On the morning of July 31, 2017, Ms. Chen Lu successfully passed her Master of Applied Science defense. The title of her thesis is “Projecting Regional Climate Change Through Statistical and Dynamical Techniques”. Her profound knowledge and excellent presentation helped her win a good evaluation from external examiner, Dr. Fanhua Zeng, and other examining committee members (Drs. Gordon Huang, Chunjiang An, Peng Wu and Zhou Zhang).