► The Establishment of the Columbia Global Center in Beijing represents a milestone for Columbia University. The Beijing center will serve as a regional base for Columbia’s endeavors in China, enabling our academic community to interact on a local level with students, faculty, and alumni from regions across the globe. Columbia is proud to expand its efforts in China, where our ties are longstanding and deep.
Columbia University’s ties with modern China date back to the 19th Century, when it was among the first American universities to admit Chinese students. Many Chinese attended Columbia and, after graduation, returned to China and became influential statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and educators. The long list of prominent alumni begins with Tang Shao-yi, who entered Columbia in 1880 and later became the first prime minister of the Republic of China in 1912, followed by Wellington Koo, Hu Shih, Tao Xingzhi, Feng Youlan, as well as Xu Guangxian, the most recent recipient of China’s 2008 State Top Scientific and Technological Awards.
Over the past thirty years, Columbia has established extensive academic partnerships with the Chinese academic community, covering a wide range of disciplines including medicine, public health, music, education, law, and business. We take particular pride in the fact that Columbia has educated and hosted tens of thousands of Chinese students and scholars in the last three decades. Currently, Columbia hosts more than 1,200 students and scholars from China, and has the third largest international student population of U.S. universities.
The Genome Center. Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences together with Tsinghua University launched a major genomic research initiative in Beijing in November 2009.
For more information: "Engineering and Tsinghua Collaborate on Genomic Research"
Columbia Experience Overseas. In partnership with the Center for Career Education at Columbia, the Beijing Center will extend the international summer intern program for undergraduates to Beijing and Shanghai in Summer 2010.
For more information or to apply: "Internships Abroad" and Columbia Experience Overseas
Studio-X. The Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation's experimental design and research lab has expanded from downtown New York to downtown Beijing. As a part of GSAPP's Global Initiative for Art-Architecture Experiments, Studio-X Beijing hosts events and functions as a venue for Global Centers-related activities. INK, the Studio's first exhibit, opened in July and showcased Michelle Fornabai's ink paintings and ink on mylar drawings.
For more information: "Safari 7 at Studio-X"
Barnard VISP. Barnard College's Visiting International Students Program is now working in Beijing to bring international students to New York. The program is designed to help internationalize the student body and will bring a cohort of 17 undergraduates from prominent Chinese universities to Barnard in the spring of the 2009-10 academic year.
For more information: "Barnard Expands VISP in China" and Barnard VISP
Initiative for Policy Dialogue. The China Task Force, an IPD collaborative research group with members from several Chinese and British universities, held a conference in Beijing in October 2009. Conference participants discussed Chinese financial regulation in the wake of the global economic crisis.
For more information: China Task Force Meeting - Beijing 2009 and Conference Participants
Xiaobo Lü, Director.
Professor Lu is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and former director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia. Professor Lü is an expert in Chinese politics and political economy. He has authored numerous books and articles and is currently on the editorial board of several international scholarly journals including the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Visit his website.
Na Miao, Program Officer.
Na Miao has been the program officer for Columbia Global Centers | Beijing since the beginning of the Centers project. She holds an MBA from Peking University and a BA in Economics from the University of International Business and Economics.
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