| Campus News Maria E. Montoya Talks Water, Community, and Arts and Sciences along the Zhangjiabang River"I am addicted to digging through documents for some historical fact that nobody else knows. Historians love secrets, or more precisely they love revealing secrets." Watch the video and read moreNYU Shanghai Sends First Post-Doc
to NYU Research ShowcaseNYU Shanghai reached another milestone this spring as it sent its first post-doctoral associate, Zhang Linmin, to the NYU Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Research Showcase in New York City on April 24. Zhang presented her research on formal semantics and psycho-/neuro-linguistics. The showcase is NYU’s premier doctoral research event of the year, featuring presentations from the university network’s top scholars. Read moreStudents Face Off in First Data Modeling Competition NYU Shanghai held its first-ever Data Modeling Competition, “Hack The Pearl,” April 19 bringing together some 50 students to test their data processing and modeling abilities over three days. Read more
| Senior SpotlightAnthony Comeau ’19: Make Everyone Your TeacherComeau, a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the United States, first started thinking about studying in China in middle school. “I liked the idea of NYU Shanghai, the people I met there, and the vision of intercultural dialogue. NYU Shanghai was the only school that I thought if I didn't go there, I'd be missing out,” he said. Read more
| Quick Takes Congratulations to Simone Ye ’21 and NYU Gallatin study away student Lia Warner ’21 for winning the Best Paper Prizes at the inaugural Duke Kunshan University Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference on April 21. Ye’s paper titled, “Recording the absurdity, desiring the real: Devils on the Doorstep as a historical satire,” compared film director Jiang Wen’s film with mainstream Chinese Anti-Japanese War movies.
Warner’s paper, titled “Ding Ling and the Contradictions of Feminism and Female Subjectivity in China,” analyzed Chinese author Ding Ling’s specific brand of feminism, and how she included class analysis in her perspectives on feminist discourse.
The three-day conference attracted over 40 undergraduate participants from universities across China including Peking University, Fudan University, and Renmin University. Group photo >> On April 13, NYU Shanghai hosted over 170 participants and 20 teams for the iGEM (The International Genetically Engineered Machine) Shanghai Regional Conference. iGEM is a synthetic biology competition that began in 2003. Synthetic biology is the design and construction of new biological entities or the redesign of existing biological systems. Each year, teams from around the world are challenged to solve real world problems by applying techniques from the interdisciplinary field of biology and engineering.
NYU Shanghai’s iGEM team won a silver medal at 2015 iGEM and a bronze medal in 2017, and is working toward even better results in this year’s competition in October. Group photo >> On April 24, NYU Shanghai’s “Young Entrepreneurs” series welcomed Cheng Zhiyuan, the founder and CEO of Make-a-Point. Based in China, Make-a-Point is a design-led innovation lab built to facilitate the emergence of businesses and organizations for social good. Cheng presented a business case about child car seats use with Didi Chuxing, the world's leading mobile transportation platform. "60% of child car seats are made in China but only 1% of those seats are used in China," he said. Journalist Mara Hvistendahl gave a talk on April 24 titled “You Are Your Data: Mobile payments and new forms of credit in China and the United States” and traced the history of the QR code. She pointed out an interesting phenomenon: "A Chinese family put a QR code on their ancestors grave so people could scan and find out information about the family history."
| Scene and Heard“Many people proclaim that they will protect wildlife, but they don’t know how they can personally get involved. They don’t try hard enough, so opportunities just escape them. Watching the films made me realize that there are actually tons of people out there doing the best they can to change the situation." -- Zhao Yutong, student, Yangjing High School For a third year, NYU Shanghai and the New York WILD Film Festival joined forces April 19 to present an afternoon of film screenings and panel discussions featuring documentaries to inspire viewers to "explore, discover, and protect" the world's natural heritage. More than 40 first-year students from Shanghai's Yangjing High School, a partner school with NYU Shanghai, and many members of the NYU Shanghai community were in attendance. Read more
| | In the Media | | Photo of The Week “A Frog on the Shore”, Nemenčinė, Lithuania. Photographed by Julius Damarackas Sometimes, Julius Damarackas, Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Shanghai's Institute of Mathematical Sciences, needs a break from research. On a certain day in May 2015, he went for a stroll around a lake in Nemenčinė, Lithuania, after spending an entire day on his thesis. When Damarackas spied a frog sitting on the shore, looking tired and annoyed, he projected his own emotions onto it, and clicked the shutter.
See more of Damarackas’ nature photography in his gallery. | Featured Events Tuesday, April 30 Computational Chemistry Seminar Series: Oligonucleotide Aptamers for Therapeutic and Biotechnology Applications: Challenges and Possibilities Terry Lybrand, Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University, will discuss a simple chemical modification, which involves substituting dithio-phosphate for a phosphate group in the nucleotide backbone, that in some cases can increase binding affinity for RNA aptamers by several orders of magnitude. This bi-weekly seminar series is sponsored by the NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai. GEO Room 385, 14:00- 15:00
ROOM 100 - STUDY SESSION | Liu Heung Shing, Students Studying, Tiananmen Square (1981)
The fourth art object in this series is Students Studying, Tiananmen Square (1981), a photography work by Liu Heung Shing, a Chinese-American, Pulitzer Prize winner, and former Associated Press photojournalist and photographer. In this photo, we see apoliticism, a return to humanism, a regained reverence of knowledge, and the freedom and determination to pursue individual fulfillment.
Room 100 (Gallery) / 12:30-13:30 Friday, May 3
FilmFridays@Five | Shanghai, Waiting for Paradise
Over the course of five years, documentary filmmaker Sylvie Levey followed one Shanghai family impacted by the city’s chaiqian (translation: demolition and relocation) initiatives. The film documents the family as they are confronted with the imminent demolition of their home, and follows them as they are relocated to one of the oldest parts of the city. The result is a moving and intimate portrait of the life of three generations as they reside under a 5-square-meter roof, and raises questions about the concepts of home, family, love, and life itself. Auditorium / 17:00-19:30 For a complete listing of events on campus, please check the Events Calendar and look out for the weekly Events Newsletter in your inbox every Monday.
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