The University's first alumni reunion reunited 223 undergraduate and graduate alumni. They reconnected with former classmates and professors, and even found themselves in yet another Global Perspectives on Society (GPS) lecture.
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Recently, Amiel Paz became NYU Shanghai's first-ever Chemistry PhD graduate. “Amiel is a rising star who has the potential to be a world-leading theoretical chemist,” said Paz's supervisor Assistant Professor of Chemistry William Glover.
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Organized by the Center For Career Development, 132 participants from 37 teams conducted research on the freshly ground coffee market. The competition gave students the experience of working towards a goal and enhanced students' understanding of consulting cases and key competencies required by employers.
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A day ahead of International Women's Day on March 8, NYU Shanghai hosted a “Flower Flash Mob” in the campus courtyard where roses and tulips were handed out to passersby, giving us the chance to ask NYU Shanghai women about their strengths, female role models, and aspirations.
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The Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER) at NYU Shanghai, established in 2020, is dedicated to advancing social and economic research in China for the betterment of society. CASER supports rigorous empirical analyses of issues related to child development, education, health, housing, inequality and poverty, migration, population aging, and urban governance, particularly in the context of China’s emerging metropolises. CASER is also home of the Chinese Sociological Review, an English peer-reviewed journal published since 1968. CASER Director and Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science Wu Xiaogang shared his insights into CASER’s ongoing work and future plans.
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• NYU Shanghai Human Resources is looking for community feedback on activities like the recent outdoor Flower Flash Mob celebrating International Women’s Day. Share your feedback and thoughts in this anonymous survey.
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• Last week the Spring Club Showcase introduced community members to a diverse array of events and activities on campus. Make sure you stay on top of the club event schedule and get involved!
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• A new campus initiative, Sustainable Menstrual Care, organized by Assistant Arts Professor of IMA Marcela Godoy and Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts Monika Lin and funded by a Green Grant from the NYU Office of Sustainability, wants your feedback about your specific interests around sustainable menstrual care in preparation for a weeklong series of events in April. If you have experience with any menstrual care products and are interested in participating in the events, please fill out this survey by Wednesday, March 15.
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Associate Professor of Economics Emiliano Catonini and his colleague tackle the difficulties of a decision-maker who asks for advice to a number of reputation-concerned experts. They find that fear of being wrong can lead experts to hide considerations that are at odds with common prior beliefs. However, considering all such considerations together may imply that the prior belief is indeed wrong. The study shows that this failure of information aggregation can be alleviated by the very same reputation concerns on the decision-maker's side. A decision-maker who wants to appear as an expert will refrain from asking for advice when sufficiently confident of the prior belief. In this way, when asked for advice, the experts will infer that the decision-maker has reasons to question the prior belief too, so they will be encouraged to reveal theirs. Using their findings, the researchers speculated on the downfall of Nokia in the smartphone market.
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In the first study of its kind, Professor of Psychology Pekka Santtila and his Japanese collaborators have shown that completely automated simulated forensic interviews with children can be used to change interviewer behavior. The participants conducted two simulated online interviews and were given feedback in an intervention group on their performance and models of good and bad interviewing after the first interview. The intervention proved effective in improving the participants’ use of open questions in the second interview. “It will be possible to scale this approach to any number of participants who can be trained at their place of work, which makes this logistically and economically a game changer in interviewer training,” said Santtila.
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Alumni reflect on their experiences at NYU Shanghai and the part they played in the University's history.
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"I often discuss these with my students - Why do you want to write music composition? Why do you create art? Why do you expect society to support art? We all know art is important. Everybody's life needs art and society needs art to be remembered...My answer is that we have to move the audience. If we can move one audience [member] to tears each evening then I succeeded. It is worth all of the effort to impress them."
-- Visiting Professor and Artist in Residence Bright Sheng, speaking after the NYU Shanghai 10th Anniversary concerts.
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| From the NYU Global Network
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Scientists from NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences were part of a global team of researchers who created an algorithmic tool, PHENotype SIMulator (PHENSIM), that can identify existing drugs to combat future pandemics.
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Wenhui Daily reported that a delegation from East China Normal University visited NYU Shanghai’s new campus and presented an oil painting as a congratulatory gift. “This work is based on photos taken at the ground-breaking ceremony of NYU Shanghai on March 28, 2011," said the artist Chen Mingyuan, a teacher at ECNU’s College of Fine Arts. "It took [me] more than three months of preparation and creation.”
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This talk will provide an overview of bosonic-encoding-based quantum error correction (QEC) and experimental implementations in circuit QED systems. The talk will start with an introduction of the background of QEC, followed by an overview of recent experimental progresses with conventional encoding schemes, where a logic qubit is encoded with multiple physical qubits.
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Human brains store a tremendous amount of knowledge about this world, which is the foundation of language, thought, and reasoning. What’s the neural codes of semantic knowledge representation? The speaker will present some work from her lab that addresses the issue using cognitive, neuroimaging, and neuro-psychological methods with healthy subjects, individuals with sensory deprivation (blind and deaf) or with brain damage.
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