25 July 08: Jack Chuanjie Song was runner #142 in the Olympic Torch Relay in Jinan, Shandong. You can see photos of him at the StonyBrookChina Yahoo group, or on the SBU AA E-Zine photo gallery at http://www.aasquared.org/gallery/OlympicTorchRelay2008, or at Jack's blog http://jacksong.blog.sohu.com

May 08: Sarah Liu Xinhua was an Olympic Torch Relay Buddy who accompanied Indonesian Torch runner Muli when he ran in Fujian Longyan and on his trip to Beijing. In an exchange program she spent a week in Jakarta. Sara is a market analyst for BHP Billiton, the Olympic sponsor that will provide the medals. BHP had ten Olympic torchbearers from their global operations.
http://www.aasquared.org/gallery/OlympicTorchRelayBuddy2008

8 Feb 08: SONG Chuanjie, known as Jack to everyone in China V, will be one of the torchbearers when it passes through Jinan on July 27th. The torch theme is "Light the Passion, Share the Dream."

28 Jan 08: Yunfan Wang, who goes by the name of Katherine, started her first day of classes. Her father is WANG Zhiwen from China V. She became the first child of any China alumni to become a Stony Brook University student. She said she loves her classes. She came in September to attend IEC, the Intensive English Center, and placed so high in the exam she was put in the top class. If she passed her classes she was guaranteed admission to SBU - and of course she did!

Here are photos of her at different events. She met President Kenny at the Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner where the first Chinese American was honored; her graduation from IEC; and decorating her first Christmas tree.

DAA Dinner: This is an article with links to all the photos and video. The video begins with Dean of Engineering Yacov Shamash giving the award to Wai Lam. Yunfan is the third from the left. There is also a photo album with more pictures. http://www.aaezine.org/articles/vol18/18N4WaiLamDAATrust.shtml

IEC Graduation: Yunfan is bottom row, second from left. Dean of International Academic Programs Bill Arens, on the far right, gave them their acceptance letters to SBU.
http://aasquared.org/gallery/IECGradsF07/DSC_0026

Christmas: Yunfan is with the girls who decorated, top row middle.
http://aasquared.org/gallery/ZineChristmas07/DSC_0197

January 08: Charles Wang, who created AIMP, the first China program at SBU, as owner of the NY Islanders National Hockey team, has created a high school program with students from China known as Project Hope. Besides scholarships to attend high schools in the US, he is building ice rinks and youth hockey teams in China. In January he brought the Harbin and Qiqihar teams to Long Island for the Lighthouse Tournament, an international competition against an American team and a team from Finland.
http://islanders.nhl.com/news/lighthouse_blog.htm

Summer 07: Bohua Kou, who goes by the name of Henry, is a high school student at St. Andrew's Sewanee HS in Tennessee. He spent the summer at Stony Brook auditing classes and studying for the TOEFL. His father is KOU Fuping from China V.  Although with auditing Bohua was not an official student, he still took all the exams and he would have gotten an A in Intro Chemistry, one of SB's more difficult classes. And he passed his TOEFL exam with flying colors! Here he is in an article he wrote about a bike trip he took.
http://www.aaezine.org/articles/vol17/17N1BKouBikeTrip.shtml

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