The Grandest Chinese Festival Celebration On Campus

Mid-Autumn Banquet Held by ICB Club

By Lichao Sun

“It was an excellent festival activity which exhibited some slices of Chinese students’ talents and skills, as well as facilitated communications between international students and locals,” expressed Dr. Stephen Hartnett, Department of Communication Chair.  He continued, “I was impressed that there were so many people gathering in the Turnhalle tonight to celebrate this traditional reunion day in China.” Professor Hartnett was not be the only one surprised by the grand Mid-Autumn Banquet on September 24^th.
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ICB Welcome Party

University of Colorado Denver Hosts China Delegation

The University of Colorado Denver was one of three American institutions visited by a seventeen member educational delegation sponsored by the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), China’s professional association focused on the internationalization of Chinese higher education that conducts international educational exchanges and cooperation. The delegation, comprised of high-ranking officials and faculty members from eleven different Chinese institutions, arrived on the CU Denver and Anschutz Medical Campus on May 31 with the goal of exploring a variety of educational partnership options. Read More

Looking Back—Alumni Reunion at ICB

The alumni reunion was hosted on the fifth floor of the ICB building on March 26th, 2013, which was aimed at building a better understanding between alumni and seeking for more prospective students.

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Broaden Studies for a Minor or Even Major (Life) Change

Senior ICB students in Denver, who entered the program in 2009, are excitedly awaiting their upcoming May graduation. Most of them have studied on the downtown Denver campus for two years.  In 2011, the number of ICB students who came to Denver doubled the total number of Chinese students on the downtown Denver campus.

Also, as the new generation after 1990s, these students show more openness and acceptance to pioneer non-traditional academic areas, and try to follow with the multicultural American Zeitgeist.
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Alumni Profile: Lingguang Li – Living on Trains and Buses

Lingguang, an ICB alumna from the class of fall 2012, works as an intern for a Chinese investment company in Chengdu, Sichuan.  In contrast with most Chinese students who plan their academic and career goals way into the future, Lingguang seeks out engaging experiences today that will benefit her personally and/or professionally tomorrow.  And, since life is short, believes that students should avoid doing something that’s not of much interest to them.   She hopes to gain more career knowledge and enjoy travel with friends during this, her Chinese Zodiac year.

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Faculty Profile: Alexander Engau on the Absolute Value of Math (and Bats)

Alexander Engau is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver. And is currently teaching as a visiting faculty member at ICB in Beijing. Having published in a number of international academic journals, his research focuses on the theory and methodology of mathematical programming, optimization, and decision making with a particular interest in interior-point methods and semidefinite relaxations for combinatorial optimization. In his spare time Alexander keeps busy with music, sports, and exploring the outdoors.
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Monk Business in Nepal

by Wanyi Yang

Tibetans on pilgrimage to the Potala Palace with kowtow for every step  A Cambridge University professor at large.  An Australian volunteer from a special club.  These are just a few of the images I bring back from my travel through 18 provinces, 67 cities, and 121 villages in Tibet and Nepal over the past five months. Read More

Yearning in Yunnan

by Lijia Lin

Note:  Lijjie Lin, an ICB student in Beijing, accompanied a group of Christian volunteers to Yunnan province to observe the plight of displaced refugees from Kachin State in Myanmar (Burma).  This underreported crisis is the product of a civil conflict between the military forces of Myanmar and the Kachin Independence Army since June 2011, when a 17-year cease-fire broke down.  His reflections on what he saw follow. You can reach Lijia Lin at tomlin1992@hotmail.com. (Edited by R. Chaney.)

While on my way to the refugee camps, I first thought of my country’s apparent decision to pay scant attention to the refugees and the war.  But when I actually visited the Qie Qieba refugee camp and witnessed the harsh conditions there –lack of medicine, children begging for something to eat, crowds gathered together to pray for peace – I wanted to punch the whole world.

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Gaokao or Bust

by Lichao Sun

The gaokao is not just a simple entrance test for Chinese students and their families, which might determine their happiness for life, it’s also a huge investment in learning and studying that lasts years.  Read More