10/17/09 Jamie Padgett, CEE, Rice University, was one of about 30 U.S. delegates from academia, industry and government attending the National Academy of Engineering China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Changsha, China. This is the first China-America Frontiers of Engineering symposium, and it is a great honor for a young faculty member to be invited to attend. Congratulations!
08/09 More Rice grads in China: Renewable Energy: A Reality Check in Rural China . Young engineer, Abby Watrous, takes on a global challenge: Clean and sustainable energy, one village at a time. Abby Watrous was one of Rice University 3 original EWB students. EWB is Engineers without Border that our Center CO-Director Mason Tomson and Center Administrator Bob Dawson are involved in.
07/23/09 Professors Pedro Alvarez, Mason Tomson and Qilin Li met with delegations from Tsinghua University to discuss possible international collaboration.
07/16/09 Mason Tomson, Chunfang Fan., Luliang Zhang and Nan Zhang gave an overview of the China-U.S. Center for Tongji University Delegations at President’s Study at Rice University.
05/09 A proposal totaling one million RMB for two years on “Sediment Environmental Quality Standards and in-situ Remediation” has been approved by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology.
04/29/09 Jensen Shen from the Greater Houston Partnership and Pedro Alvarez, Mason Tomson, and Mark Davis from Rice University met with delegations from Shandong, China to discuss possible international collaboration.
03/16/09 Dean Keller-McNulty from Rice University visited President Rao of Nankai University to discuss ways to further strengthen the relationship between Rice and Naikai University. Center Co-Director, Wei Chen and Amy Kan coordinated this meeting
03/03/09 The Center Co-Director Mason Tomson was an invited speaker at Remediation Technology Summit: Nano-Technologies and the Environment at Atlanta, GA.
01/31/09 The Center Co-director, Wei Chen, applied for establishing an international collaboration research laboratory at Nankai University with long term support from the Ministry of Science and Technology.
01/31/2009- Dr. Dongqiang Zhu of Nanjing University, the Center Co Directors, Wei Chen, Amy Kan, and Mason Tomson submitted a joint proposal to both NSF and NSFC under the International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts Abroad (ICC) program in NSF.
11/07/08 A proposal on “Field Demonstration of a Water Treatment System in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Echo-City, Tianjin, China” was submitted to the Shell Center for Sustainability on behalf of the Center.
11/07/2008- Dr. Nick Fang from Rice University took a trip to the People’s Republic of China as a member of the U.S. Environmental Services Delegation organized by W.J. International Environmental Services, Inc. in November in Beijing, China. The mission of the delegation is to introduce some U.S. environmental protection technologies and strategies to China. The leader of the team was Mrs. Barbara Finazzo, the USEPA Region 2 Director.
10/25/2008- President Rao of Nankai University met Professor Neal Lane from Rice University in China, a meeting coordinated by the Center Co-Director, Wei Chen. President Rao and Prof. Lane discussed how to strengthen the existing relationship between the two universities, and the possibility of a joint-effort in dealing with global warming. Prof. Lane invited President Rao to attend a workshop at Rice in late April 2009.
09/18/08 A proposal on “Sediment Environmental Quality Standard and in-situ Remediation” has been submitted to the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology for funding. The proposal totals one million RMB for two years
09/10/2008- The Center Co Directors, Mason Tomson and Amy Kan met with the Thailand delegates to discuss international collaboration and biofuel industry in Thailand.
07/10/2008-President Leebron was conferred an Honorary Doctorate by Nankai University, in recognition of the extraordinarily close relationship between the two universities. President Leebron was only the 7th person in Nankai’s 90-year history to receive this honor. He graciously acknowledged repeatedly the China US Center in address to the faculty and students of Nankai Universities
06/18/08- The Office of Public Affairs from U.S. Treasury Department release : U.S. China Strategic Economic Dialogue(SED) Joint Fact Sheet ; SED U.S. fact sheet ; and SED 10 year fact sheet.
06/18/08- Closing Statement by U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Henry M. Paulson at Fourth Meeting of the U.S. China Strategic Economic Dialogue(SED). Washington D.C.
05/12/08- Remarks by Special Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue(SED), Alan Holmer, at Wuhan University, Hubei , China.: Sustaining Economic Growth
04/03/08- Remarks by U.S. Secretary of Treasury, Henry M. Paulson, Jr.at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. : Meeting the Challenge: A Partnership on Energy and the Environment
04/01/08- Wei Chen, Center Co-Director, made a key-note presentation about the Center research and activities at the first joint “Chinese and American Environmental Technology Collaboration Conference” in Beijing. The meeting was sponsored jointly by the U.S. EPA and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
03/21/08- Co-Directors, Mason Tomson and Amy Kan received a plaque and an appointment as an Honorary Professor at Nankai University
03/20/08- China-US Forum of Environmental Remediation and Sustainable Development. Tianjin, China.中美环境修复与可持续发展战略研讨会暨南开大学中美环境修复与可持续发展中心挂牌仪式
03/17/08- Professors from Rice University, Pedro Alvarez, Herb Ward, Mason Tomson, Daniel Cohan, Qilin Li and Amy Kan attended a workshop at Hong Kong University and gave lectures at Xinghua University in Shenzhen(Houston's Sister City in China)
02/2008- Professor from Rice University, Phil Bedient’s hydrology text is being translated into Chinese as a part of the Center activities and was featured at the Tianjin meeting.
02/20/08- Nankai President, Zihe Rao, visited Rice University. The Center hosts an information section at the Duncan Hall with speakers from Chemical Engineering, EESI, Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Smalley Institute to give an overview of Rice research.
01/30/08- Chinese Consulate General Office in Houston recommended the Center as a cooperative partner with the Ministry of Science and Technology to participate in a 10 year collaboration plan between U.S. and China on Energy and Environmental research. This will be resolved in 2009.
12/13/07- The Third Cabinet-Level Meeting of the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue at Beijing China
11/30/07- Aerojet becomes a corporate member
09/17/07- Three PhD exchange students from Nankai University to study at Rice University
09/15/07- Professor Wei Chen ‘s 863 priority project “Oil contaminated soil remediation and ecological restoration demonstration project in the oilfield” is funded by Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology
09/10/07- Dr. Amy Kan and Wei Chen are the invited speakers at IRI Industrial Research Institute China Forum, Beijing , China
06/04/07- Chinese government released a climate Change policy
06/03-06/07- Professor Mason Tomson and Pedro Alveraz present two papers at International Water Association 4th IWA Leading-Edge conference on Water & Wastewater Technologies, Singapore
03/16/07- Shell Oil Company becomes the first official corporate member
04/15/07- Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences(CRAES), SEPA Department of Soil Pollution Control becomes a partner
04/15/07- Professor Mason Tomson, Wei Chen and Amy Kan submit two papers to Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Journal. Special issue-China
03/17-31/07- China-Rice Advanced Leadership Forum
