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This September, CUG welcomed an international student named Beitian, who has a passion for Chinese culture. Beitian is a young lady from Bulgaria. She started to learn Chinese at the age of 14 and majors in Chinese at the University of Veliko Tarnovo. In the Bulgarian Regional Final of the 22th Chinese Bridge - Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students, she won the first priz...

CUG team led by Prof. CHEN Zhongqiang from the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology and the team led by Prof. Michael J. Benton from the University of Bristol carried out detailed paleoecological simulation analysis of the switch from brachiopods to bivalves as major seabed organisms. Their results showed that brachiopods and bivalves were not competitors over macroevolu...

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...