As the summer heat gradually fades away, a total of 12,785 new students, carrying dreams and aspirations, stepped through the gate onto ECNU’s campuses to embark on their new academic chapter."Hello, new students!" "Welcome to registration!" Volunteers greeted the incoming students with welcoming placards, beaming smiles, and heartwarming hospitality, creating an unforgettable first impression...

Marking the 75th anniversary of East China Normal University (ECNU), the 101st anniversary of its predecessor Kwang Hua University, and the 20th anniversary of ECNU’s main relocation to the Minhang Campus, the renovation project for the west gate and surrounding areas of ECNU Minhang Campus was completed after ten months of construction. The newly-built Kwang Hua Gate was officially unveiled o...

Featuring 56 works of design and art by the students of East China Normal University, the exhibition Chinese Opera: A Century of Dreams — Art, Design, and Technology officially opened at the Ground Hall of the China Institute of America in New York on July 9.As part of the third season of Our Water III: Shanghai - New York City Dialogue, the exhibition is co-hosted by East China Normal Univers...

Both surrounded by water, New York and Shanghai tell a shared story of China-US cultural exchange.From the Huangpu River to the Hudson River, the two global cities continue to connect through culture, education and dialogue."From Shanghai to New York: A Century-Long Cultural Journey Inspiring New China-US Dialogue", a core session of the third season of "Bund: A Global Urban Humanities Dialogue...

The graduation ceremony for East China Normal University’s Class of 2026 took place on the morning of June 16 on the spacious lawn in front of the Minhang Campus Library. The ceremony was co-hosted by Professor Chen Qiqing from the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, and Wang Letong, an undergraduate graduate of the Class of 2026 from the School of Communication.Academician...

A week-long workshop in Shanghai brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore how technologies, goods, beliefs and people have moved across one of the world’s most connected maritime regions.For centuries, the Indian Ocean has been more than a body of water separating continents. It has also been a corridor: a space where ships carried commodities, technologies, religious ide...

East China Normal University broke ground on its third campus in Shanghai's Lin-gang Special Area on Saturday, marking an expansion aimed at strengthening the institution's technological development and educational innovation.Ma Yugang, president of the university, said that the Lin-gang campus represents far more than geographic expansion. "It serves as our integration into national strategy a...

On a quiet afternoon in Shanghai, a visitor stands before a vast, swirling canvas. It feels like an ocean, a galaxy, a storm, all at once. The painting is not the work of a single artist, but of many hands and bodies, moving together through grief and emerging with something luminous. This is art therapy, and it is changing the way we understand ourselves.These works were created by ordinary pe...

East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai and the University of Victoria in Canada celebrated the 45th anniversary of their higher education partnership on April 28.As the first officially documented overseas partner of ECNU, the partnership is regarded as a significant milestone in Sino-Canadian educational exchanges.Zeng Zhi, acting consul general of China in Vancouver, sent a congratul...