Founded in 1895 as Peiyang University, Tianjin University is the oldest institute of higher education in China, and pioneered the development of modern Chinese education.
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Tianjin University Professor Wins the First Xplorer Prize
In September 2019, Professor Gong Jinlong of Tianjin University received theXplorer Prizefor his outstanding contributions in the field of energy and environmental protection. Fifty applicants out of over 1000 won this award.Professor Gong Jinlong is an expert in the field of energy and chemical engineering. Over the years, he has led his team to make innovations, focusing on talents training, ...
2019-09-25 -
Athletics
TJU Long-distance Swim Team Achieves Historic Breakthrough
The 19th Chinese university student swim championship of was held on the Yuzhong campus of Lanzhou University recently. The Tianjin University (TJU) swim team fought tenaciously, winning the women's 800 m freestyle gold medal, women's 1500 m freestyle silver, men’s 1500 m freestyle silver, men’s 50 m butterfly silver, 1 fourth place, 3 fifth place, 1 sixth place, 2 seventh place, seventh in t...
2019-09-24 -
Arts and Culture
A Cozy Canteen for the Mid-Autumn Festival
For those teachers and students who couldn’t go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the canteen management department of the Weijin Road Campus organized an activity themed: a “Mid-Autumn reunion, cozy canteen. Teachers and students share the time-honored customs and food culture of this traditional Chinese festival.During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the canteen arranged for 3,400 special free moo...
2019-09-23 -
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[Study in China] Moaaz Zamir Awan:If Not China, Then Where Else?
China’s International Education Exchange programs have provided thousands of students from all over the world an opportunity to see and experience China’s reform and development. They also help promote friendly ties with countries around the world.Moaaz Zamir Awan (阿万) is currently a Ph.D researcher at Tianjin University. His research interests are about sustainable infrastructure developme...
2019-09-23 -
Global
[Study in China] Sri Lankan National Chess Player Enrolls in School of Architecture
DIMUTHU from Sri Lanka is a newly enrolled doctoral student at the School of Architecture. He had been a chess player on the Sri Lankan National Team and won seventh place in Asia as a representative of his country. While he was studying for a master’s degree in Sri Lanka, he came to China as a visiting scholar and participated in many cultural exchange activities.“It was the first time for...
2019-09-23 -
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Implementation of CCII: University-level Talents Cultivation Platform for 3E
The new fall semester of 2019 has welcomed the first group of 112 students to the University-level Talents Cultivation Platform for Emerging Engineering Education – Future Intelligent Machine and System Platform. This is the implementation of the Coherent-Collaborative-Interdisciplinary-Innovation(CCII)at Tianjin University.On April 25 of this year, Tianjin University officially issued the ....
2019-09-20 -
Global
【Study in China】Vyacheslav and Ilya: To Study in China, to Feel China
On the second floor of Liuyuan dining hall, two handsome boys with a striking resemblance to each other were especially eye-catching.Vyacheslav Gariev and Ilya Gariev are brothers from Sochi, Russia. Vyacheslav, the taller brother was admitted to Tianjin University’s School of International Education, to study Chinese Language and Literature last year. This year, Vyacheslav brought his young...
2019-09-19 -
Campus
On-Campus Part-Time Job Fair Held for Students
On September 8,Tianjin University held a job fair for on-campuspart-time work during the 2019-2020 year. This event was held on both campuses, offering an impressive array of jobs for TJU students.A total of 29 part-time job centers participated, offering more than 400 on-campus positions for TJU students, providing them with a platform to improve their practical skills, while cultivating their...
2019-09-19 -
Global
The Tianjin University Team Achieves Great Results during the Brain-Computer Contest
During the World Robot Conference 2019 in Beijing recently, the Tianjin University Neuroscience Team set the typing speed record with the mind-reading device, winning first place in both the parietal lobe (P300) Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) group and the occipital lobe BCI group and second place of a three-session-mixed (SSVEP, P300 and Motor Imagery) skill contests. All three events are pa...
2019-09-18 -
Campus
Academician Lin Qun Unlocks the Fun of Mathematics
On September 5, 2019, the freshmen from the School of Mathematics attended their first professional course taught by Lin Qun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Lin was once an adjunct professor at Tianjin University in the 1980s. Academician Lin discussed the fun of learning mathematics, showing the freshmen how to learn calculus using plain language and vivid examples during t...
2019-09-17 -
Global
IEEE Approves TJU Microgrid Planning and Design Recommendation
In June of this year, a new international standard, theIEEE Recommended Practice for the Planning and Design of the Microgrid (IEEE 2030.9-2019) was approved by the IEEE(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)Standards Board and officially released to the world. Experts from Tianjin University’s School of Electrical and Information Engineering were primarily responsible for the dr...
2019-09-17