When the white wedding gowns and black suits appeared at the Olympic Playground, when the moisture was mingled with the fragrance of wedding bouquet made of roses and hydrangea, when the air was full of laughter and joy, it was time to take the vow.123 couples decided to kill two birds with one gemstone: celebrate the 123rd anniversary of Wuhan University while tying the knot. The group weddi...

Over five thousand miles away from his home in Vancouver, Canada, Edmund Wai Man Lai had taken up one year of preparatory Mandarin study in Wuhan university. Now he has begun a new term as a postgraduate, starting a whole different journey which is full of unknown challenges and freshness. Edmund (in the middle) with his friends in the East lake, after a short work in a Chinese company, he ...

“Upon its 123rd anniversary, Wuhan University is expected to carry forward its good traditions and hit a new high in the reform and innovation of higher education in this new era. This leads its way to a world class university with Chinese characteristics”, Liu Yandong, the vice-premier of the state council and member of Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, expressed her wishes and ...

Military training is the first lesson for Chinese college students entering the university. On September 28th, the new students at Wuhan University ended their 17 days of hard training.Valiant standard-bearerThe paradeInstructors watch the parade solemnlyFrom the curious first encounter to the post-training exhaustion, all the way to the end of this emotional ride—we shed bitte...

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-ba...

During 10 am to 7 pm on September 10th, the 2nd Pittsburgh Chinese Culture Festival was held grandly in University of Pittsburgh. Both Qiu Jian, the deputy consul general of Chinese Consulate-general in New York, and Hu Lishan, the deputy major of Wuhan, China, delivered speeches during the festival. Senator of Pennsylvania, Tom Baker, also sent his congratulations on site. About 6000 Americans...

Wuhan University’s fall 2016 semester began on September 4th. Besides new students from across the country, international students also came to the campus. They traveled thousands of miles, coming from Turkey, Thailand, Kazakhstan, and the United State of America among other countries. Here are some stories from their orientation week.Extending a helping handEach year when the fall semeste...

It would be regretful to lack an opportunity to study abroad, yet it would be even more regretful to miss out on one. To promote its student exchange programs and offer more students opportunities to study abroad, Wuhan University (WHU) held the “WHU Students Study Abroad Fair” from September 9 to 13. With the harmonious melodies covering the Wanlin Square, the opening ceremony of “WHU Stu...

What comes to your mind when you think of John Bull (a.k.a. the British version of Uncle Sam)? Namely, what words can you come up with off the top of your head when you try to describe the UK? It can be well off, decent, literary or drippy, rigid, exclusive, etc. The twenty day journey I spent in the empire where the sun never sets gave me a glimpse of the real UK.Before setting out for Brita...

On August 12th, broiling heat still haunted Wuhan University (WHU), although the summer had come to a close along with the end of the new instrument installment in academician Zhang Lina’s laboratory. On the fourth floor in the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, it is likely to be overtaken by the sounds of instruments and the smell of chemical reagent. The post-doctoral lab and o...