
From April 15 to 23, the 60thInternationalMendeleev Chemistry Olympiad (IMChO 2026) was held in Moscow, Russia. Hosted by Lomonosov Moscow State University, the event attracted 160 top chemistry students from 35 countries and regions along the Belt and Road, as well as BRICS nations etc., to compete together. Entrusted by the organising committee, the selection and organisation of Chinese contestants were entirely undertaken by the College of Chemistry at Nankai University.The competition featur

From March 21 to 23, the 10th National Conference on Solid-State Batteries was held in Tianjin, bringing together experts and scholars to discuss advances in the science, technology, and industrialization of solid-state batteries. The conference also served as a collaborative innovationplatform thatpromotesdeeper industry-academia-researchintegration, providing academic support and technological pathways for the high-quality development of the future energy sector.The conferencewas attended by p

On March 18, Chen Jun, Executive Vice President of Nankai University, met with Geraldine McCafferty, Minister Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Beijing,and her delegation onJinnan Campus.Chen Jun welcomed McCafferty and her delegation and introduced Nankai University’s educational philosophy, disciplinary structure, research strengths, and cooperation with UK partners. He highlighted recent progress in collaboration with leading British universities, including the University of Oxford, th

From March 9 to 13, Professor Donald Worster, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and one of the founders and leading scholars of environmental history, was invited to deliver three lectures as part of the second LeiHaizong Lecture in History under the theme “Planet Earth Has a History”at Nankai University.Chen Zhiqiang, Chair Professor at Nankai University, presented ProfessorDonaldWorster with a commemorative cert

From February 2 to 3, the Five Continents Ice Dragon Boat Challenge was held on Xilin Lake in XilinhotCity, Xilingol League, Inner MongoliaAutonomous Region. Competing as China’s only student team at the event, the Nankai University Dragon Boat Team finished second in all four races: the 5-person 100-meter straighttrackrace, the 12-person 100-meter 200-meterstraighttrackrace, and the 12-person 400-meter drift race. The team also placed second overall with 112 scores.Co-organizedby the Internatio

From January 27 to 30, ChenJun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University, led a delegation to Saudi Arabia, where they met with local universities and research institutions and held discussionsondeepeningbilateral cooperation in education and science and technology, as well as cultural exchanges.During the trip, the delegation visited Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, and

Recently, guided by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the first meeting of the Advisory Committee of the China–SCO Green Industry Cooperation Platform was held in Beijing. The meeting was attended by and featured remarks fromZhang Lupeng, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protectionof the NDRC; Chen Yulu, Vice Chairmanof the 14th National People’s Congress Financial and Economic Affairs Committee and President of Nankai Univ

On January 23, a delegation led by Jamshid Inoyatkhodjaev, First Vice-Rectorfor Academic Affairsof Inha University in Tashkent (IUT)paid a visit to Nankai University. Chen Jun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University, met with the delegationonBalitai Campus.Chen Jun outlined Nankai University’s educational philosophy, academic structure, research strengths, and overall approach to international engagement. He noted that, in response to

On January 13, a matchmaking event for the commercialization of research projects was held at Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park. Cui Zhenping, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director General of the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, attended the event.Fang Yongchun, Vice President of Nankai University, announced 15 high-value research projects for commercialization.At the event, Fang Yongchun highlighted Nankai University’s overall progress in deeply integrating into t

A research team led by ProfessorsZhang Xinzheng, Chen Zhigang, and Xu Jingjun from the School of Physicsat Nankai University, in collaboration with Professor Irena Drevenšek Olenik from the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, has demonstrated for the first time a circularly polarized flexible topological vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with high laser conversion efficiency. The findings have been published in Light: Science Applicationsunder the title “Soft-Matter-Based Topologic

The Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the recipientsof its 2026 award. Professor Chen Sen from the Collegeof Cryptologyand Cyber Scienceat Nankai University has been honored with the 2026 ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award in recognition of his research contributions to software security. He is the first scholar from an Asia-Pacific universityto receive this accolade.The ACM SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher A

Recently, Political Economy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, with Professor Pang Jinju serving as editor-in-chief, and Professors Liu Fengyi and He Zili as associate editors-in-chief, published by Higher Education Press, has been selected for 2025 China Classics International(CCI), according to an announcement released bytheChina Press Publication MediaJournal.Political Economy of Socialism with Chinese Characteristicsis a key textbook under the Marxist Theory Research and Construction

On December 20, the 2025 Annual Meeting of Insurance and Actuary 40 Forum was held at the ChernBuilding on Balitai Campus, Nankai University. The event was organizedby Nankai University and jointly undertakenby the Nankai-Taikang College of Insurance and Actuarial Science, China Life Reinsurance Company Ltd., and the School of Economics at Nankai University, with the theme “Technology-enabled Development and the New Health and Elderly Care Ecosystem”.This forum was attended by: Liang Tao,

A research team from Nankai University, in collaboration with teams from Tsinghua University, Shanghai JiaoTong University, and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, has published a paper titled “Designing Strongly Coupled Polaritonic Structures via Statistical Machine Learning” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study proposes a novel statistical machine learning framework that enables accurate and efficient design of photonic devices with strongly coup

A research team led by Professor Xu Jingjun, Professor Cai Wei, and Associate Professor Luo Weiwei from the School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics at Nankai University has achieveda series of significantadvances in the regulation mechanisms and near-field optical characterization of mid-infrared plasmons. The related findings have been published in Science Advances and Nature Communications.The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral region encompasses a series of key physical processes,