In the recently released list of 2011 National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations, two Wuhan University dissertations were chosen as National Excellence and another eight were nominated. In total, eighteen WHU doctoral dissertations have been selected for the award, among which five were supervised by Academician Li Deren.
The two winning dissertations are Study on Stochastic Model of Underground Contaminant Transport and Its Application by Shi Liangsheng (supervised by Professor Yang Jinzhong) in the School of Water Resources and Hydroelectric Engineering, and Research on Automatic Color Consistency Processing and Generation of Seamline Network for Aerial Images by Pan Jun (supervised by Academician Li Deren) in the WHU State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Control.
Authors of the eight nominated dissertations are Zhu Jie in the School of Law, Zhou Jin in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wei Hua in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Science, Chen Yu in the School of Life Science, Liao Lei in the School of Physics and Technology, Lu Zhibin in the First School of Clinical Medicine, Wang Zengwen in the School of Political Science and Public Administration, and Tang Qiong in the School of Information Management.
The annual selection of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations, started in 1999, aims at improving the quality of postgraduates, encouraging innovation and facilitating the growth of outstanding talents. The number of doctoral students receiving the National Excellent award serves as an important indicator of education institution quality. Compared to other top universities, WHU has had a high number of award winners and more award winners than all other higher education institutions in Wuhan.
Zhou Yezhong, Executive Vice-President of the Graduate School, notes that WHU has carried out various measures to improve the quality of doctoral dissertations, by setting up a foundational training process for quality dissertations, strengthening the Supervisor Team’s collective guidance, regularly holding interdisciplinary forums for doctoral students, improving the dissertation defense system, establishing an anonymous peer reviewing system, and establishing prizes to reward excellent dissertations.
