These days, it seems that ChatGPT is on everyone’s lips and on our screens. The generative AI tool has garnered 100 million users within two months and is currently the fastest-growing digital product of all time. Generative AI holds a number of exciting possibilities, but are we ready for the changes that the AI Age will bring? This week the Library hosted a series of events to engage the community in discussions on how we will interact with generative AI and respond to the consequences of its popularization.
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On NYU Shanghai's new 114,000-square-meter campus, there is no shortage of study space. Indoors, outdoors, even off campus in the Qiantan neighborhood - there are plenty of places to hunker down and hit the books.
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Growing up between Ecuador and New York has taught Ariana Alvarez '23 how to navigate between cultures, places, and languages. She says it contributed to her curiosity of exploring the world, her love of learning languages, and her motivation to create change through diplomacy.
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• Students gained a glimpse of the wide range of opportunities ahead of them in their post-graduation future, thanks to the Center for Career Development’s annual I AM LIMITLESS Conference, which featured a total of ten events. In addition to career exploration sessions and social impact panels featuring professors and current students, the conference brought two high-profile industry professionals to campus. Dr. Polly Ng, the founder of Global Women Connect and BWS Group, led a discussion on being a social change leader while Dr. Peter Qiu, the founder of the Center for Globalization Hong Kong and a former television commentator at Phoenix Satellite Television, shared insights into future career prospects for college graduates. The conference culminated with an international career fair on Friday afternoon, in which students were able to interact with representatives from over 40 companies and learn about nearly 200 job opportunities.
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• Congratulations to Dean of Business and Distinguished Global Professor of Business Chen Yuxin, along with Director of the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research and Yufeng Global Professor of Social Science Wu Xiaogang, and Chief Scientist and Professor of Neuroscience Zhong-Lin Lu. The three have been ranked in a list of most highly cited Chinese researchers in 2022 by Elsevier, an academic publishing authority. The ranking uses Scopus, a global authoritative citation and index database, as a statistical source of Chinese scholarly research achievements.
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• Congratulations to Cui Lixian who has received an award from the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution to Adolescence in the Majority World. Cui received the award for his 2022 research on the impact of parental emotion socialization on adolescent development. Cui traveled to San Diego to receive the award at SRA’s annual meeting.
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• Congratulations to Zheng Jiale '25 and NYU Shanghai's tennis team for winning 1st place in tennis women’s singles at the 17th Shanghai Games (FUSS Tennis Tournament). This was the second time in NYU Shanghai history to place first in tennis in a city tournament. 10 NYU Shanghai students from our co-ed tennis team, including seven international and three Chinese, participated and competed against 25 other universities at the Games, which are held every four years.
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• After moving to the New Bund Campus, Economics hosted another two Engagement hours with faculty in March. All students, regardless of year or major, are provided with opportunities to fully explore campus life from a new starting point. Over 60 students and Economics faculty members attended the bi-weekly sessions and discussed a variety of topics including how to choose courses and select a major, how to seize research opportunities, and how to plan for career and personal development.
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A recent study led by Sukbin Lim, Assistant Professor of Neural Science at NYU Shanghai and published in iScience, proposed a new approach to studying how the brain changes and learns over time using machine learning tools. This approach has the potential to facilitate future research in the field of computational neuroscience and could lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of the brain’s cognitive function.
Moving forward, Lim hopes to collaborate with experimentalists to test the proposed GPR method in in vivo experiments. She also plans to develop the GPR method into an interactive approach called active learning.
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"Writing is so essential to how we think, teach, and what we as scholars do, that it‘s hard to imagine university life without it… [but] AI Generative tools like ChatGPT are here to stay. Sweeping changes in pedagogy and how we teach are in order, and adaptability in curriculum will be key to building a structure that provides necessary skills and assessments."
— Melanie Hackney in the FLSS presentation "Chat GPT and the Future of Writing: Lessons from the Past."
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Purple Appreciation Day
For NYU Shanghai's traditional Purple Appreciation Day, students showed their love for the community by writing thank you notes and making gift bags while enjoying cotton candy and cupcakes. Many thanks to the Student Commencement Committee for hosting this event!
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| From the NYU Global Network
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A new study by a team of psychology and education researchers shows that students whose brainwaves are more in sync with their classmates and teachers are likely to learn better than those lacking this "brain-to-brain synchrony."
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This full-day research assembly will spotlight the achievements and contributions of post-doctoral fellows and PhD students, including a poster exhibition in a convention hall format and plenary sessions of oral presentations with awards plus cash prizes for Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation as determined by panels of faculty judges and public viewers.
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For a complete listing of events at NYU Shanghai, check out the Weekly Events Newsletter, delivered to your inbox every Monday when school is in session. If you wish to highlight your event in the Weekly Events Newsletter, upload your event to Engage no later than the Thursday before the Monday newsletter.
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