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On May 8, President and Mrs. William Greiner hosted a reception in the Center for the Arts atrium to honor graduating international students. Students were welcomed to the ranks of the university's more than 8,000 international alumni. Many will be returning to their native countries, so graduates were urged to affiliate with one of the university's international chapters, or become involved in organizing a chapter or serving as an alumni leader abroad. Hong Kong UB alumni in Hong Kong gathered May 15 in the Polytechnic University's faculty club for the opening banquet for UB's new alumni chapter in the colony. Peter Yuen, M.B.A. '78, chaired the organizing committee. This was the first stop for Joseph Williams, head of the university's international alumni program, who went on to meet with several Pacific Rim alumni groups. Williams presented a chapter charter and addressed the group on the state of the university. Taiwan The Howard Hotel in Taipei was the setting for a May 18 gathering of UB alumni in Taiwan. This group is now a chartered chapter and can draw on the more than 600 graduates who now live in Taiwan. Banquet organizer Kuochun Chang, M.S. '80 & Ph.D. '85, served as master of ceremonies. Also attending was George Lee, director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research and Samuel P. Capen Professor of Civil Engineering at the university. Korea Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international education, and Tai Kang, associate UB professor of sociology, visited alumni in Korea in March. The UB Alumni Club in Korea has a membership of nearly 600 former students and friends of the university. The UB delegation eulogized Chull Baum Kim, Ph.D. '88, alumni club president, who died in March. Indonesia Tanri Abeng, M.B.A. '69, president of the Indonesia chapter of the UB Alumni Association, was on campus in March to attend meetings of the President's Board of Visitors, of which he is a member. He also addressed the Indonesian Student Association, noting that Indonesian alumni have the highest rate of return to the home country of any international group on campus. He attributed their return to a strong cultural identification with home and family, and with improving economic opportunities in that nation, especially for those with a university education. Indonesian managers of the future will benefit greatly from study abroad, Abeng added, as it widens their view of the world. Awards Zhou Nanzhou, Ph.D. '89, vice president of China's Bureau of Educational Research, received the Graduate School of Education's Distinguished Alumnus Award during May commencement exercises. Active in many UB collaborative projects in China, Zhou is currently helping organize a UB alumni chapter in Beijing.
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Recognition on campus
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