Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

The HNC Washington Office is pleased to welcome Franklin Eneh to the HNC team! Franklin will be visiting schools this fall and assisting students throughout the application process.     A native of southwest Connecticut, Franklin graduated from Clark University with a double major in Psychology & Asian Studies in 2013 and then with a Masters in Public Administration in 2014. During his first semester of undergrad he literally took Chinese 101 on a whim and quickly developed a strong passion for Chinese culture . In 2012 he spent one year in China, s tudying for eight months with CET Intensive Chinese language programs in Beijing and Harbin, followed by 4 months as an exchange student at the Shandong University of Science and Technology in Qingdao .    Franklin’s China interests have led him to several notable experiences such as receiving a Boren Scholarship in 2011 for one year of intensive language study in China and earning 2 nd...

The HNC regularly hosts guest lectures in English and Chinese on a variety of different topics. This past week, Professor Richard Brubaker, Founder of Collective Responsibility, gave a lecture on China’s changing economy and the implications for the environment and sustainability.    Professor Richard Brubaker, who is the Founder of Collective Responsibility, a Shanghai-based sustainability consultancy, gave a lecture titled, “Sustainability, Leadership and Innovation in China.” Professor Brubaker is a Visiting Professor of Sustainability at China-Europe International Business School (CEIBS). He was joined by Chuli Duan, Business Development Manager in Corporate Strategy and SAIS DC graduate.        The lecture focused on the transition that China’s economy is undergoing and implications that this has for environmental and other sustainability concerns in China and across Asia. Professor Brubaker also focused on entrepreneurial acti...

Annie Twombly, 2014 HNC Certificate alum, shares an update from Kumasi, Ghana! She is now working for as the Communications Manager for Exponential Education. Read on to hear more her experiences working in Ghana.    Exponential Education is a nonprofit based in Kumasi, Ghana. Its aim is to make education more accessible to Ghanaian middle school and high school students, particularly those who are struggling with the coursework or who are unable to pay tuition fees. Expo (as it is fondly referred to around the office) addresses this with a double-edged sword: by partnering with the administrators and teachers of schools in the communities surrounding Kumasi, the organization is able to identify junior high students who would benefit from after-school tutoring. Then moving to the high schools, Expo again works with the administration to identify the top performing students with financial needs. With these two student groups identified by school administrations, ...

Your resume is an important piece of your HNC application. The HNC's own Career Counselor, Robbie Shields, shares his 5 Dos and Don'ts of resume writing.  Hello. My name is Robbie Shields and I’m the Career Counselor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. In this post I’d like to briefly discuss resumes. For most, resume writing is hardly an exciting topic. You’d probably rather be reading about the 9-Dash Line, Baidu’s investment in Uber, or how governments, businesses, and NGOs are working to solve environmental challenges. But in order to position yourself to work in these capacities you need to know how to write a resume. Virtually every job, internship, fellowship, scholarship, or degree program (the HNC included) will require you to submit a resume. Therefore, let’s take a few minutes and discuss 5 Do’s and 5 Don’ts of resume writing.  Before we get started let me offer this disclaimer; there are many different resume formats for many different regions. Additionall...