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China
China & Sustainable Development: Educational Outreach
Outreach activities have included a seminar on China and Sustainable Development and sponsorship of the first joint conference between the US and Chinese Business Councils on Sustainable Development. Educational activities include the support of a Rice undergraduate's study and research at Nankai University in China, and the publication of the Shell Center Annual Report in Chinese text.
Rice University-Nankai University:
Research Partnership for Sustainable Development
Researchers: Dr. Pedro Alvarez, Dr. Philip Bedient, Dr. Mason Tomson,
Dr. C. Herb Ward, Dr. Mark Wiesner, Mr. Christian Holmes
Faculty from Rice University have partnered with researchers at Nankai University in Tianjin, China in a project which seeks to identify and solve energy and environmental problems important to today's needs and to future developments in China and the United States. Research will be identified in multiple disciplines including science, engineering, and technology, that will require research. Emphasis will be placed on education at all levels from preschool to professional. Output will include scholarly papers, books, training materials, patents, and technology. A major source of technology exchange will be via visiting scholars and exchange students from both directions.
The proposed collaboration will address these principal themes:
•• Reducing the environmental impacts of energy production
•• Water treatment
•• Policy and institutional barriers related to technology
development and application
Faculty and administrators from Rice and from Nankai University met for two days in plenary formal presentations and smaller work groups to identify plan-common research. Letters of cooperation, signed by both university presidents, were exchanged and thirteen specific joint research projects were identified.
A Rice undergraduate student, Alison Harris, is also spending ten weeks in Tianjin at Nankai University in Summer 2005 as an exchange student working on environmental technology under the direction of Professor Wei Chen; she will also take Manadarin language classes.
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