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Text Box: academic departments and five schools/colleges were represented. Thirteen students participated in two summer programs – at a five-week summer institute at East China Normal University, and at the Jingdezhen International Ceramics Conference in Jingdezhen. For several years, projects with China have been awarded the most number of grants by the Global Education Grants program, resulting in multilevel partnerships, faculty and student ex

Text Box: changes, and significant collaborations. It is easy to understand why China holds such a fascination for so many people. Impelled by unprecedented energy and growth, and permeated by a rich and ancient culture, China offers limitless opportunities for learning and scholarship. Faculty interested in taking advantage of these opportunities and to become linked to Chinese counterparts, should contact the Global Education Center.

Text Box: International Conference on Urban Dimensions of Environmental Change: Science, Exposures, Policies, and Technologies Shanghai, China May 25-28, 2004

Text Box: The Huangpu River and the Passaic River may be thousands of miles apart, but they face the same urban environmental change, and both have drawn the attention of Montclair State University faculty. What is the driving force behind urban environmental change in Shanghai, Montclair, Trenton, Tokyo? How are new stresses, management strategies and technologies changing the process of urban environmental change? How is it related to urbanization, industrialization and global climate change? These were some of the questions put to an international gathering in Shanghai of environmental scientists recently organized by MSU and East China Normal University. Scholars from the United States and China were joined by their colleagues from Japan, India, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and Germany to discuss common issues facing their countries. The conference, which received funding from the National Science Foundation, provided a unique opportunity for researchers to discuss and debate key issues associated with urban environmental change and management, including the drivers, processes and impacts of environmental change resulting from urbanization and other global scale phenomena, from local to global, and from short term to long term. In her keynote address, President Susan A. Cole focused on the role of universities in prepar

Fall 2004

Text Box: Contents MSU Faculty in China………….Page 2 Global Ed Grants to Faculty……….Page 3 Visiting Scholars at MSU……...…..Page 4 MSU Faculty Abroad ………………...Page 5 Conferences….Page 6 More International News…………..Page 7 MSU Students Abroad………...page 8

By Marina Cunningham, Director,

Global Education Center

If the past year has served as an indicator of the most popular international destination for Montclair State University faculty, China certainly ranked the highest. In May 2004, close to 50 MSU faculty, students and administrators were involved in a variety of initiatives all over China, collaborating with institutions in Shanghai, Beijing, Wuxi, and Zhingdezhen. Twelve

Yu Lizhong, President of Shanghai Teachers University, with MSU President Susan A. Cole, NJ Commissioner of the Environment Bradley Campbell and ECNU President Wang Jianpan at the opening ceremony of the conference.