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March 24, 2023, DKU students in Professor Luyao Zhang’s interdisciplinary course ECON/COMPSCI 206 Computational Microeconomics took a trip to Shanghai Wanxiang Blockchain Inc. to get a glimpse of the future of blockchain technologies. With their course focusing on the intersection between computer science and economics. . .
It’s 10:00 a.m. in downtown Kunshan and the city is bustling with life. The locals and seniors are just beginning their days while vendors line up goods for eager customers. Unlike other areas of Kunshan, this district keeps alive more traditional customs while exemplifying how waves of modernity are impacting local ways of life. The newest luxury cars parked along the streets. . .
Juxtaposed against the historic backdrop and winding walls of Florence, students recite Dante through their screens on a trip that takes them back hundreds of years in time. They are just in time to see both locals and tourists from afar flocking to the magnificent city’s streets for the celebration of Easter Sunday. While the on-going pandemic has created limits to in-person field trips, it also created unprecedented opportunities to teleport to sites around the world. . .