From July 2ndto July 9th, Tao Shaojing, Deputy Secretary of the CPC SCUT Committee, led a delegation to visit the Ghent University, KU Leuven(Catholic University of Leuven), the University of Edinburgh and the University of Oxford, and signed three university-level Memoranda of Understanding (MoU).Prof. Ignace Lemahieu, Vice President of Ghent University, met with Tao Shaojing, introducing the development and international cooperation of Ghent University. Tao Shaojing also introduced the develop
Meeting with the delegationOn the morning of June 21st,2019, Huai Jinpeng, Party Secretary of China Association for Science and Technology(CAST), accompanied by Wang Jinzhan, Director of the General Office of CAST, Su Xiaojun, Director of Enterprises Innovation Service Center of CAST, Zheng Qingshun, Party Secretary and Vice President of Guangdon Association for Science and Technology, paid a visit to South China University of Technology, for an official research on the construction of the Guang
As the Spring Festival approaching, the construction site of the Guangzhou International Campus of SCUT delivered another good news: the public laboratory building in area T and the A1 Building in Area A were completed in structure and got roof-topping on the morning of February 1st. This is another significant advance in the construction of the Guangzhou International Campus, marking that the campus construction project has entered into a new stage.At the observation meeting, Zhang Xichun, Secr
SCUTonlastSundayheldthefirstGlobalAlumniConferencetocelebrateits66thanniversaryforestablishmentandacenturyofhistorysinceitspredecessorstartedtheundertakingofeducationin1918.Theconference,taking“Beexcellent,leadsthefuture”asthetheme,washeldintheLiwuBuildingofScienceandTechnologyonDecember16,withZhangXichun,SecretaryoftheCPCSCUTCommittee,givingthekeynotespeech,andGaoSong,PresidentofSCUT,presidingovertheevent.Leadersoftheuniversity,membersoftheUniversityCouncil,aswellasrepresentativesoftheAlumniAss
Inordertostrengthenthesubstantivecooperationwithworld-classuniversitiesanddisciplines,SouthChinaUniversityofTechnologyandMcMasterUniversityhavesignedanagreementonStudentMobilityandAcademicCo-operation.ThetwopartiesagreetocarryonundergraduateexchangeandacademiccooperationbasedontheMOUbetweenthetwouniversities.McMasterUniversityagreestoaccepttheyear3andyear4SCUTstudentstotakeuponeyearcreditcourses,aswellasSCUT’sstudentsatalllevelstotakeupsummercoursesandresearchinternshipprogramsatMcMaster.Introdu
TheRhymingAutumnofSCUT,amusicalperformancepresentedbyfacultyandstudentsofSCUT,waslastweekheldatGuangzhou’sXinghaiConcertHalltocelebratetheuniversity’s66thbirthday.Theconcert,withDmitriShostakovich’sFestiveOvertureastheopening,wasanensembleofwesternclassicalmusicandChinesemodernmusic,aswellasmusiccreatedbycomposersofSCUT.YoungteachersandtheYouthSymphonyOrchestraofSCUTplayedanumberoflong-establishedmusicalworks,includingRachmaninoff’sPianoConcertoNo.2,Bach’sConcertoFor2Violins,andTchaikovsky’sTheN
SCUTwasrankedNo.361intheGlobalUniversityRankings2018publishedbytheU.S.NewsandWorldReport,movingup39placescomparedtolastyear.ThelatestrankingswereupdatedonOctober30,listingSCUTasthe18thinthemainlandChina,upfromthe19thlastyear.Insubjectrankings,SCUT’sagriculturalscience,engineering,chemistry,materialsscience,andcomputersciencewerenamedwithintheglobaltop100,whileagriculturalsciencetookaremarkableplaceatthe17thslot.ThisisthefifthyearforU.S.NewsandWorldReporttoproducetheBestGlobalUniversitiesRankings
StudentteamsofSCUTtookhometwoGoldPrizesandtwoSilverPrizesinthe4thChinaCollegeStudents’“InternetPlus”InnovationandEntrepreneurshipCompetition,settingthebestrecordinhistoryfortheuniversity.Thefinalofthecompetitionwasheldlastweekend,when210studentteamsfromacrossthecountrygatheredatXiamenUniversity,Fujianprovince,tocompetefornationaltitles.“InternetPlus”isanationwidecontestthataimstopromote“massinnovationandentrepreneurship”amongcollegestudentsofChina.Thiswasthefourtheditionoftheevent,attracting2.65
AccordingtothedecisionmadebytheCPCCommitteeoftheMinistryofEducation,ProfessorGaoSonghasbeenappointedasPresidentofSCUTandDeputySecretaryoftheCPCSCUTCommittee,whilehispredecessorProfessorWangYingjunnolongerperformstheaboveduties.AfacultyassemblywasthismorningconvenedattheLiwuBuildingofScienceandTechnologytoannouncethechange.Bornin1964,ProfessorGaoSongearnedhisPhDdegreeininorganicchemistryatPekingUniversity.HeiscurrentlyamemberoftheChineseAcademyofSciences.BeforetakingofficeasSCUT’sPresident,heserv
SCUTandthePolytechnicUniversityofTurin(PolitecnicodiTorino,PDT),Italy,willbeenhancingtheirlong-termpartnershipinscientificresearchandstudenttraining,afteradelegationfromPDTvisitedSCUTbeforeChinasNationalDayholiday.Thedelegation,ledbyGuidoSaracco,PDT’sRector,wasreceivedbyQiuXueqing,SCUT’sVicePresident,attheShawBuildingofHumanitiesonSeptember28.ItwasGuidoSaracco’sfirstvisittoChinaafterhislatestappointmentasRector.OnthedaybeforethedelegatescametoSCUT,healsometwithXuRuisheng,ViceGovernorofGuangdongp
SCUTisworkingwiththeUniversityofWesternAustralia(UWA)oncarryingoutmultiplecooperativeprograms,includingsettingupanewfacultyofmarinescienceandengineering,aswellascontinuingjointeffortsattheSino-AustraliaCollegeprogram.AdelegationfromUWA’sFacultyofEngineeringandMathematicalSciences,ledbyJohnDell,UWA’sProVice-Chancellor,paidavisittoSCUTonSeptember14,whenZhangXichun,SecretaryoftheCPCSCUTCommittee,andQiuXueqing,VicePresidentofSCUT,hadameetingwiththemattheWushanCampus.ZhangXichunsaidinthemeetingthatth