2014 JI New Student Convocation was held on September 14. The entire ceremony was conducted in English, showing JI’s international characteristics.
2014 JI New Student Convocation Shows JI’s International Color
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JI Welcomes New Students Wholeheartedly
The registration for new SJTU students kicked off at the new gym in the Minhang campus on September 13. The slogan of this year’s welcome team is “serving the new students wholeheartedly.”
"Aspiring to Succeed in the World, with Gratitude and Responsibility"– 2014 JI Commencement
“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.”
JI Receives Jackson and Muriel Lum Endowed Scholarship Fund
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.
JI leads the way in educating socially responsible engineers
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 Student Shows Artwork at National Exhibition
JI senior Yuqing Ying ‘s watercolor painting has been selected to exhibit at Shanghai Art Palace.
JIers Stand out and Shine at SJTU Commencement
The 2014 SJTU Undergraduate Commencement was held at the Minhang Campus on June 29.
SJTU Center for HPC and JI Sign Memorandum of Cooperation
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 a Success
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...
JI’s First Luncheon for Exchange Students Well Appreciated
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 Faculty and Student Publish in Nature Communications
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.
CLT-JI Holds Innovative TA Training Workshop
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.