
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...

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...