Achievement

We have continued to grow our "community of scholars" that work in Yunnan and other areas of China by inviting guest speakers to campus and through our associate awards (non-NSF small grants) to graduate students at our own and other universities. Having this network to help our support our trainees has been extremely beneficial to trainees as they form their research questions and conduct their research. Over the past four years we have invited a total of 20 guest speakers all of whom work in Yunnan or in China. Each guest speaker spent 2-3 days on campus presenting in seminar and interacting one-on-one with our students. In addition, we have now given small grants to 14 graduate students from a total of 8 institutions, either to do comparative studies or their dissertation work in our field site.