Nine leaders in art, business and education recounted their enlightening life and career encounters on November 11 at TEDxNYUShanghai 2017, thanks to a team of enthusiastic students whose efforts brought the idea-sharing platform back to Century Avenue.
Event Highlights
On Nov 4-5, NYU Shanghai hosted China’s first model UN conference recognized by the United Nations.
On Wednesday, historians of NYU Shanghai and East China Normal University participated in a roundtable on the Chinese-Indian Border War in 1962.
Senior mathematician Geoffrey Grimmett of Cambridge University kicked off the Provostial Distinguished Lecture series on Tuesday with an inviting introduction about the geometry of chance.
Award-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.
With 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.
On May 28th, the pioneering class of 2017 at NYU Shanghai earned their NYU bachelor’s degrees as well as their NYU Shanghai diplomas.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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).