With paddles hitting the pool and water splashing, the boat moves forward inch by inch. When the line on the boat finally crosses the sign set on the bank, thunderous acclamation breaks out to celebrate the victory of the team. This is only a shot of the first dragon boat tug-of-war competition in WHU.The tug-of-war took place on October 13, in the swimming pool in Faculty of Information Scienc...

"Endowed with three towns and two rivers flowing across, Wuhan enjoys a unique and complex urban transportation. A good use of the Big Data can not only ease the traffic congestion but also make the city a smarter one so as to better serve the public." On Dec. 11th, Premier Li Keqiang affirmed the construction of Smart Traffic when he inspected the construction of Smart City in Wuhan, Hubei Pro...

After two year’s rebuilding, the Information Science Library of WHU opened on June 20th, 2016. Though it was a rainy day, quite a few students waited in long queues for its opening. Within several months, this new library has impressed students with its special layout and a series of new services.Located on the central axis of the WHU Information Science Division, the library covers a total bu...

The Shaw Humanities Museum witnessed the successful holding of China’s Etiquette Forum in WHU in October. As the first forum themed etiquette in China, it gathered over 300 participants from political, academic and business circles after its two-year preparation.Having gained itself strong support from society, this forum was co-sponsored by the China Newspaper Association, the newspaper Today...

Li Deren, academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing in Wuhan University (WHU), together with his team, brought their compelling innovations into the spotlight.Intelligent robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, panoramic mobile measurement and content-base...

When picturing the image of the Antarctic, people tend to think of glacier and quirky penguins. For most of us, it sounds cool and adventurous to be a scientist and do research in the Antarctic. Three scientists from Wuhan University participated in the 32nd Antarctic scientific expedition and came back home. Tthey told us it was “cool” in the Antarctic, physically and literally.Two researche...

The international final of the 2016 Global Management Challenge (GMC) embracing the presence of 26 countries was held from April 18 to 20 in Macao. The team of MBA program from the School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University named “Sifanggu” claimed the second prize.In the knockout round, the champion teams of 25 countries were divided into 4 groups. All the groups had to make ...

The 36th Global Management Challenge (the 20th China Region GMC ) was held in Beijing on 12 March.Three students from MBA program (Xiongrui, Zhenxin, Lijie) on behalf of Wuhan University named “Sifanggu” have participated the competition and achieved the first place in the contest.The competition attracted 150 Chinese universities with 2000 teams which lasted 4 4 months. The “Sifanggu” ...

Peng Jian, WHU alumnus and Computer Science Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, was conferred the 2016 Sloan Fellowship along with 16 other scholars of Chinese descent. He is the only winner in computational and evolutionary molecular biology.Peng Jian entered Wuhan University in 2001 and obtained his Bachelor and Master’s degree. He then moves on to pursue his ...

The World Academic Summit 2015 was held at Melbourne University, Australia recently. As a fame-growing university in the world, Wuhan University sent a delegation headed by Chief Accountant Ying Weiwei to attend the summit from 30 September to 2 October. Later in Oakland, New Zealand, the delegation signed the Agreement of Research Center of New Environmental Intelligence Computing Technology with its partners in New Zealand.