2020 Winter Program Best Wechat Blog and Picture Contest opens today!

2020 Winter Program Best Wechat Blog and Picture Contest opens today!

Bloggers at each team has provided 67 wonderful posts recording the teams daily life during the programs. To be reviewed by a committee of JI Staff, Faculty and Students, this award will be given to 5 blogs, including the “Best Blog” and the ones with “Best Cover Picture”, “Best Writing”, “Best Photograph” and “Best Page Organization”.

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318 Winter Program students all returned safe and sound!

318 Winter Program students all returned safe and sound!

With the last group of students landed in Shanghai Pudong Airport at 3pm, February 23, 2020 from Kyoto, a day before the previously scheduled registration day of JI’s 2020 Spring Term, all the 318 students participating the 2020 Winter programs have all returned to China after a 56-days journey in 12 different countries, 15 programs worldwide.

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Fight against the NCP | Useful information for JIers in China

Fight against the NCP | Useful information for JIers in China

Since the novel coronavirus outbreak in China weeks ago, all-out efforts have been made under the leadership of the Chinese governments at different levels to curb the spread of the disease, now officially called the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) or abbreviated as “2019-nCoV” in newscoverage outside China.

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JI faculty members take second place at SJTU teaching competition

JI faculty members take second place at SJTU teaching competition

Associate Teaching Professor Rockwell Clancy and Assistant Teaching Professor Ryan Thorpe of the University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI) won the second prize of a university-level teaching competition on December 11 in the category of Foreign Language Teaching.

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First 2020 Winter Program team left to Tallinn Estonia!

First 2020 Winter Program team left to Tallinn Estonia!

After almost 2 months of preparation, the first 2020 Winter program team took off from Shanghai Pudong Airport this morning and they are going to Tallinn, Estonia for one of the new programs that has been offered to the JI students this year!

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JI holds the sixth Development Advisory Board meeting

JI holds the sixth Development Advisory Board meeting

The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (JI) held the sixth meeting of its Development Advisory Board (DAB) on November 16 at Long Bin Building. JI Honorary Dean Jun Ni, Dean Peisen Huang, Party Secretary and Associate Dean for Research Ming Yang, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Chien-Pin Chen

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JI holds 2019 Thank You Day

JI holds 2019 Thank You Day

The University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute (UM-SJTU JI, JI hereafter) held the 2019 Thank You Day event at Long Bin Building on November 16, in a bid to express gratitude to all people who have provided continuous support for the development of JI.

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