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Hassenfeld Fund<br />

Will Let Students<br />

Work With Local<br />

Communities on<br />

Social <strong>Issue</strong>s<br />

This year, Hopkins-<br />

Nanjing Center students<br />

have an opportunity that<br />

no other students have<br />

enjoyed in the center’s<br />

25-year history. Thanks<br />

to the generosity and vision of the<br />

Hassenfeld Family Foundation—a<br />

stalwart supporter of the center<br />

over the years—the HNC has created<br />

the Hassenfeld Social Enterprise<br />

Fund to allow students to<br />

apply their knowledge to solving<br />

problems.<br />

Taking the collaborative spirit<br />

of the HNC to new heights, the<br />

fund will enable mixed teams of<br />

Chinese and international students<br />

to devise and implement innovative<br />

solutions to difficult issues.<br />

The competition selection<br />

committee, which will reveal the<br />

winning project in early 2012,<br />

included students, faculty and<br />

alumni—all equally distributed<br />

between Chinese and international<br />

participants. The committee<br />

chose the project with the greatest<br />

potential and best plan for continuing<br />

the impact of the project<br />

beyond the two-year timeline. All<br />

students are eligible to build teams<br />

and apply. Year one of the program<br />

may focus less on social entrepreneurship<br />

and more on creating<br />

ways to spread the HNC’s accomplishments<br />

to a larger audience.<br />

The Hassenfeld family has<br />

funded the venture through an<br />

endowment gift that will make it<br />

a permanent feature of the HNC<br />

experience.<br />

The HNC community is watching<br />

with great anticipation as the<br />

fund takes shape and leads the<br />

center into exciting, uncharted<br />

waters.<br />

—Jason D. Patent<br />

Academic Life at the<br />

Hopkins-Nanjing Center<br />

Students at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center enroll in the two-year master of<br />

arts in International Studies or the one-year, graduate-level certificate<br />

program in Chinese and American Studies. Eight distinguished professors<br />

from the U.S., U.K. and Israel join the Nanjing University faculty<br />

in challenging Chinese, American and international students to explore<br />

issues in international relations; comparative politics; economic systems;<br />

Chinese, American and international law; and the modern histories and contemporary<br />

societies of China and the United States.<br />

An elective mini-course series brings expert<br />

practitioners to the center to teach in specialty<br />

subject areas. Mini-courses this past year<br />

included Urbanization in China taught by Toby<br />

Lincoln, lecturer in modern Chinese urban<br />

history at the University of Leicester; Alternative<br />

Vision in American Cinema taught by Paula<br />

Rabinowitz, visiting Fulbright Distinguished<br />

Lecturer in American culture and professor of<br />

English at the University of Minnesota; and<br />

Chinese Labor in Its Domestic and International<br />

Context taught by Seth Gurgel, New York<br />

University law professor.<br />

Faculty and students engaged in a variety<br />

of extracurricular activities. The 2010-11<br />

academic year began with the Jessup International<br />

Law Moot Court Competition team’s regular<br />

practices for their competition. In February 2011, the team went to Jinan for<br />

the Chinese national competition, where they placed sixth against the best teams<br />

in China. All four of the HNC team oralists finished in the top 15 competitors individually,<br />

with first place taken by the center’s own Stanley Seiden N’11.<br />

The HNC dragon boat team began practice in the spring for the annual Duanwu<br />

Festival in June. Their efforts resulted in a third-place win for all of Nanjing before<br />

an audience that included Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley.<br />

2011–2012 71

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