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From August 31 to September 1, CUG welcomed over 8,000 first-year students to campus, including 4,600 undergraduate students, 3140 postgraduate students, and 414 doctoral students.From August 15, the enrolled students started to register through the online system, which simplified the process of check-in, payment, and orientation. It was the first time that CUG freshmen experienced online ori...

On August 25, CUG officially opened the Future City Campus. The modern library, beautiful teaching buildings, and comfortable student housing, together with a vibrant outdoor landscape, make the Future City Campus a blend of nature and humanity as well as tradition and modern.The Future City Campus covers an area of over 500,000 square kilometers. School of Materials Science and Chemistry, S...

The 2nd Badong International Geohazards Symposium (BIGS) was held in Badong County, Hubei Province, from August 24-25. Over 300 scholars and postgraduate students from over 20 countries like US, Germany, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Bulgaria took part in the symposium.TANG Huiming, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of CUG, chaired...

On August 25, the 2019 BWF World Championships held in Basel, Switzerland came to a close. ZHENG Siwei and HUANG Yaqiongwon gold medal of mixed doubles and continued their incredible victory streak for their third straight title this year, becoming the third mixed doubles pair who retained their Championship title at the BWF World Championships. This was the only gold medal that China bagg...

At the 2019 FINA World Masters Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea, ZHAO Jing, teacher of the School of Sports Science and Physical Education, won 2 gold medals in Women 50m Backstroke and Women 100m Backstroke and broke two championship tournament records. She also won 2 silver medals in Women 4x50m Medley Relay and Mixed 4x50m Medley Relay.Masters Swimming came into being in 1970, an...

At the 2019 IFSC Climbing World Championships, NIU Di, postgraduate student of the School of Sports Science and Physical Education won the silver medal of Women Speed and reached the Women’s Combined Finals where she would be the only Chinese athlete.The IFSC Combined World Championships is the official Olympic qualifying event at which the 7 highest placed athletes per gender will officiall...

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has announced the final decisions on the funding of 2019. 199 CUG projects are funded with a budget of 106.86 million yuan, making CUG ranking 41 in the country and 3 in Hubei province. For five consecutive years, NSFC funding for CUG exceeds 100 million yuan.Of the 199 projects, 2 are funded by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Youn...

On August 4, ZHANG Miman, CUG alumna, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and awardee of the L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Award, have a conversation with the representatives of the teachers and students at Zhoukoudian Field Training Base, LAI Xulong, vice president of CUG presided over the conversation.In the conversation, LAI delivered a welcome speech and introduced the recent...

At the end of July, 10 junior students from the School of Earth Resources completed successfully the 18-day geological fieldwork in Australia, which was jointly organized by James Cook University and CUG.The students improved their professional abilities as well as experienced a cultural exchange between Australia and China through the trip. This was the third year of the joint fieldwork....

On July 31, ZHOU Yanxuan, undergraduate student from the School of Sports Science and Physical Education won the women’s heptathlon in the Nineteenth National College Athletics Championships.A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The women’s heptathlon consists of the following events, with the first four contested on the first day, and the remaining...