
The finals of the 3rd National Chemistry Experiment Innovation and Design Competition for College Students was held at Xiamen University from August 21 to 24. The innovative experimental project named Ultra-fast Preparation of Silica Photonic Crystal, completed by Nankai University College of Chemistry’s undergraduates, Liang Chiyu, Zhang Sihan and Lu Chenxin, under the guidance of supervisors Qiu Xiaohang and Zhu Baolin, won the special prize at the competition. This is the third consecutive ye

The first World Vocational and Technical Education Development Conference, co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Tianjin Municipal People’s Government, was held in Tianjin from August 19 to 20. Prof. Gong Ke, Director of the Academic Committee of Nankai University, former Chairman of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and Executive President of Chinese Institute of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies, was invited to give a keynote speech at

On August 16, the team of Professor Zhu Yushan and Professor Chen Quan from Nankai University College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, and Interdisciplinary Science Center for Cell Response, published a paper entitled Nondegradable Ubiquitinated ATG9A Organizes Golgi Integrity and Dynamics Upon Stresseson Cell Reports. The study discovered how the ubiquitinated ATG9A protein participates in the molecular mechanism of regulating the dynamics and functions of t

Since its launch in March this year, the 2022 Compiling System Design Competition of National Student Computer System Capability Challenge (Huawei Bisheng Cup) came to a conclusion on August 22 after the preliminary round, online finals and oral defense in the finals. The NKUER4 team, composed of students from College of Computer Science, won the second prize at the competition.Following the second prize and the third prize at the 2021 Compiling System Design Competition of National Student Comp

It is founded that humans can transmit Shigella flexneri to cattleRecently, the study on human-to-bovine transmission of Shigella flexneri by the team led by Xu Jianguo, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was published online in the journal Emerging Microbes Infections. The team works under the State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Research Institute of Public Health, Nankai U

The National Lectures Competition for Young Teachers for Basic University Course of Physics was held in Changchun on August 6, which drew 21 outstanding teachers from 6 regions including East China and North China. Zhang Siyao from the School of Physics of Nankai University won the first prize and gave a demonstration class at the event.The Competition is jointly sponsored by the Teaching Steering Committee of the Basic Course of Physics in Universities under the Ministry of Education, the Teach

Recently, the team led by Professor Zhu Yushan from Nankai University College of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, and Interdisciplinary Science Center for Cell Response, published the research findings entitled Hypoxia-induced proteasomal degradation of DBC1 by SIAH2 in breast cancer progression on the journal eLifeonline. The study found that hypoxic stress can affect the molecular mechanism of tumor progression by regulating the ubiquitination modification and

Recently, Fok Ying Tung Education Foundations 18thHigher Education Youth Science Award and Education and Teaching Award presentation ceremony was held simultaneously in Beijing and Hong Kong via network connections. Huai Jinpeng, Minister of Education and John Lee Ka-chiu, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, gave speeches at the ceremony. Tian Xuejun, Vice Minister of Education, gave concluding remarks and presented awards to the winner representatives. Professor Shi

On September 2, Nankai University welcomed nearly 5,800 Masters and Doctoral students enrolled in 2022.Affected by the recent COVID-19 epidemic situation in Tianjin and many other places across China, NKU has taken strict epidemic prevention measures to better protect the health and safety of faculty and students including services such as one-stop pick-up services at stations, students verification at school entrance, and eye-catching epidemic prevention reminders on the campus, etc.At 10:00 a.

As the new semester begins, most students get back to the campus. On August 31, President Chen Yulu came to Jinnan new campus, welcomed and talked with the students.At No. 9 students dormitory, Chen Yulu inspected the one-stop student community, which is equipped with activity rooms, exchange and seminar rooms, self-study rooms, sports and fitness areas, communal kitchens, multimedia rooms, counselor studios, cultural corridors, etc. Chen Yulu asked the relevant departments to continue to build

Nankai University and Qingdao Municipal Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement on the morning of August 19. Yang Qingshan, Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee, had talks with Zhao Haozhi, Mayor of Qingdao, and attended the signing ceremony. Nankai University leaders Li Jing and Liang Qi; Qingdao government officials Deng Yunfeng and Wang Bo also attended the meeting. Li Jing and Wang Bo signed the agreement on behalf of both parties.Yang Qingshan said that Qingdao plays

At the 2021 China Automation Congress (CAC 2021) held in Kunming, Yunnan Province, the team led by Professor Fang Yongchun from College of Artificial Intelligence of Nankai University, won the China Automation and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Team Award; Lu Biao won the Nomination Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, and his advisor Prof. Fang Yongchun won the Nomination Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation.Established in 1988, the Intelligent Robot Innovation Team of Nankai

The finals of China Undergraduate Life Science Contest (CULSC) (innovation and entrepreneurship category in 2022) were held online from July 29 to 31, 2022. As one of 5,053 entries, Rhizospheric Microorganism Community Remodeling Technology Based on Synthetic Bacteria and Its Application to Pollution Remediation submitted by Yin Hongda, Feng Lian, Chen Yuqiao, Feng Yuming, Liang Boyuan and Zeng Xinlin, who are undergraduates of NKU College of Life Sciences, won the first prize in the innovation

Recently, the finals of the RoboCup@Home Education, part of RoboCup 2022, held in Bangkok, Thailand took place online. Under the guidance of Li Wenyu, member of Professor Duan Fengs team from the School of Artificial Intelligence, the Pluto team composed of 5 sophomores, including Sun Jiawen, Qiu Shuang, Xi Wen, Jian Zihang and Cao Shicheng, participated in the OpenPlatform Challenge of the RoboCup@Home. The Pluto team won unanimous praise from the five judges for their performance in the review

Recently, Yanshan University, Nankai University and some other institutions have collaborated to resolve the long-standing problems about the pathways of the graphite-to-diamond phase transition with high-pressure synthesis method. A new type of graphite-diamond composite material, which combines the electrical conductivity of graphite, the superhardness of diamond, and high toughness that neither graphite nor diamond possesses, has also been created and added to the family of carbon materials.