by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 2 Me-Iung Ting (1929, Barbour Fellow) graduated from the U-M Medical School in 1920 and then returned to China, where she served as head surgeon, supervising nurse, and director of Peiyang Women’s Hospital, Tientsin....
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 3 Kapila Khandvala (1930) served as secretary of the Bombay Women’s Association, a branch of the All India Women’s Conference. She was elected as a delegate to represent Bombay at the conference held in Hychrasad....
by Marc Williams | Jul 17, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 3 Stella Chun-Yi Wang (1931), who earned her M.A. in Education from the University of Michigan in 1933, never dreamed that she would be immortalized in print. When she received her copy of the 1984 Rackham Reports,...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Whang-Kyung Koh (1931) graduated from the Seoul, Korea Higher Common School for Girls at the age of sixteen and from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan with a B.A. in law at the age of nineteen. A profile in the October 10, 1930 issue of the Osaka Mainichi chronicled...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 3 Maria Kalaw Katigbak’s (1932) wide-ranging accomplishments include beauty queen, scholar, Senator, and civic leader. After graduating as high school valedictorian, Maria earned her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 3 Wu Ching-yi, also known as Blanche Wu, (1932) graduated from Ginling College with her B.A. in 1923 and in 1926 joined Ginling’s faculty as a professor in the biology department. In 1932, she was granted a two-year...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 4 When I-djen Ho (also stylized as: He qia zhen, He Yizhen, or Heyi Zhen) (1933) was born in 1910, during the last years of the Qing Dynasty, women with bound feet were still the majority. However, I-djen’s...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 4 Ming-chen Wang (1938) has been called by many as “The Chinese Madame Curie” due to her extraordinary contributions to modern physics. Dr. Wang was born on October 3, 1906 and earned her bachelor’s degree from...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 4 Cheng-shu Wang Chang (1941) earned her B.S. and M.S. from Yenching University. In 1945, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation was titled, “The Quantum Theory of the Second Viral...
by Marc Williams | Jul 7, 2017
Home » Barbour Scholar Spotlights » Alumnae » Page 4 For Jiu-Hwa Lo Upshur, graduate education is part of a University of Michigan family legacy. She and her mother were both Barbour Scholars at Michigan, an almost century-old fellowship program for Asian women...
