
Welcome back to campus after a long winter break! Toting laptops and notebooks, students returned to classrooms and labs for spring semester this week. As the spring semester commenced at Tianjin University (TJU), campus felt the energy and excitement of students and faculty exploring their interests and connecting with classmates and peers. The atmosphere was buzzing with excitement. Explore t...

Editor’s Note: Hyder Alawi is a Canadian citizen, currently studying at Tianjin University for a Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering. During the past winter vacation and the Chinese Spring Festival, Hyder took a few trips to Chinese citites and got a closer look into Chinese people and culture. Below is Hyder’s traveling story.Hyder Alawi and his dear motherIt had been several years...

ChatGPT, a universal chatbot developed by artificial intelligence lab OpenAI, was officially launched on November 30, 2022. In just two months, ChatGPT's global registered users exceeded 100 million, and ChatGPT and related topics have been trending in many searching lists.Why is ChatGPT so popular? How will it affect human society? How does the legal community view and respond to the impacts b...

Immunotherapy is a promising therapeutic tool for tumor treatment. However, the lack of immune response has a serious impact on the effectiveness of treatment. Recent studies have revealed that pro-inflammatory factors produced through pyroptosis can induce an inflammation-based immune response in the treated individual in a variety of active or passive ways, thus exerting the immune system's k...

The 6th Forum on Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Tianjin University Alumniwas held in Tianjin on February 11. The forum revolves around the theme of "make a better TJU-NKU Higher Education Science and Technology Park by integrating science and education and breeding innovation", providing an opportunity for brainstorming and discussing the blueprint for TJU-NKU Higher Education Science and...

A research team led by Prof. Junbo Gong at Tianjin University collaborated with researchers from the University of Houston, USA, and discovered a new type of crystallization inhibitor. The inhibitor can effectively inhibit the growth of crystals that induce the formation of urate calculus, posing a promising future for renal calculus treatment. The research findings were published in Nature Com...