The Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Fellowships in Asian Studies Fellowship Applications open in August 2024! About the Fellowships It is important for America to continue to train future leaders with strong expertise in Asia. To mark its 35th anniversary, the F.Y. Chang Foundation launched the Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Fellowships in Asian Studies with the support…
The US-China Education Trust, in cooperation with Tsinghua University and George Washington University, has completed our new projects to bring American and Chinese students together. These projects worked on areas where US-China cooperation is urgently needed in an era of competition and tension between the two countries. Students Finding Common Ground—US China Collaborative Projects in…
In a recent visit to NYU Shanghai, China, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored the critical role of student exchange programs in strengthening relations between the United States and China. His emphasis on student exchange programs being the “best way” to enhance US-China relations resonates deeply with the core mission of the US-China Education…
Note from President Madelyn Ross May is a season of transitions, with graduations, celebrations, and students starting summer jobs and new careers. This May is also a time of transition at the US-China Education Trust, as I prepare to step down as USCET’s president in June. It is now 45 years since my own graduation from college,…
Below are updates from our four student group projects as of mid April 2024! Final project presentations will be posted in summer 2024. ————— Common Ground Education Group Update The Common Ground Education Group has recently achieved two main objectives. First, we have been conducting interviews with American students studying in China. To date, we…
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT STUDENTS Caroline Bland, a senior at George Washington University, is majoring in International Affairs with a focus on Asia. She’s active in extracurriculars like the Model UN team, District K dance team, and GW THiNK. Caroline also has experience working as an executive assistant at a nonprofit in New Orleans. Her academic…
The F.Y. Chang Foundation/US-China Education Trust launched an online mentorship program for the inaugural 2023 cohort of the Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch Fellows in Asian Studies on Monday, March 25th. These fellowships aim to nurture the next generation of Asian specialists and leaders in the United States through fostering student research on Asia, with an…
In 1979, Madelyn Ross became one of the first American students to study in China. She shares memories from that trip, and how it’s shaped her decades-long passion for educational exchange between the two countries. This material is distributed by MediaLinks TV, LLC on behalf of CCTV. Additional information is available at the Department of…
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT GROUP MENTORS BIN Hu is an Associate Research Fellow and Director of Research on global climate governance at the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development of Tsinghua University. His main research fields include global climate governance, and environmental and resource economics. His articles have been published widely on the economics of…
The Berger Memorial Fellowship was created to honor the life and legacy of the late Honorable Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton, who was committed to balancing competition with collaboration between the United States and China, even when obstacles seemed insurmountable. Two students from the School of International Studies (SIS)at Peking University…
