On May 28th, the pioneering class of 2017 at NYU Shanghai earned their NYU bachelor’s degrees as well as their NYU Shanghai diplomas.
Event Highlights
Commencement
Leading venture capitalist, former Israeli Air Force combat pilot and NYU Shanghai parent, Amir Gal-Or sat down with Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman on May 4 to talk about his decade-long quest for thrill in both flying an F-16 and forming business partnerships in China.
Talks
On April 11, senior United Nations diplomat Ramu Damodaran brought NYU Shanghai members a lively conversation about his UN experience and insights on international governance, offering students an insider’s look at the world’s largest intergovernmental organization dedicated to peace an
Talks
Over three days this week, NYU Shanghai hosted a stream of high profile speaking events featuring prominent intellectuals from neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI), offering hundreds of science enthusiasts an opportunity to embrace advancing future technologies.
Conference & Symposium
The NYU Shanghai Art Gallery has opened its first exhibition of 2017, “Borders: Us and Them,” which probes the transformation of contemporary global borders and their socio-political implications. More than 300 guests attended the reception on March 7, one of the ga
Gallery
On November 19, NYU Shanghai’s Chinese Language Program held its inaugural "Hua Xia Cup" Chinese Language Speech Contest, building a stage for international students to present themselves and what they’ve learned while studying Chinese.
Community
In light of growing political backlashes across the developed world, Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman and Dean of Business Yuxin Chen staged a stimulating debate on Thursday to explore the pros and cons about globalization, a major driving force of economic and social changes during past decades.
Community
Nobel Prize laureate, NYU Professor of Finance Robert Engle returned to Shanghai in mid-November, joining students, researchers and business practitioners in an academic fest that offered cutting-edge insight on the v
Conference & Symposium
Business guru Jason Nanchun Jiang told an NYU Shanghai crowd on November 17 that poetry writing in his student years led him to create, step by step, what is now an advertising giant worth 160 billion yuan (US$ 23.3 billion).
Conversation with the Vice Chancellor
On November 4, Berlin-based artist and designer Yang Liu gave a presentation of her award-winning cultural pictograms at NYU Shanghai.
Community
Over 150 students and faculty gathered in the auditorium on October 19 to watch a live webcast of the 10th CHINA Town Hall, featuring Dr. Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and political scientist who once taught at Harvard University.
Community
New STEM seminar series boosts interdisciplinary exchanges at NYU Shanghai.
Research
NYU Shanghai Art Gallery to unveil new video installation by renowned Chinese artist Lu Yang.
Gallery
Senior banker Deng Weibin kicked off this semester’s VINS-TCFA lecture series on Wednesday by sharing his observations on global and Chinese commodity markets with finance enthusiasts at NYU Shanghai.
Research
The NYU Shanghai Literary Reading Series started strong this fall, headed with one of Hong Kong’s leading fiction writers, Xu Xi, alongside the prize-winning U.S. poet Jane Wong.
Community
