A Letter to Overseas JI Students

A Letter to Overseas JI Students

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly become a public health crisis around the world. It happened so suddenly and so violently that every aspect of our lives, our study and our work, has been significantly disrupted. Every day, we are overwhelmed by the high number of new confirmed cases,the huge amount of information circulated online and offline, and the widespread concern and fear.

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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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