SJTU

 XUHUI CAMPUS

There are two campuses.  One is the downtown campus where I am staying in Xuhui.  The other is the "suburban" western campus in Minhang.   It takes 40 minutes to travel between the two campuses by school bus.   Both campuses are beautiful in their own ways.

Founded in 1896, the downtown campus is by far the oldest and has the buildings and the streets to prove it.   In fact, as I've mentioned periodically, the park has been torn up, the street along the park has been paved, the sidewalks re-bricked while down the block, two building are being built as is a third one another block down.   The building goes on 24 hours a day.   When I walk by at night, I can see torches working and hear pounding going on.   And there's the dust.  Always, the dust.   The work doesn't stop on Saturday or Sunday.



On the right, you see the old buildings on Xuhui.  In the back are building from the city.


There is an epynominous library and space museum on campus in honor of Qian Xuesen, the Father of China's Space program and instrumental in the U.S. Space Program as well.  See Wikipedia and this link: 
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2009/11/the-two-lives-of-qian-xuesen.html

Daring sometimes works there as a guide.    An outdoor display enables people to see the artifacts at most any time, if even by looking down from the walkway above.

The campus is filled with statues or historical monuments.    They can be found most everywhere one walks.

Here's a classroom.  Note the fixed seats, the set up obviously for listening to lectures.

And this is the campus store.

The wonder of the June has been the Magnolia Grandiflora...these trees have filled the campus with white flowers/

Here is one of the buildings under construction.  From my first day until some time in early June it's been covered with green/brown wrapping.  Then one day, part of it was unveiled. And we could see how far work had progressed.

 

 MINHANG CAMPUS

 The building to the right symbolizes what seems to be the major thrust of the unversity: internationalizing the faculty and the student body.  I mentioned my student Robin, who was sent to Belgium to participate in an international conference to create European student exchanges.  My students Xinglei and Zhumei went to Taiwan for an international conference and the theme of many students dealt with their school or college's thrust to hire international professors or recruit international students. 

To the left is the graduate school building where I taught the faculty students. 

It houses the teaching and learning center, where some of my other students work to create change in the teaching methods used by traditional professors.  

Among other things, this building serves as a library.

The building above and the one below are teaching buildings.  East Lower and Middle buildings.

There were two places on the Minhang campus that these signs of student creative energy made themselves visible.   I assume students created these images.  The general feeling on campus is that students are serious, mostly science-oriented, and well-behaved.    Here at the very least is a sign of typical student energy and creative impulse.  

 

This campus also has several lakes and beautiful views.