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Jiaotong University Overseas Alumni/ae
It is a glorious tradition of JTU alumni that they remember and glorify their Alma Mater, and they love their motherland. Living overseas but their hearts are with their mother university, they care about her, support her education development financially, academically and socially. Some of them often visit to lecture, advise and cooperate to develop projects; some of them generously donate, set-up scholarships, encourage teachers for their teaching, students for their hardworking; while some of them contribute a huge financial support to build large scale facilities, improve school conditions. They have made incredible contributions to the Alma Mater in her education development.
Since 1998, ten came for lecturing, they are LI Tianhe, GE shouren, JIAN Mingren, LU Yan, NI jun, Chen Ming, NI Tao, LU ying, FENG Dagan and YAO Yong. Since "reform and Opening to the World", the large and important constructed projects include: the Haoran Hitech Building donated by the Taiwan alumnus YIN Zhihao (there are over 40 scientific research institutes occupy the building which have become the most important base for advance new science and technology research); the Guangming Stadium by the Hong Kong alumnus HU Faguang; the Academic Activity Center by the Singapore alumnus MO Ruoyu; the Teacher's Center by the Brazil alumnus RONG Hongyuan; the Student Center and the Club for Faculty and Staff by the Britain alumnus QIN Ben jian; the Liuyuan by SHENG Yuedu of Japan whose grand father , SHENG Xuanhuai was the founder of Jiao Tong University.
In scholarships for teachers and students: there are over 30 awards given by overseas alumni, including American alumni donated the Financial Support for Attending Overseas Conferences, Scholarships for Teachers and Students, the American Alumni Cup for English Language, as well as WU Deleng Student Financia Aid, GE Shouren Popular Computer Scholarships for Teachers and Students, HUANG Zichun Education Foundation, LU Yan Scholarship for Arts, PAN Wenyan Scholarship for Student, QIAN Jiaqi Scholarship for Teacher, ZHOU Weigan and Zheng's Scholarships for Student and Teacher, and QI Wenxiang Scholarships for Student, etc.
An unofficial statistics says there are today over five thousand overseas JTU alumni, they are all over the world, they mainly live in USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Hong Kong and Taiwan areas, they all have their local alumni associations and regular activities, most of which are located in the United States, there are branches at New York, Washington, South California, North California, Houston, Midwest, Newfoundland, etc, there is a big reunion every five years. The 7th Reunion will take place in the year 2000. The Hong Kong Association is very active, and closely related to the Alma Mater whom their support is significant. On each April the eighth, alumni who graduated for 50 years, from everywhere in the world are returning to participate the university's anniversary celebrations and to express their warm hearts and expectations by donating their presents or money and giving lectures or advises. Alumni in Japan are those who went there to study there since 80's, most of them got their Master or PhD degrees and now teaching or working in universities or large companies. The Alumni Association of Japan was established in 1998 by over a hundred alumni.
Jiao Tong University are here expressing deep gratitude toward her overseas alumni for their hearts and supports, and sincerely hoping them to continue their contributions to the Alma Mater in her entering the 21st century and for her journey to become a world first-rate university.
The person to contact for overseas alumni:
HUANG Xinchang:
Tel. (8621) 62932434, (8621) 62823378. Fax: (8621) 62829514
The Director of Shanghai Alumni Association: DONG Yinchu
The Chief Officer (Secretary General): ZHANG Wei Tel. (8621) 62932236 |
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