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Symposium on “Academic Journals and
The international symposium on “Academic Journals and China Studies Towards the World” was held at Fudan University from July 4 to 5, which was jointly sponsored by Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Science(Fudan-IAS), Fudan Journal of the Humanities Social Sciences and ISSC-UNESCO.
More than 30 representatives including leaders from ISSC-UNESCO, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Peking University, People’s University of China, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Fudan University, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Critical Asian Studies, Chinese Sociology and Anthropology, China Quarterly, Chinese Journal of International Law，The Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Fudan Journal of the Humanities Social Sciences, the editor-in-chief of SSCI, and renowned scholars participated in the symposium.
Vice Chairman of
The seminar lasted one day and a half with keynote speeches in with 5 topics, namely “The Role of Academic Journals in Social Sciences”, “Academic Journals and Introduction of Chinese Academic Achievements to the World”, “Academic Journals and Indexing Services”, “Chinese Academic Journals towards the World” and “China Studies and Global Forum of Academic Journals”.
After the opening ceremony, Prof. Gudmund Hernes, President of ISSC-UNESCO, gave a lecture on “The State of China and the State of the Art”.
2009
On July 18, 2009 International Forum on Management Science was unveiled at
Former Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, Vice President of Management Award Foundation of
Under the theme of “Beyond the Crisis: the Development of Management Science in
The Fudan Forum of Management Science has been contributed to enhancing the cooperation and exchange among Chinese scholars and overseas experts, to searching for the future development tendency of Chinese Management Science, and to serving for the national economic and social development.
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Pfizer - Fudan Joint Training Project Launched
The contract signing ceremony of "clinical data management and statistical programming graduate project", which is a joint training project between
This project will serve graduate students in three-year professional master degree for joint training, aiming to nurture high-quality clinical research professionals to the rapidly developing field of biomedical. The first session will be held in September 2009.
Experts from Fudan School of Pharmacy and Pfizer Global R & D network will join the training project.
Professor Zhu Yizhun, Fudan Pharmacy School Dean, and Dr. Tan Lingshi signed a cooperation agreement on behalf of
The Summer Session” American Studies
This program provided over 30 hours of lectures on a wide range of topics, such as American history, politics, economics, culture, media, art, international trade and foreign policy.
The participants also had chances to visit
A variety of activities were planned for the program, including rowing, movies, family visits and visits to the
According to the requirements of the program, the students were required to submit a final paper on certain aspects of the States as their research result.
It is expected that “American Studies
Nordic Centre Summer Course
Over 70 Nordic students from all five Nordic countries attended this year’s three-week summer course “Introduction to Modern China” at the
It is the 10th year that the course has been organized. Like in previous years, the course was highly appreciated by the students. “The whole course was enlightening!” “The course is great! I could hardly expect more than what I have got here during the previous three weeks.” wrote some of the participants on the evaluation sheets.
2009 Fudan-UNINET EU Summer School
From July 4 to 26 2009, 43 Fudan students attended EU Summer School that was jointly organized by UNINET and
The aim of the program was to provide the participating students with first-hand knowledge about European culture, economy, politics, literature and arts, with a special focus on the organization and function of the European Union.
The summer school attendees visited
Fudan-at-Yale Summer Session 2009
Fudan-at-Yale summer session gives the students a great opportunity to experience American education at a prestigious institution. The summer session features a challenging curriculum and schedules time to experience campus life, which exposes students not only to international cultural identity, but also American humanity and Yale tradition. The summer session lasted for six consecutive weeks. From Monday to Friday, the students spent at least 20 hours for in-class lecture and seminar per week, with required courses in the morning and elective courses in the afternoon. The study topics include various aspects of American life, such as urban life, social class, gender study, education and religion. The coursework adopts fictional and non-fictional reading materials to help the participants acquire proficiency in approaching issues concerning politics, economics, the environment, etc.
Georgetown University Summer Session
Georgetown University Summer Session is held each year and in 2009 for the first time a group of 31 Fudan students from a wide range of majors attended the Summer Session on campus. They were accepted as Fudan honored group and mixed with local students in class.
Georgetown University Summer Session lasted for 5 weeks from July 6 to August 8, 2009. The summer session is lectured by
Besides academic courses, Fudan participants also had chances to visit baseball games, Alexander the old town and some places of interests in
Georgetown University Summer Session is highlights with class experience in U.S and activities embracing all-round American cultures, which enriches Fudan students’ life experience and deepens the understanding of
On the afternoon of Aug.29, the launching ceremony of
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Fudan University Research Institute of Brain Science and the Medical Research Group led by Professor Ma Lan of School of Medicine jointly found that intracellular G protein-coupled receptor encyme GRK2 can affect the early development of zebrafish embryos by regulating cell cycle proteins.
This new discovery reveals that GRK plays an essential role in the regulation of receptor signaling and embryo development; besides, GRK has a new feature that is non-dependent protein enzyme. The discovery, which lays the foundation for the further study in the mechanism that GRK involves in human embryo development, has been published in the latest issue of the International first-class magazine, "US National Academy of Sciences".
Professor Ma Lan is engaged in molecular neuro-pharmacology research work for many years. He found signal transduction of opioid receptor and new access to the role of opioids. Her research papers were published in Cell and other international journals and once received National Natural Science Award of China.
Prof. Ge Zhaoguang Appointed
Word came recently that Prof. Ge Zhaoguang from National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at
Princeton Global Scholars Program （from the website of Princeton University）
The Global Scholars Program enables the University to recruit stellar scholars from outside the United States into recurring, multi-year teaching appointments at Princeton in all disciplines and regional studies programs. The scholars are incorporated into departments’ and programs’ curricula and events, and engage in scholarly exchange with
Two Fudan Foreign Faculty Receive
Two Fudan foreign faculty members from Zhong Shan Hospital Affiliated to
Prof. Björn Jonson is the original constructor of the ServoVentilator, which triggered a revolution in respiratory intensive care starting in the early 1970s. He has been the head of Department of Physiology at
Dr. Friedman has performed pioneering research into the underlying causes of scarring, or fibrosis associated with chronic liver disease, which affects millions worldwide. Dr. Friedman was the first to isolate and characterize the hepatic stellate cell, which is the key cell type responsible for scar production in liver. Dr. Friedman has made great contribution to the academic exchange between
Prof. Bai Xuechun Named in Who’s Who at ATS
Xuechun Bai, M.D., Ph.D. and professor of Zhongshan Hospital Affiliating to
The ATS is committed to disseminating the latest advances, nationally and internationally, in the fields of lung disease, sleep disorders and critical care medicine. The annual International Conference has become the premier, international forum for physicians and scientists who work in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. The ATS called Dr. Xuechun Bai as “a clinical doctor, teacher and scientist focus on innovation” and highly compliment his outstanding achievement on respiratory diseases. He established the
The European Respiratory Society (ERS) aims to alleviate suffering from respiratory disease and to promote lung health through research, knowledge sharing, medical and public education with members in over 100 countries and regions. The papers by
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On August 24, a delegation from
During the visit, the delegation received presentations of Nordic Centre at
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