On September 24-25, 24 Frames, NYU Shanghai’s student film club, hosted its fifth annual film race — "One in 24." The race concluded with a screening and award ceremony in the auditorium on October 14. The theme of this year’s contest was "Again." As in previous years, the competition gathered a dozen filmmaking teams to create original short films within 24 hours.
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On October 12, Hua Jingdong, former World Bank treasurer and current visiting professor of business at NYU Shanghai kicked off a new dialogue series "Women Leaders in Finance and Development." Hua’s first guest was his friend and former colleague, Katherine Meighan of the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), a UN agency.
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On the morning of October 15, NYU Shanghai community members gathered to appreciate the beauty and natural wonders of Century Avenue. Organized by NYU Shanghai’s Office of Community Engaged Learning, the Century Avenue nature walk was led by Li Xiang, co-founder of Sorrel Science Studio, and Chen Zihui, president of Fudan University's Herbalsoul Student Club.
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In 2021, Dr. Adhira Mangalagiri, Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, embarked on a new phase of her research journey by joining NYU Shanghai's Center for Global Asia (CGA) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on Chinese and Hindi/Urdu literature.
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• Congratulations to Xu Ziyun '25 on being nominated for " 2021 Student of the Year" among all university students in Shanghai. The Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, awards this prize to individuals who demonstrate an outstanding level of academic achievement and an excellent spirit to serve others. "Thank you NYU Shanghai for offering me such an opportunity," said Xu. "I am extremely honored to receive this recognition, and it’ll encourage me to go further and do better in the future."
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• To celebrate NYU Shanghai’s 10th Anniversary, the Library RITS team, IMA faculty and students, and the Chancellors' Office collaborated to present the IllumiLand virtual campus project. This project consists of 3D models of the Century Avenue academic building, allowing community members to leave memories of the campus in this virtual space. In the future, the website will also include virtual presentations of ECNU’s Geography Building and the new Qiantan campus to fully preserve the physical footprint of NYU Shanghai. Explore and add your memories here.
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Last spring, Keaton Funderburk '22 joined the ranks of scientists interested in REGγ, a proteasome activator that works to degrade unnecessary or damaged proteins in the body. Scientific attention has recently shifted to REGγ because of its role in cancer, aging, and neurodegenerative disease. However, due to REGγ's elusive nature, research on the proteasome activator has been wide-ranging and inconclusive. In an article titled " Regulation of Life and Death by REGγ" — published this past July in Cells, an international journal of cellular and molecular biology — Funderburk reviewed the research findings to form a more coherent narrative of what is currently understood about REGγ.
Professor of Practice in Biochemistry Henry James Li Xiaotao, who supervised Funderburk’s research, said there is still much to understand about REGγ’s functions and regulatory mechanisms. "You cannot just describe REGγ’s function in one or two sentences," he said. "For example, it has a function to promote cancer. But it also has functions involved in aging, immune response, neuron degeneration, and metabolism."
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"Each kind of animal on Earth, no matter its size or speed, has evolved a remarkable and unique set of survival skills. How each kind of animal lives, where it lives, how it interacts with its own animal group, and with other types of animals, its niche in the ecosystem — all of this should be deeply researched and each animal deserves its own book."
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Performed and choreographed by five NYUSH alumni and NYU Shanghai Assistant Arts Professor of Dance Siye Tao, "Watch, and Being Watched" (2021) is a short dance film that has won the Best Interface of Dance & Public at the Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival, Best Experimental film at ARFF Barcelona Film Festival, Best Experimental Short at Rome International Movie Awards. It was also officially selected by the Screendance International Festival, Light Moves Festival of Screendance, and 15 other festivals in total (Cinematographer: Qing-wen Yan, and Sound designer: T.B B). "The interaction between the dancers and their casual 'audience' makes their roles — audience vs. performer — blurred and interchangeable. Who are the performers and who are the audience? This is the question this short film tries to ask," said Professor Tao.
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| From the NYU Global Network
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"One of the things I really loved about writing this book was how it kind of reaffirmed my American identity," said Cammie Kim Lin, a clinical assistant professor in Liberal Studies at NYU. "Considering the fact that I grew up in an interracial immigrant household in a really white town in the Midwest, and I often felt like an outsider growing up."
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People’s Daily reposted NYU Shanghai's founding chancellor Yu Lizhong's article originally published in World Education. Yu reviewed and reflected on NYU Shanghai’s ten-year development from incubation, to founding, and building, and its future goals. Through ten years, NYU Shanghai’s international education blueprint has been realized and consolidated step by step.
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The Thinker featured Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts Alice Wang's solo exhibition at OCAT Xi’an. Wang's birthplace, Xi'an, embodies many of the themes she thinks about: space exploration, high-tech research, ancient history, art and culture, meteorite rain, deserts and fossils, and echoes of mysticism with more ancient historical clues, which are represented by many of Wang’s art works.
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To recognize World Mental Health Day on October 10, Professor Brian Hall wrote a piece for Sixth Tone as part of a series about the challenges and promises of mental health care in China. The article explores different interventions within the field of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) including digital interventions, and areas for growth in the quest to make mental health services more accessible to all.
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