A delegation from the US Department of Energy (DOE) visited ShanghaiTech University on June 21st. Dr. Cherry Murray, Director of the Office of Science, led the delegation, accompanied by Dr. Harriet Kung, Associate Director of Basic Energy Sciences; Dr. James Van Dam, Research Division Director of Fusion Energy Sciences; Dr. James Siegrist, Associate Director of High Energy Physics; Dr. Timothy Ha...

On May 26, 2016, a delegation led by the rector of University of Padova visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng. This was the second visit of Rector Rizzuto to ShanghaiTech. President Jiang Mianheng extended a warm welcome to the guests and Vice President & Provost Yin Jie introduced the new developments of ShanghaiTech. Rector Rizzuto said that ShanghaiTech had become a pri...

Shell CTO Yuri Sebregts, Senior Principal Research Alexander van der Made, Senior Researcher Peter Veenstra visited ShanghaiTech on April 6th. It was the first visit to ShanghaiTech for Yuri Sebregts, who became CTO of Shell in 2015. ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng and Vice President & ProvostYin Jie met with the delegation. Sun Yuhan, Vice President of CAS Shanghai Advance Research...

On March 24th, a delegation fromBrookings Institution, headed by Board Co-chair John L. Thornton, visitedShanghaiTech University. Brookings Executive Vice President Martin Indyk, VicePresident and Director of Foreign Policy Bruce Jones, Director and John L.Thornton China Center Senior Fellow Li Cheng, as well as other delegates,attended the meeting. ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng extended a...

An Executive Committee Meeting of iHuman Institute was held on March 17, 2016. The six committee members who attended the meeting included Vice President & Provost of ShanghaiTech University Professor Yin Jie, Chinese Academy of Sciences Academician Professor Rao Zihe, Executive Dean of School of Life Science and Technology Professor. Jiarui Wu, iHuman Institute Founding Director Professo...

On March 18th, ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng met with US Secretary of Energy Ernest Jeffrey Moniz in Shanghai. The two sides reviewed the cooperation in Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR) and renewable energy between Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and United States Department of Energy, discussed the university’s partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology and exchanged idea...

A delegation from Eli Lilly led by Dr. Jan M. Lundberg, Executive Vice President, Science and Technology, and President, Lilly Research Laboratories, visited ShanghaiTech on March 3rd. The group of 11 researchers and administrators from Lilly China Research & Development Center (LCRDC), included Senior Vice President, China Research, Site Head of LCRDC Dr. Zhang Bei. The group had a bird’s ey...

ShanghaiTech University has announced its new exclusive three-year consulting services agreement with the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) to develop and present a continuing series of professional filmmaking workshops in Shanghai and Beijing, and at SCA in Los Angeles.  Amongst the workshops being planned for professional and aspiring Chine...

In a report released by Thomson Reuters, Dr. Raymond Stevens, Professor of ShanghaiTech University and Founding Director of iHuman Institute, was selected as one of “The 2015 Highly Cited Researchers” in the areas of Biology & Biochemistry and Pharmacology & Toxicology. This is the second time he has earned this distinction since 2014. The 2015 Highly Cited Researchers represen...

A delegation from Teva Research and Development Center paid a visit to SIAIS at ShanghaiTech University on January 26. SIAIS Vice Director Yang Guang gave them a warm welcome. Dr. Steffen Nock, who is Global Head of Biological Preparation Department at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries described the company’s profile and the recent progress of the R&D center. Dr. Daniella Gutman, the director of...

On January 19th, a delegation from Washington State University led by Vice President for Research Chris Keane visited ShanghaiTech. The group also includes Vice President for International Programs Dr. Asif Chaudhry, and two research school deans, Dr. David Field and Dr. James Petersen and Professor Yong Wang. The group visited the new campus, the research labs of School of Physical Science and Te...

Carl Ventrice, Associate Professor of Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), SUNY Polytechnic Institute Albany, visited ShanghaiTech University last week. He toured around ShanghaiTech’s new campus under construction with President Jiang Mianheng and discussed the design of Maker Space, a workspace where students with common interests, often in digital arts, engineering and materia...

The Kavli Foundation team, including Executive Vice President Mingyoung Chun, Scientific Program Officer Christopher Martin and Tarif Taha visited ShanghaiTech on January 13th. Vice President and Provost Yin Jie introduced the school’s development and toured the new campus with the visitors. The team was especially interested in the School of Physical Science and Technology. Executive Dean Liu Z...

On November 2nd a Drexel University delegation led by President John Fry visited ShanghaiTech. Accompanied by Vice President & Provost Yin Jie, the delegation had a bird's eye view of the new campus and visited the labs of School of Physical Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology, SIAIS, and iHuman Institute. To strengthen the mutual understanding between the two univers...