News and Announcements

• The Center for Language Education will award $1000 scholarships to students based on performance, aspirations, and - very importantly - recommendations.

  Deadline: Thursday, August 1st, 2013

  Click here for application information.

• The 19th "Ask the Ambassador" video series of the US Embassy to Seoul, South Korea featuring selected East Asian Studies majors is now available for public view. One small mistake though: the Ambassador originally thought that the questions were from SAIS students, but the actual questions in the video are from East Asian Studies students.
  
  We thank EAS major, Dennis (Chan Min) Hong '15, for taking the initiative in making this happen! Please click here to watch.

• Congratulations to Dennis (Chan Min) Hong '15, an East Asian Studies and International Studies double major from South Korea, who has been recently accepted to the 5-Year accelerated BA/MA program with the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)! As part of the program, Dennis will spend his senior year at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, receiving a certificate in Chinese and American Studies and complete his M.A. in International Economics and China Studies with Asia IR Specialization in the following year. Dennis' area of academic interests include Chinese and Korean history, politics, and their foreign relations in the Asia-Pacific region.

• Hopkins China-STEM - The summer program is designed for undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and researchers who seek to enhance their Chinese language proficiency for scientific, technological, engineering, and medical (STEM) disciplines. Over the course of eight weeks, students are immersed in rigorous language training, coupled with experiential research trips to laboratories, hospitals, and academic institutions in Nanjing and Beijing. Now Accepting Applications for Summer 2013. [Find out more...]

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