A strategic cooperation memorandum between our school and Colorado State University, USA was signed by our President Dr. Yu Lizhong and President of Colorado State University Dr. Anthony Frank on behalf of the two schools respectively in the signing ceremony held on November 24th. The 7-member delegation headed by Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. attended the ceremony and visited ECNU.
The visit of the delegation aims at signing the operational agreement between two schools on the cooperation in the related disciplines in order to further promote interdisciplinary academic exchanges. The contents of the agreement include: teacher exchange and research cooperation in the fields such as sustainable development of global environment, geosciences and remote sensing, contact-type sensing and information engineering, education, clean energy, etc; opening of the Business Management online courses offered by CSU to our students; undergraduate and graduate students exchanges; establishing an office in our school in order to strengthen the partnership between two schools. Colorado State University showed special interest in the related disciplines offered by Dept. of Education, Dept. of Biology, School of Business, Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Science, Dept. of Geography etc.
Our university is regarded as the most important partner of Coronado State University in international cooperation. The members of the visiting delegation of CSU include: Dr. Anthony Frank, President of CSU and Prof. of pathology, Dr. James Cooney, Associate Provost and Prof. of Dept. of Politics, Dr. Peter Dorhout, Vice Provost of Graduate School and Prof. of Dept. of Chemistry, Dr. Ajay Menon. Dean of Business and Prof. of Dept. of Marketing, Dr. Wei Gao, Chief of China Region Exchange Programs, SR Researcher of Natural Resource Ecology Lab and Director of USDA UV‐B Monitoring and Research Program.
The same day the delegation visited our Life Medicine Research Centre and State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscope, etc. During the visit, an unveiling ceremony of CSU’s Office in ECNU was also held in our International Education Centre. It is reported that, on November 26th, our Vice President Zhuang Huiming presided over an appointing-ceremony for Prof. James Cooney, Vice President of CSU in charge of foreign affairs, to appoint him as Honorary Professor of International Relations.
Signing Ceremony
Our President Yu Lizhong (Left) and President of Colorado State University Anthony Frank（Right）signed memorandums on strategic cooperation
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, Jr. attended the ceremony and made a speech
Group photo of the representatives present
Unveiling ceremony of Colorado State University Office in East China Normal University
