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Issue 25 Tsinghua Newsletter May 2014 The First Tsinghua President’s Innovation Challenge Competition Tsinghua x-lab Education Platform Attracts Hundreds of Projects TH-T-1016 Tsinghua Newsletter (Issue 25) May 2014 CONTENTS News & Events Tsinghua Online Courses ‘XuetangX’ Welcomed by Public 1 Thirteen More Faculty Members and Alumni Elected to CAS and CAE 1 Horse Zodiac Stamps Designed by Tsinghua Alumni and Faculty 1 Professor Shi Yigong Wins Gregori Aminoff Prize 2 Yi Siling Sets New World Record in Rifle Finals 2 UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks Awarded Honorary Doctorate 3 China Pavilion for Milan Expo 2015 Designed by Tsinghua 3 Student Education & Development Internationalization-themed iTalk Show Held 4 The First Tsinghua President’s Innovation Challenge Competition 4 100-plus Student Innovation Projects 5 Tsinghua Top Grade Scholarships Awarded 5 Research & Achievements Fifteen More National Science & Technology Awards 6 Plasma Hsp90α: A Novel Tumor Biomarker 7 CERNET: China’s First 100 Gb Internet Backbone 8 Tsinghua Faculty Explore Secrets of PM2.5 8 Two Patents Win First Prize in Beijing Invention Patent Awards 9 Social Links Tsinghua x-lab Education Platform Attracts Hundreds of Projects 9 3D Printer Company Registered by Students 10 10th Anniversary of Education Poverty Alleviation Project 10 International Cooperation & Exchange XIN Center Inaugurated with TAU 11 Editor-in-chief: Zhang Yi Cooperation on UV Disinfection 12 Executive Editor: Song Peijing International Design Management Symposium 12 Editors: Lin Yuan, Fang Dandan, Global Finance Forum at Tsinghua 12 Guo Jing, Liu Qingling, Joint Center for Innovation and Intellectual Property 13 John Olbrich, Larry Neild Photographers: Yu Zhifei, Yuan Xihui, Education Outlook Shi Jiadong, Wang Haoran Universities to Establish Academic Committees 13 Designer: Zhang Jianqiang Contact: Office of Overseas Promotion, Tsinghua University E-mail: [email protected] Previous issues of the Tsinghua Newsletter can be found on the website at © 2014 Tsinghua University. All Rights Reserved. http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/newsen/7160 News & Events News & Events Tsinghua Online Courses ‘XuetangX’ Welcomed by Public More than 170,000 registered users have and students. Students are able to test Antiques and Culture are continuing been attracted to the online learning their study results on ‘XuetangX’ with to be updated this semester. Financial website, ‘XuetangX’ since its launch in related exercises after they have learned Analysis and Decision Making, College October 2013. The website currently from the course videos. They can Physics, Linear System Theory, Organic offers over 160 courses. communicate with other students and Chemistry and four other courses are Tsinghua University launched their lecturers in an online community now open for new registrations. the website to provide “massive open just as in a real class. The new form of online courses” from Tsinghua, Peking courses gives the public the opportunity University, Massachusetts Institute of to study conveniently, as they can learn Technology, the University of California, everywhere and at any time. Berkeley and other universities. All the The courses now cover social courses are offered free of charge. sciences, engineering, natural science, ‘XuetangX’ is already playing arts, and management. All the an important role in popularizing courses are meticulously produced by higher education. It is different from different groups of faculty members. traditional web courses in China with Principles of Electric Circuits, Chinese more interaction between lecturers Architectural History and Chinese ‘XuetangX’ website Thirteen More Faculty Members and Alumni Elected to CAS and CAE Thirteen more faculty members and Institute for Advanced Study were Ouyang Qi, Wu Lixin, Fang Daining, alumni of Tsinghua University have elected foreign members of CAS, and Gao Deli were elected CAS been elected members of the Chinese which brings the total number of CAS members, while He You, Ouyang Academy of Sciences (CAS) and members at Tsinghua to 43. Xiaoping, Hu Chunhong, and Xiao Chinese Academy of Engineering(CAE). Professor You Zheng from the Xuwen were among the newly elected Professor Shi Yigong from the Department of Precision Instrument CAE members. School of Life Sciences and Professor and Professor Nie Jianguo from the CAS and CAE both elect new Qiu Yong from the Department of Department of Civil Engineering were members once every two years. In 2013, Chemistry were elected members of elected members of CAE, taking the CAS inducted 53 Chinese scientists and CAS. Chair Professor Michael S. total number of CAE members working nine foreign scientists as new members, Waterman from the School of at Tsinghua to 34. while CAE inducted 51 Chinese and six Information Science and Technology There were also five alumni elected foreign members. and Shoucheng Zhang from Tsinghua’s to CAS and four to CAE. Xiang Tao, Horse Zodiac Stamps Designed by Tsinghua Alumni and Faculty A postage stamp featuring a Horse more than 2,300 retail outlets in China has the forcefulness and grandeur of the Zodiac designed by Tsinghua alumnus with sales reaching 800,000 sets. Han and Tang dynasties. The design of Chen Shaohua was officially unveiled to Chen Shaohua, who graduated from the stamp drew on the characteristics the public as China’s Year of the Horse the Academy of Arts and Design in of the tricolor-glazed pottery of the arrived. The stamp was available in 1982, said the basic style of the design Tang Dynasty. In the design, Chen 1 Tsinghua Newsletter (Issue 25) May 2014 Hongwei and his graduate student Hao Wangshu, are also from the Academy of Arts and Design at Tsinghua. The inspiration of the design came from bronze chariots and horses in the Chinese Han Dynasty. The theme of this stamp is ‘everything goes well Chen Shaohua and his Horse Zodiac postage stamp Professor Wang Hongwei and his Horse Zodiac stamp for 2014 immediately’. The horse New Year’s postcards featured on the stamp is presents the horse’s power and strength The special stamp with a face value considered festive, and symbolizes by employing geometrical figures. of RMB 1.2, was part of the 11th set wealth and luck in traditional Chinese Instead of a galloping horse, a carefree (Year of the Horse) of China Post’s third culture. The decorations and textures all and elegant white horse appears in round of its release of the Zodiac Series express the wish to ‘make a fortune or Chen’s design. In Chen’s eyes, it is of stamps. Chen previously created sets have happiness and luck immediately’. the embodiment of China and Chinese of Zodiac stamps for the Year of the The circular and cloud patterns in people. It’s the national spirit. Monkey (2004), Pig (2007), Ox (2009) the background signify an integrated The stamp also features patterns of and Dragon (2012). harmony of heaven and earth, with bats and peonies, which best express Another Horse Zodiac Stamp, the hope it will bring a new era in the the meaning of a blessed and auspicious created specially for 2014 New Year’s upcoming Year of the Horse. Year of the Horse in traditional Chinese postcards, was also released by China culture. Post. Its designers, Professor Wang Professor Shi Yigong Wins Yi Siling Sets New World Gregori Aminoff Prize Record in Rifle Finals Dr. Shi Yigong, Dean of Tsinghua’s the key regulatory components in Yi Siling, an undergraduate from Tsinghua’s School of Life Sciences, has been the apoptotic pathways and other School of Economics and Management, awarded the Gregori Aminoff Prize important cellular processes, the won the gold medal and set a new air rifle in Crystallography 2014 “for his structural biology of important world record in the 2013 ISSF (International groundbreaking crystallographic membrane proteins and the structural Shooting Sport Federation) World Cup Finals in studies of proteins and protein mechanisms of macromolecular Munich, Germany, on November 10th, 2013. complexes that regulate programmed machineries. In the contest Yi Siling set a new world cell death”. record with 422.5 circles in the Women’s 10m air The award ceremony was held rifle finals. She had previously broken the world in Stockholm on March 31st, 2014 record in the 2012 world shooting championships. at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Shi Yigong studied Biology and Mathematics at Tsinghua from 1985 to 1989 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in 1995. His research interests include the structural biology of cancer, with a focus on Professor Shi Yigong Yi Siling (center) wins Gold, Ivana Maksimovic from Serbia (left) wins Silver and Wu Liuxi (right) from China wins Bronze medals 2 News & Events UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks Awarded Honorary Doctorate Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of a speech entitled “Global the University of California, Universities: A New Model for Berkeley, has been awarded an Collaboration”. He spoke highly Honorary Doctorate by Tsinghua of the collaboration between the University. two universities and outlined Tsinghua President Chen UC Berkeley’s development and Jining conferred the Honorary transformations. Doctorate on Chancellor Dirks at President Chen Jining and a ceremony on April 21st, 2014 Chancellor Nicholas Dirks also and reviewed the collaboration signed an addendum to the and academic exchanges between Tsinghua-UC Berkeley Strategic Tsinghua and UC Berkeley since Partnership Agreement sealed 1979. Tsinghua President Chen Jining (right) confers an Honorary in 2012 to broaden the scope of Chancellor Dirks delivered Doctorate on Nicholas Dirks their collaboration. China Pavilion for Milan Expo 2015 Designed by Tsinghua A competition to choose a winning Elements like rice and wheat from of ‘Heaven, Earth and Human Beings’, design for the China Pavilion at next Chinese traditional agrarian cultures are fully integrated with traditional Chinese year’s World Expo in Milan was won by incorporated in the design. Bamboo has architectural structures and forms, as Tsinghua’s Academy of Arts and Design.