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| Students in 84 countries signed on to good news April 1 as NYU Shanghai announced a final round of admissions offers for the Class of 2025. 45 percent of this year’s admitted students come from outside the United States and China and nearly a quarter will be first-generation college students. |
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NYU Shanghai Professor Brian J. Hall and Martin Vandendyck of the World Health Organization (WHO) brought together researchers and public health practitioners on March 31 to consider the promise and practice of digital mental health interventions during the Covid-19 pandemic. | While the visiting students spend most of their time at temporary campuses near NYU Shanghai, students from both “Go Local" and NYU Shanghai have also made efforts to bring the two communities together. While the visiting students spend most of their time at temporary campuses near NYU Shanghai, students from both “Go Local" and NYU Shanghai have also made efforts to bring the two communities together. |
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| Perspective | Graduation day is just around the corner! While most seniors are on campus, many have not yet made it back to Shanghai. We are asking students to send special messages to the Class of 2021, especially those who won’t be able to join in the live festivities. Here’s a teaser of what some students have said far. Email your clip to: shanghai.social@nyu.edu |
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| Heard on Campus |  | Maintaining modern democracy relies not only on institutions but requires repeated investments such as the postal system and common schooling to keep citizens connected with the government fighting citizen disenchantment today.
- David Stasavage, Dean for the Social Sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in NYU’s Department of Politics, at a March 31st talk on his book, The Decline and Rise of Democracy |  |
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| Picture of the Week |  | A Sneak Peak of the New Campus Interiors at Qiantan On Wednesday, Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman led community members on a virtual walkthrough of our new campus, whose construction is on schedule for a summer 2022 move-in. Above is an architect's rendering of the interior of the art gallery, which will occupy a prime space at the campus' northwest corner and be open to the public, underscoring NYU Shanghai's ambition to become a social and cultural hub for Shanghai's Qiantan neighborhood. |
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| From the NYU Global Network | The vast majority of the world’s largest meat and dairy companies have not made an explicit commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a new analysis by researchers at NYU. |
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| In the Media | | | NYU Shanghai Assistant Arts Professor of IMA Marcela Godoy shares her ideas with ICS on what individuals, organizations, and the government can do to create and use more environmentally friendly materials. |
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More events
Thursday, April 8 & 29
Gallery Study Sessions | ponds among ponds
1:00-2:00 PM, ICA Gallery (limited to 10 participants)
Join a discussion group, focusing on one work in one hour, facilitated by ICA curators using an art mediation method called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). Rather than exhibition tours, ICA Study Sessions are guided conversations based on curious exploration, critical reflection, and collective meaning-making. All discussions will be held in English.
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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