The signing ceremony of U.S.-China Eco-Partnerships Program was held in the United States Department of State on July 11th Eastern Time U.S..
Nearly 70 professionals from oil companies at home and abroad, universities and research institutes, and oil technology service companies attended the event.
It aims to become an excellent platform for learning, communication, and interaction involving dozens of students and faculty from 11 world-renowned universities.
Scholars from University of Adelaide and Macquarie University in Australia attended the workshop along with Peking University researchers.
This year, 180 students in total including 97 undergraduates and 83 master/Ph.D. graduates have completed their degrees. It’s the first year that PKU/GT/Emory Biomedical Engineering joint Ph.D. program embraced its graduates.
On June 26, accompanied by Marco Tulio S. Cabral from the Embassy of Brazil, a delegation of the S?o Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil visited the College of Engineering (COE).
The uniqueness of the program is that a single dissertation will satisfy the thesis requirements of all three institutions, so the student will get only one certificate, with seals of three universities.
More than sixty experts and researchers from home and abroad came to the conference, including researchers from Singapore, Australia, America, England and Japan.
The lecture, invited by Professor Haifeng Yu of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), College of Engineering, was entitled “Biomimetic Design of Carbon Nanomaterials for Dry Adhesives”.
The house, named “Etho”, was jointly designed by around 160 students from Peking University and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.