UIC students shine in national and provincial competitions

Recently, UIC students have received many awards in national and provincial competitions. Three year-three UIC students of the Applied Psychology (APSY) Programme, Zhang Zixuan, Feng An’an, and Qiu Tongyu, won the first prize in the sub-forum “Dealing with Practical Issues” under the guidance of Dr Solna Xing.

2022/09/23

Sixteen FST faculty earn NSFC funding for projects

The National Natural Science Foundation of China recently announced the project review results for 2022, in which 16 FST faculty members (including teachers with joint-appointment with BNU) received funding for two key projects, one Mathematics Tianyuan Fund project, six general projects, five youth fund projects and two foreign scholar research projects.The recipients of the funding for the ke...

2022/09/22

[People of UIC] Liang Yanshan: Journey to Harvard Postdoctoral Programme

Although the academic path is always considered lonely and challenging, Liang Yanshan's never is.UIC PhD graduate in Chemistry (UIC and Hong Kong Baptist University)Admitted to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Postdoctoral ProgrammeGraduating from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Southern Medical University with a bachelor's degree, she was admitted to the School of Biomedica...

2022/09/22

FS graduate publishes her paper in Food Chemistry

Publication is never easy for college students. However, at UIC, many sparkling academic paper authors were cultivated in its liberal arts education atmosphere.Tan Yongqi, a fresh graduate from UIC's Food Science and Technology Programme, is about to publish her paper as the first author in an SCI Journal.Her final year project during her undergraduate study, "Chemical Profiles and Health-promo...

2022/09/22

UIC teachers win prizes at Guangdong Provincial Junior Teaching Competition

Two UIC teachers from the Division of Science and Technology (DST) won prizes at Guangdong Provincial Junior Teaching Competition. Lecturer Ji Yanyan was awarded the second prize, and Assistant Professor Dr He Wenmeng the third prize.A total of 166 junior teachers from 65 universities and colleges participated in the competition, divided into five groups according to different majors: Arts, Sci...

2022/08/25

[People of UIC] Qiu Yifu: Aiming for the crown of AI

Qiu Yifu is a UIC student from the Class of 2020 Computer Science and Technology Programme. He now is studying for his doctoral degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), led by tutors from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge. "Studying NLP requires strong interest. If not, it's very likely ...

2022/07/04

DST lecturer wins third prize in Guangdong teaching innovation contest

UIC lecturer Ms Ji Yanyan and her team from the Division of Science and Technology (DST) won the third prize in the Guangdong final of the 2nd National Teaching Innovation Contest for College Teachers with the course Introduction to Robotics.The contest aims to encourage more teachers to innovate teaching methods for higher education and talent cultivation. A total of 1382 teachers and teams fr...

2022/06/22

Two UIC undergraduate programmes rated as national first class

The Ministry of Education (MOE) in China recently released a list of first-class undergraduate programmes at the national level. Two UIC undergraduate programmes, the Statistics Programme and the Computer Science and Technology Programme, were included on the list.The name list is part of MOE's Double Ten Thousand Plan (10,000 first-class undergraduate courses at the national level and 10,000 c...

2022/06/14