CEES faculty members David Sabatini, Robert Nairn, Yang Hong and Naiyu
Wang represented CEES as part of an OU delegation to Tsinghua University
(Beijing, China) led by VPR Kelvin Droegemeier. Faculty from OU Microbiology and Plant
Biology, and Meteorology were also present.
June 9 was declared "OU day" on the Tsinghua campus and included
a full day of research presentations by OU and Tsinghua faculty as well as a
ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the universities to
facilitate scholarly collaboration.
Further discussions identified several areas of mutual strength in the
Environmental Sciences and developed preliminary plans for more formal research
partnerships, student and faculty exchanges, and establishment of an OU
presence in Beijing.
