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An NYU Shanghai Student’s Life in Sketches
Four years of NYU Shanghai and several sketchbooks later.
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Taylah Bland '21: Seizing Every Opportunity
Taylah Bland talks about self-designing a major, leading student government,...
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Floormates to Friends: Sarah Armstrong ’22 and Leslie Huang Sijia ’22
How chance encounters at the dorm fridge led to being best friends.
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Li Li: Follow Your Heart and Let the Data Speak for Themselves
NYU Shanghai Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology Li Li’s career has taken...
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Kristen Glinton '19: Pioneering Her Way to a Fulbright
The first Bahamian Fulbright scholarship winner in nearly 25 years is putting...
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Cheng Yue: Carrying on a Family tradition across East and West
Following his grandparents, father, mother and sister into the family "business...
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Meet Jeremy Hazin ’25, NYU Shanghai's First Olympian!
Jeremy Hazin ’25 shares his experience as an Olympic athlete in Tokyo.
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Zuo Lala: Storytelling Through Architecture
"Shanghai is an architectural museum. In it, we can see... tradition, history,...
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Zane Fadul ’21: Rising to the Occasion
A computer science major talks about the importance of personal agency and...
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Lancelot Zhang Qilin ’21: Language is the Silk that Weaves Community Together
When he was three years old Lancelot Zhang Qilin ’21 was confident he could...
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Sydney Fontalvo '21: Transforming Exploration into Real Change
"You can't just look at things through one lens, one field... to get the wider...
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Kong Xiaoyan '21: Set on Making a Difference
“There are people who have the privilege to come to universities, and there are...