Spring 2010 Program Faculty
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The faculty listed below are the professors scheduled to teach in the Peking University - Yale University Joint Undergraduate Program during the Spring 2010 semester.
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Alfred L.M. Bothwell
Professor, Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine
Immunity
Seminar on Cancer, Autoimmunity and Transplantation
Alfred L.M. Bothwell is Professor in the Department of Immunobiology and a member of the Interdepartmental Programs Human Translational Immunology and Program in Vascular Biology and Therapeutics and a member of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Yale University School of Medicine. He received his A.B. from Washington University and his Ph.D. from Yale University. His research includes the development of humanized mouse models to study interactions of the human immune system in vascular inflammation, autoimmune diseases and cancer. Studies in murine models also address the regulatory role of T lymphocyte populations in models of inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer. In his role as Director of Graduate Studies he also oversees approximately 60 PhD and MD/PhD students in Immunology. He is also an active member of the Steering Committee to foster the development of the Yale-China Scholarship Council PhD Program.
Dong Chen
Assistant Professor of Economics, Peking University
ECON 120: "Introduction to Chinese Economy"
Professor Dong received his BA in Economics from Chongquing University, and his MA in Economics from the University of Victoria in Canada. He recently received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Economics at Peking University. He specializes in industrial organization, applied econometrics, and Chinese economy.
Xing Wang Deng
Professor of Department of Molecular, Cell and Development Biology, Yale University
MCDB 470: "Tutorial, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
MCDB 475: "Directed Research, Peking-Yale Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology"
Xing Wang Deng received his Ph.D. in plant biology from the University of California at Berkeley. His research centers on plant genetics and agro-biotechnology. He is an author of over 100 research papers and Director of Peking-Yale Joint Center for Plant Molecular Genetics and Agro-biotechnology. Professor Deng is a recipient of the Presidential Faculty Fellow Award and the Kumho Science International Award. He also has served as advisory board member for several professional organizations and associate editor for multiple scientific journals.
Antonia Finnane
Professor of Chinese History, University of Melbourne
HIST 335: "Confucianism and Commerce in Chinese Society"
HIST 312/EAST 445: "Making China Modern"
Professor Finnane is interested in the social history and material culture of China over the last five hundred years. She has published articles and books in urban history, with particular reference to Yangzhou; on the history of clothing and fashion in China; and on the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai. Her current research concerns consumption in late imperial China, with a particular focus on shops and shopping.
Zhang Jian
Lecturer, School of Government, Peking University
Professor Zhang Received his BA in International Studies from Peking University and his PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. He has also served as the Editor for Strategy and Management for the China Society of Strategy and Management. He has also written for the Heartland, Eurasian Review of Geopolitics.
T.P. Ma
Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University
T.P. Ma is Raymond J. Wean Professor of Electrical Engineering and professor of Applied Physics at Yale University, where he has been a faculty member since 1977. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Director of the Yale Center for Microelectronics. He is also a Co-Director of the Peking-Yale Joint Research Center for Microelectronics and Nanotechnology. His research and teaching at Yale have focused on various aspects of semiconductor science and technology. He holds Honorary Professorships at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tsinghua University, and Tianjin University, and Honorary Guest Professorship at Peking University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a life member of the American Physical Society, among numerous memberships of other professional organizations.
Joann Sweasy
Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics, Yale University
"Famous Women in Science"
"Human Genetics"
Joann B. Sweasy is Professor in the Department of Therapeutic Radiology and Genetics at Yale University School of Medicine. Joann is also a member of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center. Joann received her B.A. from Arcadia University and her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the mechanisms by which mutations are introduced into the genome and result in human diseases such as cancer. Professor Sweasy serves on the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Cancer Research, FASEB Journal, and Mutation Research. She is also a regular participant in the peer review of grant applications for the US National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and other international funding agencies. In addition to her research, Joann mentors several graduate and undergraduate students and postdoctoral fellows. She teaches graduate students and medical residents and is an active participant in the BioStep Program, which has the goal of mentoring and encouraging underrepresented minorities to become scientists.
Xuan Ya
Lecturer, International College for Chinese Language Studies, Peking University
Xuan Ya received two Masters of Art; one in Clinical Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and one in Modern Chinese Literature at Peking University. She did her undergraduate work in Chinese language and literature at Shandong University. In addition to her nearly twenty years of teaching Chinese as a foreign language at Peking University, she has also taught Chinese at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, and at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. She spent two months at Yale observing all levels of Chinese language classes.
