ASU International News

ASU’s partnership with China’s Sichuan University continues to expand. The most recent manifestation was a visit, Aug. 4 through 6, by Jian Shi, Sichuan University’s vice president for global engagement, and Shijing Yan, the director of Sichuan’s Office of International Affairs. Unfortunately, bad weather grounded Shi in Chicago. Yan made it to Arizona for a series of meetings at ASU, which Shi joined by teleconference.

Sultan Saeed Nasser AlMansoori, minister of economy for the United Arab Emirates, met with ASU President Michael Crow and other university officials July 31 as part of a daylong visit to ASU conducted by the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement.

AlMansoori is an ASU alum, having earned a degree in industrial engineering and management systems here during the late 1980s.

On July 28, the Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement  played host to a group of nine students from Palestinian  territories who were traveling in the United States as part of “A  Project for the Palestinian Territories.”The project is a three-week program focused on American studies  under the auspices of the Department of State’s International  Visitor Leadership Program.The program, designed for students enrolled in classes or programs  that study U.S.

Six Arizona State University undergraduates recently received Freeman Awards for Study in Asia to study in China this summer. 

Forty highly energized Chinese high school students, racing a deadline, used bagfuls of everyday materials from the dollar store to build models of the first human outpost on Mars. The students, who came from all over China, were competing in the final round of the China Youth Space Academy, an academic challenge joint partnership with Arizona State University, the Chinese government-run Web site, China.com.cn, and Beijing's Flying Spirit advertising agency.

ASU professor Paul Davies – an acclaimed theoretical physicist, cosmologist and popular author – was recently honored during an investiture ceremony at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for his induction as a Member of the Order of Australia.