Professor Cheng Gong, the Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of Environment & Resources Protection for Minority Areas at the College of Life and Environmental Sciences, at Minzu University of China. Professor Cheng teaches our Ecology in Practice for the Environmental Mission Scholars. The course is very much like the course with the same name offered here at VLS in the summer. His course uses a hands-on interdisciplinary approach to teach students the principles of ecology.