
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Bernard L. Feringa Appointed as Yang Shixian Distinguished Lecturer at Nankai UniversityOn November 19, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and renowned organic chemist Bernard Lucas Feringa—a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Member of the Academia Europaea, Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as a

A paper titled “Sticky Kakeya Sets and the Sticky Kakeya Conjecture” by Joshua Zahl, Chair Professor at the Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, and his collaborator WangHong, a jointly appointed professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and France’s Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, has been published online in the internationally top-tier mathematics journal, Journal of the American Mathematical Society. This marks the first paper publi

November 24 marked the first anniversary of the passing ofProf. Yeh Chiaying, an eminent scholar of classical Chinese poetry. On that day, the International Symposium on Yeh Chiaying and Chinese Poetry Teaching, co-hosted by Nankai University(NKU)and the International Confucian Association(ICA), was held at the Lecture Hallof Shiing-Shen Building onBalitai Campus. The event was attended by over 120 experts and scholars from eight countries and regions. The symposiumwas attended and addressed by

On November 28th, President Irene Tracey of the University of Oxford led a delegation to visit Nankai University. President Chen Yulu of Nankai University met with the guests at the Haibing Center on Balitai Campus. Attendees included Cao Xuetao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former President of Nankai University; Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University; Zhang Wenzhong, Lifetime Trustee of Nankai Universit

On November 28th, President Irene Tracey of the University of Oxford led a delegation to visit Nankai University. President Chen Yulu of Nankai University met with the guests at the Haibing Center on Balitai Campus. Attendees included Cao Xuetao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former President of Nankai University; Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University; Zhang Wenzhong, Lifetime Trustee of Nankai Universit

A research team led by ProfessorsChen Shuqi and Cheng Hua of Nankai University, in collaboration with Academician Liu Zhengyou and Professor Deng Weiyin of Wuhan University, haschallenged the conventionalunderstanding of lossin topological physics. By constructing a bilayer structure supporting pseudospin degrees of freedom and introducing only loss, the teamsuccessfully delocalized the topological boundarymodesthat were originally localized at ends or cornersinto the bulk lattice, realizing los

On November 20, theInnovative Molecular Technology InauguralSymposiumwas heldonBalitai Campusof Nankai University. The symposium was hosted by the College of Chemistry and the FrontiersScience Center for New Organic Matter, and co-organized by the Tianjin Chemical Society, the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, and the editorial office of eScience. The event gatheredmore than 100experts and scholars from over 10research institutions in countries including the Netherlands, Japan

On November 21, the 2025 lists of new academiciansforthe Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering werereleased. Chen Yongsheng, Chair Professor at Nankai University, was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition, Pierre Agostini, an honorary professor at Nankai University, who was nominatedby Nankai University, was elected as a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Academician of the Chinese Academy of SciencesChen Yongsh

Recently, President Xi Jinping sent signed reply lettersto 61 young sinologists from 51 countries, encouraging them to continue their sinology research, introduce a real, multidimensional, and comprehensive China to the world, and serve as envoysconnecting Chinese and foreign civilizations. Batbaatar Tserenpuntsag, a Mongolian doctoral student at Nankai University, was among the representatives who wrote to the President and was honored to receive this meaningful reply.Tserenpuntsag excitedly re

During the 2025 World Chinese Language Conference held in Beijing from November 14 to16, the NEOMA Confucius Institute for Business-Rouen—co-established by Nankai Universityand NEOMA Business School in France—was awarded the title of“2025Outstanding Test Center for the International Chinese Language Teacher Certificate”.At the conference, Chen Jun, Executive Vice Presidentof Nankai University,attended the China-CELAC Forum of Education Development. He also visited the recruitment booths of NKU’s

On November 17, Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University, met withFélix Romero Revilla, Rector of Ricardo Palma University in Peru, and his delegation, onBalitai Campus.Chen Jun extended a warm welcome to FélixRomero Revilla and his delegation, introducing NKU’s educational philosophy, disciplinary strengths and international cooperation initiatives. He highlighted the significant outcomes of the visit by a delegation from NKU’s S

On November 11, Liber Sinicus Táo Tě Kīm inscriptus, in Latinum idioma Versus: The First Translation of the Daodejing in Transcriptionwas released at the College of Philosophy of Nankai University. The book is a collaborative work by Misha Tadd, Associate Professor at the College of Philosophy and Director of the Global Laozegetics Research Center at Nankai University, and young classicist Zhang Xiaoyuan. Published by Lit-Verlagin Germany, the bookprovides invaluable documentary materialsforglob

On November 8, the Eighth General Meetingof the Nankai Alumni Association was held onBalitai Campus. Nearly 400 participants attended the event, including heads ofNankai family of schools; representatives of local, industry-based, and academic alumni associations; representatives of year-group council members; alumni from China and abroad; as well as facultyand students from Nankai’s departments and schools.Yang Qingshan,Chairman of the Seventh Council of the Nankai Alumni Associationand Secreta

A pioneering study by the Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Team from the College of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology at Nankai University has brought new hope to women experiencing infertility due to age or unexplained causes. The research uncoveredthe age-related molecular clock—ribosomal dysregulation—behind the decline in female fertility after the age of 34. It also preliminarily validates thatrapamycin mayserve as a potential, safe, and effective t

From October 31 to November 3, the 19th “Challenge Cup” National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition concludedat Nanjing University.Nankai University won the special prize in the main competition, along with one first prize, two second prizes, and two third prizes.The special prize-winning project, titled “Intelligent Identification and Regulatory Program Analysis of GPRC5B+ Endothelial Cells as a Novel Tumor Stemness Targetto Tackle Tumor Immortality”, w