
On October 26, Nankai University held a conference on Jinnan Campus to mark the 50th anniversary of its environmental discipline. More than 300 alumni gathered at the Lecture Hall of the West Building,to celebrate the milestone.The event opened with the solemn playing of the national anthem.Attendees included: Yang Qingshan, Secretary of the CPC Nankai University Committee; Jiang Guibin, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Research Fellow at the Research Center for Eco-Environment

Tianjin Forum 2025, co-hosted by Nankai University (NKU) and the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies in the Republic of Korea, commenced in Tianjin on October 19. The forum was centered on the theme “Technological Innovation and Future Cities: Opportunities and Challenges.” The event brought together over 300 distinguished scholars and representatives from universities, research institutes, government agencies, and international organizations across 17 countries and regions, including the United

On October 11, the Academic Symposium Commemorating the Centenary of the Birth of Nankai University Honorary Professor Gu Shutang the 6thForum on Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era were held in Tianjin. The event brought together over 200 experts and scholars from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Wuhan University, Jilin University, Shando

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 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 21, Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, welcomed Nicholas Reece, Mayor of Melbourne, Australia, and his delegation at Haibin Center on Balitai Campus. They were accompanied by Luan 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 Foreign Countries.

On September 11, Michael Grätzel, a foreign memberof the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Materials and Cells(Nankai University), was invited to delivera lecture entitled The Central Role of Materials Innovation in Perovskite Photovoltaic Evolution at Nankai University.In the lecture, Prof. Grätzel statedthat perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have become a disruptive technology in the photovoltaic field since their advent in 2009. In just over

On September 1, Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, met with Zholdykhan Sanat, Chairman of the Board of Kazakhstan's National 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).

On July 27, the 2025 International Monetary Forum was held in Renmin University of China (RUC). This event was co-hosted by RUC and Nankai University (NKU), and jointly organized by School of Finance of RUC, School of Finance of NKU, National Academy of Financial Research of RUC, International Monetary Institute (IMI) of RUC, and National Institute for Innovation and Finance of NKU.

On July 11, 2025 SCO Digital Economy Forum—Theme Forum of University Cooperation was held at Tiankai Higher Education Innovation Park. the SCO Digital Economy University Alliance, initiated by Nankai University and with participation from Chinese universities and counterparts from SCO member states, was officially established.

On the afternoon of July 10, ahead of the 2025 SCO Digital Economy Forum, representatives from five universities across SCO member states, visited Nankai University to advance international collaboration in higher education.

Nankai University held the opening ceremony for its 2025 International Summer School at Chern Building on the Balitai Campus on the evening of June 29. Chen Jun, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice President of Nankai University, delivered the keynote speech. The ceremony brought together distinguished scholars from around the world, alongside representatives of Nankai faculty and students, and was hosted by Li Yuelin, Assistant to the President and Director of the Teaching A

On June 26, the Nankai University-University of Glasgow Joint Graduate School held its 2025 commencement ceremony and degree conferral ceremony on Jinnan Campus.

Recently, a research team led by Professor Duan Feng of Nankai University has successfully completed the world’s first clinical trial using an interventional brain-computer interface (BCI) to assist in the motor function restoration in a paralyzed limb. The breakthrough enabled a hemiplegic patient to regain mobility in the affected limb.

Joshua Zahl, a mathematician widely known for his groundbreaking proof of the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture, has been appointed as a Chair Professor at the Chern Institute of Mathematics at Nankai University.Prof.Zahl completed his Ph.D. in 2013 at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the mentorship of Terence Tao. His research centers on harmonic analysis and combinatorics, with particular interests in the Kakeya conjecture, sum-product problems, and the Erdős distance problem