Dr. Jianguo Chen won the prestigious award for “Outstanding Confucius Institute Director of the Year” at the tenth-annual Global Confucius Institute Conference held at Xiamen University in December 2014.

He was also the recipient of a CGAS-IGS grant of $3,350 to conduct research on issues in contemporary China regarding societal transformation and changes in foreign policies. In addition, he received a federal grant of $316,460 from the US Department of State and the American Councils for International Education and served as principal investigator for National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y)’s Summer Institute in China. The NSLI-Y program was co-directed by Dr. Maria Tu.