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CUG held the 2020 Commencement for over 250 representatives of the Class of 2020 on the morning of June 26. The ceremony was broadcast live online for the rest of about 12,000 graduating students of 2020. The CUG leadership, representatives from the faculty and staff, and heads of units and departments also witnessed the ceremony.​Wang Linqing, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee ...

The first batch of undergraduate students of Atmospheric Sciences CUG enrolled in 2016 have successfully completed their four-year studies by this June. Among the 30 students, 18 will study further at Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Institute of Atmospheric Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, and so on; 8 will work for the Air Traffic Man...

​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...