Over the past five years, the number of Chinese undergraduates attending Washington University has more than quintupled, according to statistics from the Office for International Students and Scholars (OISS). For the class of 2015, the OISS reported that 182 undergraduate students from China accepted admission to the University, up from 29 half a decade ago.

Eleven Washington University students and eleven Fudan University students will participate at the U.S. – China Student International Conference on Climate Change & Sustainability in November. Washington University Students for International Collaboration on the Environment (WUSICE) is the organizer of the Conference. The students will interact with each other throughout the six-day event, participating in lectures, discussion panels with experts and social events.

Five Washington University students warned a crowd of 40 about the dangers of nuclear proliferation after attending a forum on the issue at Fudan University in Shanghai last summer.