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November 7 of 2022 marked the 70th anniversary of CUG. To commemorate this milestone, the celebration highlighted the intellectual contributions and historical achievements within and across departments, schools, and units, engaged CUG’s entire campus community—faculty, students, and staff—as well as our alumni and friends, and propelled all CUG members to the future.And on June 12 of 2023, ...

The concert “Choruses for Time” was held on June 8 in the music hall on the Nanwang Mountain Campus, with an audience of 115 students from 18 schools.The choir treated the audience to 12 songs of various styles, allowing the audience to admire their talents. They started with a joyous female chorus “Do Not Talk During the Concert”, going through “Dandelion” in early spring, “Farewell in ...

CUG’s research team of big data in earth science and early earth evolution led by CHENG Qiuming, Director of State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, and Prof. Timothy Kusky, Director of Global Geotectonics Center, has published their latest results in Geology with the title “Hadean Tectonics: Insights from Machine Learning. The first author is CHEN Guoxiong, a rese...

The opening ceremony of the African Institute of the China-Africa Geosciences Cooperation Center was held on March 23 at the International Education College on the Nanwang Mountain Campus of CUG.LI Jinfa, Director of the China Geological Survey, and CUG President WANG Yanxin, unveiled the African Institute of the China-Africa Geosciences Cooperation Center.WANG said in his speech that the estab...

A CUG team led by Prof. SUN Jun published “Ocean warming and acidification affect the transitional C:N:P ratio and macromolecular accumulation in the harmful raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo” in Communications Biology, which is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio, on February 6, 2023.Despite an increase in ocean warming and acidifification that is expected to increase the number of ...

A CUG team led by Prof. SONG Haijun, with other research institutions from home and abroad, published “A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem” in Science on February10, 2023. The Guiyang Biota, which is an fossil, demonstrates the rapid rise of modern-type marine ecosystems after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. The first author is...

According to the announcement of the Department of Earth Sciences, Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a CUG project led by Prof. WANG Shaoqiang will be funded by the Original Exploratory Program. This is the first time that CUG has received funding from the Program, which will motivate CUG researchers to engage in original basic research.Prof. WANG observes the flux in the forest ecosy...

CUG team researched on young lunar volcanic eruptions by using the returned Chang’e-5 samples as ground truth, and published their findings in Nature Astronomy. The first authors are Dr. QIAN Yuqi, Prof. SHE Zhenbing, and Dr. HE Qi from the School of Earth Sciences; the corresponding authors are Prof. XIAO Long and Prof. WANG Zaicong.Young lunar mare basalts are recent volcanic products distri...

SHEN Jun, researcher from the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, and scholars from the US, South Africa, and the UK published “Mercury evidence from southern Pangea Terrestrial sections for end-Permian global volcanic effects” in Nature Communications. SHEN is the first and corresponding author.The latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) was triggered by magmati...