Congratulations to NYU Shanghai Professor of Physics and Mathematics and NYU Global Network Professor Jun Zhang, who has been elected as a 2024 Member of Academia Europaea in recognition of his outstanding contributions to fluid physics.
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How can we become our best selves? This year’s 7th annual TEDx NYUShanghai conference, with the theme of “Unfolding Apex,” featured inspiring talks by industry leaders on pushing limits, getting outside your comfort zone, and reaching for the stars. This was the first TEDx NYUShanghai conference to be open to the general public as well as the campus community.
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The Center for Student Belonging has launched a film series, VisionCine: Exploring Diversity Through Film, to encourage conversation on diversity-related topics. The program hosts monthly film screenings, followed by guided discussions to encouraging reflection on social justice issues, equity, and inclusion.
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Since the 1990s, China has undertaken the largest expansion of higher education in world history. A new study by CASER Director Wu Xiaogang shows that alongside its positive impact on economic and social development, this rapid transition has also led to the devaluation of college credentials and a decline in social mobility.
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From crossing the border on foot as the first international student to return to campus after the start of the pandemic to founding a mentorship program for first-generation students, Mia Trinh ’24 has faced every challenge with resilience and creativity. After graduation, she’ll join Bytedance, a top Chinese internet company.
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• Congratulations to IMA student Chanel (Shuya) Feng ’26, whose digital work The Default, exploring the POV of a machine learning model, is featured in the “Man vs Machine” exhibition at the US Consulate’s SPACE 33 gallery. Feng has also been invited to join a discussion as part of the reception for Undersecretary of Commerce Kathi Vidal’s visit to Shanghai.
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• Forging connections: NYU Shanghai graduate alumni and students from 10 graduate programs welcomed their Duke Kunshan University counterparts to NYU Shanghai’s campus for interdisciplinary conversations on April 14. NYU Shanghai Dean of Graduate and Advanced Education Eric Mao warmly welcomed Dr. Xin Li, associate vice-chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research at Duke Kunshan University and discussed future collaboration.
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• On April 15, the Center for Global Health Equity and the NYU School of Global Public Health co-hosted the Inaugural Summit in Global Public Health. The hybrid summit addressed urban health and climate change, and broader global health issues including migrant health, biostatistical approaches, tobacco control, and digital mental health. Key takeaways included conversations surrounding decolonial approaches in global public health and centering learners in our work. Brian J. Hall, director of the Center for Global Health Equity, emphasized the desire to “make this an annual meeting, broadening educational, research, and practice engagement between campuses.”
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• Students from all three of NYU’s global campuses shared their language-learning experiences at the Learning a Foreign Language Across the NYU Global Networks panel, moderated by Chinese Language Program Director Zou Xin. Five NYU Abu Dhabi faculty from the French Language and Literature, Arabic, and Writing Programs also joined the 2nd Language Matters Symposium held April 18 and 19. They engaged with the NYU Shanghai community through class visits, student panel discussions, a faculty roundtable, and networked with the World Languages, English for Academic Purposes, Writing, and Chinese Language programs.
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• Novelist and Shanghai Literary Review founder Juli Min read from her forthcoming debut novel Shanghailanders at a reading hosted by the Writing Program and Creative Writing Minor. She fielded questions from the audience about her work and writing life in the Q&A session that followed.
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What’s it like to study away at NYU Shanghai? Students from NYU, NYUAD, and other universities share their stories.
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“Love and emotions are universal across humanity. Focusing on these shared aspects can lead to greater equality, inclusivity, and the possibility of communication.”
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| From the NYU Global Network
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Not catching enough zzz’s because of erratic work hours? As you might have guessed, that’s a no-no. A new study by NYU Silver School of Social Work Professor Wen-Jui Han says “about three-quarters of the work patterns we observed did not strictly conform to working stably during daytime hours throughout our working years. This has repercussions.” Read more about the effects of poor sleep patterns here.
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In this talk, speaker Professor Thomas Whitford from University of New South Wales will review the behavioral and electrophysiological evidence for self-suppression deficits to willed actions in people with schizophrenia.
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