EDUCATION
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1.Introduction
2. Scholars and educators:
Chang-Lin Tien
T.D. Lee & C.N. Yang
Samuel C.C. Ting
Yuan T. Lee
Steven Chu
Yuen Ren Chao
Lu Sheng Chong
3. Publishers: Cheng & Tsui
4. Chinese schools


INTRODUCTION:
Since the first group of Chinese set foot on America more than one
hundred years ago, education of Chinese American developed from zero
to that excellence of today. Many Chinese Americans contributed and
keep on contributing to education of America. One hundred years ago,
there almost were no schools for Chinese Americans. They didn't have
right and chance to go to public school.

Even some of them got chance, but there still were so many troubles
and difficulties, such as discrimination, language, culture, etc.
Chinese Americans tried their best to higher their statues in the
society, first of all, from the education.Take a look at schools and
Chinese Americans today. At schools, they are good and excellent. At
society, they are successful and honorable at every aspect. Here our
group will introduce some of them .


SCHOLARS AND EDUCATORS:

1. CHANG-LIN TIEN: Chang-Lin Tien was the Chancellor of U.C.
Bekerley (1990-1997). He holds the professorial title of NEC
Distinguished Professor of Engineering, a post he assumed on July 1,
1997 after seven years' service as U.C. Berkeley's seventh
Chancellor--the first Asian-American to head a major research
university in the United States. Concurrent with his Chancellorship,

he was also A. Martin Berlin Chair in Mechanical Engineering. The
Sacramento Bee reported that the resignation of Tien, 66, would be a
blow to the Berkeley campus, which has embarked on a $1 billion fund-
raising campaign.

Under Tien's leadership, Berkeley was recently rated the top
graduate school in the nation in nearly every subject among both
public and private universities. A native of China with strong ties
to Asian business leaders, Tien has attracted major donations to the
University from Asia.

He would become the third chancellor since last summer to announce
his resignation or retirement following a vote by university regents
to dismantle affirmative action programs. Tien strongly opposed the
decision.

Tien joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley in
1959. Rising through the ranks, he became a full professor, later
chairman of the department from 1974 to 1981, and for two years
(1983-85) was Berkeley's Vice Chancellor--Research. He left Berkeley
in 1988 and served for two years as Executive Vice Chancellor and
UCI Distinguished Professor at U.C. Irvine before returning to
Berkeley. He was appointed the seventh Chancellor.

Besides his numerous public service contributions, Dr. Tien has
achieved a remarkably distinguished record as a scientist and
educator. Internationally recognized for his research in heat
transfer technology, he has received many honors, including the Max
Jakob Memorial Award, the highest international honor in the field
of heat transfer.

He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since
1976 and was elected in 1991 as a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences. A recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Tien
in 1962 became the youngest professor ever to win U.C. BerkeleyÌs
prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award.

Anchored in both American and Asian cultures, Dr. Tien is deeply
committed to maintaining excellence and to broadening the democratic
reach of education to all groups, believing that by opening up major
new pools of talent, excellence will be achieved more easily. He has
taken an active leadership role in many community relations
activities and educational reform programs.

In engagements that frequently span the globe, he vigorously pursues
the goals of enhancing communications between East and West and
promoting the American values of democracy and freedom across the
world.

He has been an active member of the Pacific Council on International
Policy, the U.S. Committee for Economic Development, the Council on
Foreign Relations, and many others. On July 1, 1997, he also assumed
the position of Chairman, San Francisco Bay Area Economic Forum.

Tien was born in Wuhan, China, and educated in Shanghai and Taiwan.
After completing his undergraduate education at National Taiwan
University and received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan
University in 1955, he came to the U.S. in 1956. He earned an MME
degree at the University of Louisville in 1957, and MA and PhD
degrees at Princeton in 1957 and 1959.


2) T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is
home to many world-class research facilities and scientific
departments, which attract resident and visiting researchers in many
fields. In 1957, two scientists who had worked as guest scientists
at BNL during the summer of 1956 received the Nobel Prize in physics
for radically questioning one of physics' basic tenets.

T. D. Lee, of Columbia University, and C. N. Yang, then of
Brookhaven, interpreted results of particle decay experiments at
BNL's Cosmotron particle accelerator and discovered that the
fundamental and supposedly absolute law of parity conservation had
been violated.

The results they studied concerned two particles, the tau and the
theta, which had the same masses, lifetimes and scattering
behaviors, but which decayed differently in experiments at the
Cosmotron.

Because of this, the law of parity conservation required that these
otherwise similar particles be considered different from one
another. Lee and Yang suggested experiments that showed that the
weak interaction of radioactive decay could indeed violate parity
conservation. When the experiments were later successfully
completed, the puzzle of the two particles was solved -- they could
be the same.

They had taught many successful students who also have contribution
to the physics field. They showed their students how to hard work to
get the best result.

3) SAMUEL C.C. TING:
The 1976 Nobel Prize in physics was shared by a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology researcher who used BNL's Alternating
Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) to discover a new particle and confirm
the existence of the charmed quark.

Samuel was credited for finding what he called the "J" particle, the
same particle as the "psi" found at nearly the same time at the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center by a group led by Burton Richter.
The particle is now known as the J/psi.

Ting's experiment took advantage of the AGS's high-intensity proton
beams, which bombarded a stationary target to produce showers of
particles that could be detected by complex detectors. A strong peak
in electron and positron production at an energy of 3.1 billion
electron volts (GeV) led Ting to suspect the presence of a new
particle, the same one found by Richter.

Their discoveries not only won the Nobel Prize; they also helped
confirm the existence of the charmed quark -- the J/psi is composed
of a charmed quark bound to its antiquark

4) STEVEN CHU: WINNER OF NOBEL PHYSICS AND PROFESSOR OF STANFORD
UNIVERSITY:
Steven Chu got 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics for development of
methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. He researches in
Atomic Physics. Currently his research interests include the
development and use of laser cooling, atom trapping and atom optics
techniques.

He works really hard. That's why he gets success on physics field.
He became Postdoctoral Fellow of UC Berkeley from 1976 to 1978. He
also became a member of Technical Staff, AT&T, from 1978 to 1983. He
was the head of Quantum Electronic Dept., AT&T Bell Laboratories
from 1983 to 1987.

Then he became the Professor of Physics and Applied Physics of
Stanford University since 1987. After that, he also visited many
colleges as special visitor. All those careers give him chances to
get experience. He learned a lot of stuff from every career. Every
one is just like a step to the success.

He got many awards:
Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1987; Fellow of the Optical
Society of America, 1990; America Physics Society, Broad Prize for
Laser spectroscopy, 1987; APS/AAPT Richtmyer Memorial Prize Lecture,
1990; Co-winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Science,
1993; APS, Arthur Schawlow Prize for Laser science, 1994; Opt.
Soc.Am, William F.Meggers Award for Spectroscopy, 1994; Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Science, 1992; Member of the
National Academy of Sciences, 1993; Member of the Academia Sinica,
1994; Science for art Prize and Humboldt Senior Scientist Award,
1995; Guggenhein fellow, 1996; Co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for
Physics, 1997.

He does not only work hard in the Physics Field, but also teaches
many students who make contributions too. Some of his students are
Hazen Babcock, Cheng Chin, KengYeo.

He was born at St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1948


5) YUAN T. LEE:
1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry . He was born in 1936 at Taiwan.
His affiliation is U.C. Berkeley.


6) YUAN REN CHAO:
As the founder of modern linguistics in China, Professor Yuen Ren
Chao was a leading linguist in the structuralist tradition. His
contributions ranged over the total spectrum of linguistic inquiry,
from highly technical discussions in linguistic theory to practical
texts for language teaching.

He made fundamental contributions in the methods of data collection
as well as in the analysis and theoretical interpretation of these
data. He was a pivotal figure in bringing the languages of China to
the attention of linguists the world over, and in opening the doors
of western linguistics to several generations of Chinese scholars.

He also pioneered the study of Chinese dialectology and Chinese
language acquisition. His phonetic alphabet for Chinese, the Gwoyeu
Romatzyh, was officially adopted by the Chinese government in 1928.
His major publications include the Concise Dictionary of Spoken
Chinese (with Lien-shen Yang) (1947), Language and Symbolic Systems
(1968), and A Grammar of Spoken Chinese (1968).

By 1948, two of the three leading Chinese linguists of the Institute
were in the U.S.; while Professor Changpei Luo remained at Peking,
Professor Yuen Ren Chao was teaching at UC Berkeley, and Professor
Fang Kuei Li held a position at the University of Washington in
Seattle.

This made Berkeley one of the two central venues for research in
Chinese linguistics in this country. In light of Professor Chao's
many contributions and in order to highlight the tradition he
started at Berkeley, the Chao Yuen Ren Center for Chinese
Linguistics on the Berkeley Campus has been named in his honor.

Established in the fall of 1993 as a research unit in the Institute
of East Asian Studies with funding from the Chiang Ching-kuo
Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, it is committed to
promoting and supporting academic activities in Chinese linguistics
both on the Berkeley campus and for the community of linguists
across the nation.


7) PROFESSOR LU-SHENG CHONG:
(Zhong Lusheng in Mainland China's pinyin) is the director of the
Chinese Cultural Learning Center. He has introduced Chinese culture
to Americans. He has devoted his life and strength at teaching,
publishing and operating Chinese cultural center for more than forty
years.

He has been teaching since 1951 and teaching Chinese as a second
language since 1956. He has taught at National Taiwan Normal
University, the University of Washington, and several other
colleges. He is the author of Mandarin Phonetics, a college
textbook, as was one of the editors of Selections of Chinese
Literature. He was also on the editorial board of A New Practical
Chinese-English Dictionary.

He graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University majoring in
Chinese language and literature. He studied linguistics at
Georgetown University in Washington DC and got his doctoral degree
from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, with an emphasis
on foreign language teaching through new technology.


B) PUBLISHERS: CHENG & TSUI:
Cheng & Tsui Company is a Boston-based publisher and distributor of
Asian language-learning materials, literature in translation,
computer software, and other products that introduce East languages
and culture to the Western world.

Cheng & Tsui Company was incorporated in 1980, when founder and
president Jill Cheng opened their current West Street office,
appropriately situated in historical downtown Boston, right up the
street from the Chinatown. Later, having accomplished her initial
mission of providing otherwise inaccessible Chinese and Japanese
original-language products to scholars in the West, Ms. Cheng
decided to expand her efforts.

In 1987, combining her background in publishing with her
multilingual training, she sought to bring Asia to a broader segment
of the world, and began publishing and distributing English-language
materials about Asia.

They began to offer publications from Korea in 1994, childrenís
books in 1995, and materials related to Southeast Asia in 1997.
Cheng & Tsui was also an early pioneer in the area of educational
multimedia, providing software supplements for its language-learning
series, such as Hyperchinese: The Grammar Modules.

Cheng & Tsui Company's first publications include the New Chinese
300 series, published in collaboration with the Beijing Institute,
and Essential Grammar for Modern Chinese by the late Helen Lin of
Wellesley College. Today they have added to their excellent language
learning products the new and highly acclaimed Integrated Chinese
series and the Mirai. Their mission is to continue to provide us
with valuable products that truly express the variety and richness
of Asian civilizations.


C) CHINESE SCHOOLS:

CHINESE COLLEGE, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 1878:
It was almost the first Chinese college in America. It taught
Americans Chinese language, also provided chances to Chinese to
study in America. Since the early 19th century, New England has been
the Mecca for Chinese students and scholars.

From 1818 to 1825, the first group of students, native of the Canton
Province attended the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall,
Connecticut. In 1847, three Chinese students from the same province
attended the Monson Academy in Massachusetts, including Yung Wing,
who later became the first Chinese student to receive an American
college degree.

The Chinese School of Middleburry College:
The Chinese school is the one of the successful Chinese schools
provide a great chance to people who want to learn Chinese language.
It offers a nine-week intensive program each summer, with courses in
modern Mandarin at the beginning, intermediate, and two different
advanced levels, and one course in beginning classical Chinese.

These courses are designed to help learners develop and improve
their listening, speaking, readin, and writing skills. The
curriculum at all level also aims at helping learners acquire and
expand their knowledge of Chinese culture. The Director is T.
Richard Chi. He is Professor of Chinese, University of Utah, Ph.D.,
UCLA. All the instructors are Chinese Americans.