Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 19

New scholarship will support
SOM students from China

Laura Cha, former vice-chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, has contributed $700,000 to endow The Laura Cha (Shi Mei Lun) Scholarship at the School of Management (SOM).

This merit-based scholarship will provide financial assistance to M.B.A. students from mainland China who demonstrate financial need. It will be awarded every other year so that one student will get his or her two-year M.B.A. tuition fully covered by this scholarship.

"We are enormously grateful to Ms. Cha for her generosity and her commitment to providing exceptional students from China an opportunity to study at the Yale School of Management," says Anne Coyle, the school's admissions director. "This scholarship enhances our ability to attract China's best and brightest -- especially those who could not otherwise afford to study here. It also serves to further the intellectual exchange between the school and China."

China regularly factors into the research interests of faculty and students at SOM. Key programs include the China Research Initiative at the International Center for Finance, which studies the history and current issues of market development in China, and disseminates ideas for further economic and institutional reforms; and the Yale China Business Conference, which the Greater China Student Interest Group will hold at SOM in April.

Cha, a member of the executive council of the Hong Kong government, was the first person to join the government of the People's Republic of China at the vice-ministerial rank when she was appointed as vice-chair of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in early 2001. She studied in America, receiving her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin and her J.D. from Santa Clara University.

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