MIT China
Funding for international collaboration and research
MISTI Global Seed Funds provides funding to MIT faculty and research scientists to encourage international collaboration and research anywhere in the world. In addition, five MISTI country programs offer country-specific funds. For all projects, additional funds are available to support the cost of involving qualified MIT students.
MIT China Strategy Working Group
The new MIT China Strategy Working Group, headed by CSAIL Director and Professor Victor Zue and composed of MIT faculty and staff with interests in and knowledge of Greater China, is charged with identifying new initiatives and collaborations that MIT might launch with China in the coming years.
The MIT China Forum is part of this broader MIT effort to look at new ways of fostering ties with China. The China Forum is a new monthly lecture series launched with a May 14, 2008 talk by Yingyi Qian, Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and professor of economics at UC Berkeley. Qian spoke about China's recent economic transformation.
