
On September21, Chen Yulu, President ofNankai University,welcomed Nicholas Reece, Mayor of Melbourne, Australia, and his delegation at Haibin Centeron Balitai Campus. They were accompanied byLuan Jianzhang, Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Tianjin Municipal People’s Government, and Huang Chunyan, Vice President of the Tianjin People’s Association for Friendship with ForeignCountries.At the event, Chen and Reece jointly inaugurated the Nankai University Centerfor Australian E

On September 18, Zheng Zugang, Party Secretary and Chairman of Qilu Bank and analumnus of Nankai University’s Department of Economics(Class of 1991), visited Nankai University with his delegation. Yang Qingshan, Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee, met with the delegationat Haibing Buildingon Balitai Campus. Liang Qi, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee, and Yu Hai, Assistant to the University President, also attended the meeting.Yang warmly welcomed Zheng and hi

ACT001, anovel anti-tumor drug candidate, invented by a research team led by Professor Chen Yue from the College of Chemistry and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology at Nankai University, has been approved by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to enter the Phase III clinical trial, based on thepromising results from its Phase IIb clinicalstudy.ACT001, a novel anti-tumor drug independently developed by Professor Chen’s team over 15 years, is capable of cros

Recently, a research team led by Eiichi Nakamura, Chair Professor at Nankai University, published their latest findings titled “Rapid, Low-temperature Nanodiamond Formation by Electron-beam Activation of Adamantane C–H Bonds” in Science.Professor Nakamura’s team utilized an organic molecular precursor with a cage-like diamondoid framework containing 10 carbon atoms. By applyingelectron-beam irradiation for seconds to minutes under vacuum conditions at room temperature or lower, they successfully

On September 11, Nankai University held the10th International Talents Forum at Shiing-Shen BuildingonBalitai Campus. Nearly 200 experts and scholars from 23 countries and regions participated both online and in person. Invited speakers were from prestigious institutions includingHarvard University, the University of Cambridge, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, the National University of Singapore, ETH Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the University of Hong Kong, and

Recently, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)Annual Conferencewas held in Sheffield, UK. A delegation from Nankai University’s Modern Logistics Research Center attended the conference and presented the English edition of the Contemporary Logistics in China 2025, a flagship publication edited by the center and exclusively distributed worldwide by Springer Nature.As China’s first and only annual English-language publicationon the development of its logistics industry released

A research team has achieved a major breakthrough in the design and development of room-temperature two-dimensional (2D) vdW topological magnetic materials. Their findings appear in the paper titled “Intercalation-Engineered Out-of-Plane Polarized van der Waals Ferromagnetic Superlattice with Room-Temperature Néel-Type Skyrmion”, published inACS Nanoon September 4, 2025. The work was led by Professor Xuewen Fu from the Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the School of Physics, Nankai Uni

On September 1, Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, met with ZholdykhanSanat, Chairman of the Board of KazakhstansNational Agency for the Development of Innovations(QazInnovations). Both sides held productive discussions on deepening cooperation in areas such as digital economy and artificial intelligence (AI).Chen Yulu introduced the disciplinary development of Nankai University and its recent achievementsacross various fields, highlighting multipleinnovative breakthroughs in advancing d

On September 2, under the witness of Sayasat Nurbek, Minister of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan, Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, and Yerlan Sydykov, Rector of L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University(ENU), signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The agreement aims to deepen collaboration in cooperative-run educational projectsand academic exchanges,andto put into practice the consensus on deepening educational and sci-techcooperation between China and Kazakhstan.Prior t

From August 13 to 18, the RoboCup Malaysia Open 2025 was held in Malaysia, where two teams from Nankai University achieved a historic breakthrough by capturing three championship titles.As the world’s most influential robotics competition, RoboCup is renowned for its technical sophistication and broad international participation, drawing teams from dozens of countries and regions each year. This year,the eventbrought together more than 400 participants and staff from countries and regions suchas

On July 27, the 2025 International Monetary Forum was held in Renmin University of China(RUC). This event was co-hostedbyRUC and Nankai University (NKU), and jointlyorganizedby School of Financeof RUC, School of Financeof NKU, National Academy of Financial Researchof RUC, International Monetary Institute (IMI)of RUC, and National Institute for Innovation and Financeof NKU. Themed on “Geoeconomic Risks and Global Financial Governance Reform”, the forum gathered renowned experts and scholars from

The 2025 Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreigners across the Globe – Storytelling Contestconcluded on July 9 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Jocelyn (Chinese name: 曹秋慧CaoQiuhui), an international student from Indonesia studying at Nankai University, distinguished herself among 50 finalists from around the world and received the “Outstanding Eloquence”, one of three major individualawards. She was recognized for her strong command of Chinese and unique cultural perspectives.I

On the morning of July 6, the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nankai University held the Symposium on the Development of Materials Science and Work Summary onJinnan Campus.Zhu Shoufei extended a warmwelcome to all participants and expressed sincere gratitude to all sectors of society and alumni at home and abroad for their long-standing support for the School and the development of the university. He highly praised the School’s outstanding achievements over the past decade in tale

Recently, a research team led by Professors Wang Lei and Feng Lu from the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases/ TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Nankai University has made a major breakthrough in the study of the blood–brain barrier (BBB).

Recently, Gao Su, Chair Professor at Nankai University, was invited to attend the Roaming Logic Conference organizedby the University of Warsaw, where he servedasthe 2025 Mostowski Lecturerand delivered akeynote reporton “Descriptive Combinatorics of Abelian Group Actions”.The three-day conference brought together leading scholars from Poland, China, the US, the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Austria to share their latest findingsacross all major areas of mathematical logic. The Mostowski Lectur