Yale President Richard C. Levin, Vice President and Secretary Linda Koch Lorimer, Yale Medical School Dean Robert Alpern, and Professor Tian Xu will represent the University at the centennial celebration of Fudan University in Shanghai on September 23-24.

President Levin will address the centenary gathering as the representative for overseas universities and participate in a panel discussion with other university presidents on "City Development and Higher Education." The Yale delegation will also meet with alumni and government officials during their trip and review the progress of Yale initiatives in Beijing and Shanghai. In Beijing, President Levin will join leaders from Peking University on the launch of the Peking-Yale Joint Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. As part of the centenary celebration at Fudan, President Levin will be awarded an Honorary Professorship in Economics from Fudan. This will be President Levin's fourth official trip to China.

President Richard C. Levin is leading a Yale delegation to China, where the University will enter into several formal agreements to expand educational and research collaborations with leading Chinese universities.

In Beijing, President Levin will sign an agreement with Peking University creating a new Peking-Yale Joint Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. Tso-Ping Ma, Yale’s chairman of electrical engineering, will co-direct the center. Yale also expects to establish a new joint undergraduate program with Peking University.

At the Chinese School for National Administration, which was the co-sponsor of the Chinese Senior Governmental Leaders Program held at Yale this summer, Vice President Linda K. Lorimer will review the recently completed program and discuss options for a program in the summer of 2006.

At the Chinese Ministry of Education, Vice President Lorimer will explore a Ph.D. program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences that the Yale School of Medicine wishes to establish with China.

President Levin and Secretary Lorimer will also meet with Clark T. Randt, Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to China, to review the array of Yale’s projects and collaborations in China. President Levin will also visit Tsinghua University and meet with President Gu and senior administrators.

In Shanghai, the Yale delegation will visit Tongji University, where the Yale School of Architecture has a partnership. The delegation will also travel to Jiao Tong University of Shanghai, a leading university in China which has participated the last two years in Yale-hosted programs involving Chinese education leaders.

Yale will be the featured foreign university at Fudan University's 100th anniversary. Fudan's first president was a Yale graduate, and Fudan is the site of a major joint research center on genetics under the auspices of Yale geneticist Tian Xu. President Levin will serve on a Fudan Centennial scholarly panel and be the only foreign University president to speak at the Centennial celebration.

Yale Medical School Dean Robert Alpern, who is addressing the Chinese Medical Association as part of the Yale delegation, also will visit the Fudan Medical School.