From: cnd-us@cnd.org (CND-US Editors) Subject: CND-US, April 19, 1996 (US96-019) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ US Regional, No. US96-019 April 19, 1996 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CND-US, normally 1 or 2 issues a week, is a supplement to CND-Global and | | has basically no overlap with the CND-G news. CND-US provides in-depth | | information concerning Chinese students/scholars in the United States. | +-------------------------------ISSN 1024-9141-----------------------------+ Table of Contents # of Lines ============================================================================ 1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 20 2. Summary of Amendments to Both House Bill 2202 and Senate Bill 1394 ... 55 3. Hsu Sen Fa Scholarship for Mainland Students '96 ..................... 38 4. Medical Help Sought for Eleven Year Old Boy in Dalian ................ 17 5. Job Opportunities (4 Items) .......................................... 87 6. Conferences: - International Conference on Information Infrastructure (ICII'96); - Modern Mechanics and Advancement of Science and Technology in Society - Seventh International Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis ........................................... 217 --- --- --- News/Info on S.1394 Is Available at URL http://cnd.cnd.org/visa/simpson-bill/ Or at URL http://www.cnd.org/ (Look for Server Announcements on the top page) ============================================================================ CND is a free network news service run by volunteers. To subscribe to/unsub. various CND Services and/or for more information, see trailer of the package. CND-US is published by China News Digest International, Inc. All rights are reserved. Redistribution is hereby permitted provided that it is not for profit and with proper acknowledgment to CND. ============================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. News Brief (2 Items) ................................................. 20 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Overseas Fujianers Visit Home From: Dennis Xu , Apr 19, 1996 The AAAF (American Association for the Advancement of Fujian) delegation led by its Chairman, Dr. Dennis Xu of Yale University, visited Fujian from April 1. to April 8. For more information about AAAF, please visit the home page of AAAF at http://144.74.27.66/AAAF.html. ____ ____ ____ (2) NJU's 100th anniversary-signature requested From: Fang HAN 4/19/96 As you may know that this year is NJU's 100th anniversary, we hope we overseas NJU's alumni and faculty members could express our congratulation to our alma mater where we had been studying or working for a while. A congratulation letter is ready for your signature which might be the simplest and fastest way to show your feelings and care. The letter is available at http://www.cps.msu.edu/~binyu/letter.html. The deadline for the signature is 24th April. For those who hope to participate, please response with your name and simple address to . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Summary of Amendments to Both House Bill 2202 and Senate Bill 1394 ... 55 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IFCSS HQ News Release, hq@ifcss.org, Apr 16, 1996 Following the adoption of Senator Spencer Abraham sponsored amendment to separate the Simpson Bill S 1394 into legal and illegal portions on March 14. the House passed an amendment, likewise, to divide the Smith Bill HR 2202 into two separate one, dealing with legal and illegal immigration, respectively, on March 21. Therefore, the fighting of multiple coalition groups for protecting legal immigration have achieved their primary goals. Since the harsh provisions related to employment-immigration had already been deleted from both Smith bill and Simpson bill during their marking-up processes, and minor restrictions in Smith bill are now in a separate legal immigration part, the immediate threats to employment and immigration of foreign students and professionals are relieved at the current moment. The IFCSS Headquarters sent acknowledgment letters to Representatives Dick Chrysler (Michigan, R), Howard Berman (California, D), Sam Brownback (Kentucky, R), Tam David (Virginia, R) and Calvin Dooley (California, D) and Philip Crane (Illinois, R), for their joint sponsorship of the House amendment to HR 2202. In Senate Judiciary Committee, those who support Mr. Abraham to separate the bill are, Orrin Hatch (Utah, R), Strom Thurmond (SD, R), Arlen Specter (Penn. R), Fred Thompson (Tennessee, R), Mike Dewine (Ohio, R), Joseph Biden, (Delware, D), Edward Kennedy (Mass. D), Patrick Leahy (Vermont, D), Paul Simon (Illinois, D), Herber Kohl (Wisc. D) and Russ Feingold (Washington, D). The IFCSS urges Chinese students and scholars to send your thanks-notes to the members in your district or state. We can not predict whether there will be another wave of anti-immigration sentiment, triggered merely by spontaneous events or press, sweeping the States in near future, and what we can do is to support the supporters of the legal immigration in Congress, and let the facts speak. Senator Edward Kennedy introduced an amendment, supported strongly by the White House, to protect the employment of American citizens immediately after Simpson withdrawn almost all provisions against employment o f alien professionals in early March. We respect this amendment, and will keep our eyes open as the Bill S 1394 bearing it moves to the Senate floor. The IFCSS urges CSS community to pay attention to illegal portion of both S 269 and Smith bill, in which basic human rights of immigrants, though illegal, are deprived on certain occasions, especially childrens will not be able to have medication if the bills are written into the law by the end of the year. Now it is the right time for us to express our concern to lawmakers. Numerous efforts have been made in the past eight months up from the IFCSS down to all concerned CSS, CSS organizations, local CSS leaders. Our congratulations go to all concerned Chinese students, scholars and professionals throughout the nation. You are part of success. We, all at the IFCSS, wish you well, and have a pleasant Sprinttime! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Hsu Sen Fa Scholarship for Mainland Students '96 ..................... 38 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IFCSS HQ News Release ,hq@ifcss.org, Apr 16, 1996 To help Chinese students complete their graduate studies, Hsu Sen Fa Scholarship was set up to award Mainland students who have gained certain accomplishments academically but are not financially promis- ing at the moment. The foundation looks forward to seeing the recei- pents of the scholarship, $2,000 for each, to return to home country after graduation and participate in the endeavour of the motherland's modernization. Eligibility Mainland students in states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania, who are candidates to Ph.D program and have started to write dissertations; Application Documents 1. Application letter & Resume; 2. Two references from professors; 3. Certificate of Candidancy to Ph.D program or qualification proof from department or school; Transcripts; 4. Outline of the Ph.D dissertation approved by the committee, and approval letter; 5. University registration proof and status of financial support. Deadline: May 31, 1996 Application Documents Mailed to: IFCSS Headquarters, 733 15th St. N.W. Suite 440 Washington D.C. 20005 (Please label the envelop: "Hsu Sen Fa Scholarship", and send it to the above address no later than May 20, 1996) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Medical Help Sought for Eleven Year Old Boy in Dalian ................ 17 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Liangzhi Xie , Apr 17, 1996 A boy from Dalian has been suffered from a Nephrotic Syndrome (Shen4 Bing4 Zong1 He2 Zheng4) for about two years, and is desperate to get medical help. His symptoms are high urine protein, high degree of dropsy, low plasma albumin, high blood cholesterol. He is strongly dependent on but allergic to epidermal (Pi2 Zhi4) growth hormones. He got worse when the usage of growth hormones was reduced. He now relies on growth hormones to keep urine protein negative, but BLD (Yin3 Xue3) and NIT are often detected in urine. The boy's family is suffered from the heavy burden of hospital fee as well as the deep concerns for the boy's recovery. They have tried many famous hospitals in China but failed to find a cure. I happen to know them when I was in Dalian visiting friends. Any kind of suggestions or help will be greatly appreciated. Please send msg to liangzhi@mit.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Job Opportunities (4 Items) .......................................... 87 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Research Position in Applied Gastrointestinal Motility (2) Field Service Engineer (3) Chief Financial Officer and Controller (4) Lecturer at the National University of Singapore ____ ____ ____ (1) Research Position in Applied Gastrointestinal Motility From: Jie Liang , Apr 18, 1996 We are seeking a Ph.D. or M.D. with an interest in applied gastrointestinal motility research. This position is a full-time position at the Thomas N. Lynn Institute for Healthcare Research at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. A Ph.D. with a background in G.I. motility is preferred but would consider an M.D. in a part-time research/practice situation. Individual with an interest in irritable bowel syndrome, colonic and anorectal motility disorders is preferred. Please send C.V. to Chairman, Research Committee Lynn Institute for Healthcare Research Baptist Medical Center 3300 NW Expressway OKC, OK 73112 U.S.A. Email: jchen1@ecn.uoknor.edu ____ ____ ____ (2) Field Service Engineer From: Train Qun Luo , Apr 16, 1996 Jobe Code: T-005 Position: Field Service Engineer(level 2) Requirements: - BSEE or BSET or equivalent work experience. Experience in supporting complex capital equipment for the semiconductor industry is required. - Knowledge of semiconductor test equipments. Knowledge of semiconductor process. Knowledge of optics and lasers. - Basic knowledge of computer theory and MS-DOS. - Good mechanical and analytical skills. Location: P. R. China - Beijing or Shanghai. Salary: Depends on current salary and work experience. Contact: Mr. Train Luo TKO Personnel Inc. fax: 408-453 9083 email: train@gnn.com ____ ____ ____ (3) Chief Financial Officer and Controller From: Yingli Liu , Apr 16, 1996 Job Title: Chief Financial Officer and Controller for a $40 million real estate joint venture Location: Beijing Qualifications: Degree and working experience in accounting and bilingual (Chinese and English) Fax resume to: 908-873-1424 or mail resume to: P.O. Box 7420 Somerset, NJ 08875-7420 ____ ____ ____ (4) Lecturer at the National University of Singapore From: Tong Xue Song , Apr 19, 1996 The Business Policy Department at the National University of Singapore currently has the following openning: Lecturer in corporate strategy. Candidates should have an earned Ph.D. in business administration. Position involves instruction at undergraduate and MBA (Chinese) level, student advisement and scholarship. For further information, please contact Dr. Tong Xue Song at The Business Policy Department, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260. e-mail: fbatxs@leonis.nus.sg tel: (65)772-3169 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Conferences: - International Conference on Information Infrastructure (ICII'96); - Modern Mechanics and Advancement of Science and Technology in Society - Seventh International Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis ........................................... 217 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) International Conference on Information Infrastructure (ICII'96) Source: CHINANET, Apr 16, 1996; Forwarded by: Jian-Min LI International Conference on Information Infrastructure ( Information Super Highway) ICII'96-Beijing April 25-28, Beijing, CHINA sponsored by Chinese governmental bodies and organizations The world is now entering to a new age, the information era. How to properly build up the social infrastructure for the new era, creating a more satisfactory life for all people over the world ? The first and large-scaled International Conference on Information Infrastructure (The so-called Information super Highway), ICII'96, sponsored by Chinese governmental bodies, will be held from April 25 to 28, 1996, in Beijing. The objective of the conference is to provide forums for disseminating, sharing and exchanging the latest progress and experiences both in information infrastructure planning, research, development, and implementation, applications, as well as cooperation among various countries. The working language of the conference is English. Perspective authors or delegates are encouraged to submit their papers to the conference. Government's representatives and industry authorities from various countries are invited to present their plans and activities toward information infrastructure, either national or regional. In the mean time, discussions on variety of hot points, both in theoretical research and in practical experiences related to the themes of information infrastructure will be organized, attempting, if possible, to lay some common mutual-understanding bases, channels and criteria for future practice and cooperation. The topics of the conference will be focused on, but not limited to, the following: FORUM A: Planning and Policy FORUM B: Technology Forum C: Applications For further information, please contact the secretariate using the following communication address : Secretariate of ICII'96 President Office Univ of Posts & Telecom Beijing 100088, CHINA Tel: (8610) 2282023, 2282659 Fax: (8610)2028643 e-mail:zyx@bupt.edu.cn ____ ____ ____ (2) Modern Mechanics and Advancement of Science and Technology in Society From: Tao Li , Apr 16, 1996 Modern Mechanics and Advancement of Science and Technology in Society ---- A Conference Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of CSTAM August 26-28, 1997 Beijing, China OBJECTIVES To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM), a conference is to be held in Beijing, 1997, where the developments of mechanics will be reviewed in an atmosphere conductive to fruitful interaction and exchange of ideas and the stafte-of-the-art information among scientists and engineers from research institutions, academia and the industrial sectors. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the topics outlined below and other topics of interest which fall within the general scope of the conference. Abstracts of no more than 500 words, clearly stating the purpose, results and conclusions of the work should be submitted to the Conference Secretariate before Sept. 1st, 1996. * Solid Mechanics * Fluid Mechanics * General Mechanics * Overlapping subjects Special attention will be given during the conference to * mechanics in design, manufacture process and high technology; * nonlinear mechanics; * overlapping subjects; * computational mechanics and important applications of computer in mechanics; * new methods and results of experimental mechanics. Please type or print, and return this form to: Prof. Shi Guangyi 15 Zhong Guan Cun Road Beijing 100080, PR China Name: Prof./Dr./Ms./Mr. Unit: Mailing Address: Post Code: Telephone: Fax: E-Mail: Title of Paper: Attend the conference? Attend the Exhibition? Project for Exibition: Special Requirements: ____ ____ ____ (3) Seventh International Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis From: Frank Luo , Apr 14, 1996 BCEIA'97 The Seventh International Beijing Conference and Exhibition on Instrumental Analysis General Information Date of Conference: October 14-17, 1997 Date of Exhibition: October 14-18, 1997 Place of Conference: Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China Official Language of Conference: English Objective: To promote the academic exchanges on instrumental analysis and friendship among the scientists of various countries in these fields as well as to promote technology and trade cooperation between Chinese and foreign companies. Programme // BCEIA'97 The programme of BCEIA'97 will feature two special plenary sessions on currently focal topic of instrumental analysis applied to environment protection and life sciences, highlighted with key lectures given by internationally prominent scientists. In addition, six separated symposia on different fields of instrumental analysis consisting of both oral and poster presentations will cover the latest developments in instrumentation and the most recent results of applications to modern science and technology. Call for paper and proceedings Papers are to be contributed in the following fields. A. Electron Microscopy B. Mass Spectroscopy C. Spectroscopy D. Chromatography E. Magnetic Resonance F. Electroanalytical Chemistry Abstracts of the contributed paper of either oral or poster presentations prepared in two "camera ready" pages following the format to be specified in detail in the Second Circular will be published in separated volumes for each field as the Proceedings of the Conference. Exhibition // BCEIA'97 During the conference a large scale exhibition of scientific instruments will be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, where many up-to-date products of analytical instruments on electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, chromatography, magnetic resonance, and electroanalytical chemistry from all over the world will be displayed. Space will be provided for exhibitors to hold technical seminars and business talks. Accommodation Hotel accommodation will be arranged by the (BCEIA'97) General Service Office. Further information will be given in the Second Circular. Registration Fees Regular conferee US$250 Student US$150 Accompanying person US$180 Exhibition only US$100 Conference fees include the expense of a copy of the conference Proceedings in the respective field, and social program. Dates to note Response form should be sent back before June 30, 1996 Second and Final Circular sent out September 1, 1196 Submission of Abstract before January 31, 1997 Any inquiries or requests about BCEIA'97 should be addressed to: BCEIA'97 General Service Office Room 585, Chinese Academy of Sciences Building San Li He, Xi Jiao P.O. 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