The School of Kinesiology's Maureen Weiss, professor of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center, is on a trip to five universities in China—Beijing, Tianjin, Chengdu, Xian, Shanghai—from October 9-23. She joins representative faculty from the CIC universities (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) on a mission to discover ways to collaborate on undergraduate and graduate programs, research projects, and study abroad opportunities with their Chinese counterparts.
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Wednesday afternoon, October 15, 2008
Just a brief note but two students and a recent doctoral graduate were our constant and extremely helpful guides during our time in Beijing. One of the guides, Chen (who wanted to be called Peter), was animated at the opportunity to speak and practice his English. He was really pretty good with the language but sometimes pronunciations were a bit skewed such as when he called me what sounded like Mao rather than Mo!