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CUG team led by Prof. XIA Fan from the School of Materials Science and Chemistry published “Spatiotemporal patterning of photoresponsive DNA-based hydrogels to tune local cell responses” in Nature Communications on April 22, 2021. The first author is Prof. HUANG Fujian from the School of Materials Science, and the corresponding authors are Prof. HUANG Fujian, Prof. XIA Fan, and Prof. Itamar W...

CUG held Seminar on “Carbon Peak” and “Carbon Neutral” in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Present at the Seminar were CHENG Jinhua, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, LAI Xulong, Vice President of CUG, and researchers from the School of Earth Sciences, School Earth Resources, School of Materials Science and Chemistry, School of Environmental Studies, School of Engineering, School of...

The construction commencement ceremonyThe construction of Grove Industrial Base on Hydrogen Energystarted in Huanggang on April 29. Mayor of Huanggang City QIU Lixin and CUG President WANG Yanxin attended the ceremony.Grove Industrial Base on Hydrogen Energy is designed to cover an area of 500 square kilometers and the project is divided into phases. After the construction, it will be a hydrog...

People’s Daily published the “Representative List of National Scholarship Winners for Undergraduate and Junior College Students” on May 4. KE Shuai, Senior of the School of Automation, is one of the hundred in the Representative List who were selected from 60,000 candidates.KE won 2018 National Scholarship and this is his second time to win the National Scholarship.He led or participated in...

Grove Hydrogen Automotive (from Wuhan) debuted two models of its new brand“Zhongji” at the highly anticipated 2021 Shanghai International Auto Show. “Zhongji-Tianshu”Grove’s parent company is Wuhan ITRI of Geo-Resources and Environment Co. Ltd (IGE) which is established by Wuhan City and CUG. As China’s first high-end hydrogen passenger vehicle manufacturing company, Grove has 1,579 pate...

CUG has started drawing up its Carbon Neutral Plan. It is the first university carbon neutral plan of China, which includes carbon disclosure on campus, targets, ways, measures, rules and regulations, etc. Carbon neutrality refers to achieving net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. This can be done by balancing emissions of carbon dioxide with its removal (often through carbon offsetting) or by eli...

On Earth Day – April 22, 2021, CUG Prof. WANG, Yanxin has been awarded the title of IAGC Fellow along with Prof. Janet Hering from Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH), Switzerland, by International Association of GeoChemistry (IAGC). The honorary title is bestowed annually to no more than two scientists who have made significant contributions to the field with an emphasis on applied g...

In the 1st Hubei Provincial Innovation in Teaching Competition for University Teachers, ZHOU Jianwei from the School of Environmental Studies won the second prize of group of teachers with senior professional title,YAO Xiajing from the School of Foreign Languages won the third prize of group of teachers with deputy senior professional title, teaching team of environmental geology led by CHENG Q...

CUG team led by Prof. TONG Jinnan, in partnership with Dr. CUI Ying from Montclair State University and Prof. Paul B. Wignall from the University of Leeds, presents a continuous pCO2 record across the PTME reconstructed from high-resolution δ13C of C3 plants from southwestern China, which suggests that carbon dioxide is probably the main cause of global warming during the Permian-Triassic mass...

The project launch conference of “Basic Research on Prediction and Forecast of Large Landslides” was held in Wuhan on April 10. The project, funded by the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), is led by CUG Prof. TANG Huiming and joined by researchers from Chang’an University, Chengdu University of Technology, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Acad...