By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, Nov. 25, 2013, — Winning NCAA championship as a member of Stanford’s gymnastic team, running a start-up high-tech company, and being selected as Presidential Innovation Fellow, Newton, Mass. native Jason Shen knows well about winning. He recently added another distinction to his resume: author of an e-book that made to amazon.com bestseller list.
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By David Li, bostonese.com
Acton, Mass., Nov. 23, 2013, — Washington Figure Skating Club (WFSC), the largest U.S. Figure Skating sanctioned Club, is the host of the 2014 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships, November 19-23, 2013, at Ashburn Ice House. In the Juvenile Girls completion on Nov. 20, 12-year-old Iris Zhao from Acton, Mass. finished at fourth place, and qualified for Prudential 2014 U.S. Figure Skating Championships to be held in Boston from Jan. 5 to 12, 2014.
Iris Zhao won silver medal of the under 13 group at last year’s New England Regional Championships (photo provided by May Liu).
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By David Li, bostonese.com
Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 18, 2013, — When pianist Dr. Lin Lin moved to Boston ten years ago, 5-year-old Kevin Zhao became her first student. Ten years later, you can see how proud Dr. Lin was from the smiles on her face at Kevin Zhao’s recital at Longy School of music in the evening of Nov. 9, 2013.
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Beijing, Oct. 28, 2013, — On Oct. 23, School of Economics and Management (SEM) Advisory Committee of Tsinghua University, the leading university in science and technology fields in China, held 2013 meeting at Tsinghua University. Three new members were appointed to SEM’s Advisory Board: Tim Cook, Apple CEO , Ma Yun, founder of Alibaba Group, and Jim Breyer, venture capitalist and board member of Harvard University.
Cover of book Zhu Rongji On The Record, The Road to Reform, 1991 – 1997
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Acton, Mass., Oct. 20, 2013, –Willy Wu of Acton Boxborough Regional High School and Betsy Pu of Lexington High School recently won the first place of the prestigious Lincoln Labs National Education Competition. They are also Kapparate CS03 students, and developed the winning application with Kapparate instructor Ben Pu.
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By David Li, bostonese.com
Boston, October, 17, 2013, –On Saturday, October 19 (9AM-5PM), the kickoff session of New England Chinese Information and Networking Association (NECINA) Marketing Workshop will be held at Cambridge Innovation Center at One Broadway in Cambridge. A couple weeks earlier, the Youth Entrepreneurship Service (YES) 8.0 had kick off session at the same building, with over 30 students in attendance.
(From left) Ru Zheng, president of NECINA, Sergio Ferreira and Jason Yung at YES 8.0 kickoff session.
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By Shumin Li, New English Chinese Language Teachers’ Association (NECLTA)
Rode Island, October 9, 2013, — At the second annual meeting of NECLTA on Oct. 5 at URI Confucius Institute, Dr. Yu-lan Lin received the NECLTA’s Lifetime Achievement Award from president Wenchao He. Dr. Lin has retired from Boston Public Schools this year. Many teachers at the annual meeting took the opportunity to express their sincere appreciation and gratitude to Dr. Lin for her tireless dedication to the field. Dr. Lin is a founding board member of NECLTA.
Dr. Yu-lan Lin (left) is congratulated by NECLTA’s president Wenchao He (photo provided by NECLTA).
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The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
jointly to
James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman
and Thomas C. Südhof
for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic,
a major transport system in our cells
By MIT OpenCourseWare News and Information
Confused about the many digital learning opportunities from MIT? You’re not alone. Luckily, with the launch of the new MITx course 2.03x Dynamics and the near simultaneous publication of the new OCW Scholar course 2.003SC Engineering Dynamics, along with the long-available MIT OCW publication of 2.003 Modeling Dynamics and Control I, we have a great opportunity to better understand the spectrum of digital learning opportunities now available from MIT. These are not exactly the same course in each case (2.03 is a new generation of curriculum replacing 2.003 in the residential program), but they are close enough for purposes of illustration:
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