NYU Shanghai’s first Commencement Ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 28, 2017. The venue for the occasion will be the Concert Hall of the Shanghai Oriental Art Center, one of the city’s leading cultural hubs. >> Read More

Short View on Stock Markets

Over the past year, wild swings in the Chinese stock market have drawn worldwide attention. On April 26, Professor Matthew Richardson of the NYU Stern School of Business, together with Dr. Xin Zhou, the Executive Director of NYU Shanghai’s Volatility Institute (VINS), analyzed the main drivers of Chinese stock price volatility and dispelled some of the myths. >> Read More

Head Over Heels for Fashion

Sunnie Sun shared what it is like to make a living on her life as a fashion blogger. At an event organized by Finn Na Sun ‘18, a PCI fellow, the fashion blogger talked about how she went from industry outsider to insider without a background in fashion, and how she learned the art of working with brands and media along the way. >> Read More

Data-Driven Learning Is Here

Big data is not for geeks only; it affects us all. In fact, it has been described as the “coolest field of the 21st century.” Will the convergence of big data and digital media, along with the increasing use of the Internet, set off a new trend in ESL learning? Dr. Pan Pengkai, an expert in children’s language education, said yes in his talk at NYU Shanghai on April 28. >> Read More

It was a memorable night of bilingual storytelling. Nine students shared their own travel stories in English or Chinese, depending on their language of study. The much anticipated second event, co-hosted by the Chinese Language Program and the English for Academic Purposes Program, yet again attracted a large campus audience. >> Read more

What can technology tell us about human nature? At a recent Faculty Lunch Speaker Series talk, Assistant Arts Professor Roopa Vasudevan presented “Technology As Anthropology” and talked about how the digital footprint of various demographics, communities, and cultures reveal ingrained behaviors, belief systems, and views of others.  >> Read the interview

GoGreen Gets Thumbs Up

Academicimpact.un.org blogged about NYU Shanghai’s Conference on Sustainability Challenges and Solutions. >> Read More

May 3 -- At this week’s  2016 Deans’ Service Scholars Capstone Presentations, 58 participating NYU Shanghai students reflected on the value of their experiences, over spring break, volunteering in Hunan, Henan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Cambodia. See their trip presentations. >> Read more

Flying robots
Paul Xu
15:00 ~ AB Room 823 (More) 

PCI Talk - Short Selling
Matthew Richardson
17:30 ~ AB Room 1505 (More)

East Meets West
Shouze Ma
11:30 ~ AB Room 825 (More) 

IMA's Spring Show

17:30 ~ AB Room 823 (More)

Should I Stay or Should I Go: Brain Mechanisms Regulating Exploration and Exploitation
Michael Platt, University of Pennsylvania
16:00 ~ AB Room 1504 (More)

Top-Down Input for Perception and Memory Consolidation
Masanori Murayama, Riken Brain Science Institute
12:00 ~ GEO Room 264 (More)

Song Dong, speaking about "Learning from Life" to a rapt audience at NYU Shanghai.

Image & Imagination

Students in Professor Barbara Edelstein and Jianjun Zhang's Introduction to Photography showed off their end-of-semester works on May 3. >> See More