At 6:31pm on November 9th, the power went off, and darkness covered the entire third building in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Interesting enough, there came a burst of laughter from Classroom 312—yet the metaphysics lesson hadn’t even begun. Holding his vacuum cup in hand, Professor Su Dechao took a sip of water, cleared his throat and was about to speak. “We should end it in half an ho...

Wuhan University Chunhui Club, directed by the Chunhui Action Development Center of the Committee of the Communist Youth League of Guizhou Province, is the first campus Chunhui Club among 985-project universities and the first student non-profit organization for social public welfare in Wuhan University. The name of the club “Chunhui” comes from the Traveler's Song, a homesick poem written by...

​We use positioning services in our everyday lives. For instance, the GPS module built into smartphones can receive signals from satellites that are 25,000 kilometers or higher above the earth. But the accuracy of indoor positioning is still unreliable because it is hard for satellite signals to pass through concrete walls.Chen Ruizhi, professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engin...

Wuhan University has embraced two new academicians on her 124th birthday.  Xu Hongxing, Dean of School of Physics and Technology, and President Dou Xiankang were elected the academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences. On 1st December, the two new CASs met with young faculty and students in the Old Library of Yingding, the highest academic hall of Wuhan University, sharing their academic discov...

​November 25th, the Golden Autumn “War of Words” Debate Competition was ceremoniously held at the Wuhan University Humanities Science Hall. The bitter cold winter hardly dampened the audience’s enthusiasm for the debate competition, which brought us a feast of wisdom.Pro side addressing inquiriesA short video was played first, carrying sincere encouragements from the other 28 debate teams. ...

On November 11th 2017, the Meiyuan playground witnessed the successful holding of the dancing contest of the 29th Luojia Autumn Arts Festival. Started in 1987, the Luojia Autumn Arts Festival is the most influential campus cultural activity annually held in Wuhan University. The beautiful costumes and well-designed dance routines make the dancing contest a visual feast. This year, 22 schools an...

On November 28th, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced its 2017 list of 61 newly elected academicians, which includes two WHU professors and one WHU alumni. Xu Hongxing, Dean of School of Physics and Technology, was elected the academician of Division of Mathematics and Physics; President Dou Xiankang was elected the academician of Division of Earth Science. Alumni Wang Xiaofan was also el...

The 2017 Chinese Society of World Economics Conference with the theme of globalization changes and the new challenges of opening to the outside world (openness), was held successfully at the School of Economics and Management in WHU on last October. Scholars, professors, experts and students majoring in world economics from dozens of colleges and scientific research institutions attended this c...

Dragon dance, dragon boat racing and tai chi are great legacies of traditional Chinese culture. In order to raise awareness for inheriting traditional culture among students, Wuhan University integrated these three cultural heritages into its P.E. course as a new practice. Each class applies to many students.Dragon dance is a form of traditional dance and performance in Chinese culture....

Harvard investigator Tobias Walther was invited to share his unprecedented work on lipid droplet biology at the “2017 Wuhan International Symposium–Lipid Metabolism and Disease” held at Wuhan University’s School of Life Sciences. Jointly organized by the School of Life Sciences and the Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis, the symposium was supported by the Chinese Ministry of Educati...