Chinese Students and Scholars Association

University of New Hamshire
Durham, NH 03824
603-862-1393 phone
jsun@cisunix.unh.edu email
http://www.unh.edu/cssa/ website

Area of Interest:
Organization - Student organization

Primary Ethnic Community Served:
Chinese

Description:
UNH had her first Chinese student,Pingping Chih, from mainland China in 1981. Ms. Chih came from the Institute of Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and started her PhD program in Physics Department in the fall of 1981. Her family joined her later. In Durham, they might be the first Chinese family from mainland China. Since then, more and more Chinese students and scholars first settle down in Durham and start their career and American dream at UNH.Although almost any folks would choose leaving after finishing the program or getting better offer somewhere else, the size of Chinese Community in Durham still keeps enlarging. Now, we have totally about two hundred persons, including family members. The exact number unavailable because the personnels vary from year to year.

   CSSA at UNH is a big family. Every single Chinese (from mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong), American-Chinese, Chinese-American, or whatever, living in campus of UNHand the regions nearby, could be in principle considered belonging to this family.

Staff:
President - Sun, Jiebing
Vice-president - Miao, Bing
Minsiter of Party events - Liu, Yong
Minister of Treasure - Yao, Shaoning

Submitted by:
AIA Staff

New - 03/17/04