Chinese Academy of Sciences Academician Zheng Hairong appointed as Vice President of Nanjing University.
According to public information, Zheng Hairong was born in Changfeng, Anhui in 1977. He graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 2000 and received his doctoral degree from the University of Colorado, USA in 2006. After that, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis. In 2007, he returned to China and started working at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded the National Outstanding Youth Fund (2013) and has completed several national major research projects, including the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the 973 Program (Chief Scientist), the Strategic Leading Science and Technology Projects of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Major Scientific Instrument Development Project.
The National Natural Science Foundation has released guidelines for international cooperation and exchange projects, as well as six project guidelines related to major research plans and joint funds.
On March 15th, the National Natural Science Foundation of China issued guidelines for cooperation and exchange projects with the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FNRS) in the French-speaking region of Belgium. The funded areas include mathematics and physics, chemistry, life sciences, earth sciences, engineering and materials science, information science, management science, and medicine. The funding limit for Chinese projects is not exceeding 100,000 CNY per item, while the FNRS funding limit is not exceeding 15,000 euros per item.
On March 15th, the National Natural Science Foundation of China also issued guidelines for the Railway Innovation and Development Joint Fund project, the Regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund project (second batch), the Enterprise Innovation and Development Joint Fund project (second batch), the NSAF Joint Fund project, the Major Research Program 2024 for Efficient Flight Science Foundation and Regulation Mechanism of Multiple Physical Fields, and the Major Research Program 2024 for Explainable and Generalizable Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence Methods.
The Ministry of Science and Technology has issued a notice for the solicitation of projects for the revision of the national standards for scientific and technological evaluation. The proposed projects should focus on the standardization development needs in the field of scientific and technological evaluation, promote the high-quality development of scientific and technological evaluation, adhere to goal-oriented and problem-oriented approaches, control the quantity while ensuring quality, and meet the requirements of legitimacy, necessity, feasibility, and coordination. The proposed projects should belong to the field of scientific and technological evaluation, including evaluation of science and technology policies, evaluation of science and technology...
Recently, a PowerPoint presentation image from the course "Psychology of Love" at East China Normal University has been circulating on the internet, sparking a heated discussion. The title of the leaked slides is "Pro Tips for Women Pursuing Men in Love: Key Points for Women Pursuing Men in Relationships." It lists several points, such as "Verbally Claiming 'Having Children'" and "Female Intensified Physical Exercise, excluding extreme cases, will likely increase attractiveness to males. Essentially, it enhances reproductive ability."
These images quickly generated strong reactions from netizens. Some netizens expressed that the presentation is "unsightly" and has the suspicion of "objectifying women" and "insulting female speech." A student confirmed to a reporter from Pengpai News that these slides are indeed from the 2024 "Psychology of Love" course at East China Normal University.
Why do some Ph.D. researchers struggle to adapt when they are transferred to logistics and security positions after failing to be promoted?
"Full-time high-level talents introduced to our university have a minimum service period of 8 years. PhD graduates who are introduced to work in our university for a full five years, if they fail to be promoted to associate professor (except for those who have not been promoted due to quota reasons), are required to follow the university's arrangement and transfer to service support positions such as logistics and security."
Recently, this screenshot of the "Management Measures for the Introduction and Stability of High-level Talents at Taiyuan Normal University" has sparked heated discussion on the internet. The document was released on the official website of Taiyuan Normal University on June 17, 2021, and has now been removed from the website.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University establishes a new college.
During the Two Sessions, Yang Zhenbin, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the Party Secretary of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, pointed out that universities should leverage their advantages to accelerate the transformation of research organization models and paradigms, comprehensively strengthen the construction of an innovation system, and enhance the high-level independent innovation capabilities in serving national strategies and regional economic and social development. At the plenary meeting of the Shanghai delegation to the Second Session of the 14th National People's Congress, Ding Kuiling, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, stated that Shanghai Jiao Tong University is actively promoting the establishment of an artificial intelligence college to provide talent and technological innovation support for the development of new productive forces and future industries. It is hoped that through forward-looking deployment integrating education, science and technology, and talent, and through the practice exploration of "keeping pace with," "running alongside," and "leading," an acceleration of technological innovation can be achieved to promote high-quality development.
Regulating AI: The European Parliament has passed the "Artificial Intelligence Act." This act will regulate foundational models or generative artificial intelligence, such as OpenAI and other models trained on large amounts of data to generate new content or even perform tasks. At the same time, it will restrict the government from using real-time biometric surveillance in public places to deal with certain criminal cases, prevent terrorist attacks, and investigate individuals suspected of the most serious crimes.
