On Nov 4-5, NYU Shanghai hosted China’s first model UN conference recognized by the United Nations.
Event Highlights
Nov 10 2017
Oct 27 2017On Wednesday, historians of NYU Shanghai and East China Normal University participated in a roundtable on the Chinese-Indian Border War in 1962.
Oct 20 2017Senior mathematician Geoffrey Grimmett of Cambridge University kicked off the Provostial Distinguished Lecture series on Tuesday with an inviting introduction about the geometry of chance.
Sep 22 2017Award-winning performing artist Estelle Parsons advised students on Tuesday to unleash their creative impulses and strive for social justice in the first session of this semester’s Conversations with the Vice Chancellor series.
Jul 17 2017With global ransomware attacks on the rise, computer security has once again become a recent center of controversy, as well as the theme of the 29th Future Forum Lecture organized by Future Forum, NYU Shanghai and KPMG China, held on campus on July 8th.
May 28 2017On May 28th, the pioneering class of 2017 at NYU Shanghai earned their NYU bachelor’s degrees as well as their NYU Shanghai diplomas.
May 5 2017Leading 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.
Apr 14 2017On 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
Mar 24 2017Over 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.
Mar 10 2017
Dec 15 2016On 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.
Dec 9 2016In 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.
Dec 2 2016Nobel 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
Nov 18 2016Business 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).
Nov 11 2016On November 4, Berlin-based artist and designer Yang Liu gave a presentation of her award-winning cultural pictograms at NYU Shanghai.