Annually the government chooses recipients in any discipline based on a record of outstanding accomplishments during their PhD studies. This award is the highest award the government gives to graduate students studying outside of China. Recipients include Chinese students studying in 33 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Canada. There are more than one million students each year that are studying abroad, making this award highly competitive. This highly competitive award testifies to the high quality of graduate education at Kent State. We are very proud to congratulate Dr. Hao Wang.