{"id":2819,"date":"2014-07-01T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about-hmc\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2017-03-09T08:34:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:34:18","slug":"gilman-scholars-head-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2014\/07\/01\/gilman-scholars-head-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilman Scholars Head to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGlobal engagement and informed contributions to society\u201d\u2014strategic aims of Harvey Mudd College\u2014are being pursued by an increasing number of students who opt for academically rigorous and culturally enriching international experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Rising sophomores Scott Chow \u201917 and Jacob Nguyen \u201917 are heading to China this summer with help from the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship award, which helps defray study abroad costs. The Gilman Scholarship Program, congressionally funded and sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs\u00a0at the U.S. Department of State, aims to support students who have been traditionally underrepresented in\u00a0education abroad, including students with high financial need, students in underrepresented fields such as the sciences and engineering and students with diverse ethnic backgrounds.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2822\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/NGUYEN_JACOB17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2822\" class=\"wp-image-2822 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/NGUYEN_JACOB17.jpg\" alt=\"NGUYEN_JACOB17\" width=\"120\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacob Nguyen &#8217;17<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chow and Nguyen are participating in the Chinese Studies Institute\u2019s \u201cE84 in China\u201d program along with 12 other Harvey Mudd students. The program is centered around Electronic and Magnetic Circuits and Devices (E84), taught by Ruye Wang, Harvey Mudd professor of engineering. Participating students also take Introduction to Chinese Language and China in Transformation, the latter of which explores Chinese political history and the country\u2019s rise to modernization.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the required engineering and humanities classes, both Nguyen and Chow plan to experience the many cultural offerings of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to explore the food, the historic locales, the unique markets,\u201d says Nguyen. In addition, he says he\u2019d like to learn to speak conversational Mandarin so he can speak with his mother and grandmother. He also looks forward to forging linguistic connections with international Chinese students attending The Claremont Colleges. Upon his return, Nguyen plans to serve as an Office of Study Abroad (OSA) Global Ambassador, encouraging participation in the OSA program. A requirement of the scholarship is that students conduct a \u201cfollow-on service project\u201d that helps or inspires their peers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2823\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/CHOW_SCOTT17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-image-2823 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/CHOW_SCOTT17.jpg\" alt=\"CHOW_SCOTT17\" width=\"120\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Chow &#8217;17<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chow will write a blog while in China and will also act as a Global Ambassador upon his return, conveying his experiences to Harvey Mudd students through articles, blog posts and talks.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Study Abroad program Rhonda Chiles believes that international experiences will enrich a Harvey Mudd education. \u201cPart of the College\u2019s mission is to help students understand the impact of their work on society, and that includes the global society,\u201d says Chiles. \u201cStudents who earn STEM degrees here can apply those skills and knowledge working anywhere\u2014inside or outside the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGlobal engagement and informed contributions to society\u201d\u2014strategic aims of Harvey Mudd College\u2014are being pursued by an increasing number of students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}