The International Educational Innovation Forum, hosted by Duke Kunshan University’s Institute for Global Higher Education (IGHE), will bring together academic leaders and innovators to explore transformative approaches to education in a global context. The Forum offers a a dynamic platform for generating new ideas, fostering partnerships, and advancing educational quality and innovation.
Leadership Dialogues
- Global University Partnership Strategies
- Academic Strategy and Educational Innovation
Break-Out Panels
- Charting the Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Education in the US and China
- Mapping the Future of Educational Innovation in an AI World
- Building a Cross-Cultural Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Advancing Research and Practice in Teaching and Learning
Keynote Address
President, Westlake University
Biography
Dr. Shi Yigong received his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology with highest honor from Tsinghua University in 1989 and obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1995. Following a two-year postdoctoral research period at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, he joined the faculty of Molecular Biology at Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in 1998 and was promoted to Full Professor in 2003. He was named Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Molecular Biology in 2007. A year later, Dr. Shi resigned from Princeton University, declined an offer of an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and returned to Tsinghua University where he led the development of biomedical research community for a decade. In April 2018, Shi was elected as the Founding President of Westlake University, the first research-oriented private university in China.
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Questions:
Contact ighe@dukekunshan.edu.cn for logistical questions. For questions about the program, contact Noah Pickus, IGHE Global Director, Associate Provost at Duke and Dean for Academic Strategy and Learning Innovation at Duke Kunshan University, at pickus@duke.edu.
