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Meet the New Yale-China Teaching Fellows
April 21, 2010
The Yale-China Association is delighted to announce our newest class of Yale-China Teaching Fellows. The Yale-China Teaching Fellowship began in 1909 and sends Yale College graduates to China for two-year appointments. Yale-China Fellows teach academic writing and oral English courses, as well as American history and culture to Chinese university and high school students. Throughout their assignments, the Fellows also intensively study Chinese language and culture and immerse themselves in a local community.
Fellows are chosen from a large and competitive pool of applicants for their cross-cultural agility, teaching ability, academic achievement and commitment to community service. The 2010-2012 Yale-China Fellows from the class of 2010 are Chacey Bryan of Saybrook College, Gang Chen of Davenport College, Douglas Endrizzi of Ezra Stiles College, Aaron Reiss of Branford College, and William Whitaker of Silliman College. Joining them in the field will be Elizabeth Weissberg of Saybrook College, a member of the class of 2009.
Yale-China also appoints two Yale-China Medical English Fellows annually who spend a year in China teaching medical English and engaging in clinical and research projects at the Xiangya School of Medicine in Changsha. The 2010-11 Yale-China Medical English Fellows are Eileen Regan of Saybrook College, a member of the class of 2010, and Lin Shen, a third-year student at the Yale School of Medicine.
“This year’s Fellows come from a variety of backgrounds and interests, including organic farming, medicine and public health, journalism, and East Asian studies,” says Katie Molteni Muir, Yale-China director of student programs. “Although the new Fellows have diverse interests, the selection committee noted that all of the Fellows share a common dedication to education and to living and working in China. We are extremely excited about the potential of this year’s group and we look forward to welcoming them to the greater Yale-China community.”
Bryan and Chen will be teaching English language and literature at Yali Middle School in Changsha, Hunan province. Bryan, a molecular, cellular, and developmental biology major from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, served as the president of the Minorities in Medicine Movement and as a tutor for elementary school students through Reading Corps. She volunteered at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the pediatric care unit and co-led a Reach Out trip to Ethiopia. Chen, an East Asian Studies major from Bristol, Virginia, was a Davenport College Master’s Aide, managed the Yale Digital Media Art Center, and served as a teacher’s assistant for the Teach in Elementary Schools and Instrumental Connections program. He also interned at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and spent a summer studying Mandarin in Beijing through the Richard U. Light Fellowship.
Weissberg and Whitaker will teach academic writing courses for English majors and lecture on American history and culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Weissberg, a philosophy major from Wilmette, Illinois, has worked as a volunteer coordinator at Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services in New Haven since her graduation from Yale through the Public Allies program. While at Yale, she tutored students at Worthington Hooker Elementary School and helped inmates prepare for the GED at the New Haven Correctional Center. She also spent a summer studying Japanese through the Richard U. Light Fellowship. Whitaker, a political science and international studies major from Los Angeles, was a freshman counselor for Silliman College and a city editor for the Yale Daily News. He was a New Media/General Intern at the U.N. Washington, and interned at Concord Records in marketing and publicity. He also worked as a courier in the Sociology Department at Yale and spent a month living in Paris through Yale Summer Session.
Endrizzi and Reiss will teach English at Xiuning Middle School, a rural high school in southern Anhui province. Endrizzi, a physics major from Scarborough, Maine, worked as a farm manager, public schools intern, and events coordinator for the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and as a co-director and teacher through the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation. He was the captain of the Yale Cycling Team and led FOOT orientation trips for incoming Yale freshmen. Reiss, an environmental major from Carlsbad, California, worked with the New Haven Bike Collective and in New Haven’s High School in the Community, teaching bicycle construction, maintenance, and repair. He was a farm manager through the Yale Sustainable Food Project, worked on an organic farm in Italy, and did independent research in southeast India on an Environmental Studies Summer Fellowship.
As Medical English Fellows, Regan and Shen will teach medical English at the Xiangya School of Medicine at Central South University in Changsha, Hunan province. The Xiangya School of Medicine was founded by the Yale-China Association in 1914. Regan, a history of science/history of medicine major from Bartlett, Illinois, was a Yale-China Service Intern in Hong Kong, a residential advisor teaching chemistry, English, and history through the S.C.H.O.L.A.R. program, and a clinical research assistant at Yale-New Haven Hospital working on a study about adverse pregnancy outcomes. She was captain of the Yale Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team and led FOOT orientation trips. Shen, a third-year medical student from San Diego, California, received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, where he majored in Human Biology and taught courses in computer science. After graduation, he spent two years as a senior research assistant at the Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research. After medical school, he is considering pursuing a career in gastroenterology.
The two-year Yale-China Teaching Fellowship and the one-year Yale-China Medical English Fellowship are part of Yale-China’s Education Program. To learn more about eligibility and how to apply, please contact Katie Molteni Muir, Yale-China director of student programs, at katie.molteni@yale.edu or at (203) 436-8362 or review the links below.
Fellows are chosen from a large and competitive pool of applicants for their cross-cultural agility, teaching ability, academic achievement and commitment to community service. The 2010-2012 Yale-China Fellows from the class of 2010 are Chacey Bryan of Saybrook College, Gang Chen of Davenport College, Douglas Endrizzi of Ezra Stiles College, Aaron Reiss of Branford College, and William Whitaker of Silliman College. Joining them in the field will be Elizabeth Weissberg of Saybrook College, a member of the class of 2009.
Yale-China also appoints two Yale-China Medical English Fellows annually who spend a year in China teaching medical English and engaging in clinical and research projects at the Xiangya School of Medicine in Changsha. The 2010-11 Yale-China Medical English Fellows are Eileen Regan of Saybrook College, a member of the class of 2010, and Lin Shen, a third-year student at the Yale School of Medicine.
“This year’s Fellows come from a variety of backgrounds and interests, including organic farming, medicine and public health, journalism, and East Asian studies,” says Katie Molteni Muir, Yale-China director of student programs. “Although the new Fellows have diverse interests, the selection committee noted that all of the Fellows share a common dedication to education and to living and working in China. We are extremely excited about the potential of this year’s group and we look forward to welcoming them to the greater Yale-China community.”
Bryan and Chen will be teaching English language and literature at Yali Middle School in Changsha, Hunan province. Bryan, a molecular, cellular, and developmental biology major from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, served as the president of the Minorities in Medicine Movement and as a tutor for elementary school students through Reading Corps. She volunteered at Yale-New Haven Hospital in the pediatric care unit and co-led a Reach Out trip to Ethiopia. Chen, an East Asian Studies major from Bristol, Virginia, was a Davenport College Master’s Aide, managed the Yale Digital Media Art Center, and served as a teacher’s assistant for the Teach in Elementary Schools and Instrumental Connections program. He also interned at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and spent a summer studying Mandarin in Beijing through the Richard U. Light Fellowship.
Weissberg and Whitaker will teach academic writing courses for English majors and lecture on American history and culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Weissberg, a philosophy major from Wilmette, Illinois, has worked as a volunteer coordinator at Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services in New Haven since her graduation from Yale through the Public Allies program. While at Yale, she tutored students at Worthington Hooker Elementary School and helped inmates prepare for the GED at the New Haven Correctional Center. She also spent a summer studying Japanese through the Richard U. Light Fellowship. Whitaker, a political science and international studies major from Los Angeles, was a freshman counselor for Silliman College and a city editor for the Yale Daily News. He was a New Media/General Intern at the U.N. Washington, and interned at Concord Records in marketing and publicity. He also worked as a courier in the Sociology Department at Yale and spent a month living in Paris through Yale Summer Session.
Endrizzi and Reiss will teach English at Xiuning Middle School, a rural high school in southern Anhui province. Endrizzi, a physics major from Scarborough, Maine, worked as a farm manager, public schools intern, and events coordinator for the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and as a co-director and teacher through the Ulysses S. Grant Foundation. He was the captain of the Yale Cycling Team and led FOOT orientation trips for incoming Yale freshmen. Reiss, an environmental major from Carlsbad, California, worked with the New Haven Bike Collective and in New Haven’s High School in the Community, teaching bicycle construction, maintenance, and repair. He was a farm manager through the Yale Sustainable Food Project, worked on an organic farm in Italy, and did independent research in southeast India on an Environmental Studies Summer Fellowship.
As Medical English Fellows, Regan and Shen will teach medical English at the Xiangya School of Medicine at Central South University in Changsha, Hunan province. The Xiangya School of Medicine was founded by the Yale-China Association in 1914. Regan, a history of science/history of medicine major from Bartlett, Illinois, was a Yale-China Service Intern in Hong Kong, a residential advisor teaching chemistry, English, and history through the S.C.H.O.L.A.R. program, and a clinical research assistant at Yale-New Haven Hospital working on a study about adverse pregnancy outcomes. She was captain of the Yale Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team and led FOOT orientation trips. Shen, a third-year medical student from San Diego, California, received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, where he majored in Human Biology and taught courses in computer science. After graduation, he spent two years as a senior research assistant at the Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research. After medical school, he is considering pursuing a career in gastroenterology.
The two-year Yale-China Teaching Fellowship and the one-year Yale-China Medical English Fellowship are part of Yale-China’s Education Program. To learn more about eligibility and how to apply, please contact Katie Molteni Muir, Yale-China director of student programs, at katie.molteni@yale.edu or at (203) 436-8362 or review the links below.
