OUC President Yu Zhigang visited University of Arizona on December 1-2, 2016 after visiting Texas A&M and Auburn University. With Yu during the visit were Leaders from OUC Law and Politics School, Management College and OUC International Office.
Shortly after arriving at Tuscon on December 1, OUC delegation had a meeting with Prof. Andrew Comrie, UA Provost and Senior Vice President of academic affairs. Present at the meeting were Prof. Brent White, Vice Provost for international education affairs, Prof. Marc Miller, Dean of Law School, Prof, Paulo Goes, Dean of Eller School of Management, and Amy Kimme, Dean of College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Both sides well exchanged ideas on the areas of common interest and reached consensus on exploring the programs of the joint institute.
President Yu had friendly talks with Ms Ann Weaver Hart, UA President, on December 2. Recognizing the mutual effort of facilitating the joint institute of law, both sides decided to extend it into more areas and set up the joint institute when conditions are ready. Both agreed to extend the cooperation from student education into academic research, from humanities and social sciences into natural science and engineering technology. Also on the morning of December 2, President Yu had talks with Prof. Melissa Vito, UA Vice President of student affairs and enrollment management, Prof. Kim Espy, Vice President of research affairs, as well as the Vice Provost of international affairs and the leader of UA International Office.
Exchanging souvenirs with UA President Hart
Work meeting with Pro. Melissa Vito, Vice President of student affairs
On the afternoon of December 2, OUC delegation met and exchanged ideas with the professors of the colleges of social sciences, natural sciences and engineering technology respectively, accompanied by Prof. Brent White, UA Vice Provost of international affairs. In the meeting with social science team of the Law School Dean Marc Miller, Eller School of Management Dean Paulo Goes, and College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Dean Amy Kimme, they were all keen to cooperate with OUC in the given areas before sharing the procedures and requirements of applying for the joint institute. High interest of cooperation was also seen in the meeting with science and engineering team of College of Engineering Dean Jeff Goldberg, College of Science Dean Chris Impey as well as Prof. Randy Burd, Associate Vice President and Global Research Alliances Director who profiled their colleges and the prospective areas for cooperation. President Yu said that he was deeply impressed by UA dynamic development and the efficient collaboration between the two universities in establishing the OUC-UA joint institute of law science, which paved the way to an all-round strategic partnership of faculty and research in social science, natural science and engineering technologies.
Meeting with dean and professors of College of Humanities
Meeting with dean and professors of College of Science
OUC delegation also visited UA library and BIO5. BIO5 Institute harnesses the collaborative power of UA core disciplines --- agriculture, engineering, medicine, pharmacy and science to solve the comple and biology-based challenges affecting humanity. The laboratories were designed for the sake of openness and innovation. The seed fund is set up to cover the research and accelerate the commercial translation of research breakthroughs. OUC can refer to BIO5 concept and operation in starting its interdisciplinary researches especially of life science.
Visiting BIO5 Institute
Chinese by Song Wenhong
English by Liang Hong
