Support for First-Generation University Students + Bauhaus Comes to NYU Shanghai

October 25, 2019

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Campus News

  • Finding Freedom within Constraints: NYU Shanghai Students Explore Bauhaus

    Wearing their own original costumes, 23 NYU Shanghai students gathered together on campus on a recent Saturday morning to perform a Bauhaus-style work with faculty who had flown in from the Bauhaus Dessau Stiftung institute in Dessau, Germany as part of the Bauhaus OpenStage project.

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  • First Generation Student Initiative Connects Students with Faculty and Staff Mentors

    A new dialogue series is the opening salvo of NYU Shanghai’s First Generation Student Support Initiative, which aims to bring new tools for success to the 20% of NYU Shanghai students who fit the classic definition of First Generation students, as well as to students whose parents may have followed non-traditional paths to university education.

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  • STEM Week: It’s Not Rocket Science

    From October 14-18, NYU Shanghai Women Empowered in STEM (weSTEM) club held workshops, talks and events on science education in the “It’s Not Rocket Science” STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Week. “It’s really important to be able to show students that STEM is not only practical, but that it can also be fun,” said Wang Xingyu, assistant professor of practice in physics.

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Perspectives

  • Indian Kathak Performance and Future Technology

    Dancer and choreographer Deepti Gupta introduced NYU Shanghai this week to Kathak, one of the eight forms of Indian classical dance. Gupta worked with IMA students and faculty to demonstrate the dance with motion capture technology. “The frontier perspective and advanced exploration of NYU Shanghai IMA impressed me. I am glad it offers me an opportunity to put traditional Indian dance and new motion capture technologies into practice,” Gupta said. Gupta also gave a performance of “The Lion’s Roar,” a contemporary Kathak dance she choreographed based on The Sutra of the Lion’s Roar of Queen Srimala, about Queen Srimala's journey of self-realization through the path of Buddhist vows.

    Watch the performance of “The Lion’s Roar”

Quick Takes

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    The Springer Publishing Company released a festschrift of the writings of Charles Newman, Affiliated Professor of Mathematics at NYU Shanghai and the former Director of NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai. The three-volume set is entitled Sojourns in Probability Theory and Statistical Physics, and was edited by the late Professor of Mathematics Vladas Sidoravicius. The books consist of articles by Newman’s collaborators and colleagues across a number of fields to which he has made contributions of fundamental significance such as Probability Theory and Statistical Physics. This publication was conceived during a conference in 2016 at NYU Shanghai that coincided with Newman's 70th birthday.

        From the NYU Global Network

        • Using the Immune System as a Potential Defense Against Cancer

          A new study by a team of scientists including NYU London Prof. Valerie Wells has found a naturally occurring molecule and a component of the immune system that can successfully target and kill cancer cells. The component can also encourage immunity against cancer resurgence.

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        Photo of the Week

         

        Tug-of-war at Field Day


        The inaugural NYU Shanghai Field Day organized by Student Life and Human Resources was held at the ECNU Affiliated Dongchang Middle School on October 19. The fun-filled day drew more than 170 NYU Shanghai community members including students, faculty, staff, and their families, who took part in three-legged races, rope-skipping, and the old fan-favorite -- egg-and-spoon racing.

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