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  About NTI: Professor Fujia Yang
Professor Fujia Yang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is an internationally renowned nuclear physicist who currently serves as the sixth Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, one of the United Kingdom's leading research universities, and the Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology
Born in Shanghai, Professor Yang graduated from Fudan University in 1958 with a degree in physics.
Professor Yang served as a council member representing China on the Association of East Asia Research Universities, was a member of the International Association of University Presidents and of the Association of University Presidents of the Pacific Rim.
www.nti.org /b_aboutnti/b1r.html   (263 words)

  
 Prof. Yang Fujia, First Chinese President in University of Nottingham
Yang Fujia, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Fudan University left Shanghai by air to take up the post of the fifth president of University of Nottingham in Britain.
Yang Fujia, aged 65, is a nuclear physicist.
Yang stressed time and again that his engagement as the president of University of Nottingham is far beyond a thing of his personal honor, but an expression of a raised status enjoyed by the Chinese science and education in the nowadays world.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /200101/31/eng20010131_61327.html   (401 words)

  
  News & Views - Prof. Yang Fujia, First Chinese President in University of Nottingham(1/31/2001)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yang Fujia, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Fudan University left Shanghai by air to take up the post of the fifth president of University of Nottingham in Britain.
Yang Fujia, aged 65, is a nuclear physicist.
Yang stressed time and again that his engagement as the president of University of Nottingham is far beyond a thing of his personal honor, but an expression of a raised status enjoyed by the Chinese science and education in the nowadays world.
www.chinahouston.org /news/2001130204833.html   (335 words)

  
 Fujia Yang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Professor Fujia Yang (杨福家 Yang Fujia) is an academian of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a renowned nuclear physicist and Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, England.
He holds honorary degrees from Soka University, Tokyo, Japan; the State University of New York, USA; the University of Hong Kong; the University of Nottingham, England; and the University of Connecticut, USA.
Professor Yang Fujia was formally installed as The University of Nottingham's sixth Chancellor on 4 July 2001, the first time that a Chinese academic has become Chancellor of a UK university.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fujia_Yang   (322 words)

  
 main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Wen Hui Daily reports that Yang Fujia disagrees with Nobel Laureate Professor Chen Ning Yang 's view that the academic standard of Tsinghua University students is higher than that of Harvard's.
Chen Ning Yang is one of the fathers of nuclear physics.
Yang Fujia told the Wen Hui Daily that from the marks of their entrance exams, Tsinghua students perform better than Harvard students.
www.tibetinfor.com.cn /en/news/2001/10/c104854.htm   (160 words)

  
 Getting in touch with the development of education international   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yang: The directorate of University of Nottingham unprecedentedly appointed a Chinese to such a position that used to be done only to the Royal and the Nobiliary.
Yang: Decided by the trend of the world development, if a college wants to rank top in the world and to train persons with scientific innovative abilities, it must give the students a wide knowledge of all kinds of specialties.
Yang: In order to build first-level colleges, we must put premium on producing scientific research findings of high level, on training persons of excellent abilities and on contributing for the society rather than building magnificent school houses and buildings.
www.fudan.sh.cn /english/about/research/news4.html   (2303 words)

  
 Educator Sees Need for Reforms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If a mainland Chinese is ever to win a Nobel prize for science or academic works, the country must first initiate wide reforms in higher education, according to Yang Fujia, a physics expert from Shanghai and the current chancellor of Britain's University of Nottingham.
Yang, 65, who currently serves as director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, had just returned home from Britain, where he presided over the annual meeting of the southern English university's board of directors.
In a century of Nobel awards, Yang noted that most prizewinners' discoveries and theories were made and developed during their youth, while they were involved in research at university.
www.lianghui.org.cn /english/24358.htm   (269 words)

  
 International Program & Exchange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Chinese National Flag Was Raised in Nottingham University, Hailing the Inaugural Ceremony of the New President Yang Fujia, Fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences...
Interviewee: Fujia Yang (Yang for short) member of Chinese Acadamy of Science, professor of Fudan University as well as president of Nottingham University...
Yang, used to be the member of the Physiology Department of Chinese Acadamy of Science, joined Fudan last year.
www.fudan.edu.cn /english/about/research/exchange.html   (582 words)

  
 Yang Fujia ready for chancellor challenge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
BACK in China for the past several days, Yang Fujia, the famed nuclear physicist who has been appointed the fifth chancellor of Britain's Nottingham University, has had almost no time to rest.
Yang said he has three main tasks as a chancellor in Nottingham: presiding at board meetings and discussing key problems; presiding over graduation ceremonies; and attending international activities on behalf of the university.
Yang said he would go to Nottingham in June.
www.shanghai-star.com.cn /2001/0308/pr21-2.html   (263 words)

  
 UNNC | Leaders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Professor Yang Fujia: Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
Professor Yang Fujia, whose family comes from Ningbo, was born in June 1936 and is an internationally eminent physicist and a distinguished academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Professor Yang is also internationally recognized as an outstanding university leader and is a former President of Fudan (1993-1998).
www.nottingham.edu.cn /english/about/leader_yang.asp   (294 words)

  
 Yang Fujia's Lecture in Dallas
I first met Fujia in the fall of 1979, when we were both visiting professors at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) of the University of Copenhagen, one of Europe's premier centers in nuclear science research.
It was obvious from day one that Fujia is destined for greatness.
Fujia will be delivering TWO talks on this coming Friday, September 27th, 2002.
www.fudanalumni.com /event/2002-9-24-15-49-55.shtml   (546 words)

  
 About NTI: Board of Directors
Professor Fujia Yang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Yang is an internationally renowned nuclear physicist who currently serves as the sixth Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.
He is also Vice Chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology and is a former Director of the Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
www.nti.org /b_aboutnti/b1_board.html   (1489 words)

  
 Main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Professor Yang visited the Nottingham Centre for Geomechanics (NCG) on 11 July 2003 during his visit to the University of Nottingham.
He met staff and students within the NCG and gave a speech in which he praised the work of the centre and offered his support for the future.
Photographs were taken of Professor Yang with Professor Hai-Sui Yu, Director of the NCG, and a group photo with members of the NCG.
www.civeng.nottingham.ac.uk /ncg/news/news-003.html   (88 words)

  
 University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China (UNNC) is a campus of the University of Nottingham, England situated in the coastal city of Ningbo in the Shanghai province of China.
The UNNC President is Fujia Yang and the Vice President is Professor Ian Gow, former Director of Nottingham University Business School.
The university is to admit its first students in 2004, initially for Arts and Social Science subjects.
www.ceca.de /encyclopedia/u/un/university_of_nottingham__ningbo__china.html   (105 words)

  
 Former Administrators   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yang Fujia (1936 -), born in Shanghai in 1936, graduated from the Department of Physics of Fudan University in 1958, and was appointed in sequence as the dean of Department of Atomic Nucleus Science, director of Modern Physics Research Institute, Head of Graduate School, Vice-president, and President.
Yang XiGuang (1915-1989) was born in Wuhu of Anhui province.
He joined Communist Party of China in 1936 and was sent to the Northeast Army to undertake underground work, and took part in the "Xi'an Incident" later.
www.fudan.edu.cn /english/about/university/forleader.html   (2372 words)

  
 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS P
• Dr. Fujia Yang, chancellor of Nottingham University of the United Kingdom.
Yang is the former president of one of China's top universities, Fudan University of Shanghai.
This year, he was been appointed a member of the board of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a committee co-chaired by Ted Turner and former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia.
www.utdallas.edu /news/archive/2002/extadv4.htm   (474 words)

  
 Yang Fujia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Professor and president, Fudan University, and director, Shanghai Institute of Nuclear Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Yang guided, organized and basically established the Accelerator-Based Atomic and Nuclear Physics Laboratory.
He worked out the formula for nuclear decay with complex energy levels.
www.cst.sh.cn /ys/english/sxb/yang06.htm   (189 words)

  
 Sun, Oct 19, 1997 edition
[Philadelphia News] With Drexel University's physics professor Da Hsuan Feng and Fudan University President Fujia Yang acting as intermediaries, a high school in the western suburb, Conestoga High School, and Fudan Attached High School shall begin academic exchanges.
Several teachers from FAHS were invited by President Yang to attend the Congressman's lecture.
After his lecture, Congressman Weldon, President Fujia Yang and I met the teachers and the subject of high school exchanges was brought up in the discussion.
www.chinainformed.com /Archive/x9710/971019.html   (2282 words)

  
 doctorjob.com.my - The Education and Careers Adviser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
An excellent opportunity for educationists and economists to listen to the Chancellor of Nottingham University, UK, Professor Yang Fujia, a first for a Chinese to hold the position of a Chancellor in the history of British Education Community.
Professor Yang Fujia, a nuclear physicist and educator, is presently the Chancellor of the Nottingham University, U.K. Born in Shanghai, Professor Yang graduated in Physics from Fudan University in 1958.
He enjoyed a distinguished academic career, specialising in nuclear physics, which took him from his initial appointment as a teaching assistant to a Professorial Chair in Physics and the Presidency of his University.
www.doctorjob.com.my /localnews/display.asp?ID=1278   (462 words)

  
 Prof. Yang Left for UK's Nottingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Yang Fujia, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous nuclear physicist of China, Thursday arrived at Nottingham in Britain to take up the post of fifth presidency of the University of Nottingham.
Yang, having been former president of Fudan University, now 65, holds concurrently several posts including serving as special advisor to the president of Hong Kong University.
Collin Compel, vice president of the University of Nottingham, in London.
english.people.com.cn /english/200102/16/print20010216_62577.html   (113 words)

  
 Iowa State University -- Today's News
The president of China's Fudan University is on campus today, Feb. 16, to sign a series of cooperative agreements with Iowa State.
Fujia Yang and ISU President Martin Jischke will sign agreements for student and faculty exchanges, joint projects in materials science and information science, tech transfer cooperation and joint pursuit of a virtual research and development center.
The artwork of Iowa State design students who studied in Italy will be on display in Gallery 181, College of Design, Monday, Feb. 16, through Friday, Feb. 20.
www.iastate.edu /news/today/98/feb/feb16.html   (670 words)

  
 From the University's History: Expansion at Home and Abroad
The establishment of a campus in Malaysia in 1999 is being followed in 2004 by the launch of the University of Nottingham in China.
A further measure of the global context in which the University now operates was the appointment in 2001 of Professor Fujia Yang from China as Chancellor of the University.
Further sources relating to this subject area are held by Manuscripts and Special Collections in the Hallward Library.
longford.nottingham.ac.uk /Spotlight/story006/page7.asp   (247 words)

  
 July 1, 2005 - FYI - The University of Texas at Dallas
I am deeply honored to speak to this group of distinguished education leaders from research universities from Europe, Asia and North America.
This is perhaps a manifestation of what Tom Friedman of the New York Times refers to as the “flat world.” Fujia was formally president of another outstanding university Fudan University in Shanghai.
I consider it my enormous good luck that he and I were able to meet in the late 1970s in the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.
www.utdallas.edu /research/fyi/050701/commentary.html   (1994 words)

  
 EducationGuardian.co.uk | eG weekly | The free degrees
Nottingham University has its eye on the vast Chinese market, where this autumn it opens a campus in the city of Ningbo, and its honorary degrees are part of that strategy.
It conferred an honorary doctorate on the distinguished physicist Professor Fujia Yang, who has now become Nottingham's chancellor, ensuring expo sure to millions on Chinese television.
Nottingham did not neglect Brian Clough, though - who helpfully made the city's name famous abroad - and has also honoured local worthies such as Eric Irons, England's first fl magistrate.
education.guardian.co.uk /egweekly/story/0,5500,1520960,00.html   (1232 words)

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