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Fudan Alumni Forum Held in Beijing
On March 13, Fudan entrepreneur alumni forum with the theme of “Macroeconomic Tendency and Enterprise Development Opportunities of 2010” was held in Beijing. Chancellor of Fudan University Prof. Qin Shaode, Vice President Prof. Chen Xiaoman and Vice President Dr. Xu Zhen attended the meeting.
Zhu Min, Deputy Governor of The People’s Bank of China, Li Yang, Vice President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Cheng Enfu, President of Academy of Marxism of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Sun Mingchun, Chief Economist, Nomura Securities in China, made keynote speeches and analyzed Chinese economy trend. Member of Board of Directors Tu Haiming and Sun Hengchao, Vice President of Fudan Alumni Association and President of the board of Fuson High Technology Gruop Co., Ltd., Liang Xinjun and other six alumni representatives also delivered speeches.
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Fudan and DSM Renew Agreement
On March 5, Fudan University and DSM Nutritional Products (DNP), an affiliation with a global life and materials science specialist DSM Group, announced renewal of their five-year cooperation agreement. Both parties will continue to maintain, as well as further deepen, their long-term strategic cooperation in nutrition and health research.
The Joint Laboratory on the Fudan Campus in Shanghai was opened in 2005, with a total investment of 22 million RMB (3 million SFR). It has created a new model of collaboration between multinational enterprises and China’s leading scientific research institutions. In the past five years, both parties have achieved satisfying results in various projects through complementary strengths and cooperation. With the renewed agreement, both parties will continue to deepen research cooperation in chiral technologies, synthetic methods for the industrial production of vitamins, carotenoids and new food and feed ingredients.
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Fudan Student Wins Sir William Siemens Medal
Jiangyu Zou, the double-degree student in Fudan-Birmingham program won Sir William Siemens Medal this year.
He joined EECE Department, Birmingham University in September, 2009 in the double degree program. During his first two years at Fudan University, Jiangyu has scored 95%for his second year of studies, placing him in the top 5% of his cohort. For his excellent performance he was selected for the first place in the National Scholarship Programme at Fudan. After Jiangyu joined Birmingham University, he has been very active with extra-curriculum work, where he has further developed his academic and business entrepreneurial skills. He participated in the Enterprise Skill Series Program and got a certificate for excellent performance in that business program. Currently he continues his excellent academic work for the final year of the degree at Birmingham. All these help him to win Sir William Siemens Medal among his peers.
Sir William Siemens Medal was founded by Siemens UK. William Siemens, the founder of Siemens in the UK, was a leading inventor, engineer, environmentalist and businessman and was knighted by Queen Victoria for his contribution to science. Passionately believing that science’s role was to enhance quality of life, he had the gift of being able to translate the latest scientific thought and technology into practical ideas from which everyone could benefit.
In 1883, to commemorate his many achievements, London University’s Imperial College established the Sir William Siemens Medal, awarded to the final year’s top electrical engineering student. Carrying on this tradition, Siemens awards a Sir William Siemens Medal and a cheque for £300 to the top science and technology students from 18 leading UK universities each year, to encourage the study of science and technology among today’s young people.
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Fudan School of Public Health Establishes Global Health Research and Training Center
Global Health Research and Training Center was recently established at School of Public Health, Fudan University. Professor Jiang Qingwu was nominated as director of this Center while Professor Qian Xu was appointed as executive deputy.
The mission for this Center is to focus on issues for global health, to cultivate new generations of health workers with global vision; to conduct joint researches for complex issues on global health, in collaborations with intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary strength; to enhance international cooperation, to develop international partnership in global health research and training areas and to improve health situation with regards to international experience in global context.
As for teaching programs, the Center plans to set a general education course, namely, ”multidisciplinary analysis for global health”, as well as “introductory of global health”, a major selective course. Meanwhile, summer schools of various topics will be held with universities from home and abroad.
As for researches, it plans to set different global health programs regarding disease control, environment and health, population and Reproductive Health and health statistics and policies among the others.
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Fudan Affiliated Huashan Hospital Accredited by JCI
Recently five reviewing officers from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCI), the world’s top authoritative organization of hospital quality accreditation and certification visited Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University under the disguise of patients. From the perspective of a newly-arrived patient, the officers conducted a whole course track of dozens of steps concerning health services at the hospital, from entering the hospital until taking the doctor’s advice and treatment in the ward. Eventually Huashan Hospital gave a satisfactory performance and became the first JCI accredited hospital in Shanghai.
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2010 Hokkaido University Day at Fudan
Fudan University-Hokkaido University Day was held in Fudan on March 10. The exchange event between two universities consisted of opening ceremony, research seminars and studying abroad consulting among the others. Such a diversified event was warmly welcomed by the faculty and students.
Professor ZHANG Yihua, Executive Vice President of Fudan University welcomed the Hokkaido University delegation led by Vice President HONDOH Takeo. A friendly talk on cooperation was carried out. Conferees also included President Assistant of Hokkaido University, Professor SUZUKI Masaru and Director of Hokkaido University Beijing Office, Professor NOZAWA Toshitaka. Students from Fudan College of Foreign Languages and Literature, School of Law and School of International Relations and Public Affairs listened to the introduction of Hokkaido University given by Professor NOZAWA Toshitaka and presentations by Fudan alumnus, Hokkaido Associate Professor YING Xiong.
On the same day, booths were set up and consultant services were offered by Hokkaido Graduate School of Literature, Graduate School of Law, Graduate School of Economics, Graduate School of Engineering, Research Center for Catalytic Chemistry Global GCOE Project, Graduate School of Information Science, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Graduate School of International Media and Tourism and International Student Center.
While Consultation was in full swing, research seminars, symposium between Chinese and Japanese students in various areas were carried out orderly as parallel units, with themes like "the future of East Asia and the role of the media", “How to deepen the mutual understanding between China and Japan - from the point view of young people”, etc. There were heated discussions by students from both universities.
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2010 Shanghai World Expo Volunteer Training Work Kicks Off
As the Shanghai World Expo is drawing closer, Fudan volunteer training work has been launched recently.
Fudan has more than 4,000 Expo volunteers who will offer voluntary services to visitors and organizers during the event. 2010 Shanghai World Expo volunteers are divided into two categories: Expo Site volunteers and information booth volunteers. Expo Site volunteers refer to those volunteers who work inside the Expo site as information consultants, assistant receptionists, event coordinators, assistant guides, interpreters, media coordinators, management assistants for volunteers, and aids for physically challenged people. Information booth volunteers are stationed in 391 Expo information booths outside the Expo Site. These information booths are distributed in 6 districts including Yangpu, Huangpu, Luwan, Xuhui, Changning and Putuo.
Most of the volunteers from Fudan University will offer voluntary service during Apr. 30 to May 13. Fudan volunteer recruitment for 2010 Shanghai World Expo was launched on May 1, 2009, which attracted great attention. Students were devoted to various Expo theme activities and promotions with great enthusiasm. In order to better regulate and promote the training of the Expo volunteers, Fudan published Shanghai World Expo Site Volunteer Guidance and Shanghai World Expo City Volunteer Guidance.
More than 11,500 students have signed up to be volunteers of the Expo by the end of 2009, a total of 4,202 students have been recruited after interviews, including foreign students from 15 countries and 90 students from Hong Kong and Macau.
From Mid-March on, all Expo site volunteers from each campus of Fudan University have been receiving training regarding responsibilities, cross-cultural communication，introduction of Expo, reception etiquette, photography techniques, security knowledge, emergency handling, basic sign language and aids for the disabled. Information booth volunteers will finish their training courses in their respective districts. All the volunteers will start to work for 2010 Shanghai World Expo in the end of April.
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China’s Vice President XI Jinping Visits the Nordic Confucius Institute in Stockholm
On the morning of March 30, member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and Vice President of People’s Republic of China XI Jinping, who was on a state visit to Sweden, paid a visit to the Nordic Confucius Institute in Stockholm, of which Fudan University is a co-founder. Vice President XI was warmly welcomed by the leadership of Stockholm University, representatives of generations of Sinologists in Sweden, Chinese and Swedish directors of the Institute, as well as teachers and students there.
In his speech at the Institute, Vice President XI spoke highly of the great contributions Confucius Institute in Stockholm, the very first one in Europe, has made to the Sino-Sweden cultural and educational exchanges. To show China’s full support to the teaching of Chinese language at the Institute, VP XI endowed a set of equipments for experiencing Chinese culture, as well as a number of digital books to the Institute. University Director Ann-Caroline Nordström expressed heartfelt gratitude to VP XI’s visit and gifts on behalf of the University.
The Nordic Confucius Institute in Stockholm was established and took enrollment in February 2005 together by Hanban, Fudan University and Stockholm University as the very first one to start running formally all over the world.
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Professor Hao Chuanming’s Paper Published on Clinical Investigation
Recently, internationally renowned Journal of Clinical Investigation Online published a paper by Professor Hao Chuanming of Huashan Hospital. The study found that a factor called silent information regulator (SIRT1) can protect the kidney from oxidative stress. SIRT1 is a histone deacetylase that can feel the energy level of cells and help cells resist external stress and improve metabolic function. Professor Hao Chuanming’s team found that the reduction of SIRT1 can increase oxidative stress through a series of exquisitely designed studied for vitro and vivo animals. There is a review by Professor Nath on the publication, in which he remarked that the study will benefit the majority of chronic kidney disease patients.
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Research Results on “First Night Effect” Therapy Published
An important research achievement made by the research team led by Dr. Huang Zhili from Fudan University State Key Laboratory of Neurobiology was published in the latest issue of Journal of Neuroscience. The research result provides new thoughts and methods towards “the first night effect” by revealing that brain dopamine D2 receptor protein is an important receptor of awakening behavior, which enriches and develops the theories of sleeping and awakening conditioning system.
The medical term of “The First Night Effect” refers to the situation when the patient is not being able to fall asleep on a different bed. Records show that 1/3 of the population all over the world suffer from sleeping problems due to increasing industrialization, social competition, job pressure, unhealthy night life habits and aging problems. Many people are not used to sleeping on an unfamiliar bed during business trip, since they would become nervous or overexcited, which prevent them from sleeping well.
In many former researches, dopamine is generally recognized as a main element which controls physiological process of athletics, emotions, rewarding and recognition, and is closely related to addiction to medicine. However, it was rarely related to sleep conditions. Yet Dr. Huang Zhili and the team found that, compared with normal mice (wild-type mice), the mice with the deletion of the "dopamine D2 receptors" sleep more than before. In order to test "first night effect", the researchers created a new environment by changing the living environment of animals to study the sleep behaviors of the mice. The results showed that most normal mice have difficulties in getting used to the new environment while those with deletion of "dopamine D2 receptors" quickly fall asleep as usual. For further details of the research, please refer to http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/12/4382?etoc
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“Haibao” Robot Invented by Fudan to Greet Expo Guests
“Haibao” robot invented by Fudan Computer Science and Technology Department is going to stage in Shanghai Expo in April. This robot is 1.8 meter tall and weighs 100 kilograms. He is going to welcome all the guests in the “Shanghai Eco-House” in the Shanghai pavilion. He wears a black suit over his shining blue body and a red tie.
This robot is filled with LED and covered by an Acrylic layer that displays 3D effects rather than traditional graphic display. According to Associate Professor Zhang Wenqiang, a leading member in the invention team, this Haibao robot could show all kinds of virtual beautiful colors and patterns with the combination of the reality, realizing “change in no second.” For example, Haibao could change his facial expression, costumes, even roles according to the change of different occasions. Such delicate design is very unique in robot design field.
In Haibao’s “brain”, there stored hundreds of traditional costumes of different nations all over the world as well as the costumes of some movie characters such as superman or The Hillbilly Cat. The robot could recognize both Chinese and English languages and talk to guests bilingually. He is also capable of interactive communication with the visitors. He can even ask you “Where are you from?” If your answer is “Scotland,” the robot will change into Scottish kilt while playing Scottish pipe band music.
The robot “Haibao” has a “brain” which has cognitive capabilities. If you put a ball in front of Haibao and tell him what it is for a couple of times, the robot may recognize it. This kind of the experiment on a robot is the first in the world. In addition to this, “Haibao” could also take pictures for the guests. As soon as the pictures are taken, “Haibao” will show the picture in front of his chest, together with a lucky number, indicating you are the No.X guest of the day. Guests could take picture with “Haibao” who is wearing their picture, which will surely be an unforgettable memory.
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Fudan Researchers Win Nano Grants from Shanghai Municipality
Four researchers from Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, namely Chen Shiyi, Zhao Xia, Zhang Fayong and Sun Peng, won grants for Nano Project for the Year 2010 by Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission. Huashan Hospital has won five Nano Projects grants since 2008.
In order to carry out the Outlines of both the National Plan as well as Shanghai’s Plan for Medium to Long-term Scientific and Technological Development, Shanghai S&T Commission specially set up the Nano Project Funds in support of research and development on nanomaterials and nanobiological technologies, much of which is related to medical research.
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Prof. Song Houyan Presented Distinguished Contribution Award by China Medical Women Association
Recently Fudan Prof. Song Houyan from Shanghai Medical School of Fudan University, together with the other 19 women medical workers nationwide won the Distinguished Contribution Award for the Year 2010 sponsored by China Medical Women Association (CMWA).
Founded in 1995, CMWA aims to unite women medical practitioners to devote themselves to medical advancement, to enhance academic research on medicine, and to strengthen mutual understanding, exchanges and cooperation among women medical practitioners. Distinguished Contribution Award of CMWA was formally initiated to reward female medical practitioners who make outstanding contributions to medical advancement.
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President Yang Yuliang Meets Council Member Mr. Ni Deming
Mr. Ni Deming, a senior Fudan alumnus from Taiwan and a Member of Fudan Board of Directors visited Fudan campus on March 8, 2010 with his daughter Ni Yongxu and son Ni Jingkuang. President Yang Yuliang cordially met them.
During their stay, Mr. Ni Deming visited Zhangjiang campus and the Institute of Developmental Biology, and discussed with Dr. Wu Xiaohui about academic exchange and cooperation.
Mr. Ni Deming graduated from School of Economy in 1944. He served as Taiwan's Cathay United Bank Charitable Foundation as director for the first three sessions. He is member of the Preparatory Committee of Fudan’s centennial celebration. Mr. Ni donated 3 million RMB, with support from his children, to Education Development Foundation of Fudan to establish "Fudan University President Award "in 2006.
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UEA Vice President Visits Fudan
Prof. Trevor Davies, Vice President of the University of East Anglia, led a delegation to visit Fudan University on March 15. President Yang Yuliang and VP Chen Xiaoman received the delegation and had a meeting with UEA professors, including Prof. David Richardson, Dean of Science and Prof. Neil Ward, Dean of Social Science, as well as Ms. Lisha Li, China Projects Manager. Fudan and UEA wish to establish cooperation in the fields of environmental science, economics, law and etc.
UEA, located in Norwich, England, was founded in 1961 with 18 schools and other research institutes. At present, it has an enrollment of 8300 students, including 6100 undergraduates and 2200 graduates. UEA has a reputation for innovative courses: its pioneering Environmental Sciences and International Development schools bring together experts from a number of fields to work collaboratively. It also offered the first Creative Writing degree in the UK and its recently introduced MBA in Strategic Carbon Management is a world first.
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Former Prime Minister of Ireland Lectured at Fudan
On March 19, Former Prime Minister of Ireland Bertie Ahern re-visited Fudan University upon the invitation of Fudan Centre for European Studies and Fudan Institute of International Affairs. He also lectured for “Fudan Ambassadors Forum” and lectured with a title of “Irish Experience: Past, Present and Future”.
Before the lecture, Fudan Vice President Chen Limin received Mr. Ahern to welcome him back after his first visit to Fudan in 2005. Prof. Ding Chun, head of Centre for European Studies and Deputy Director Xin Qiang from Foreign Affairs Office attended the meeting.
His lecture was presided over by Mr. Mei Zhaorong, Former Chinese Ambassador to Germany and centered on the topics including the development of Ireland and European integration. He also expressed his expectation on the Sino-European and Sino-Irish cooperation.
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Mexican Performance “Mariachi” at Fudan
Mexican performance”Mariachi” was staged at Fudan on the noon of March 19. “Mariachi” is a folk music performance in Mexico, which is called “the quintessence of Mexico”. This form of music could be traced back to the 16th century, when the Spanish missionaries brought it to Mexico. Mariachi forged its modern form in the19th century and is now the most influential music species in Mexico, portraying love stories, country stories and many other Mexican popular stories. It is regarded as the mixture of Spanish culture and Mexican culture.
Fudan students, Mexican students and the officers from Shanghai representative office for Universidad de Monterrey joined this event, together with the Consul General of Mexico in Shanghai.
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