NEWSLETTER

Sichuan University
NEWSLETTER
Summer 2012
The Sichuan University newsletter is
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CONTENTS
02 Spotlight
9 th World Biomaterials Congress Opens ..............................................................................02
CCS 28 th Annual Meeting and 80 th Anniversary Celebration held in SCU ........................04
Swedish Ambassador to China Visits SCU ..........................................................................05
Professor Ada Yonath, Nobel Chemistry Prize Laureate Visits SCU ...................................06
Professor Jack Szostak, Nobel Physiology or Medicine Laureate Speaks
at Sichuan University ............................................................................................................07
08 Feature
Professor Max Dohmann ......................................................................................................08
12 Visits
Executive Vice-President of Boston University Visits SCU ..................................................12
ASU Vice-President Visits SCU .............................................................................................13
DCM of the Embassy of the Republic of Malawi Visits SCU ..............................................13
Harvard University Professor Gives Presentation to SCU Students ...................................14
University of Illinois Professor David M. Ceperleya, member of National Academy
of Sciences, Visits SCU ..........................................................................................................15
Professor Ole Blok Fejerskov, World-Renowned Expert on Dental Caries Research,
Receives Honorary Professorship at SCU .............................................................................15
16 Out Reach
SCU Delegation Visits Japan ................................................................................................16
SCU Delegation Visits Five Renowned American Universities ...........................................17
SCU-UMass Joint Forum Successfully Opens in America ...................................................17
20 Acdemic
Professor Feng Xiaoming’s Research Project Wins 2011 Top 10 Science and
Technology Progress Awards for Chinese Universities .......................................................20
NPG and West China School of Stomatology Co-Publishes IJOS ..................................... 21
The Tomato Genome Sequence Provides Insights into Fleshy Fruit Evolution .................22
23 Cooperation
SCU and University of Pittsburgh Sign Cooperation Memorandum and Contract ..........23
University of Central Lancashire Signed a Cooperation Framework
Agreement With SCU ............................................................................................................23
Canada-China Distance Learning Project for Primary-Care General
Practitioner Kicks off ............................................................................................................24
China Stomatology Museum Signs Cooperation Agreement with the Museum
of Dentistry and Medicine, Nippon Dental University .......................................................25
SCU Signs Cooperation Agreement with Feng Chia University ........................................26
Chengdu American Center for Study Abroad Set up in Sichuan University......................26
27 Conferences
2 nd International Conference on Frontiers of Plasmonics Held in SCU ...........................27
Bradford RCUK Science Bridges China: 2 nd Research Workshop on Advanced
Materials for Healthcare and Inauguration Ceremony of UK-China Advanced
Materials Research Institute held at SCU .............................................................................28
SCU Hosts 8 th Cross-Taiwan Straits Symposium on Public Administration .....................29
SCU Hosts 2012 Cross Strait Symposium on Confucianism ............................................29
30 Study Abroad
SCU Young Teachers’ Overseas Training and International Exchange Program
held at ASU ............................................................................................................................30
Young MD from the No. 2 Hospital of SCU Attends High Level Forum in Brussels .......30
31 Brief News
33 Campus
2012 SCU-Hokkaido University Exchange Day Celebrated in SCU ...................................33
Jazz Lab Ensemble, Ball State University Performs at SCU .................................................35
SCU Holds 3 rd International Cup for International Students in Medical School .............35