From left, Professor Guodong Cheng, SNRAS Dean Carol Lewis, Youfen Zhang, doctoral student Ruixia He, Professor Huijun Jin pause in their dicussions of an exchange program to exchange gifts.
This week representatives from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing are visiting UAF to plan a student and faculty exchange and research program.
Two professors and a doctoral student from the Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering Research Institute will meet with representatives of the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences and the College of Engineering and Mines. The visiting academic delegation members’ disciplinary focus is in geocryology, the study of frozen soils. They will be meeting with UAF soil scientists as well as visiting some local sites that demonstrate road stability research. The UA Museum of the North, a permafrost tunnel, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline are also on the itinerary.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China's comprehensive research and development center in natural sciences and high-tech innovation, attaches great importance to the academic exchange and cooperation with international science and technology communities. The center works with more than 60 countries, carrying out various kinds of collaboration with its foreign partners, such as joint investigations, ventures, laboratories, young scientist groups, workshops, training courses, and seminars.
International cooperation has made significant contributions to the improvement of science and technology standards, training of talents, upgrading of experimental conditions, acquisition of foreign investment, and exchange of information, according to the CAS website.
UAF Professor Chien-Lu Ping, who is involved in the proceedings, is internationally known for his soils research. UAF Associate Professor Mingchu Zhang and UAF Assistant Professor Jingjing Liang, both originally from China, are involved in the process also.
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