“Today, you are walking out of the JI to make an impact on the world. Regardless of the route you will pursue, I believe you will walk far and succeed, because JI has prepared you well.”
On June 28, the Joint Institute received a wonderful gift from Mr. Jackson Lum (林積順) and his wife, Muriel Lum (趙妙霞), who have donated $1,000,000 to the University of Michigan and established the Jackson and Muriel Lum Endowed Scholarship Fund.
On June 14, 2014, JI sophomore Guangyu Zhang presented “Orienting Engineering Ethics in terms of China: Curricula Shortcomings and Case Studies on China,” a paper co-authored with Dr. Rockwell Clancy, at the American Society of Engineering Education 2014 International Forum.
JI senior Yuqing Ying ‘s watercolor painting has been selected to exhibit at Shanghai Art Palace.
The 2014 SJTU Undergraduate Commencement was held at the Minhang Campus on June 29.
On June 30th, the SJTU Center for High Performance Computing and the UM-SJTU Joint Institute signed a memorandum of cooperation. Xinwan Li, JI’s Associate Dean for Research, and Yizhong Gu, Director of SJTU Center for HPC, signed the memorandum, witnessed by...
2014 JI Graduate Student Congress was held at JI on June 17. Prof. Olivier Bauchau, JI Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Chair of Graduate Committee, QQ Wu, Student Affairs Manager, Wentao Qian, Student Counselor, as well as graduate student officers and...
To encourage the interaction between JI faculty and summer exchange students, a luncheon was held at the SJTU Cultural Exchange Center on May 29.
JI Associate Professor Benjamin Yellen and his team have recently published a paper titled Magnetophoretic circuits for digital control of single particles and cells on Nature Communications, the prestigious American scientific journal.
Forty-three teaching assistants for the 2014 summer semester attended an innovative training workshop sponsored by the JI Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT-JI) on May 17.
The 2014 SJTU Freshman Mechanical Innovation Competition sponsored by Liugong Group was held at the School of Mechanical Engineering on May 16. Among the 8 finalists, JI’s freshman class F1337201 won the second prize and class F1337202 won the fourth prize. The...
During the 15th JI board meeting held on May 8th, all board members of SJTU and University of Michigan voted unanimously for the proposal to establish the program of Materials Science and Engineering at JI. Detailed plan of the program will be submitted to the...
