Watanabe Masao, Doctor of Sociology from Hitotsubashi University, Japan, held a series of lectures in WHU in late April. The subject of the lectures mainly concerned Karl Marx’s classic masterpiece Das Kapital, cultural studies and neoliberalism. Four lectures were held: The Domain of Alienation Theory in Das Kapital, The Stoff and Kraft in Das Kapital, Spirited Away and Das Kapital, Dreams an...

Prof. Wang Xi from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, delivered a speech on democracy alienation---a review of the 2016 US election via a historical approach in the 15th Yangtze Lecture. Dean of the School of History, Prof. Liu Anzhi awarded Pro. Wang Xi the Yangtze Lecturer with a commemorative certificate. Prof. Liu Litang, Secretary of the History School Party Committee, hosted the lecture....

Prof. Chen Nanxian from Tsinghua University, also a member of the Chinese Academy of Science, delivered his speech on The Inverse Problems in Scientific Research in the 168th Luo Jia Lecture. Prof. Xu Hongxing, dean of the School of Physics and Technology, awarded Prof. Chen, the Luojia lecturer, with a commemorative certificate.The lecture began with a simple question---what is the inverse ...

​The UN Working Group on the Right to Development convened its 18th session from 3rd to 7th April 2017. This session discussed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the actual current situation of human’s right to development, and an international standard on the right of development was drafted. Professor Wang Xigen from School of Law of Wuhan University attended this session and...

On March 24th, the 167th LuoJia Lecture was held in the Old Library of the Cherry Castle.Prof. Eric Foner from Columbia University, delivered his speech on Abraham Lincoln and American politics. Senior professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Hu Dekun awarded Prof. Foner, the Luojia Lecturer, with a commemorative certificate. Secretary of the History School Party Committee, Prof. Liu ...

On March 15, Scientific Reports of Nature publishers published the research findings of Zhou Shengjun, associate professor of School of Power and Mechanical Engineering of Wuhan University, about ultraviolet light-emitting diodes online. This research, through comparison analysis, proves that the optimum thickness of the sputtered AlN NL is around 15 nm.This paper is entitled Effects of GaN/...

On March 24th, the 166th Luojia Lecture was held in the old library. Professor Cheng Pei-kai from City University of Hong Kong (CUHK) delivered his speech on Chinese calligraphy appreciation and Chinese cultural innovation. Prof. Yu Ting, vice dean of the College of Chinese Language and Literature, awarded Prof. Cheng with the honorary title of Luojia Lecturer and a commemorative certificate. P...

Advanced Material, a top journal in field of chemistry and materials, has recently published the latest findings of Yang Chuluo, Professor of College of Chemistry and Molecular Science, and his team members. The paper, entitled inheriting the characteristics of TADF small molecule by side-chain engineering strategy so as to enable the bluish-green polymers with high PLQYs up to 74% and external...

Recently, Professor Deng Zixin was elected as the new chairman of the International Committee for Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms GIM-IC), which was the first time for a Chinese scientist to chair in GIM-IC.GIM-IC is composed of 28 internationally renowned experts from 17 countries, including the United States, Britain, Germany, Canada and China. Each chairman is elected for a term of s...

Pentostatin is the first-line drug approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of leukemia. Vidarabine is widely used in clinical treatment to diseases caused by herpes virus, cytomegalovirus and so on. Both of these drugs are accompanied by the same Streptomyces, however, the biosynthetic mechanism underlying has been long in the dark. until WHU scholars brought it to t...