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Schlissel takes first 
international visit 
as ‘U’ president

Trip to strengthen 
current ties with 
China and foster new 

opportunities

By MAYA SHANKHAR

Daily Staff Reporter

While many in Ann Arbor 

enjoyed the generally pleas-
ant weather of the past few 
days, President Schlissel expe-
rienced a typhoon halfway 
across the world.

Schlissel spent the past week 

in Beijing and Shanghai, meet-
ing with Chinese research 
partners, University alumni, 
students and faculty on his first 
international visit as president 
of the University.

James 
Holloway, 
Univer-

sity vice provost for Global and 
Engaged Education, accompa-
nied President Schlissel on the 
trip.

“China is a nation in which 

UM has deep historical ties,” 
Holloway said.

From 1880 to 1881, James B. 

Angell, president of the Uni-
versity at the time, also served 
as U.S. ambassador to China. 
Angell played an important role 
in encouraging more Chinese 
students to study in the U.S. by 
creating scholarship programs 
specifically for them. Cur-
rently, the University is home 
to over 2,500 students from 
China. According to Holloway, 
China is the most popular des-
tination for University students 
studying abroad, with 400 Uni-
versity faculty, students and 
staff living in China last year.

“We have many successful 

research collaborations with 
the nation’s top universities” 
said Holloway of China. “This 
trip allowed President Schlis-
sel to learn firsthand about the 
University of Michigan’s work 
in China”.

The purpose of the trip was 

twofold, Holloway said: to 
strengthen previously existing 
connections in China through 

direct leadership engagement 
and to develop new opportu-
nities for University students 
and 
faculty 
to 
collaborate 

with China, a world leader in 
research.

“The nation’s large popula-

tion and wide array of academ-
ic and research institutions 
make it an excellent place from 
which to attract academic tal-
ent and establish the mutu-
ally valuable partnerships that 
UM needs to remain a world-
leading research institution,” 
Schlissel said in a press release.

The visit began in Beijing, 

where 
Schlissel 
and 
other 

University leaders met with 
China’s Vice Minister of Edu-
cation, 
Huiqing 
Lin. 
They 

visited the University of Michi-
gan’s Peking University Health 
Science Center Joint Institute 
for Translational and Clini-
cal Research, a collaborative 
research 
center 
established 

in 2010. Twenty-five of the 
29 departments at the Uni-
versity Medical School have 
been involved with the joint 
institute, working on projects 
studying diseases that affect 
both the U.S. and China. The 
president also visited Tsinghua 
University in Beijing, where the 
University has collaborations 
in energy, sustainability and 
the environment. The Universi-
ty is a partner in the U.S.-China 
Clean Energy Research Center, 
a $50 million project that both 
the U.S. Department of Energy 
and the Chinese Ministry of 
Science and Technology are 
involved in.

From Beijing, Schlissel trav-

eled to Shanghai, where the 
University helped create the 
UM-Fudan 
Joint 
Institute 

on Gender Studies, founded 
in 2005. The president then 
toured the Shanghai Jiao Tong 
University Medical School, and 
visited the UM-Shanghai Jiao 
Tong University Joint Insti-
tute, the 2014 recipient of the 
prestigious Andrew Heiskell 

VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily

Joe Hertler and The Rainbow Seekers, a Lansing-based folk-soul-psych-pop 
band, play at Sonic Lunch on Thursday. Bank of Ann Arbor’s Sonic Lunch is a 
free outdoor concert that takes place at Liberty Plaza every Thursday at noon. 

SONIC LUNCH

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