A signing ceremony for the naming of H!TIME Hall at NYU Shanghai Qiantan Campus was held on September 29 at NYU Shanghai’s academic building on Century Avenue. In recognition of Mr. Ding Jinsong, founder and chairman of Shanghai HiTime Real Estate (Group) Co., Ltd., who has made a new pledge to support students’ scholarships and financial aid, faculty recruitment, and international exchange among NYU campuses and study away sites, NYU Shanghai will name the north academic building at Qiantan Campus "H!TIME Hall."
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This is the second year that Professor Shuang Wen has led the Oral History Summer Apprenticeship. Last year, students were asked to document the NYU Shanghai community to commemorate the University’s 10th Anniversary celebration. This year, Wen encouraged students to broaden the scope of their research and document whatever sparked curiosity from within their communities.
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The discontinuation of the metal cups presents an opportunity for the NYU Shanghai community to embrace a new sustainable habit and save some extra cash–by rewarding those who bring a reusable cup or bottle to the campus cafe with an RMB 5 discount on drinks.
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• Congratulations to our Honors Math program for winning First Prize and Research & Instructional Technology Services (RITS), Library for winning Second Prize under City’s 2021 Education Excellence Award by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. Honors Math is one of the prestigious programs offered at our university, designed to provide students with a broad and deep math education and to bring them to their best level in a highly interactive and challenging learning environment. The university’s digital learning initiative maintained high quality standards for remote teaching during the pandemic and utilized technology-enhanced pedagogical innovation in creating an inclusive lifelong learning system. Both programs’ outstanding accomplishments in talent cultivation and promoting teaching excellence are highly recognized in the city-wide award.
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• The 19th Shanghai Education Expo kicked-off on September 24th, with the theme of " New Age of Digital Transformation, the Future of Education." NYU Shanghai launched a 720-degree immersive and interactive virtual showroom at the expo, which featured nearly one hundred schools, universities and educational bureaus. The showroom displays NYU Shanghai’s exploration and achievements on digital transformation in higher education, including the use of “smart” classrooms, the development of IMA and Data Science majors, and scholarly and scientific research by both students and faculty.
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• Last Saturday, Zhang Lu, Associate Professor of Practice in Chemistry, in collaboration with Pudong Library, led an exploration tour of " Chemistry on the Tip of the Tongue - Where Food and Science Meets." The lecture was supported by NYU Shanghai Library and open to the public. It gained a lot of attention, especially for its coverage of popular food science topics like vitamin C, trans fats, and the benefits of coffee.
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In a recent review article titled " Current Directions in Visual Perceptual Learning," NYU Shanghai Chief Scientist and Professor of Neuroscience Zhong-Lin Lu and his long-term collaborator Barbara Anne Dosher, Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, systematically examined research development, theories, models and applications of visual perceptual learning over the past thirty years. They also pointed out existing gaps in the field to inspire future research and collaboration.
"Despite the tremendous progress made in our understanding of visual perceptual learning over the last three decades, there are still many unanswered questions," said Lu."Our goal was to have an integrated article that can connect different branches of researchers in perceptual learning and facilitate collaborations among them. There’s great value for scientists to learn from each other’s work."
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Professor David Hunsaker's paper was recently published in the journal of Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. The study shows that negotiators should be careful when expressing anger during the negotiation process. "Many negotiators feel that they need to express anger in order to get a better deal, but anger can hurt the relationship between negotiators," said Hunsaker.
Hunsaker said he and his co-author found that anger expressed at the beginning of negotiation can be less harmful. "Our research demonstrates that anger expressed in the later, cooperative stages of negotiation is more harmful to relationships than anger expressed near the beginning of the process," he said, "The lesson for negotiators is that if you must express anger, it's best to express it early in the process and then move on to more cooperative strategies."
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“The top five target audiences for the Xiaohongshu (Red) platform which has 200M+ monthly active users are the hedonistic Gen-Z, the sharp white collar, the metropolitan fashionista, the single aristocrat and the exquisite mom."
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Class of 2026 NYU Shanghai’s Got Talent Show
This year’s NYU Shanghai’s Got Talent show was held on campus on September 16 with the Class of 2026. A total of 33 students showcased their talents in 24 exciting performances on stage and virtually. Some performance highlights were “Summer” by Xie Linxi ’26 & Liu Jinnuo ’26 & Dong Ke ’26; “Sichuan Opera Face Changing” by Bai Qishan ’26; “Those Flowers 那些花儿” by Gu Richie ’26; and “Mongolian Traditional Biyelgee Dance” by Ujin Boldbaatar ’26 (Clockwise).
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| From the NYU Global Network
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Long-term memories rely on both the repetition of events and an intricate neurological learning process in making these memories last. A team of neuroscientists led by New York University’s Nikolay V. Kukushkin provided a more detailed understanding of how these types of memories are formed as well as insights into what may disrupt their creation.
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In Vox this week, visiting professor and veteran journalist and author Ray Suarez writes about the key Latino vote in the 2022 US elections, and how the Republican Party is slowly winning over Latino voters. "The lingering effects of the pandemic, the highest inflation in forty years, and two-thirds of Latinos agreeing with the overall US majority that the country is on the wrong track make for an unquestionably difficult midterm season," he writes.
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Global Finance Magazine interviewed Assistant Professor of Global China Studies Maria Adele Carrai for a piece on Chinese investment in African nations. She said that most African countries request investment and financing for specific infrastructure projects. "China relies on host countries' requests, and this often leads to the poor calculation of risks and economic returns, and the construction of white-elephant projects," she said. "However, under the increased international scrutiny and criticisms, China—including its lenders—have become much more cautious."
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