From August 31 to September 3, 2019, the 11th National Organic Chemistry conference was held at ShanghaiTech University. This year, the number of participants was a record high, attracting 2,700 chemical professionals, meanwhile more than 40 companies and academic institutions sponsored the academic event. The conference was organized by the Chinese Chemical Society, the Organic Chemistry Com...

After participating in an intense two weeks of orientation activities, the 398 incoming first year ShanghaiTech students attended opening ceremonies held by the Schools of Information Science and Technology, Life Science and Technology and Physical Science and Technology on September 6th. President Jiang Mianheng and Vice President and Provost Yin Jie spoke to the students, welcoming them to their...

On September 3, 2019, Dr. Christopher S. Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law from University of Pennsylvania, visited ShanghaiTech University and gave a public lecture on “Innovation and the Law.” Professor Yoo  introduced his unique career path starting from his days as an undergraduate physics major at Harvard who later earned a degree in Social Studies, an MBA from UCLA, and JD f...

On August 29th, 2019, a study led by a collaboration between ShanghaiTech Adjunct Professor Rao Zihe and SLST Adjunct Professor and CAS Institute of Biophysics Hu Junjie’s group was published online in Nature Communications. In the research article, “Mycobacterial dynamin-like protein IniA mediates membrane fission,” they reported the crystal structure of IniA, an isoniazid inducible protein, w...

The 2019 UPenn-SIST Joint Summer Camp ended on August 23, 2019 at ShanghaiTech’s School of Information Science and Technology. Organized by University of Pennsylvania and sponsored by ShanghaiTech University, a total of 46 students from 26 high schools including Shanghai High School, No.2 High School of East China Normal University, High School Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, High Sc...

The inauguration ceremony of the Bio-Electron Microscopy Facility of ShanghaiTech University was held in the atrium of Y-Building on July 30th. Founding Director of iHuman Institute, structural biologist Professor Raymond Stevens chaired the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by ShanghaiTech Vice President and Provost Professor Yin Jie, iHuman Institute Overseas Distinguished Adjunct Profes...

From July 30th to 31st, the Forum on Imaging Across Scales and Cell Mapping and the Cryo-EM Facility Inauguration Ceremony of ShanghaiTech University was successfully held at the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University. Chaired by Professor Raymond Stevens, the forum hosted more than 100 participants including scholars, researchers and students from the National Center for Protein Science Shan...

On August 21st, UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean Jayathi Y. Murthy and the school’s Senior Executive Director of Development Melanie Masters Burzynski visited ShanghaiTech. President Jiang extended a warm welcome to the delegation and held a meeting with School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) Vice Dean Yu Jingyi. SIST Assis...

On August 27th, College Forum Hamburg-Shanghai “Science Parks-Attractors from Excellence, Talents and Innovation” was held at ShanghaiTech University. President Jiang Mianheng congratulated the organizers on the success of the forum and met with Hamburg Mayor Peter Tschentscher, State Secretary Dr. Annette Tabbara, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) Administrative Director Dr. Christian Har...

Covalent organic frameworks are 2D or 3D porous crystals built by organic molecules through covalent bonds. Due to the framework stability and accurate control at molecular-level, this type of material shows potential applications in gas adsorption/separation, energy storage and conversion, drug delivery and so on. Recently, a collaborative work by SPST Assistant Professors Zhang Yuebiao and Ma Ya...

Each summer, a band of foreign students arrive on ShanghaiTech’s campus for six to eight weeks of research. For science major students, there are fewer opportunities for study abroad than other disciplines, and yet they are no less eager to experience another culture. The summer research program allows students from partner institutions the chance to experience Chinese culture while gaining resea...

Organic-inorganic hybrid halide perovskites are emerging as a promising material in light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for their remarkable optoelectronic properties, including narrow full width half maximum (FWHM), high luminescence quantum yield (PLQY), and solution processability. The external quantum efficiency (EQE) of perovskites LEDs has exceeded 20% in just 5 years. However, the poor stability s...

Recently, an SPST team of researchers led by Professor Chen Yulin successfully demonstrated in-situ manipulation of surface Fermi arcs (SFAs) – the signature electronic structures of Weyl semimetal – and realized their topological Lifshitz transition via surface decoration in ultra-high vacuum environment. The study, “Topological Lifshitz transitions and Fermi arc manipulation in Weyl semimetal N...

The 2nd International Conference on Vibration and Energy Harvesting Applications (VEH 2019) was held in the School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) from July 13th to 15th, attracting 150 scholars, researchers, and students from universities and research institutions around the world such as Imperial College London, University of Paris-Sud, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Stevens Instit...