
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 October 15, Prof. Zhao Minggang from the School of Physics, Nankai University (NKU), in collaboration with Prof.Dong Liaoyuan and Li Haibo from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as Prof. Ke Baiqian from Zhengzhou University, achieved a breakthrough in experimental measurements of low-energy QCD, based on data samples collected near the strange-charmed meson threshold by the BESIII experiment. The related findings, entitled “Study of φ→K⁺K⁻and K_S^0-K_L

On October 19, Nankai University (NKU) President Chen Yulu met with Pierre Agostini, the 2023 Nobel Laureate in Physics and NKU Honorary Professor, during his visit to Tianjin for the Tianjin Forum 2025. The meeting was also attended by Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of NKU. The two sides held in-depth discussions on enhancing international cooperation and advancing collaborative research in cutting-edge optics.President Chen extended warm welcome and

On October 19, Nankai University (NKU) President Chen Yulu met with a delegation led by President KimYoosukof the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies in South Korea, during their visit to Tianjin for the Tianjin Forum 2025. The meeting was also attended by Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of NKU, as well as Liang Qi, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee. The two sides held in-depth discussions on co-hosting the forum and implementing

On October 19, Nankai University (NKU) President Chen Yulu met with Mr. Siddharth Chatterjee, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, during hisvisit to Tianjin for the Tianjin Forum 2025. The meeting was also attended by Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of NKU, as well as Liang Qi, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee. The two sides engaged in fruitful exchanges on collaboration in the cultivation of globally competent tale

On October 17, Laurent Lafforgue, the 2002 Fields Medalist, Member of the French Academy of Sciences, recipient of the 2025 Chinese Government Friendship Award, and Senior Expert at Lagrange Centre, Huawei Technologies France, was invited todeliver a lecturetitled “What is a point? What is a space?” as part of the Chern Lecture Series at theChern Institute of Mathematics.Prior to the lecture, Nankai University (NKU) President Chen Yulu met with Prof. Lafforgue atShiing-Shen Building. The meeting

On October 10, the opening ceremony of the 12thNankai UniversityInternational Competence Capacity Building Youth Campwas held at the Shiing-Shen Buildingon Balitai Campus of Nankai University (NKU). Mrs. Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, the fifth-term Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), was invited to attend the ceremony and deliver the inaugural lecture for the program. NKU President Chen Yulu attended the ceremony and delivered an address. The opening ceremony wa

On September 29, Nankai University held the opening ceremony for 2025Master Program in Software Engineering (part of Foreign Aid Academic Education)in thelecture hall of Administration Hall (West)on Jinnan campus.The event brought together 45 students from 18 countries and regions, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nepal, and Iraq.Bai Chengming, Vice President of Nankai University, attended the ceremony, joined by officials from theForeign Economic Cooperation Office of Tianjin Municipal

To celebratethe Mid-Autumn Festival, the Schoolof Foreign Studies, the College of Chinese Language and Culture, and the Schoolof International Education at Nankai University successively held a series of diverse traditional cultural experience activities. These events offered Chinese and international participants an immersive experience of the rich cultural essence of this Chinese holiday.At the School of Foreign Studies, participants, both domestic and international, engaged in traditional Chi

On October 2, Eiichi Nakamura, Foreign Member of the Royal Societyand Special-term Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan, was formally appointed as Chair Professor at Nankai University. The appointment ceremony was held in the Haibing Centeron Balitai Campus, Nankai University. Prof. Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, presented the Letter of Appointment to Professor Nakamura and conferred upon him the university emblem.The ceremonywas attended byProf. Zhou Qilin, Academician of the

On September 26 in Daejeon, South Korea, the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI) officially announced that Professor Fan Dengping from the College of Computer Science at Nankai University wonthe 2025 MICCAI Young Scientist Publication Impact Award. This marks the first time that a scholaraffiliated with a university inChinese mainland has received this award.Professor Fan earned the award for his paper PraNet: Parallel Reverse Attention Network for Polyp S

Recently, the 3rd Workshop on Topological Photonics and Beyond (TPB25) was held in Tianjin.Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of Nankai University, attended theopening ceremony anddelivered the opening speech. Xu Jingjun, Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, and Professor at the School of Physics, Nankai University, was also pres

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