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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Happy New Year of the Ox, all TJUers!
Free meals for the whole day on the Chinese New Year’s Eve, a gift package full of fruits and to enjoy New Year blockbusters for free for three days in the University cinema are all the privileges provided by Tianjin University to all of its students who chose to spend the Spring Festival in the Year of Ox at school.Festival greetings from faculty and studentsFree fruit package distributed to ...
2021-02-11 -
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Cheers! Activities to Help Stay-put Students Enjoy Minor New Year
February 4 is the Minor New Year in the Chinese lunar calendar. On this day, Tianjin University organized a series of celebrating activities for the teachers and students who stay put at school during the Spring Festival holiday.A professional photography team was invited to the university and took New Year’s photos for students staying at school for three days. In a teaching building speciall...
2021-02-08 -
Research
Bio-inspired Robot Developed to Be a Space ‘catcher’
A research group led by Prof. Kang Rongjie, an Associate Professor from the Centre for Advanced Mechanisms and Robotics of Tianjin University, developed a novel continuum bio-inspired robot that looks like a flexible arm combining softness and strength. This invention will be a “catcher” in space to handle failed satellites and space debris if it passes the undergoing ground tests. Under the ...
2021-02-08 -
Global
A Letter to All International Students of Tianjin University
Dear International students,COVID-19 has swept the world throughout the year of 2020. At the moment, epidemic prevention and control mechanism has been part of our daily normal life in most countries across the world. However, efforts to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic should still continue and not to be neglected. The year 2021 is coming. We hope that our students can welcome the...
2021-02-07 -
Research
Review Article on Triterpene Saponins Produced by Microorganisms Published
Recently, Professor Gao Wenyuan’s research group from the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology (SPST) published an online article Endophytes, Biotransforming Microorganisms, and Engineering Microbial Factories for Production of Triterpenoid Saponins in the well-known biotechnology journal Critical reviews in biotechnology. This thesis systematically discussed the potential mechanism...
2021-02-03 -
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SPST Professor Publishes Review Paper about Antibacterial Mechanism of Bioactive Peptides
Prof. Haixia Chen's research group from the School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology published a review paper The structure-mechanism relationship and mode of actions of antimicrobial peptides: A review (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2021.01.005) in the well-known international journal Trends in Food Science & Technology on the basis of a large quantities of previous researches on bio...
2021-02-03 -
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Prof. Liu Jing Serves as Associate Editor of JGR Solid Earth
At the invitation of Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR), an internationally renowned journal in the field of geosciences, Professor Liu Jing from the School of Earth System Science (SESS) officially started to serve a three-year term as the Associate Editor of JGR Solid Earth on December 31, 2020.Journal of Geophysical Research, a flagship academic journal sponsored by the American Geophysic...
2021-02-03 -
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In Memory of Prof. Nie Lansheng
Professor Nie Lansheng, a doctoral supervisor of the School of Architecture and a famous Chinese architect and architectural educator, died of illness at 21:30 on January 18, 2021, at the age of 91.The photo of Prof. Nie LanshengProf. Nie Lansheng served as an editorial board member of Architectural Journal from 1981 to 2002.She was born in Toulouse, France in December 1930. When she grew up, s...
2021-02-03 -
Global
Why China is a second home to foreign students like me?
Editor’s note: Hira Khalid from Pakistan is now a doctoral candidate studying Chemistry at the School of Science. Below is an article she wrote about learning in China and at Tianjin University.China has made great efforts to bring down the wall between foreign and Chinese students at its university campuses, and also devoted much resources to support the development of talented foreigners.Stu...
2021-01-21 -
Research
TJU Researchers Develop 3D-printed Pipe-climbing Robot
A white piece of equipment was “climbing” a round tube. With its body part stretching and contracting like inchworms, it inched forward freely and even passed a 90-degree angle successfully.The equipment is actually aone-piece 3D-printed pipe-climbing robot composed of sequenced novel soft bending mechanisms, developed by Prof. Zuo Siyang and Dr. Liu Jianbin’s research team at Tianjin Univer...
2021-01-21 -
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Remembering Professor Nie Lansheng, A Famous Architect and Educator
Professor. Nie Lansheng of the School of Architecture died of an illness at the age of 91 at 21:30 on January 18, 2021.Professor Nie is a famous architect and architectural educator in China. She had been teaching at the School of Architecture of Tianjin University since 1954 and retired in 2003. During her 50-year-long teaching career, she not only made outstanding academic achievements, but...
2021-01-20