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​The final of the 10th China Petroleum Engineering Design Competition was held online on June 13, and CUG students won 1 grand prize, 1 first prize, and 6 third prizes.The team formed by KANG Yunqiu, HUANG Senxin, YAN Bingyang, and ZHAO Chen competed with other teams from 19 higher education institutions in a 5-hour quiz about the knowledge of petroleum engineering and petrochemistry. They sto...

​The second materials science exhibition, with the theme of “Materials Science Lights up Innovation”, was held online on June 11. 18 project teams displayed their creative works made of mineral materials, luminescent materials, functional and composite materials, hydrophobic materials, polymer materials, metal materials, etc.The teams focused on the characteristics and applications of the ma...

Research Center for Extreme Weather and Climate & Hydrogeological Hazards of China Meteorological Administration was officially established at CUG on June 8. Relying on the advantages of the China Meteorological Administration and CUG, the Research Center, by exploring the interaction mechanism of thelower atmosphere and the near-surface Earth (Critical Zone), will combineAtmospheric Science an...

The opening ceremony of the Joint Graduate School between CUG and China Geological Survey was established on June 13. The leaders and relevant staff from both sides attended the ceremony.HUANG Xiaomei, Secretary of the Party Committee of CUG, presides over the opening ceremony.WANG Yanxin, CUG President, delivers a speechCUG President WANG Yanxin stressed that CUG was, is, and will always be th...

CUG and China Geological Survey (CGS) have signed a strategic cooperation agreement. According to the agreement, both sides will cooperate in various aspects including education, innovation, and research of earth science to improve both abilities to solve major resource and environmental problems and earth system science problems, and to promote the development of CUG and CGS. Both sides will w...

The June 8th issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published a paper “Massive formation of early diagenetic dolomite in the Ediacaran ocean: Constraints on the “dolomite problem”. It's an international collaborative work authored by doctoral student CHANG Biao of the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology CUG, Prof. LI ...

(On June 3rd, 2020, after finishing his field work with a joint team measuring Mount Everest, Prof. CHEN, Gang came back to Wuhan. The editor of http://en.cug.edu.cn interviewed Prof. CHEN on June 7th. The following is the interview script.)Q: Please briefly introduce the “measuring Mount Everest expedition”A: This joint expedition team was organized by The First Land Measurement Team (a subs...

​The team of the 2020 measurement of the height of Mt. Everest formed by survey members and mountaineers reached the summit of the mountain at 11 a.m. on May 27. Then they set a beacon and a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver to conduct measurements. On the same date 45 years ago, Chinese brought a beacon to the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.CUG alumni Tsring Norbu...

According to the list of government-sponsored senior fellows, visiting scholars, and postdocs in 2020 announced by the China Scholarship Council (CSC), 45 CUG teachers will receive full funds for studying abroad from the CSC.The 45 teachers are 1 senior fellow, 36 visiting scholars, and 8 postdocs. This year, 93.7% of all the CUG applicants are selected, setting new record highs.(Edited and tra...

“What is an earthquake?” “How to prevent earthquake damage?” “How do we take the right protective measures and choose the right escape route when a disaster happens?” Prof. XIANG Wei from CUG answered these questions during his lecture on a streaming platform on May 12, the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day.This year’s theme of the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigatio...