Facts about the Program

• Total of 150 students participated
• 43 states represented
• Length of program: 12 years (2000-2002, 2004-2009, 2011-2013)
• Over 50 papers published
  • Including a best poster at the 2006 IEEE Oceans Conference
• 16 national and international fellowships and awards (10% of participants)
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  • NSF Graduate Fellowship
  • Marshall Scholar
  • Gates-Cambridge Scholarship
  • Goldwater Scholarship
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Scholarship
  • Knauss Marine Policy Fellow
  • AT&T Fellowship
  • Bell-Lucent Fellowship
  • Fulbright Scholar
• 5 host institutions
  • Dalian University of Technology
  • Ocean University of China (Qingdao)
  • Nanjing University
  • Tsinghua University (Beijing)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing)