This year’s Reality Show lit up the stage in the campus gymnasium for two shows this week. While the Reality Show entertains with catchy songs and sharp humor, its heart lies in helping new students feel seen and supported. From the stage lights of New York to the applause in Shanghai, the 2025 cast carries forward a tradition that blends creativity, courage, and community.
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Up, Up and Study Away in Shanghai!166 students from ten countries joined NYU Shanghai’s Study Away Program this fall semester, the highest number of study away students on campus in the University’s history. This semester NYU Shanghai also welcomes 12 visiting students, the highest number of students from non-NYU campuses.
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NYU Shanghai Launches AI Summer Program for High Schoolers
This summer, NYU Shanghai welcomed 43 high school students for the University’s first-ever AI Summer Program. Over two weeks, students immersed themselves in a rigorous program blending university-level lectures, hands-on labs, and corporate visits offering them a rare opportunity to experience what studying at a university is like.
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A team of researchers at New York University and NYU Shanghai has uncovered a remarkable property of vortex rings that had been overlooked for more than a century—one that illuminates how these rings respond when they move through water and reach air (i.e., at the water-air interface).
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Learn the Lingo: How to Speak Like a NYUSHer
New around here? Starting university is like entering a new culture, one with its own particular rules, customs, and language, too. Last year, students came together to compile a dictionary of NYU Shanghai-specific slang. Artist Torico Chen ’27 and creative director Linda He ’27 worked together for months to bring these phrases to life in vibrant illustrations.
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Alumni Voices: Leading, Learning, and Landing at GoogleZane Fadul ’21 describes what he did to land his dream job as a software engineer at Google, working on the reCAPTCHA team in North Carolina. Looking back, he says his NYU Shanghai campus leadership roles and involvement with the computer science community gave him the confidence to excel in his career and life.
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• On September 11, Peter K. Bol, the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, led a faculty roundtable on generative AI and digital humanities in the classroom. He also gave a lecture on how AI is transforming the (digital) humanities, where he demonstrated AI applications in fact-finding, data processing, predictive modeling, and developing agents based on individual writings. • World Languages and the Chinese Language Program hosted Languages in Ink on Thursday at lunchtime, welcoming faculty, students, and staff to try their hand at calligraphy and explore different writing scripts. The annual event is also a chance for students to learn more about the range of language courses offered at NYU Shanghai.
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“The real challenge of overbuilt cities lies in balancing the population and supporting infrastructure while reducing greenhouse gases in the future.”
— Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Huang Kangning speaking on overbuilding in Chinese neighborhoods
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You Make the Grade, Teachers!Happy Teachers Day to all our outstanding faculty at NYU Shanghai! Enjoy these videos honoring our 2024-2025 Teaching Excellence Award Winners Assistant Professor of Finance Christina Dan Wang, Clinical Assistant Professor in Writing Fernando Romero, and Assistant Professor of Practice in Finance Johnson Mo Jingyuan.
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Lightbulb Moment: Treating Digestive Disorders With a PillResearchers at NYUAD have developed an ingestible device that could use light to activate neurons in the gut, providing a new way to study and potentially treat digestive and metabolic disorders. Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Khalil Ramadi developed the technology, which delivers targeted light inside the gut to stimulate nerve cells.
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• NYU Shanghai and Shanghai Shendi Group sign an agreement of collaboration
Jiefang Daily and Xinmin Evening News reported on the signing of a strategic cooperation framework agreement between NYU Shanghai and Shendi Group, marking a new chapter of in-depth collaboration between the two to integrate the cultural tourism industry with higher education.
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