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News Release 09-073
NSF and People's Republic of China Extend China's Participation in East Asian Pacific Summer Institute Program
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NSF Director Arden L. Bement, Jr., shares a light-hearted moment with Liu Yandong, state councilor for science, technology, education, sport and culture for the People's Republic of China after the signing of a formal agreement to renew the U.S.-China Cooperative Arrangement for NSF's Summer Institute in China Program. This agreement enables the continuation of China's participation in NSF's East Asian Pacific Institute (EAPSI) program. EAPSI introduces U.S. graduate students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting in host laboratories in China, Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore or Taiwan, to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts.
Credit: Jim Crawford, NSF
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As school lets out and parents arrive to pick up their kids, electric bikes or e-bikes are everywhere, a common fixture in daily life in China. EAPSI participant in China Christopher Cherry from the University of Tennessee spent a summer engaging in research on biking.
Credit: Christopher Cherry, University of Tennessee
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Summer Institute in China, Class of 2007, with Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
Credit: William Chang, NSF
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EAPSI participant in China Christopher Cherry studied electronic bikes in China. This scene from a parking lot in China drives home the growing popularity of electric bikes.
Credit: Christopher Cherry, University of Tennessee
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Abigail Watrous, EAPSI participant in China, studied renewable energy technologies in China.
Credit: Abigail Watrous, University of Colorado at Bolder
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A coal burning stove in a village outside of Beijing blazes hot. Roughly 700 million people, more than twice the population of the United States, living in rural areas of China, burn straw, rice husks, corn husks, corn cobs, wood or coal with varying impacts on the environment. Abigail Watrous of the University of Colorado in Boulder studied alternative energy sources as an EAPSI participant in China.
Credit: Abigail Watrous, University of Colorado at Boulder
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