March, 2013 - Newsletter

March 4, 2013 | Professor Marcello Fantoni, vice president of Kent State University visited SISU and was greeted by Prof. Feng Qinghua, vice president of SISU. Both parties were satisfied with the plans of deepening cooperation between two universities. Prof. Feng also accepted Prof. Marcello Fantoni’s invitation to visit Kent State University later this year.

March 7, 2013 | Professor Yang Li, vice president of SISU welcomed professor Roesch from Ruprecht-Karls—Universitaet Heidelberg at SISU’s Hongkou campus. Prof. Yang introduced to Prof. Roesch the host university and its international exchange programs. Prof. Roesch gave a brief introduction of the new development achieved by her university in recent years, expressed her enthusiasm at cooperating with SISU.
 
March 13, 2013 | Professor Trevor Davies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research of the University of East Anglia visited SISU and was greeted vice president Feng Qinghua. The two sides both expressed their enthusiasm that SISU and UEA could collaborate in such areas as international politics, diplomacy, law and international relations with a view to improve SISU’s programs of international law and .international public work.
 
March 15, 2013 | Professor Yannis Mylopoulos, Rector of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki visited SISU and was greeted by President Cao Deming. The two sides signed the memorandum between two universities. And Professor Yannis Mylopoulos also invited President Cao to pay a visit of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to deepen two universities’ cooperation.
 
March 21, 2013 |Prof. Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Rector of University of Freiburg, visited SISU and was greeted by President Cao Deming. Both parties signed memorandum of understanding between Department of German, University of Freiburg and Faculty of German, SISU. The memorandum involves Master and PhD. Programs, teachers’ training, expert exchanges and other academic cooperation.
 
March 22, 2013 | President Cao Deming met with Dr. Sebastian Harnisch, director of Politics Department and the chief professor on international relations in University of Heidelberg. In the meeting, both sides showed great willingness to explore more areas for further academic cooperation.
 
March 22, 2013 | Five of SISU’s Overseas Exchange Programs are Approved and Supported by National Outstanding Undergraduate Program.This is the first time that SISU has won the approval of support from National Outstanding Undergraduate Program. School selection for this program will be held in early March. 

 

March 25, 2013 | The China-Arab States Scholars Seminar was hosted by the Research Center of China-Arab States Cooperation Forum at SISU. More than 40 experts and scholars from home and abroad attended. Professor Zhu Weilie presided at the opening ceremony. Ambassador Yang Fuchang, former vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered a speech at the ceremony.