promoting cultural exchanges between China and the United States.