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12.16 2025Recipient of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques Donates the Medal and Archival Materials to Nankai University
Recently, Zhang Zhiting, a retired professor from the School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University (NKU) and recipient of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, donated the medal to UniversityArchives.Prof. Zhang previously served as a First Secretary of the Commercial Office at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in theRepublic of France, where he brought extensive diplomatic experience to his role. From 1995 till retirement, he had been dedicated to the establishment and development of th
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12.15 2025Nankai University President Chen Yulu Attends Tengchong Scientists Forum 2025
From December 5 to 7, the Tengchong Scientists Forum 2025was held in Tengchong City, Yunnan Province. The event was jointly hosted by People’s Government of Yunnan Province and China Association for Science and Technology, with support from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University (NKU).Chen Yulu, Presidentof Nankai University, attended the opening ceremony, presided over the opening keynote session, and participated in University Presidents Forum. Fang Yongchun, NKU Vice Pr
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12.12 2025A Delegation from Yunnan Normal University Visits Nankai University
On December 4, Chen Fei, Vice President of Yunnan Normal University, and his delegation visited Nankai University. Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Executive Vice President of Nankai University (NKU), met with the guests at the Haibing Centeron Balitai Campus.Chen Jun noted that the profound friendship between the two universitiesdates back totheir shared origin in the National Southwestern Associated University. He expressed hope that both institutions would
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12.11 2025Nankai University Research Team Contributes to Groundbreaking Study Published in Nature
Recently, XiangpanJi, Associate Professor at the School of Physics, Nankai University (NKU), in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory physicistJay Hyun Joand Louisiana State Universityprofessor Hanyu Wei, used data from MicroBooNE at Fermilab to achieve a major breakthrough in the study of sterile neutrinos. The study pioneered an innovative “single detector + two neutrino beams” approach, excluding the existence of a single sterile neutrino at a 95% confidence level. Their findings,
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12.10 2025Nankai University Presents the Mathematical Talent Award to Joshua Zahl
On November 30, Nankai Universitypresentedits second Mathematical Talent Awardto Joshua Zahl, Chair Professor at the Chern Institute of Mathematics.Prof. Zahlwas born in 1986. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and the University of British Columbia, Canada, before joining NKU as a full-time Chair Professor in June 2025. Prof
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12.09 2025Nankai University Research Team Reports Significant Breakthrough in RNA m⁶A Modification
On November 29, the research group led by Changliang Shan at the College of Pharmacy, Nankai University (NKU), published a paper in Advanced Sciencewiththe title HPD is an m⁶A Methyltransferase that Protects Colorectal Cancer Cells from Ferroptotic Cell Death by m⁶A Methylating SLC7A11/GPX4.In this study, Shan Groupdiscover the tyrosine metabolism enzyme 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPD) as a methyltransferase responsible for m6A modification. Unlike METTL3, which requires the assistance
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12.08 2025Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Bernard L. Feringa Appointed as Yang Shixian Distinguished Lecturer at Nankai University
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
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12.04 2025Nankai University Professor Publishes Paper in Top-Tier Mathematics Journal
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
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12.04 2025The International Symposium on Yeh Chiaying and Chinese Poetry Teaching Convenes at Nankai University
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
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12.03 2025NKU and Oxford: Further Strengthening Collaboration
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
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12.03 2025Nankai University Research Team Makes Significant Progress in Non-Hermitian Exotic Topological Modes
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
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12.01 2025Nankai University Holds Innovative Molecular Technology Inaugural Symposium
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
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11.28 2025Two Nankai University Scholars Elected as CAS Academicians
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
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11.27 2025Nankai University International Student Receives Reply Letter from President Xi Jinping
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
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11.26 2025Nankai University Participates in 2025 World Chinese Language Conference and Holds The 3rd Nankai University International Chinese Language Education Joint Conference
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
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