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Recent MSU-China highlights

• In spring 2006, the university announced the opening of the MSU China Office in Beijing. The office will serve as a gateway for MSU China efforts, including developing more joint education and joint research programs, facilitating technology transfer and consulting services, assisting the MSU Office of Admissions in recruiting of undergraduate students from China, and working with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation office in Shanghai to promote Michigan business interests in China and Chinese investment in Michigan. Additional information on the office and current MSU-China connections – which include a turf grass management program, food safety research and a children’s art exchange program – is available here. *(PDF)

• In June 2005, MSU fisheries and wildlife professor Jack Liu collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning geographer Jared Diamond to outline the risks associated with China’s ever-growing environmental footprint. Their article, which appeared on the cover of the prestigious journal “Nature,” made the case that developed nations must take a more active role – with policy, with aid and through business – to assist and support developing countries such as China and recognize that the only real borders are drawn on paper. Additional information and high resolution photos about Liu’s China research are available here.

• In May 2005, MSU and a major Chinese manufacturer of electric railway locomotive engines have entered into an agreement to create the ZELRI-MSU Power Research Center. The initiative is part of MSU’s efforts to create synergy between its international research collaborations and the economic development of mid-Michigan. Additional information is available here.

• In a November 2004 ceremony in Beijing, then-MSU President Designate Lou Anna K. Simon and other MSU officials renewed an agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences to foster cooperation between the two institutions in education and research. Additional information is available here. *(PDF)

• In January 2004, the Hong Kong-based Sun Wah Education Foundation today donated $5 million to MSU to fund a joint center between U.S. and Chinese scholars for the study of effective K-12 schools. As part of the collaboration, the center is supporting a pilot bilingual, bicultural preschool in Beijing. A similar concept today is being explored in the Lansing area. Additional information is available here.

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