Environmental contamination by mercury in its organometallic form, methylmercury, remains a major global concern due to its neurotoxicity, environmental persistence and biomagnification through the food chain.Methylmercury was also the “culprit” of the “Minamata disease”in Japan in the 1950s,causinga worldwide scandal. However, for a long time, the mystery of methylmercury formation in the environment has prevented people from controlling methylmercury pollution fromthe source.Recently, a resear
Recently, to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nankai University Library held the exhibition Dialogue with Masters – Exhibition of Nobel Prize-winning Works in the middle hall on the second floor of the Central Building of Jinnan Campus, exhibiting the main representative works of previous Nobel Prize winners. More than 180 books have been showed, involving literature, biography, economics, history, philosophy etc.The Nobel Prize in Literature is widely acknowledg
On April 21, Wei Fuwen, a conservation biologist, also Academician of the ChineseAcademyof Sciences and Academician of The World Academy of Sciences, gave a lecture themed “Conservation Biology” as one of Nankai University’s“Led by Masters” general education course series “The Current Situation and Prospect of Biological Sciences”. Nearly 200 teachers and students from Nankai University attended the event online and offline.Based on his own study experience, Academician Wei Fuwen introduced his
On April 23, World Book and Copyright Day, the 11th Nankai Reading Festival opened in the Central Library of the Jinnan Campus of Nankai University. This years reading festival featured a variety of activities. Nankai University Vice President Wang Xinsheng attended the opening ceremony, together with more than 200 representatives of teachers and students from the whole school.In his speech, Wang Xinsheng on behalf of the school expressed his congratulations on the opening of the 11th Nankai Rea
How do youput downirrestistablesmartphones and avoid being disturbed frequently during self-study? Recently, after learning from many sources, the School of Mathematical Science in Nankai University has establisheda Non-smartphone Study Room providing a pure environment for students who want to study with undivided attention.“Non-smartphone Study Rooms” are seldom seen despite adequate study rooms on campus. Entering the School of Mathematical Science on weekends, it is easy to find the study ro
The 13th PeakTime Business SimulationCompetition has recently come to aclose. Under the guidance ofinstructorsfrom Nankai Business School, Liu Jianhua and Shi Jian, the competing team“The one”, comprised of2020 MBA studentsfrom NankaiBusiness School, won the specialprize ofthe MBA group (the National Championship) by virtue of their capability for accurate strategic decision-making and their remarkable skillsinbusiness caseanalysis. They will participate in the competition’s global finalson beha
The selection of the 2020 Tianjin Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarship was organized by the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission and the Tianjin Education Development Foundation . It aimed to encourage university students to involve themselves in the innovation and entrepreneur practice in order to stimulate their innovation and develop their entrepreneurial skills. Upon the completion of the process of student applications, school recommendations and expert evaluations, the Tia
On April 6, Nankai Universitys eighth season oftheMorning Run for Public Welfare with the theme of Morning Run for Public Welfare, Building Dreams for the County Zhuanglang kicked off. Through the loving of taking a morning run, Nankai teachers, students and staffs are supportingthe education and welfare of primary school students in Zhuanglang County of Pingliang City, Gansu Province. Nearly 300 teachers and students enthusiastically participated on the first day.When aparticipant reaches 3,200
During Tomb Sweeping Day, the teachers and students of Nankai University organized various kinds of commemorative activities with reverence to remember the deceased heroes and scholars of Nankai.On April 3 in the Muzhai Library at the Jinnan Campus, students looked back on the heroic struggles of Nankai University during the Anti-Japanese War.In front of the School Motto Board at the Jinnan Campus, the students reviewed the Three Questions about Patriotism raised by Zhang Boling, the former pres
China is firmly committed tobeingthe pioneer inthepromotion ofequitable vaccine distribution, and is currently providing vaccine assistance to 80 countries and 3 international organizations. China has actively joined the Covid-19 Vaccine Implementation Plan, and has promisedto provide 10 million doses of the vaccine and donate 300,000 doses ofthevaccine to peacekeepers.Laos wasone of the first countries to receive vaccine assistance from China. When I saw thenews and learned that the aircraft tr
On March 20, 2021 the Spring Large-Scale Double Selection Meeting of Nankai University was held in Balitai campus. More than 300 employers were selected to attend the event. 9637 jobs and a recruitment demand of 24,914 employees attracted more than 2,400 graduates to attend the event.The scale of the meeting and the number of the attending students have been greatly increased compared with previous years.For the convenience of graduates from Jinnan and Taida campus, the school sent a total of 10
The Ministry of Science and Technology has announced the joint release of the “list of excellent popularmicro-video works about popular science for national scientific epidemic prevention in 2020” as compiled by the Department of Foreign Intelligence Management and the Science and Communication Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. An originalvideo, The Secret of Temperature Measuring Guns,produced by a Nankai student,wasrecommended by Nankai University and successfully selected.In 2020, th
March 5, 2021, 58thcelebration of the “Learn from Lei Feng Day”. On this day, many colleges and schools in Nankai University carried out voluntary activities to inherit Lei Feng’s spirit. On Lei Feng Day, the School of Literature and its Youth Volunteer Association offered care service and convenience for the elderly in the local communities. The School will carry out more activities during the Lei Feng Month, including tree planting for environment protection, public classes, etc.Volunteers fro
A few days ago, the Ministry of Education released a list of undergraduate programs selected from all universities, which will participate in the construction plan of first-class teaching points on a national and provincial level for Bachelor’s degrees. Twenty-one undergraduate programs of Nankai University have been added into the national construction plan, while one has been listed on the provincial plan. Public Finance, Financial Engineering, Sociology, Marxist Theory, Japanese, Cultural Her
On March 2, the Ministry of Education held the 8thHigh School Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement (Humanities and Social Science) Awarding Ceremony to comprehensively deploy the new development stage and to promote the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences in colleges and universities. Chen Baosheng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Education as well as Minister and Leader of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Work Leading Group attended the