The Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) Fellowship will offer financial support for students who have strong interests in the environment to pursue Chinese language study in the summer of 2024. Students will apply through the Ann Cornelisen Fellowship for Undergraduate Students. Open to first-years, sophomores and juniors.
Click here for the link to fellowship page: Vassar Office of Fellowship
Introduction
This summer field workshop, a key activity for our LIASE Implementation project, is designed to establish an institutional structure that brings together American and Chinese faculty and students representing a variety of disciplines in confronting major environmental problems. This initiative stems from the common teaching/research experiences at Vassar and our partner universities. For example, Vassar College has organized multidisciplinary studies of a local waterway, the Casperkill, where environmental scientists from Chemistry, Biology, and Geography have worked with students in ongoing, a joint study of water quality and related matters. Both ECNU and CCNU have a tradition of intensive field study summer sessions, during which students and faculty work together to examine environmental or social problems from a multidisciplinary perspective. These workshops draw on preexisting experience and structures, but enhance both by adding the dimension of international collaboration.
-Summer 2018: Water and City @ ECNU, Shanghai
-Summer 2019: Land and Agriculture @ ECNU, Shanghai
program paused due to the covid
-Summer 2023: Agriculture and Environment @NTU and NPUST, Taiwan
The considerable environmental challenges China faces and the myriad opportunities these present, in tandem with Vassar’s existing research-related and administrative connections with two Chinese universities—Central China Normal University in Wuhan (CCNU) and East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai—galvanize our commitment to a China-centric LIASE program. We will deepen our collaboration with ECNU and CCNU through annual intensive summer field workshops and in hosting on our campus visiting faculty and post-doctorates from these two institutions. Through this collaboration, we will enhance the engagement of our faculty and students with China and provide infrastructure and networking opportunities for scholars from our partner institutions and other LIASE grantee colleges. We will promote curricular innovation by injecting China-related subjects into our Environmental Studies courses and providing incentives for Asian Studies and language courses to increase their environmental content. Ultimately, this will inform the Asian Studies program’s collaboration with the Environmental Studies program to establish at Vassar an Asian Sustainability correlate sequence (minor)—and with it, a lasting new facet of the Vassar curriculum catalyzed by LIASE.
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