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  • Harvard’s Jenny Liu Wins 2016 USA Miss Asia

    By Xinming Li, bostonese.com

    Boston, Dec. 28, 2016, — For the second year in a row, a contestant from Boston was crowned as the winner of USA Miss Asia pageant. The final contest of 2016 USA Miss Asia was held in Brooklyn, New York, just before the Christmas. Jenny Aizhou Liu(刘爱舟), a graduate student of Harvard University, emerged as the winner from the 10 finalists, mostly students from top Universities like Harvard, BU, BC and Columbia.

    Jenny Liu was crowned as this year’s winner (photos provided to bostonese.com).
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  • Haier Products Assist MIT Professor in Cutting-edge Research

    By Season Ji

    Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 19, 2016, — The Pew Charitable Trust recently named its annual list “37 Scientists Who Could Change the World”, among which there’s a Boston-based scholar, Omer Yilmaz. He is a young associate professor at MIT, focusing on cancer research. Prof. Yilmaz became famous for his latest research that was published on the academic journal Nature. After repeated experiments, he found why obese people are faced with higher risks of cancers: the stem cells are stimulated and a kind of protein that controls metabolism is activated.
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    Chia-wei Cheng(left) and Prof. Yilmaz at the lab. (photos by Season Ji).
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  • Intramural Training Opportunity at National Institutes of Health

    By Huichun Xu, MD, PhD

    Introduction

    As a doctor or biomedical researcher, you may already know the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest funding source for biomedical research in the world. NIH is a USA federal medical research agency, providing funding not only for thousands of scientists in universities and research institutions in the USA but also for research institutions around the world. The goal of NIH is to make important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
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    Dr. Huichun Xu (file photo).
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  • Breakthrough Prize to Mark 5th Anniversary in Award Ceremony on Dec. 4

    December 4, 2016 – (San Francisco) – The Breakthrough Prize and founders Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, tonight announced the recipients of the 2017 Breakthrough Prizes, marking the organization’s fifth anniversary recognizing top achievements in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. A combined total of $25 million was awarded at the gala ceremony in Silicon Valley, hosted by Morgan Freeman. Each of the Breakthrough Prizes is worth $3 million, the largest individual monetary prize in science.
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    Xi Yin of Harvard wins the New Horizons in Physics Prize.
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  • Westlake Institute for Advanced Study Attracts International Talents

    Hangzhou, China, Dec. 10, 2016 — Westlake Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) hosts its founding ceremony today in Hangzhou. WIAS is a non-profit research institute that is dedicated to the advancement of natural sciences and the frontiers of engineering disciplines. WIAS is located in the beautiful Cloud Town of Xihu District of Hangzhou.

    WIAS hosted the second academic interview on November 20, 2016 in Hangzhou, China. Twenty outstanding talents from United States of America, Germany, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and Taiwan participated in this round of interviews. Through presentations and questions, WIAS judges evaluated the candidates’ independent thinking abilities as well as their dedication to academic studies to select the best talents.
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  • International Culture Festival Brings The World to Tsinghua

    Beijing, Starting from 10am on November 12 until late afternoon, the scale and popularity of the 8th annual international cultural festival was unprecedented in Tsinghua. Students of Tsinghua University from over 30 different countries took part in the event. The festival brought both Chinese and international students together, and attracted guests from many other countries.
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  • Chinese King of Pop Wang LeeHom Rocks BSO and Receives Honorary Degree from Berklee

    By Gracia Lei

    Boston, Nov. 15, 2016, — The fully-packed, sold-out performance hall at BSO was packed with over 2,500 Sunday night. They embraced Wang LeeHom, who received an honorary doctoral degree from Berklee College of Music, along with the array of orchestral, vocal, and Chinese drum performers, many of whom are current students or faculty of world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
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  • Videos from 2016 Acton Chinese Music Night

    Acton, Mass., Nov. 13, 2016, — 2016 Acton Chinese Music Night was held at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School last night. Over 600 people showed up for this late Fall concert that featured The Sounds of China: Music from the Dream of the Red Chamber.
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    Conductor Tianshen Guo and the BCMA band thanked the audience at the end of the concert.
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  • Report: Immigrants’ ‘Credentials Waste’ is Widespread in Massachusetts

    Boston, Nov. 1, 2016, — A report published by Massachusetts nonprofit English for New Bostonians (ENB) finds that immigrants in the Commonwealth have substantial untapped human capital. However, due to insufficient English language learning opportunities, their often highly developed skills are frequently wasted.
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  • Renmin University Press Has Made China A Global Name in Publishing

    Beijing, Oct. 28, 2016, — In the recently held 23rd session of the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), Director of the Romanian Cultural Center and experienced publisher Constantin Lupeanu received the esteemed prize for “Exceptional Literary Contribution to China” from the vice-Premier of the State Council LIU Yandong, becoming the sixth collaborative partner of the Renmin University Press to receive this prestigious award.
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