On December 3, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) welcomed Sun Licheng, a foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), to campus. He gave the 246th lecture in the SUSTech Lecture Series on the topic of “Solar Energy Conversion and Water Splitting Catalysis: From Natural to Artificial Photosynthesis.”

Over the weekend, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) was the host venue for the first meeting of the Undergraduate Teaching Steering Committee of Materials Science for the universities in Guangdong. SUSTech Acting Vice President Zhang Dongxiao attended the meeting with 19 members from universities and businesses across Guangdong Province.

The first cohort of fifty Xplorer Prize winners was awarded after four months of rigorous analysis. Two of those fifty Xplorer Prize winners were Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Professor Jiang Xingyu (Department of Biomedical Engineering) and Associate Professor Liu Weishu (Materials Science and Engineering). Both young scientists stood out from over one thousand applicants for their cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, in energy & environmental protection respectively. They were the only winners in Shenzhen.

One of the unique aspects of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is its six residential colleges, which house over four thousand undergraduate students. These residential colleges have become a critical component for developing the future leaders of the new era, under SUSTech’s mission of reform and innovation of higher education in China.

Over the weekend, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) Associate Professor Li Guixin from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) was honored with one of the 2019 Outstanding Young Scholars Awards from the Qiu Shi Science and Technologies Foundation.

On the eve of National Teachers’Day, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) held its annual Teachers’Day Award Ceremony that rewarded a wide range of teaching, research and administrative positions around campus. SUSTech University Council Chairperson Guo Yurong, SUSTech President Chen Shiyi, Runyang Group Chairman Yang Jun and Runyang Group Chief Financial Officer Liu Feiming were among the luminaries in attendance. SUSTech Vice President Lu Chun presided over the ceremony.

Associate Professor Cheng Chun, from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has been awarded with the honorary title of “National Excellent Teacher” this year by the Ministry of Education.

Associate Professor Cheng Chun, from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has been awarded with the honorary title of “National Excellent Teacher” this year by the Ministry of Education.

Last month, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) welcomed Professor Suo Zhigang to campus. He gave an intriguing lecture on “Hydrogel Adhesion: A Synergy of Mechanics, Chemistry and Topology.”