Nankai University selected 20 teachers and cadres working for Binhai New Area

By zhangjian
In order to actively participate in Binhai New Area development and opening-up, and service for regional and local economic, Nankai University selected the first batch of 20 outstanding young and middle-aged backbone to Binhai New Area, for a period of six months.

 

Shenzhen Development Bank donated 100,000 grants to NK.U

By zhangjian
On May 30, Shenzhen Development Bank donated 100,000 Yuan to Nankai University, specifically to finance of the freshmen affected by earthquake in 2,008. Frank Newman, chairman and chief executive officer of Shenzhen Development Bank, was employed by Visiting Professor of Nankai University.

 

Nankai University set up Binhai Development Institute

By zhangjian
On May 29, Nankai University set up Binhai Development Institute to accelerate the development and opening up of Tianjin Binhai New Area. , Zhao Qizheng, the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National and Committee director of the Foreign Affairs, take on the president of Binhai Development Institute.

 

Nankai University work together with Jinghai Country

By zhangjian
In order to implement the strategy of science and education and speed up local economic construction, Nankai University and Jinghai County agreed to establish strategic economic development partnerships after friendly consultations. On May 22, the two sides signed a "strategic economic cooperation framework agreement".


Famous diplomat Lu Congmin returned to Nankai University

By zhangjian
On May 9, the famous diplomat Lu Congmin returned to his mother school Nankai University, and was employed part-time professor by Zhou Enlai Government department. He gave a wonderful report to the stuents.


Nankai University Recruit foreign students globally

By zhangjian
May this year, Nankai University will recruit 25 foreign students from famous universities all over the world. They will study in NK.U to pursue a doctor degree. Each of them well be provided by the Chinese government with 40,000 Yuan of the full scholarship.
 

2008 China Institute of the U.S. economic Annual opened in NK.U

By zhangjian
The three-day China Institute of the U.S. economic annual, opened in Nankai University on April 18. More than 200 famous scholars, including the founder of modern public finance research Arnold • Habeler, the U.S. Academy of Sciences Watson, the famous economist Zhizhuang Zou participated in the meeting.
 

Professor Wang Lei's paper boarded the natural cover

By zhangjian
On April 24, Nature, the world famous British scientific journal magazine, published the cover article which was written by professor Wang Lei in Nankai University. This is the first cover article of natural in Tianjin.

 

President Rao visit Australia

By zhangjian
April 10 to April 15, president Rao led a delegation to visit Australia. They went to the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and other famous universities.

During the visit, president Rao introduced the situation of Nankai University to the foreign schools, particularly on the development of Tianjin Binhai New Area. He hoped that other schools will cooperate with NK.U in various areas, to share great opportunities.

 

Executive vice president chen visit colleges in the United States

By zhangjian
In March, Chen Hong, the executive vice president of Nankai University, began his visit to the colleges in the United States. They went to University of Maryland, the University of South Florida and so on . Nankai University and the University of South Florida signed to set up Confucius together. This is the fifth Confucius Institute that Nankai University established overseas.

 

President Rao visited the United States

By zhangjian
President Rao visited the United States in March. The group visited Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Princeton University and other schools. During this time, a team composed of seven young Chinese biological scientists made a decision to teach at Nankai University.
 

Professor Teng died on February 14

By zhangjian
The well-known economist and educator, former president of Nankai University, Professor Teng Wei zao, died at 9:57 on February 14, 2008 in Tianjin. He was 91 years old.

 

Nankai University has three new academicians

By zhangjian
On December 27, Chinese Academy of Sciences announced the biennial results of the Chinese Academy of Sciences co-opted. Song Li Cheng, Lung Yiming, Wei-Ping Chang renowned got high number of votes being elected to be academicians. Nankai University is the college that got the largest number of new academicians.
 

The 10th "Challenge Cup" opened in Nankai University

By zhangjian
"Dances for youth and Innovation." On November 15, the 10th "Challenge Cup" Philips national Students extracurricular academic works competition finals, opened in Nankai University. more than 3,000 teachers and students from all over the world attended the opening ceremony.

The "Challenge Cup" is known as "Olympic games" in technology of students. So far, there are nearly 1 million students from more than 600 universities taking part in it. During the finals, the innovative series forum, report of Tianjin Binhai New Area, and "Challenge Cup" works retrospective activities will be hold.

 

Yang Chen-ning Came Back to Nankai University

By zhangjian
On November 23, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics Yang Chen-ning,  came back to his mother school Nankai University. He gave a series of lectures to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of mathematics master Chern.

 

"Zhou Enlai" Scholarship Fund established in Nankai University

By zhangjian
On December 7, a fund named of "Zhou Enlai" established in his alma mater. The presentation was hold in Nankai University. The first sum of money is collected from people in Hong Kong leaders. So far, the sum of it has been raised 3 million Yuan.
 

President Rao visited the university of Oxford

By zhangjian
Rao zi-he, the President of Nankai University, visited the University of Oxford on October 22.
On the afternoon of 22, Oxford University Vice-Chancellor John A. Hood and President Rao talked about strengthening cooperation and exchanging students. The same morning, the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Colin Lucas, also met with President Rao.

Photo by Li Xingjiao
 

Nankai University held opening ceremony of 2007 freshmen

By zhangjian
September 17, Nankai University held opening ceremony of 2007 freshmen in the stadium.
This year, Nankai University recruited students nationally, including Hong Kong, Macao and 34 provincial-level administrative region, as well as the United States, Japan, Russia and other nine countries. There are 3,097 undergraduates and 3,470 graduate students.

Photo by Li Xingjiao
 

FPSAC 2007 was held in Nankai University

By Zhang Guo
FPSAC 2007, the 19th International Conference on Formal Power Series & Algebraic Conbinatorics, was held from July 2 to 6 at the Shiing-shen Building of Nankai University. It's the first time FPSAC was held in Asia since 1998, the year when this influential conference was founded.
Bill Chen, vice president of NKU and director of Center for Combinatorics, chaired this conference's organizing committee.
Several well-known mathematicians gave lectures as invited speakers, including Bruce C. Berndt (University of Illinois, USA), Philippe Biane (Ecole Normale Sup└rieure, France), Anders Buch (Rutgers University, USA) , Maxime Crochemore (University of Marne-la-Vall└e, France ) , Eva-Maria Feichtner (University of Stuttgart, Germany) , Sergey Fomin (The University of Michigan, USA/Russia) , Ezra Miller (The University of Minnesota, USA) , Soichi Okada (Nagoya University, Japan) , and Peter Paule (Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Austria) .

Prof. Bruce C. Berndt was giving a lecture on FPSAC 2007 at Shiing-shen Building of NKU. Photo by Li Xingjiao
 

5443 students graduated from Nankai University

by Zhang Jian
A total of 5443 students graduated from Nankai University this summer,including 2728 bachelors,2169 masters and 546 doctors.

Commencement 2007, Nankai University. Photo by Ren Yonghua
 

Prof. He Binglin died on July 4

Prof. He Binglin, the well-known chemist, the educationist and the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, died of illness at 4:55 on July 4, 2007 in Tianjin at the age of 89.

Prof. He Binglin. Photo by Zhang Guo