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| CONFERENCE |
"Forum on WTO Dispute Resolution: China's Experiences" Held at Fudan
The “Forum on WTO Dispute Resolution: China’s Experiences” was successfully held at Fudan University from March 23 to 24, 2012.
High-ranking officials from Ministry of Commerce and renowned experts from a number of Chinese major universities attended the forum and had a heated discussion on various legal issues in dispute resolution cases since China entered WTO a decade ago. This was the second high-level workshop on WTO dispute resolution since the seminar on “The China Year of WTO Dispute Resolution (2009)” hosted by Fudan Law School in March 2010.
The forum was chaired by Prof. Zhang Naigen, Director of Fudan Law School International Law Research Centre. Scholars made key-note presentations on various topics including Challenges in WTO Dispute Resolutions and Responds from Experts, Investigating Criteria of China-related Disputes and Impacts on Domestic Laws, Interpretation of Treaties and Public Policy Issues in China-related Disputes, Lessons from Raw Material Cases and New Challenges, Re-consideration of Intellectual Property Disputes, among others.
| COOPERATION |
School of Law Renews Agreement with Erasmus University Rotterdam
On Mar. 22, Fudan University renewed exchange agreement with Erasmus University Rotterdam. The signing ceremony was held in School of Law. Prof. Hans de Doelder, former Dean of Law School, EUR and Prof. Sun Nanshen, Dean of Fudan School of Law, attended the ceremony. Peter Potman, Consul General of the Netherlands to Shanghai and other people also witnessed the ceremony.
Since 2009, EUR and Fudan have been working together intensively in the field of Law. After 3 years of successful cooperation, there was a desire to extend the range of the exchange.
| EVENT |
Fudan Establishes International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization
On March 9, the unveiling ceremony of the International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (ICSCC) was held at Fudan University. Fudan Chancellor Zhu Zhiwen and Ms. Xu Lin, Director of Office of Chinese Language Council International delivered welcome remarks respectively. Fudan President Yang Yuliang and Ms. Xu Lin unveiled the institute nameplate together. Prof. Michael Friedrich from University of Hamburg, the academic committee member of ICSCC, Prof. Rong Xinjiang as peer representative from Peking University, Deputy Director Ma Jianfei and Fudan Vice President Lin Shangli were also present.
A forum named “Value & Meaning: A Reevaluation on Chinese Civilization” took place on the same day. Fudan President Yang Yuliang delivered a keynote speech titled “The Cultural Mission of University”. Dozens of distinguished scholars from home and abroad attended the forum and carried out deep discussion on Chinese civilization and culture.
Supported by Office of Chinese Language Council International (known colloquially as "Hanban"), an organ of the PRC government which develops Chinese language and culture teaching resources worldwide, ICSCC at Fudan endeavors to build up an international platform for research on Chinese civilization and promote Chinese civilization as well as cross-cultural exchange and dialogue among global academic community.
Fudan Department of Physics Recruits Talents at “March Meeting” Held by American Physical Society
Physicists from all over the world gather in America every spring, to celebrate the annual “March Meeting” held by the American Physical Society. The meeting of 2012 has something different—Fudan University Department of Physics held the talent recruitment during the meeting sessions. With the help of “March Meeting”, the department built a platform of talent recruitment, demonstrating its academic level and ambition to engage prominent talents.
The interview was held in the meeting room on the third floor of Renaissance Waterfront Hotel in Boston, capital city of Massachusetts, at 2:30 p.m. on 29 Feb, 2012 (U.S. local time). Professor SHEN Jian, Director of Department of Physics, presided the meeting, and 12 professors from the department attended this interview. The candidates include Dr. ZHANG Tong from Center for Nano Science and Technology, Dr. NIE Yuefeng from Cornell University, and Dr. Pierre Darancet from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In order to catch the attention of the talents in physics, Department of Physics has published advertisements of recruitment in the journal physics today beforehand. These three candidates were selected from those many applicants. For the candidates’ convenience, Fudan makes efficient use of “March Meeting” to conduct interviews so as to show respect to talents, instead of waiting at home university.
Later in the evening, after the interview was over, a reception was held by Fudan Departemnt of Physics in the ballroom on the third floor in the same hotel. More than 200 Chinese-born physicists from all over the world, alumni of the department, overseas students and international friends attended the event.
Prof. SHEN Jian hosted the reception. He introduced to the guests the latest overseas talent recruitment policies of the department, as well as the national recruitment program of foreign experts. He also explained the plan for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the department this year and the plan for future development. Prof. FENG Donglai and Prof. ZHANG Yuanbo talked about their own experience in the department. Its good momentum of development and the support for introducing talents win the attention of Chinese-born physicists and overseas students. A number of overseas scholars and students had face-to-face consultations and discussions with a dozen of researchers from Fudan, getting a deeper understanding of the research direction of Department of Physics at Fudan University and the specific requirements for the recruitment of talents. They expressed their willingness to work in the department in the future.
A lot of famous Chinese universities have held the talent recruitment at the “March Meeting” up to now. Fudan Department of Physics also attaches great importance to this window of the outreaching and communication, striving to make it an important channel for the recruitment of overseas talents at all levels.
Fudan Ireland Week 2012 and the 5th iShamrock Award Ceremony Held
The opening ceremony of "Fudan Ireland Week 2012" was held at Zhangjiang Campus on March 13, 2012. Together with it was the victory ceremony of the 5th iShamrock Software Competitions Award. Vice President Feng Xiaoyuan, Mr. Austin Gormley, Consul General of Ireland to Shanghai, and some other people attended the ceremony. Dr. Zhu Chouwen, Director of Foreign Affairs Office, presided over the ceremony.
In the speeches, both Mr. Gormley and Vice President Feng Xiaoyuan spoke highly of the achievements between the two sides and expect a closer cooperation in the future. Morgan Stanley (Shanghai) sponsored the competition and received a certificate at the ceremony. During the ceremony, the guests also conferred the prizes on the winning students and teams. The champion of the competition showed his software work afterwards.
At the later part of the victory ceremony, students with traditional Irish costumes performed the step dance, winning a storm of applause.
German Higher Education Day Held at Fudan
German Higher Education Day 2012 was held in the Foreign Affairs Office of Fudan University on march 20, 2012. Aiming at providing an exchange platform for college teachers and students, this year's activity was organized by DAAD Shanghai Information Center and undertaken by representative offices of nine German colleges and other institues. German Higher Education Day had firstly been held at Fudan in 2011.
Participants included the representatives from University of Bremen, Georg-August-University of Goettingen, University of Hamberg, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, University of Konstanz, Technical University of Munich, Hochschule für Angewandte Spra, Goethe Language Study Center and Düsseldorf China Center,etc..
The opening ceremony was chaired by Ms. Liu Li, Deputy Director of Fudan Foreign Affairs Office. Besides extending her warmest welcome and sincerely thanks for the coming of all the participants, she also hoped that students could have a better understanding on the situation of German colleges and its higher education via German Higher Education Day. The representations from above-memtioned German universities were given respectively at an orientation. At the same time, out of the lecture-room, face-to-face communication was carried on between the students and the staff from German universities.
Thomas Willem, President of Shanghai DAAD, expressed his belief in a bright future of better communication and cooperation between DAAD and Fudan.
Ambassador Mei ZhaoRong attends “Ambassador Forum” at Fudan
On Mar.22, Mr. Mei ZhaoRong, former Chinese Ambassador to Germany, former chair of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, and Distinguished Professor of Fudan University, attended and made keynote speech on “Ambassador Forum”, which held by Center for European Studies and Institute of International Studies, Fudan University. This forum was chaired by Prof. Ding Chun, Director of Center for European Studies.
Ambassador Mei focused on 4 aspects: impact and response of West Asia and North Africa, influence of European debt crisis, impact and response of US existence in Asia-Pacific region, and the instability of Chinese neighboring areas.
After the speech, Ambassador Mei had a heated discussion with faculty members and students present.
Fudan University founds the Center for BRICS Studies
March 23 2012, Fudan University held the “Global Gonvernance and the BRICS” international academic conference and the founding ceremony of the Center for BRICS Studies of Fudan University. Sun Zhenyu, the first Chinese Ambassador to WTO and the former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, Yashwant Sinha, India's former Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Professor Yaroslav Kuzminov, President of National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia) delivered speeches respectively. Prof. Lin Shangli, Vice President of Fudan University, attended the conference.
Ambassador Sun Zhenyu pointed out in his speech that the BRICS (China, Russia, India, Southern Africa and Brasil) have become the important power to promote economic globalization and reform international governance structure. The forth meeting of BRICS summit to be held in New Delhi, India will discuss two major issues about global governance and sustainable development, which are the common concern of international community. The BRICS share similar position and concern with regards to a variety of international issues, which is a good basis for cooperation.
Ambassador Sun Zhenyu, Prof. Lin Shangli and Mr. Wang Xinkui, Vice chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee in Shanghai unveiled the plaque to open the Center for BRICS Studies of Fudan University. The Center for BRICS Studies of Fudan University gathered experts from faculties of School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Institute of International Studies, School of Law, School of Economics, School of Management and so on. It is a comprehensive research institute relying on post doctoral programs of Fudan Institute of Development. It is a symbol that the development of International Relations Discipline in Fudan University accelerated momentum toward interdisciplinary research. It has become more closely integrated with China’s foreign strategy formulation and implementation.
Lin Shangli said that Fudan University seeks to establish the University Union of the BRICS to promote cooperation between the BRICS to provide intellectual support and educational training services.
| RESEARCH |
Twelve Fudan Faculty Members Receive NCFPT from Ministry of Education in 2011
"New Century Fund for Prominent Talents” (NCFPT) was established by the Ministry of Education, aiming to support outstanding young academic leaders of colleges and universities to carry out teaching renovation. The applicants from the field of natural sciences should not be older than 40 years of age, the applicants from the field of philosophy and social sciences should not be older than 45 years of age.
There are 20 teachers who applied for the sponsorship for year 2011. After the experts’ review and public notice of the Ministry of Education, the sponsored Fudan faculty members are as follows: Lin Wei from School of Mathematics, Liu Wei-tao from School of Physics, Zhao Hai-bin from School of Information Science and Technology, Qu Xin-ping from School of Information Science and Technology, Wang Xin from School of Computer, Xiong Huanming from School of Chemistry, Fang Xiaosheng from School of Materials, Che Ren-chao from Lab of Advanced Materials, Fu Hongbo from Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Dai Yue from School of Management, Hu Weiguo from Institution of Biology and Medical and Wu Wei from School of Medicine.
A Breakthrough Made by Huashan Hospital in Vitiligo Surgery
On March 6th, 2 skin surgeries aiming at treating patients with vitiligo in a large area named “skin grafting after autologous skin cell cultivation” were carried out by Dermatology Department, Fudan Huashan Hospital. As a national level innovation, this surgery is a great breakthrough in treating vitiligo.
As a chronic skin disease which affects appearance, vitiligo is difficult to cure, and thus requires long-term therapy. Present methods to treat patient with vitiligo, such as autologous epidermal grafting, full-thickness skin grafting, split-thickness skin grafting and microporous grafting, have a high requirement on patient’s skin donor sites. The present surgeries don’t suit those patients who can’t provide sufficient healthy skin. Besides, patients treated by traditional ways have to endure several successive operations and suffer uneven skin color after grafting.
Cooperating with Japanese National Research Institute for Child Health and Development, Dermatology Department of Huashan Hospital initiated clinical and laboratorial researches which focus on using skin grafting after autologous skin cell cultivation to treat patients with stable vitiligo. Study shows that relative small healthy skin can be used to treat large white skin patch without causing rejection. Compared with traditional methods, the clinical application of co-cultivating keratinocyte and melancyte in forming epidermal slices can achieve better effects and have better prospects. This new method of skin grafting brings hope for numerous patients with vitiligo.
A New Fudan Finding: Cell Transplantation Brings Hope for Curing HD
After five years of research, Ma Lixiang, a young faculty member from Fudan University Shanghai Medical School found that Huntington’s disease (HD) may be treated through cell transplantation. The result of the research was published on Cell Stem Cell recently.
Degeneration of medium spiny GABA neurons in the basal ganglia underlies motor dysfunction in Huntington’s disease (HD) which presently lacks effective therapy. In this study, Ma Lixiang successfully directed human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to enriched populations of DARPP32-expressing forebrain GABA neurons. Transplantation of these human forebrain GABA neurons and their progenitors, but not spinal GABA cells, into the striatum of quinolinic acid-lesioned mice results in generation of large populations of DARPP32+ GABA neurons, which project to the substantia nigra as well as receiving glutamatergic and dopaminergic inputs, corresponding to correction of motor deficits. This finding raises hopes for cell therapy for HD.
China’s Multi-Volume Works on Western Historiography Firstly Published by Fudan
On March 17，a new book release on 6-volume General History of Western historiography, chief-edited by Fudan Prof. Zhang Guangzhi, was held at Fudan University. Fudan President Yang Yuliang addressed on the book release and appreciated the significance in publishing such a great work. Prof. Zhang Guangzhi and Fudan University Press CEO Mr. He Shengsui also introduced how this works came into birth.
Classified as one of the key books to publish in “The Eleventh Five -Year” by General Administration of Press and Publication of the P.R.C.，the General History of Western historiography is the first multi-volume works on history of western historiography by scholars from Chinese mainland. It took eight years to finish this great work under the financial support by National Press Foundation. The emergence of this book is epected to contribute to China’s study on history of western historiography.
| SCHOLAR |
Academician ZHOU Liangfu Awarded the Honorary Title of “Shanghai Meritorious Worker in Technology”
Organized by Committee of Shanghai Science and Technology and approved by Shanghai Municipal Government, Shanghai Science and Technology Meritorious Worker Prize is the most prestigious award in the field of science and technology. Science and Technology Awarding Conference 2011 was held on the morning of March 30, prof. ZHOU Liangfu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, won the honorary title of Shanghai Meritorious Worker in Technology.
Academician ZHOU is one of the leading scientists in the field of domestic neurosurgery, serving as Vice Chairman of Neurosurgery Branch of Chinese Medical Association, Chairman of Asian Society for Neuro-Oncology and Director of Neurosurgery Department, Fudan Huashan Hospital. There are three milestones in the development of neurosurgery: Micro-neurosurgery started from 1960’ rendered the naked eye operation development into micro, Skull base neurosurgery started from 1970s’ made surgery on skull feasible, minimally invasive neurosurgery started from the beginning of 21st century made great contribution in reserving nerve function after surgery. Academician ZHOU went through all these stages, devoting himself to the innovations of neurosurgery and greatly pushed the development of neurosurgery in China.
Academician ZHOU made many contributions: firstly, he is the first person in the world who suggested that microsurgery could be used in the resection of aneurysm, making aneurysm a disease curable; secondly, he solved the problem of resecting cranial base tumors through epidural entry and this surgical method was evaluated by international authority as one of the most delicate surgeries in the world; thirdly, he is the first person in the world who developed the surgical method of using navigational technology to instruct the operation by integrating the normal MRI of brain tumor and MRI which demonstrates the structure of brain.
Till now, Academician ZHOU has published 134 SCI papers and 452 papers written in Chinese, some of which were collected in international journals, such as Neurosurgery, J Neurosurgery，Surgical Neurology, the top three ones in the field of neurosurgery. He finished 7 monographs, among which Modern neurological surgery won the first place in the 11th National Excellent Sci-Tech Book Prize. He also won The National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology for 3 times and 17 provincial or ministerial level awards. He also won Chinese Physician Award、National Labor Medal and Shanghai Highest Medical Honor Award. During his 47-year surgical career, Academician ZHOU Liangfu has never stopped exploring in his field. He devoted himself to the innovation of neurosurgery, and helps promoting Huashan Hospital Department of Neurosurgery to one of the best neurosurgical centers in the world.
| VISITOR |
Visit by Consul General of Greece to Shanghai
On March 2, Dr. Evgenios Dimitrios KALPYRIS, Consul General of Greece to Shanghai, visited Fudan University and was warmly welcomed by Vice President Feng Xiaoyuan. Together with Prof. Wang Xinsheng, Vice Dean of School of Philosophy and Prof. Zhang Wei from Department of History, VP Feng and Dr. KALPYRIS had a warm and friendly discussion on the various possibilities for cooperation between Fudan and Greek universities, in the areas of history, philosophy, China studies, international relations and others. Particularly, Dr. KALPYRIS expressed his wish to share his expertise in EU common security and defense policy with Fudan colleagues and students. The proposal was highly appreciated and welcomed by VP Feng.
Together with Dr. KALPYRIS were Mr. Euthymios Athanasiadis, Director of Press and Communication Office, and Mr. Petros Kelaiditis, Administrative Assistant from the Greek Consulate.
Provost of University of Notre Dame Visits Fudan
On the afternoon of Mar. 14, Prof. Thomas Burish, Provost of University of Notre Dame, together with Prof. Roger Huang, Interim Dean of Mendoza College of Business, Dr. Jonathan Noble, Assistant Provost for Internationalization and Mr. George Keegan, Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, visited Fudan University. Prof. LU Fang, Vice President of Fudan University, Dr. ZHU Chouwen, Director of Foreign Affairs Office and some other professors and administrators attended the meeting.
University of Notre Dame is a partnership university of Fudan. Both universities are looking forward to further and deeper cooperation. During the meeting, Prof. LU expressed warm welcome to the delegation from USA, introducing the development of Internationalization at Fudan University. Representatives from School of Information Technology and School of Management introduced the cooperative programs they are interested in regarding international cooperation, as well as the on-going programs. Representatives from Foreign Affairs Office encourage more cooperation on the stage of MOU between two universities.
At the end of the meeting, Prof. LU Fang and Provost Thomas Burish signed the MOU between the two universities.
President of University of North Carolina Visits Fudan University
On Mar. 19, Prof. Thomas Ross, President of University North Carolina, visited Fudan University. President YANG Yuliang met the delegation. The purpose of the visit was to enhance the influence of UNC liaison office at Fudan University, in order to ecourange the cooperation between UNC and universities in China.
UNC is a system in which there are 16 4-year public universities. Fudan University has established a cooperative relationship with UNC for more than ten years. In 1995, Fudan University started a student exchange program, “Holland Fellows Program” with Appalachian State University, a prestigious program for business students between two universities. In 2004, a faculty exchange program was started.
Irish Minister for Training and Skills Visited Fudan
On March 19, Ciarán Cannon, Irish Minister for Training and Skills, visited Fudan. Vice President Feng Xiaoyuan received the Minister and introduced the iShamrock Software Competition co-hosted by Fudan and University College Dublin. Minister Cannon spoke highly of the consistent cooperation between the two universities in the area of computer software and expect further communication with Irish universities.
By the agreement signed with UCD in December of 2002, School of Software and UCD started the joint program of software engineering. Every year, 50 first year students enter the program, trained by the curriculum jointed designed by two parties and graduate with degrees from both sides. Since 2007 with the support of Irish Consulate to Shanghai, Fudan and UCD co-hosted iShamrock Software Competition in order to motivate the students to have more innovative thinking and practice.
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