1. Lecturer: Prof. Dong Xu.

2. Time: 14:30, 8th July, 2013.

3. Place: Room 4143, Building 4,Wushan.

Abstract:The American undergraduate education system has been highly successful and valuable. In this talk, I will illustrate the underlying reasons for its success from four perspectives: (1) institutional support and management for undergraduate education; (2) curricular design and customization; (3) experiential learning and extracurricular activities; and (4) soft skill developments. Some of the unique aspects in the American education system, such as capstone design and campus sports will be discussed. The materials presented in this talk might provide faculty some new input in higher-education design, help students going to the US better benefit from its education system, and give some hints to undergraduate students in China for competing at the international level.

About the Lecturer:Dong Xu is James C. Dowell Professor and Chair of Computer Science Department, with appointments in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and did two-year postdoctoral work at the US National Cancer Institute. He was a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2003 before joining University of Missouri. His research focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology. He has published more than 220 papers. He is a recipient of 2001 R&D 100 Award, 2003 Federal Laboratory Consortium’s Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer, and 2010 Outstanding Achievement Award from International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine. He is Editor in Chief of “International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalised Medicine” and Associate Editor-in-Chief of “IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.”