WHO: Professor Juefei Wang, University of Vermont

WHAT: "Chinese Education in a Changing Society" - Confucius Institute Speaker Series

WHERE: William T. Young Library

WHEN: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 3:00p.m.

Dr. Juefei Wang is Professor of Education Emeritus of the University of Vermont and Program Director of the Freeman Foundation.  He founded the University of Vermont Asian Studies Outreach Program and served as its director for 14 years.  In that role he created a statewide program for Asian studies in schools in Vermont, organized more than 1,000 teachers, school administrators, and high school and college students to visit China, Japan, and Thailand, and assisted Vermont schools in offering content on Asia.   In 2003, the program received the inaugural Prize for Excellence in International Education from Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Asia Society.  Dr. Wang has published extensively in international education and comparative education, and has made presentations on American and Chinese education nationally and internationally.  He received his M.Ed. in comparative education at Beijing Normal University, and M. Ed. in Foundational Studies of Education and Ed. D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Vermont. 

Dr Carolyn P Brock will be presenting a seminar entitled "Quasicrystals: The 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry" for the Physical Chemistry section of CHE776.