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Campus News

Impacting Aerospace History

Prof. Alexander Geppert has recently been named the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, a distinguished award that will facilitate his research on the history of outer space and twentieth-century astroculture.
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Social Care for Children

Social work professors Xu Qingwen and Jin Minchao offered expertise on devising quality social service programs for children at the 12th Pudong Social Worker Conference on campus.
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Tagged @NYU Shanghai

See how our students spent the week soaking up the sun after a hard season of midterms.
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Quick Takes

Now students and scholars can search for data on China using the Chinese Dataset Archive 2.0 version, thanks to Dai Yun from the Library and Hong Lin from the Center for Data Science and Analytics. Read how it started here. Email yun.dai@nyu.edu to share your feedback.
This week’s hot topic: obesity. Dr. Wendy Slusser shed light on the US epidemic, sharing best practices to manage and prevent obesity, while Hong Li from the National Children’s Medical Center (Shanghai) addressed childhood obesity in China; Miri Koral presented on the history and culture of a unique language - Yiddish; Elena Knox introduced her multimedia installation project Actroid Series I (Knox,2014); Poet Victoria Chang read from her book Barbie Chang; and as usual, FilmFridays@Five closed this week with a Sci-Fi Film: EX MACHINA (2015).
Vice Chancellor Jeff Lehman has been nominated as one of China's 112 foreign expert candidates by International Talent. More details here.
Yuping Zhang ‘20 and Haider Ali ‘18 represented NYU Shanghai at the second half of the FACES Spring Forum at Peking University on March 23. See picture here. || NYU Shanghai Parents Union interviewed Liu Fangyuan ‘18 and Li Chang ‘18, who both studied away in New York and received offers from MIT. Read the full story about their experience, favorite courses and professors here!
NYU Shanghai will participate in the Shanghai Art Education EXPO from April 16-18 at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Come support our faculty and students from the Art Programs and IMA! Email nyushanghai.uc@nyu.edu to apply for a ticket.
March 30, NYU Shanghai and Harvard College Association for US-China Relation co-hosted the 2018 China Key High School Principals and Directors Forum discussing how globalization affects higher education with Chancellor Yu Lizhong and Vice Chancellor Jeff Lehman.
Students: Are you a music lover? Come to THE FEST tomorrow! || Jinqiao Maker Faire Mini is calling for talented makers to showcase their skills. RSVP before April 9. || Join the BOX video contest before April 13. || Fill out this form to nominate Club of the Yearby April 16. || RSVP to donate blood before April 19. A little bit of your time can save lives!

Perspectives

A Gap Year at Sea

Jiaqiao Xiang (Frank) ’20, chose to take a gap year that would see him studying and travelling to 11 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. Here’s his advice to students considering their junior year study away options.
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Heard on Campus

"You have to be quick in these places; you can't stay too long or you get busted."

Traveling between the border of China and North Korea, Nobel Peace Prize photographer Sim Chi Yin had a 15 second exposure to capture one of her iconic images included in the exhibition Fallout.
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In the Media

Foreign Researchers in China

Xinhua News Agency interviewed Professor Tim Byrnes, who has been selected by China’s “Thousand Talents Plan,” about China’s efforts to woo high-level global talents with visa facilitation, competitive pay, and growing research subsidies.
Congestion Pricing in New York

City Lab carried Professor Eric Goldwyn’s analytic commentary on the the government plan to introduce congestion pricing to New York City.
The Future of China

International Talent Magazine interviewed Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman for his impressions on the recently concluded 19th CPC National Congress. Lehman said the future of China relies on innovation, further reform and opening up, and the integration of artificial intelligence in the real economy.