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January 23, 2014
After winning the 2013 People’s Republic of China Friendship Award last fall, University Professor Michael Waterman has been elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The professor of biological sciences, computer science and mathematics at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences is among nine foreign members from seven countries to be elected to the academy in 2013 and one of two Americans not of Chinese origin.
October 18, 2013
USC’s Neil Leach's recent project, a major exhibition in Beijing, documents the “digital infiltration” now underway at the world’s leading architecture schools.
He and co-curator Xu Weiguo of Tsinghua University put together the “Design Intelligence: Advanced Computational Research” exhibition to highlight work from 32 schools, including USC, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton and China’s Tsinghua and Tongji universities.
October 21, 2014
Thanks to the Edward Wong Research Travel Endowment, four USC Marshall School of Business undergraduates were offered exclusive rooftop views and personal tours of development projects in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing, as well as access to some of the most influential real estate figures in China, including Stephen Wong, managing director of the Edward Wong Development Co.
March 2, 2011
A team from the USC Institute of Urology recently returned from a 12-day, five-city visit to Asia to lay the groundwork for a collaborative program with physicians in China.
“The goal of this trip was to create a ‘USC-China Program’ in clinical medicine, which will enhance academic exchanges and make USC a preferred destination for Chinese patients seeking cutting-edge medical and surgical treatment,” Gill said.
More than 1,800 Chinese urologists attended these symposia to witness the USC team perform 15 advanced robotic and laparoscopic surgeries for kidney, prostate and bladder disease
May 6, 2010
Leading scholars from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States convened on the USC campus to discuss the changing role of filial relationships in elder care as a result of the one-child policy’s effects on family structure in China.
Sponsored by the USC Edward R.
March 6, 2010
Linda Duguay, director of the USC Sea Grant program, was selected to participate in a National Science Foundation workshop in China to discuss a foundation-supported ocean science education project and its possible application to outreach efforts by Chinese scientists and educators.
Chen and Wang escorted 13 people — Duguay from USC and scientists, educators and graduate students from other U.S. institutions — to Beijing. They had meetings in Beijing and at universities in the port cities Xiamen and Qingdao.
November 2, 2009
Fifteen students from the USC School of Social Work traveled to China over the summer to learn how a nation that reveres its elders is taking care of its graying population.
The trip focused on four areas of successful aging, including healthy lifestyle, intergenerational relationships, social engagement and programs for older adults.
November 22, 2014
What has more than 70 large-scale eco-friendly light displays, millions of LEDs, 100 tons of steel and 200,000 feet of silk? Global Winter Wonderland, the largest Lantern Festival outside of China, will be held at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California, from Nov 22 to Jan 4, 2015. In China, the Lantern Festival is celebrated on Jan 15 of the lunar calendar, immediately following the Spring Festival.During the festival, lanterns are embellished with many complex designs.
November 27, 2014
For the first time in Macy's 88-year Thanksgiving parade history in New York, there was a Chinese float, the Beauty of Beijing. The float featured tourism sites in Beijing, a band playing both Chinese and American songs, flag dancers and lion-dancing. People waved to the lion-dancing performers and raised their cellphones for pictures as children cheered. Officials expected that the float, along with other promotional efforts during the Thanksgiving holiday week, could attract more international tourists to China.
June 5, 2015
The CEA Shanghai Center opened in the summer of 2010 and is an exciting addition to CEA. The center is designed to provide a unique, interdisciplinary liberal arts and business education in the dynamic and fascinating city of Shanghai, China. With the city as their classroom, students take courses offered in a range of business and liberal arts subjects. Students enjoy the opportunity to actively improve their global competency and further their academic pursuits while immersed in a city where the traditional Asian world and the modern era of high-tech business blend in dynamic ways.