Findlay, Ohio—Dr. Galal Walker, director of the National Chinese Flagship Program at The Ohio State University, will present “Doing Business with China” Thursday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. at The University of Findlay’s Alumni Memorial Union.

Walker will use his experiences from the program, which prepares American students to work in China, to discuss cultural aspects of communication.

A reception will immediately follow the event.

Walker is the director of The Ohio State University’s National East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC). Founded in 1993 as the National Foreign Language Resource Center, the center is designed to increase learners' abilities to master advanced levels of language and cultural competence.

Walker is also a humanities professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures (DEALL) at The Ohio State University. DEALL is one of the largest programs of its kind in the continental United States.

For more information on the free, public presentation, contact Dr. Hiro Kawamura, UF associate professor of Japanese, at 419-434-4619 or at kawamura@findlay.edu