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The “Developing Personal Strengths for Future Success Program” is a 6-day, 5-night initiative offered by Duke Kunshan University (DKU), designed to holistically enhance high school students’ critical thinking, communication, collaboration skills, emotion management, and other vital aspects of personal growth. This program lays a solid foundation for their future career development and personal skills enhancement. Participants will engage with top-tier educational resources from China and beyond, fostering intellectual exchanges with peers from diverse cultural backgrounds. This cross-cultural interaction not only broadens their horizons but also cultivates lasting friendships.
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, where information technology has intertwined cultures and ideas into a diverse global society, future leaders must possess not only a strong academic base but also critical thinking, innovation, adaptability, digital literacy, and adept social skills. High school students access global information and resources via the internet, expanding their knowledge and perspectives, they also confront fierce job market competition, intricate interpersonal dynamics, and heightened psychological pressures. Thus, our program is tailored to comprehensively elevate students’ overall qualities, bolster their social adaptability, and equip them for the future through international educational resources and methodologies.
He teaches academic writing courses focused on intercultural communication and argumentation across disciplines. He also teaches oral communication electives in debate and public speaking. He received his M.A. from Pennsylvania State University in Teaching English as a Second Language in 2015, where he focused on Second Language Writing and Theories of Second Language Acquisition. He served as an English Language Fellow sponsored by the U.S. Department of State from 2015-2018. In that capacity, he traveled through China providing training in teaching methodologies. His primary interests are in debating, public speaking, and teacher development. His personal interests include independent language learning.
Dongmian Zou is an Assistant Professor of Data Science in the Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, Duke Kunshan University. He is also affiliated with the Data Science Research Center (DSRC) and the Zu Chongzhi Center for Mathematics and Computational Sciences (CMCS). He received the B.S. degree in Mathematics (First Honour) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012 and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2017. From 2017 to 2020, he served as a post-doctorate researcher at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, and the School of Mathematics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research is in the intersection of applied harmonic analysis, machine learning and signal processing. His current interest includes geometric deep learning and anomaly detection, and applications in e.g., communication, diagnosis and medical imaging. He has published papers in top machine learning and interdisciplinary conferences such as ICLR, KDD and AISTATS, and journals such as Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis and IEEE TIT, TNNLS, TCAD, etc. He is passionate about mentoring undergraduate research. Many students he mentored for research have been directly admitted to PhD programs (UC Berkeley, UIUC, UPenn, etc.) or admitted to top master’s programs (MIT, Harvard, Brown, etc.).
For Chinese Students:
For International Students:
* Program fee included: Tuition, visit fee, accommodation, partial catering costs, study materials, insurance, etc.
* Exclude: Travel to and from Kunshan, personal expenses and expenses not mentioned, etc.
For Chinese Students:
For International Students:
– Current high school students (grades 10-12) with excellent overall qualities and good listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in English.
– Open to all arts and science students and admission is based on merit according to batch.
Applicants must complete the information requested within the link in its entirety which includes:
The high school transcript must affix an official seal or the academic affairs department seal. Chinese students are recommended to use the transcript template provided by the program team. Transcripts should include end-of-semester grades for each semester since high school (full marks for individual subjects must be indicated). Please also provide overall rankings or rankings by arts/science and indicate the total number of students If there is a grade ranking. You can find the transcript template here:
Please introduce yourself in English with no more than 300 words (e.g. personal background, reasons for choosing the program, academic interests, leadership experience, extracurricular activities…).
Notes: While these materials are not required, it is recommended that you merge them into a PDF file before uploading.
Email: international@dukekunshan.edu.cn
