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Amy DeCillis '20: Bridging Cultures and Building Shanghai Dreams
"I realized I was learning so much more outside the classroom in Shanghai than...
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Graduate Student Spotlight: James Yang Zhi, M.A. ’20
James Yang Zhi, M.A. ‘20 founded his own English education company while...
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Jiyoung Kim, M.S. ’20
This summer, Kim takes up a new job as a global supply management analyst for...
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Alexander Bogdanowicz '20: Everything Is an Opening, a Shattering of Expectations
“I would choose the word ‘open’ to summarize my four years at NYU Shanghai.”
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Guan ChengHe: Reimagining Cities with Big Data
Professor Guan ChengHe in the park in front of the Academic Building to discuss...
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Audrey Samuel '20: A Global Citizen Finding Ways to Give Back
"I’ve built a connection with these places and want to find a way to give back...
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A Two-Month Race: Supplying the Frontlines of a Pandemic
When she graduated as part of the first class of NYU Shanghai graduates in May...
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Tim Wu Guangyu '20: From Century Avenue to Huaihua City to the UN
After discovering his true passions—for data science, and for tackling...
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Dai Weiduo, M.S. '20
Now an institutional sales specialist at Orient Futures in Shanghai, Dai says...
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He Ziqing '20: Embracing Uncertainty to Follow Her Passions
"This kind of global experience I got at NYU Shanghai really makes me think...
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Violet Spotlight: Sibling Edition
Meet Zainab Haider ’19 and her younger brother Syed Ali Haider ’24
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Faculty-Student Research: Teaching Robots to Run
Xinyue Chen '22 is doing collaborative programming and simulated robotic...