Two ZJU Post-Granduates Winning Committee of 100 Leadership Scholarship

Feb. 26, 2009

The award ceremony of Committee of 100 Leadership Scholarship (Year 2008-2009) will be held on March 26^th in Beijing. Winners of the awards have been recently released. Two ZJU post-graduates, Lu Fei-xia from School of Management and Wang Ben from School of Sciences, have won the award.

Committee of 100 (C-100) Leadership Scholarship is a long-term project founded in China by Committee of 100, an Ameircan non-partisan organization composed of American citizens of Chinese descent. C-100 Leadership Scholarship is intended to honor the post-graduate students with excellence in both morality and academic performance, potential in leadership and enthusiasm in charity and voluntary activities.

A dozen key universities in mainland China were involved since its establishment in Oct. 2005. Up to May 2008, 80 post-graduate students from a variety of disciplines have been awarded the scholarship.

Lu Fei-xia is a post-graduate student majoring in Administrative Management. She was a former chairman of GraduateStudent Union of ZJU and vice-chairman of Union of Students of Zhejiang Province. Shortly after the 5.12 Earthquake, Lu organized blood donation project and associated students with orphans in quake-striken areas to offer one-to-one help. In the summer vacation of the same year, she headed a volunteer team to conduct field research in Guizhou province, aiming to provide strategic suggestions for the development of private enterprises in West China.

Wang Ben, a Ph.D candidate in science, is majoring in Physical Chemistry. He invented a method of protecting cells with a film of mineral shell, an approach believed to shed new light on cell preservation. The relevant research paper Yeast Cells with an Artificial Mineral Shell: Protection and Modification of Living Cells by Biomimetic Mineralization was published in Angewandte Chemie, a leading international journal in this field. The paper received wide attention and high regards in that it opened up a new research area in Nanobiology. Wang s superior academic performance has earned him the invitation from American Chemical Society and the opportunity to further his study in Harvard-MITDivisionofHealthSciences and Technology.