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2010 Fudan International Forum of Management Concludes
On July 17, approximately 100 eminent entrepreneurs, scholars and government officials from both home and abroad gathered in Fudan University to attend the 2010 Fudan International Forum of Management (FIFM), discussing and exchanging ideas and thoughts on management theories and practical experience which have developed during the past 30 years of reform and open-up, as well as on issues such as environmental protection and sustainable growth which pose more importance to Chinese enterprises in the future path of development.
2010 FIFM was themed on “Business Administration and Corporate Growth – Chinese Management from perspective of Sustainable Growth”. On the opening ceremony, Business Administration Professor Ming-Jer Chen from Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, gave a keynote speech on Dynamic competition – on Chinese Enterprises’ Strategies of Sustainable Growth.
Siwei Cheng, Vice Chair of Fudan Premium Fund of Management and Fudan honorary professor attended the ceremony and gave a speech.
Renowned entrepreneurs from private sectors and multinationals were invited to give speeches and to share their latest innovations and successful stories with other participants. Professors and scholars from home and abroad also participated in two report sessions separately on topics of business administration, marketing and accounting.
The forum is meant to be a platform for officials, business people and academicians to gather and discuss on business administration and corporate growth, which pose significant importance to both the development of management disciplines and Chinese enterprises’ sustainable growth. It will also demonstrate Chinese features and increase Chinese significance in the global trend of management development.
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International Workshop on EU and Asia: Inter-regionalism and Asia-Europe Cooperation
On July 26, the international workshop on EU and Asia: Inter-regionalism and Asia-Europe Cooperation, co-organized by Fudan Institute for Advanced Studies of Social Sciences (Fudan IAS), Fudan Centre for European Studies (Fudan CES), Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), UN Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), CRIS Tsinghua University and CES Renmin University of China, was held at Fudan University.
Participants were from a number of institutions home and abroad, including ASEF, Belgium Embassy to China, UN University, International Social Sciences Council, Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Royal Institute of International Relations of Belgium, EU Delegation to South Korea, Renmin University of China, Tsinghua University, Peking University , Zhejiang University and Fudan University, among the others.
The workshop was divided into two sessions, with the morning session themed EU and Asia: Inter-regionalism and EU-Asia Cooperation, and the afternoon one The Regionalization of the World: What does It Mean for Asia?
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Cisco-Fudan-Standford Supply Chain Leadership Forum Held at Fudan
The School of Management hosted the 2010’ Cisco-Fudan-Stanford (CFS) Supply Chain Leadership Forum and a ceremony to celebrate the 1st anniversary of CFS Supply Chain Leadership Institute on August 7.
The forum themed on “From Supply Chain Excellence to Supply Chain Leadership” attracted renowned scholars, entrepreneurs and alumni to share up-to-date knowledge and explore the best practice in supply chain management.
CFS program, created by triple forces of Cisco, Fudan School of Management, and Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, is dedicated to cultivating local high-end supply chain talents. Since June of 2009, 4 intakes of participants have completed their study and been granted a graduation certificate jointly by three sides.
Mr. Chengyuan Qi, director-general of High Tech Industry Department in National Development and Reform Commission, and Prof. Xiongwen Lu, dean of school of management, Fudan University attended and made speeches in CSC anniversary ceremony. During the following forum, Stanford Professor Hau L. Lee, Vice President Jeff Gallinat of Cisco’s Global Manufacturing Operations, as well as Vice Chairman and CEO Dr. John Cheh of Esquel Group, delivered speeches on issues such as effect of supply chain management, globalization of supply chain, and trade strategies.
Based at Fudan University, the CFS Supply Chain Leadership Institute is sponsored by Cisco and jointly developed as collaboration between Cisco, Fudan School of Management and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The Institute offers advanced management training to leaders of Chinese companies, with the primary objective of driving thought leadership in supply chain management. This week-long program provides intensive training designed to help participants gain the skills necessary to operate as truly global leaders.
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Scientists Gather at Fudan to Discuss Global Climate Change
Organized by Department of Environmental Science and Engineering of Fudan University, “International symposium on Asian dust/aerosol and its impact on the global climate change” was held on campus from August 8 to 11. 146 scientists from USA, UK, Germany, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Italy etc and the two sides of the straits of China attended this symposium. Distinguished Professor Robert A. Duce of TAMU (Texas A&M University) and Professor Zhisheng An of Fudan University are the chair and co-chair of the scientific committee of this international symposium respectively.
The topics in the symposium included: (1) The mixing and transformation of Asian dust/aerosol over China; (2) The optical properties of Asian dust/aerosol and its impact on regional climate; (3) The role of aerosols in haze formation; (4) The long-range transport of Asian dust/aerosol and its impact on oceanic primary production.
This symposium communicated to the wider community the most recent results and shared the expertise in Asian dust/aerosol and its impact on global climate change, and brought together a diverse group of experts to broaden the interdisciplinary nature of all aspects of Asian dust/aerosol research.
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Cooperation Agreement Signed Between Fudan IAS and Indian Observer Research Foundation
On July 28, 2010, Fudan Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (“IAS-Fudan”) and Observer Research Foundation (“ORF”) of India reached an agreement on “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China and India in relation with Grassroots Democracy and Governance”, which is the first cooperative research project between these two academic institutions. There were warm discussions on the establishment of long-term multi-aspect academic exchanges and research cooperation. Prof. Deng Zheng-lai, head of IAS-Fudan, and Sunjoy Joshi, Chairman of ORF signed the agreement.
The project aims to examine the influence and important role that “innovation” and “entrepreneurship” play in rural economic development, by means of comparative studies on experience and lessons of rural economic development in China and India. Extra emphasis is placed on how they are related to rural grassroots democracy and governance, with regard of local culture, population, geography, and etc, which influence on them deeply in rural economic development. Regional representative and comparable rural areas will be picked for field research and case comparison on the factors mentioned above which affect “innovation” and “entrepreneurship”, general experience and local particularity will be studied, thereby instructive practical policy advice and theoretical general summary will be proposed for both the two countries.
The opportunities and plans were also talked over during the seminar for academic exchange and collaboration on other areas between IAS-Fudan and ORF, who all expected a broad prospect for cooperation.
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Signing Ceremony of Fudan, CUHK and Waseda
On Aug 26, 2010, Fudan University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Waseda University of Japan held an agreement signing ceremony at Fudan Zhangjiang Campus. Fudan President Professor Yang Yuliang, CUHK president Professor Jao-Yiu Sung and Waseda President Professor Shiarai Katsuhiko attended the signing ceremony.
According to the agreement, the undergraduate students of the three universities’ business schools will have the opportunity to study at all three campuses. They can not only experience the life of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo, but also master three languages of Mandarin, English and Japanese.
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American College of Cardiology Established at Zhongshan Hospital
The opening ceremony of American College of Cardiology(ACC) was held at Zhongshan Hospital Affiliating to Fudan University on July 14,2010, marking the most authoritative educational base of heart-disease officially opened at Zhongshan Hospital. Dean Wang Yu-qi of Zhongshan Hospital and Director Ge Junbo of cardiology attended the ceremony.
The educational base is authorized by American Heart Association, the most authoritative organization in the field of cardiovascular, and cooperated by the Chinese Medical Society of Cardiology and the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, supported by Bayer as Sino-US cooperation projects.
Professor Ge Junbo was appointed as ACC’s international consultant of China. He and his colleagues achieved mutual understanding and agreement with CEO and Chairman of ACC on the establishment of Chinese educational base. After the opening ceremony, the first ACC Education Base - Cardiology Symposium was held.
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Fudan Institute of Commercial Real Estate Studies Established in Suzhou
Fudan Institute of Commercial Real Estate Studies, which is under Fudan Center for Real Estate Research was established in Suzhou on August 14. Mr. Li Shaodong, a standing member of Suzhou Municipal CPC and Prof. Yin Bocheng, Director of Fudan Center for Real Estate Research unveiled together the name plate of Fudan Institute of Commercial Real Estate Studies.
On the ceremony, scholars from Fudan University and East China Normal University expressed their views on the macro-economy and the real estate industry development trend in China. The business real estate is an important part of real estate and the establishment of the institute will enhance the connection between the business practice and the academic research.
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Fudan Graduate Students Receive Gold Medal of 7th ALTERA Cup on Electronics Design
Organized by Degree Office of State Council, the National Education Steering Committee on Engineering MA Degree, Chinese Institute of Electronics, hosted by Tsinghua University, and sponsored by ALTERA company, the seventh "ALTERA Cup" on electronic design concluded its final competition at Tsinghua University on August 20, 2010.
Universities including Tsinghua University, Fudan University, as well as those in Taiwan formed 40 college teams, a total of more than 100 students participated in the competition.
Fudan University team members are mainly from the State Key Lab of ASIC and System, including three players, namely Wu Chuan, Bao Dan, and Huang Wei; coaching staffs including Dr. Dai Lin, Associate Professor Yu Zhiyi and Professor Zeng Xiaoyang among the others, and two team leaders, Dr. Dai Lin, and Asso. Prof. Yu Zhiyi. After the written test on August 20 and the live demonstrations of entries, interview and consulting by industry and media representatives on August 21, Fudan team won the gold medal, with Huang Wei winning the second prize for individual, and Zeng Xiaoyang, Yu Zhiyi and Dai Lin awarded the titles of "outstanding instructor".
The team was strongly supported by the State Key Lab of ASIC and System both in hardware and software environment and in funding.
"ALTERA Cup" aims at promoting the development of electronic design technologies in China, increasing the numbers of talents in electronic application and design, thus promoting the development of national information industry.
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Emerging Markets Economics Research Center of Fudan University officially Established
On August 24th, the Emerging Markets Economic Research Center of Fudan University was officially established. More than 50 experts and scholars from Fudan University, Nankai University, Tongji University, Renmin University of China, Xiamen University, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences attended the event and discussed issues of emerging markets economy in the world economy.
Zhuang Qishan, Executive Director of China Society of World Economics and Shanghai Society of World Economics, is appointed Director of the Center. He has taught and studied World Economics for a long time and won many awards for teaching and studying. He has also published many important papers and books, and has been in charge of many research projects.
There are now twenty-six researchers working for the Emerging Markets Economics Research Center, many of whom have participated in important provincial or ministry research projects.
The Center has kept a good cooperation relationship with Columbia University, University of Frankfurt, St. Petersburg University and other foreign universities. On the other hand, it has also cooperated very well with other Chinese research institutes, for example, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences among the others.
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Research on Lithium-ion Battery Published
Recently, Dr. Xia Yongyao and his colleagues from Fudan Institute of New Energies made great breakthrough in the filed of lithium-ion battery research, discovering the major course of poor circulation, the result of which was published in Nature Chemistry (DOI：10.1038//NCHEM.763, August 8, 2010).
Xia’s team has been working on the research of Lithium-ion intercalation compound in the electrolyte solution since 2004. After a number of experiments, they discovered the main reason of battery capacity fading. They found that with the use of NISCON-type LiTi2 and Olive -type LiFePO4, the circulation could be highly enhanced. This research result solved the core problem of this kind of non-pollution battery, which provides the theory guide to the use of lithium-ion battery
Lithium-ion battery is an environment-friendly, highly efficient battery, which is expected to save the energy of wind and solar, supporting short-distance electric bus. However, due to its poor circulation, lithium-ion battery can hardly be used on daily basis. Dr. Xia and his team’s research result provided a new direction for future research.
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Professor Bai Chunxue Invited Editor of Chest
Professor Bai Chunxue from Respiratory Medicine Department of Zhongshan Hospital was invited as editor of American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology in 2008. Recently, he was also invited as editor of Chest, which made him the first Chinese editor of these two journals.
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology was published by American Thoracic Society. In the aspect of respiratory medicine, this journal has great academic influence in cell and molecular biology area. The initial issue of Chest (a clinical journal) was published 75 years ago. Among 40 kinds of Respiratory journals, Chest holds the largest volumes of publication; at the meantime, it is also ranked highly among respiratory medical journals. In year 2009, Chest was awarded as one of the most influential journals of the past century. Professor Bai is also the editorial member of Journal of Epithelial Biology & Pharmacology, Journal of Organ Dysfunction, and Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics.
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Prof. Jin Yaqiu Won IEEE GRSS Education Award
Prof. Jin Yaqiu from Fudan School of Information was awarded The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society (IEEE GRSS) Education Award on July 26 2010, on the opening ceremony of International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii, being the first scientist in China ever won the honor on IGARSS internationally.
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Deng Zhenglai Published in World Social Science Report 2010
World Social Science Report (WSSR) (2010) is officially published this year, which is supported by both UNESCO and ISSC. Westernization of the Chinese Social Science: the Case of Legal Science, written by Director of Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences Prof. Deng Zhenglai was included in the Report.
World Social Science Report is an authorized report analyzing social science development and published once every ten years. It is the first time that WSSR includes a research report written by a Chinese scholar. In addition to the paper from Prof. Deng Zhenglai, another three reports by Chinese scholars were included in the 2010 issue.
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President Yang Yuliang Meets Choi Koon Shum
President Yang Yuliang Meets Choi Koon Shum, who is CPPCC National Committee members, Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, as well as member of Fudan Board of Trustees, on the morning of July 6th.
After the meeting, Choi Koon Shum and the rest of the delegation visited Fudan University History Museum, Choi Koon Shum Auditorium of School of Journalism and Jiang Wan Campus.
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University of Vien Choir Staged at Fudan
On July 7, 2010, University of Vienna Choir with its conductor Mr. Vijay Upadhyaya visited Fudan University and gave more than 450 audiences a concert, organized by Austrian Center Fudan University in cooperation with Fudan Foreign Affairs Office. As one of the most famous university choirs in the world, University of Vienna Choir performed at Fudan University and also at the EXPO. At the concert, various types of songs were sung, such as hymns, American folk songs, art songs and film songs. The Chinese songs presented later drove the concert to a climax. After the concert the entire audience received thanks with warm applause for the impressive performance.
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Visit by The International Social Science Council
On July 26th, Fudan Chancellor Prof. Qin Shaode met with Vice President of The International Social Science Council (ISSC) Prof. Luk Van Langenhove. Prof. Deng Zhenglai, Director of Fudan Institute for Advanced Social Sciences (IAS-Fudan), also attended the meeting. On behalf of respective Institutes, Prof. Deng and Prof. Langenhove signed an agreement on the Host of World Social Science Forum (WSSF) 2012. According to the agreement, the WSSF 2012 will be hosted by Fudan University and organized by IAS.
The International Social Science Council (ISSC) is an international organization that aims to promote social and behavioural sciences. It was founded in 1952, according to the No.10 Resolution (1951) of UNESCO. ISSC's main objective is to promote the understanding of human society in its environment through fostering social and behavioral sciences throughout the world and their applications to contemporary problems. To enhance the cooperation and development among global organizations that represents social and behavioral scientists, ISSC founded WSSF in 2009. In 2009 ISSC and University of Bergen, Norway, co-hosted the first “World Social Science Forum” together. More than 400 famous experts from all over the world attended the Forum and discussed many frontier topics in the social studies field. In November 2009, after two rounds discussion and vote at ISSC, IAS-Fudan won in the competition with Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) of South Africa and will host the second “World Social Science Forum” in 2012. According to the agreement, the topic of the second ISSC is “One Planet, New Orders”. The Forum will be held in the second half of the year at Fudan University. Then there will be more than 1000 experts and scholars from the social studies field attending.
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Visit by University of Cape Town
On July 27, 2010, Prof. Max Price, Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Town, visited Fudan University. Prof. Wang Weiping, Executive Vice President of Fudan University received the delegation accompanied by Prof. Chen Yinzhang, Pro-Vice president of Fudan University. After visiting the campus and watching the university presentation, Prof. Price received a general introduction on the history, campus environment, faculties and schools construction of Fudan University.
Founded in 1829, University of Cape Town is South Africa’s oldest university, as well as one of Africa’s academic research centers. During the conference, Prof. Price and Prof. Wang Weiping discussed the history, current condition and future planning of both universities. Prof. Price took a great interest in statistic of Fudan scientific research achievement and gave some advice for the homepage construction. Both universities hope to establish friendly and cooperative relationship in the future.
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