At the invitation of Prof. LI Weiping, Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST), Prof. Larry Leifer and Prof. Mark Cutkosky from Stanford University paid a two-day-visit to USTC on Sept. 7th and 8th. Stanford has established collaborations with several Universities all over the world on its well-known Design Course. The visit of the two professors is expected to result in collaboration on the Course with USTC, for the first time, with a university in China.

In the morning of Sept. 7th, President HOU Jianguo, Vice President CHEN Chusheng, and Prof. LI Weiping held a meeting with the two professors to welcome their visit to USTC and hope their visit will bring fruitful collaboration between USTC and Stanford. After the meeting, the two professors visited the Museum of USTC History and toured the East Campus.