
From October 26 to November 7, 2020, the 2020 National Training for Teachers' Quality Improvement Plan in Vocational Colleges was held at Tianjin University. A total of 60 teachers participated in the training.Prof. Yan Guangfen, Dean of TJU’s School of Education attended the opening ceremony on October 26. Prof. Yan extended a warm welcome to the 60 trainees. She pointed out that Tianjin was...

The finals of the 2020 SEU · Chinese Contest of the Rookies' Award for Architectural Students was launched through a combination of online live-broadcast and offline review meetings, and it came to a successful conclusion at Southeast University on September 27. Previously, in the preliminary competition that ended on July 19, a total of 13 works from Tianjin University’s School of Architectur...

Prof. LIU Yi and Prof. ZHENG Wang from the School of Earth System Science received the 18th Hou Defeng Award for Young Scientists in Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry as was announced in early November.The award is set up in honor of Prof. Hou Defeng, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, for his notable contribution to the development of geology and geochemistry in China. It als...

The final of the 9th China Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition ended in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on November 6, 2020. Out of 35,000 competing enterprises, 34 businesses entered the final. Tianjin Yunyao Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd and Huaxin Intelligent (Zhuhai) Technology Co., Ltd, two companies both supported by Peiyang Begonia Venture Capital Fund, a private fund established by Ti...

“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...