Columbia Global Centers | Beijing (哥伦比亚大学全球中心 | 北京) was one of the first centers to launch in March 2009 and is based in Beijing, China. The Center's major programmatic themes include aging and public health, arts and culture, entrepreneurship, energy and sustainability. The Center runs an active public events program featuring Columbia faculty and local experts on diverse topics ranging from international economics to environmental engineering to film studies. The Center hosts various student programs throughout the year to engage Columbia undergraduate and graduate students, young scholars and alumni in China and provide exchange opportunities, including pre-departure orientation for new students, new student and alumni social gatherings, student workshops, the Graduate Students and Young Scholars Meeting Program organized in partnership with Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. The Center also hosts diverse projects under the President’s Global Innovation Fund, such as the Ideas on Aging, which is hosted in collaboration with Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. The Columbia Global Centers Network There are currently eight Columbia Global Centers operating in Amman, Beijing, Mumbai, Paris, Istanbul, Nairobi, Santiago, and Rio de Janeiro. The centers encourage new relationships across schools, institutes, and academic departments at Columbia. Attuned to the priorities and unique circumstances of its host region, each center leverages the University’s diverse intellectual capacities from across the undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, and pursues a set of university-wide core activities that evolves over time based on the active engagement of faculty and students. The centers help increase international content in the classroom; supplement the curriculum with international study abroad, internship opportunities, and course offerings; provide resources needed to attract students from abroad; facilitate research opportunities for Columbia students and faculty on globally relevant, interdisciplinary topics; and provide a point of ongoing engagement for international alumni. Functioning as a network, the global centers encourage teaching and research that require working across disciplinary boundaries, having a presence in multiple regions, and engaging non-Columbia experts and scholars from those regions. Some of the centers’ programs and research initiatives are country-specific, some regional, and an increasing number are multi-regional, even global. The network is in its infancy, and each center has started by building strong links with universities and institutions in its respective region. The long-term ambition is that many programs will have a global reach and involve multiple centers in the network engaged in truly global conversations. To learn more, please visit the Columbia Global Centers website: globalcenters.columbia.edu/beijing/ 哥伦比亚大学全球中心| 北京于2009年3月成立，是哥伦比亚大学在全球成立的八个全球中心之一。中心核心项目主题包括公共卫生与老龄化问题研究、艺术与文化、创业及可持续发展。北京中心自成立以来，经常举办各种公开的讲座活动，邀请来自哥伦比亚大学的教授和地区专家共同参与包括国际经济、环境工程、电影研究等广泛的话题讨论。北京中心也举办学生夏季项目活动、学生工作坊等，旨在吸引在北京的哥伦比亚大学研究生和学者的参与，包括与魏德海东亚研究所共同主办的哥伦比亚大学研究生与青年学者研讨及联谊会等。北京中心也支持哥伦比亚大学校长全球创新基金项目，内容涉及各种主题，包括与梅尔曼公共卫生学院合作的老龄化研究项目。 哥伦比亚大学全球中心网络 哥伦比亚大学在世界范围内共建有八所全球中心，分别位于安曼、北京、孟买、巴黎、伊斯坦布尔、内罗毕、圣地亚哥和里约热内卢这八座城市。全球中心鼓励哥伦比亚大学跨学院、跨机构、跨部门之间产生的新合作关系。依据全球中心所在地区的特点和情况，每个中心将哥伦比亚大学来自本科学院、研究生学院，和专业商学院、法学院、医学院、口腔医学院，以及以师生参与为导向的一系列大学核心项目中的丰富才智带到全球。全球中心为哥伦比亚大学的课堂带来更多全球性的内容；配合哥大课程增加国际性的海外研究，提供实习机会和课程；提供吸引海外学生所需的资源；促进哥大师生进行全球性及跨学科的研究；同时增进各地校友的联系和交流。 作为一个多区域的联合网络，全球中心鼓励跨学科、跨地区的教学和研究，并鼓励当地非哥伦比亚大学的专家和学者参与到研究中来。各中心的一些项目和研究是针对某一国家或地域的，但跨地区的、乃至是全球性的项目研究现在已经越来越多。全球中心这一网络还在初步发展阶段，每一个中心都已经开始发展和当地大学以及其他组织的合作关系。全球中心的长期目标是让哥大的无数项目延伸至全球，通过多中心的参与及合作创造一个真正的全球性对话交流平台。 我们的网站：globalcenters.columbia.edu/beijing/