Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

Hey Everyone! Last Friday we had a talent show at Nanjing University’s Xianling Campus to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. In addition to the academic component, I love that at the center students share their non-academic talents as well, which makes the center a fun place to be. This talent show was a perfect place to highlight everyone’s gifts. Andrew, Chelsea, Leowil My group was one of the first up. We performed a global dance medley to Christmas music designed by Andrew and Adrienne, our ‘resident dance instructors’! It was really fun learning the dance. Who knew you could rumba to Last Christmas? We also had a foxtrot, a little bit of swing and some group dances. There were other acts Chinese and American students created together and performed from comedy, to singing, to dancing. Take a look at some of the other acts below! School work will take a lot of work so this was a nice reprieve. I’m going to keep this post short be...

节日快乐 ! Happy holidays from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center Washington Office! The HNC Washington Office will be closed on the following days over the next two weeks: Thursday, December 24th  Friday, December 25th  Thursday, December 31st  Friday, January 1st Admissions representatives will be still be available to answer admissions questions via email at nanjing@jhu.edu. Snowball fight at the HNC

This week, our student blogger, Andrew Retallick, sat down with HNC International Law Professor Roda Mushkat. Professor Mushkat also advises the HNC student Moot Court team, who recently placed second in the China-wide Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot Competition-a great accomplishment considering the HNC is small institution with no law school. The Moot Court Competition is a simulation of a fictional dispute before the International Criminal Court. The HNC regularly competes in Moot Court Competitions . Read our past blog posts to learn more.  Professor Roda Mushkat is my professor for International Humanitarian & Armed Conflict Law. The class is one of, if not my favorite class here at HNC and it really is in no small part due to Professor Mushkat’s teaching. The class is taught in English, moves at a reasonable pace, has clear instruction and always has one or two examples of how the regulations/laws are applicable in the real world. To give readers and ...

On December 3, 2015, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center co-hosted an event with Project Pengyou called “Building China into your Career: Experts’ Perspectives from the Classroom to the Workplace” at the Project Pengyou courtyard in central Beijing. The four panelists – all of whom were HNC alumni – spoke to over 60 attendees about how they developed their careers in China. Keynote speaker, Anthony Kuhn and Jim Heller were actually HNC classmates, graduating in 1992, while Ashleigh Au and Abe Sorock graduated in the 2000s. This was a nice contrast as each speaker was in a different field and at a different point in his or her career. After the keynote address, HNC Career Services Counselor Robbie Shields moderated a discussion with the panelists and then facilitated a Q&A session with the audience, both of which were lively and interesting. Panelists (From Left) Abraham Sorock, Anthony Kuhn, Ashleigh Au and Jim Heller with moderator and HNC Career Services Counselor Robbie Shields...

HNC students have several breaks throughout the academic year. Many students take this time to explore other parts of China and Asia. Our student blogger, Andrew Retallick, gives an overview of this year’s Fall Break trips.   Chelsea beat me to the post about Halloween, but here’s one of my favorite Halloween photos. Throwback to HNC Halloween Halloween was such a cool moment for me because only a few hours before the celebrations, the same people that were running around and putting the finishing touches on citations for papers, had some of the most elaborate Halloween costumes that I have ever seen.  Anyway, we just finished our Fall/Thanksgiving break. Some people went on elaborate trips throughout China and East Asia. I asked some of my classmates to send me some pictures from their trips, and here are some of my favorites: Matt went cycling on Hainan Island’s east coast Belinda, Xiaoyu and a lot of other HNC students took part in the Asia Ca...

Last week, Robbie Shields, HNC Career Counselor , led HNC and SAIS students on a five day career trek to Shanghai and Hong Kong. Students met with representatives at organizations in a variety of sectors ranging from global risk consultancy to pharmaceuticals to finance. The Asia Career Trek, held annually by the HNC and SAIS, is open to students on all of the SAIS campuses: Washington, Bologna and Nanjing. This year, nearly all of the students participating were HNC students. The trip is designed to have students meet with professionals the field face-to-face, learn different organizations and network with potential employers and alumni. Organizations that the students visited represented a variety of different sectors in the financial hubs of Shanghai and Hong Kong. The large majority of visits were hosted by a HNC, SAIS or JHU alumnus which goes to show how HNC students not only become a part the HNC alumni network, but also the Nanjing University, SAIS, and JHU alumni n...