1. Robert Savinelli, Sam Fleischman, and Jason White University of California Santa Barbara PARTNERSHIP FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 向荣柏向荣柏 白杰森白杰森 You are here

2. INTRODUCTION What did we get to do? Science Make New Friends Travel Meetings Our Apartment DICP Dalian

3. Chinese Students study in Santa Barbara Guan Jing  The NSF PIRE-ECCI program is funded for Five years.  Each year 6 American students will come to China.  Each year 4 or 5 Chinese students will come to America.  Student research visits will be 4-6 months. Zheng Heng Li Xiujie Rob Electron Chemistry Catalysis Interfaces

4. Sam Fleischman Rob Zhang Hui Chen Tao Rob Why are we interested in China?  Respect for SCIENCE IN CHINA.  Global effects of Chinese development.  Chinese LANGUAGE.  RESEARCH OVERLAP between DICP and UCSB.

5. What have We Gained from this Experience?  NEW International Colleagues  IMPROVED Language Skills  Experimental RESULTS  Technical TRAINING Sam Fan Fengtao Yao Yunxi Jia Xiaojing Zhang Wenjuan Rob Jason White

6. Professor Bao’s Laboratory

7. Surface Science Group

8. Collaborations in Progress

9. It’s not all work This may be the most expensive video game I ever played.

10. Chinese Living Is it bigger than a bread box?

11. On campus dining I could get used to this

12. Eating out Korean food in China???

13. Day Hike above DICP Take a deep breath that’s Dalian Air

14. Friends and the Zoo Where are all the animals??

15. Sports On our way to joining the Houston Rocket?

16. Halloween First Timers

17. Dalian City

18. Dalian Beaches How many of these Ancient eggs do I have to eat?

19. Travel Red stars indicate the places that American Scott lab students have visited during their study in Dalian

20. Travel to Xi’an

21. Travel to Lanzhou

22. Travel to Beijing

23. Children performing in Beijing

24. Tsinghua University

25. Beijing Summer Palace

27. Professors in China and America This work was partially supported by under a grant from the National Science Foundation no. OISE-0530268 Alec Wodtke Bao Xinhe Yang Xueming Susannah Scott

28. Dr. Sun Junming Mr. Sam Fleischman Ms. Li Xiujie Mr. Zheng Heng Mr. Li Yong Acknowledgements Professor Bao Xinhe Professor Susannah L. Scott Professor Alec Wodtke Professor Yang Xueming Dr. Pan Xiulian