“As I heard the news that the school was gathering a volunteer group of young faculties to teach at Tanchang, and anyone who knows about robots was in great need, I thought to myself, that person should be me. So, I signed up for it,” Xing Yuan, an associate professor from the School of Mechanical Engineering said matter-of-factly when she recalled how she became a voluntary teacher in 2019...
Over 60 years ago, the outbreak of Minamata disease caused by methylmercury in Japan shocked the whole world. Mercury is a toxic pollutant that spreads globally. As the current emission of mercury is around 3 to 5 times as much as that discharged before the Industrial Revolution, mercury pollution has exacerbated remarkably in the ecosystem. It’s a popular belief that methylmercury in the ocea...
When the first wisp of autumn cool breeze strokes the cheek of students on Peiyangyuan Campus, everyone feels that it has come to our side again, silent and yet noticeable. It announces its arrival by painting the landscape around us in unimaginable hue with the palette, and begins preparing the creatures for the long cold days of winter.The autumn scenery of Peiyangyuan Campus is picturesque...
After four months’ competition, the 2020 China-ASEAN "Learning about Ocean" Student Film Competition (SFC) organized by the ASEAN-China Smart Ocean Center (ACSOC) at Tianjin University came to an end and held a closing ceremony online. More than 100 students from 23 universities in 5 countries participated the competition and submitted a total of 69 films.During the ceremony, Ms. Zhen Zhang, t...
Recently, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) announced the 2019-2020 Outstanding Student Chapter Award winners. Tianjin University Student Chapter of AIChE has won this award for the fourth consecutive year since its establishment in 2016. It is the only mainland Student Chapter to receive this honor.In order to reward the outstanding contributions of AIChE Student Chapters in...
On October 24, 2020, Interspeech 2020 Satellite Workshop (i.e.Spoken Language Interaction for Mobile Transportation System, SLIMTS2020) jointly organized by Tianjin University, Didi Chuxing and Duke Kunshan University was held on online on Bilibili Live.Professor Longbiao Wang from Tianjin University’s College of Intelligence and Computing and Professor Jian Tang from Didi Chuxing served as Ge...