Professor K.T. Tim Cheng, Associate Vice-President for research of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), visited the UCAS Zhongguancun Campus on 19 January, 2015. UCAS Vice President Prof. Wu Yueliang, accompanied by Prof. Xue Suijian, Vice Director of the National Astronomical Observatories of CAS, met with Professor Cheng.
Expressing a welcome toProf. Cheng, Prof. Wu introduced the functions of CAS in research and education and the university-institute’s fusion on leadership, faculty, management and cultivating system as well as the “two-phase” cultivation mode of UCAS. He also described the historical development, present status and international cooperation programs of UCAS, emphasizing the Sino-Danish Center Program and the status of undergraduate recruitment and education. He hoped that student exchange programs would be initiated between the two universities, so as to boostan all-around cooperation in research and education.
Prof. Cheng expressed his appreciation for the hospitality shown by UCAS, and said that he was impressed by the broad range of research fields and outstanding research achievements of UCAS. He said that UCSB was willing to cooperate with such prestigious, highly selective, research-oriented universities as UCAS, and had established cooperation with several CAS institutes. He hoped that his visit would deepen mutual understanding and open the path for further cooperation. Both universities agreed to encourage mobility of faculty and students as well as establish cooperation on research and education. The cooperation will initially focus on such prominent academic areas as Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science.
Both universities would sign the Memorandum of Understanding and the Agreementon Graduate Student Exchangerecently and build the cooperation platform. UCAS undergraduates’ studying abroad program was also discussed in the talk.
On Dec. 16, 2014, UCAS President Ding Zhongli met with Prof. Henry T. Yang, Chancellor of UCSB at the UCAS Yuquanlu Campus. Both sides agreed to establish cooperation between the two universities.
UCSB is a top public research universityand one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system.Current UCSB faculty has received several prestigious awards, including six Nobel Prizesand a Fields Medal. It was ranked 37th worldwide by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in 2014. In the United States National Research Council rankings of graduate programs, 10 UCSB departments are ranked in the top ten in USA, such as Materials (No. 1 ), Mechanical Engineering (No.2) and Chemical Engineering (No. 8) and more.
Written by Li Wenxuan
