On October 24, 2012, Dr. Julie Mostov, Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Dr. Joseph Hughes, Dean of College of Engineering from Drexel University paid a visit to Shanghai Advanced Research Institute (SARI), Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. FENG Songlin, President of SARI, received the Drexel delegation which also included Dr. Shannon Marquez and Dr. Longjian Liu from Drexel’s School of Public Health and held a meeting with the visitors.

Dr. FENG welcomed Dr. Mostov,  Dr. Hughes, and other guests to SARI, introduced SARI’s research areas and some joint research projects. The Drexel-SARI Center honorary Director Julie Mostov and Director SUN Wei presented on the joint center’s development progress, the launching projects progress, and the future development plan. Dr. WANG Mingquan from the Low Carbon City Research Center of SARI made an introduction of the Low Carbon City Center around the topic of building a more sustainable city infrastructure network.

Dr. Hughes expressed his congratulations to SARI for the achievements made during its development process and to the Drexel-SARI Center for the excellent cooperation model and research progress, hoping that Drexel and SARI could expand the cooperation in areas of engineering, smart city and water treatment by leveraging the joint center as a platform. Dr. FENG agreed on this and hoped that both sides could strength the exchange and cooperation, contributing the strategic development of the joint center and both sides.

During the visit, the Drexel delegation also visited SARI’s Center for Stem Cell and Nanomedicine, City Intelligent Energy Network Demonstration project and Membrane Materials and Separation Engineering Lab, and discussed with researchers on green city and water treatment technologies.