Four years ago, ShanghaiTech’s campus was a construction site. Today, it is a cutting-edge research university. Four years ago, a small class of incoming freshmen entered the campus, eager for opportunities and willing to take a chance on a brand-new school. Today, these students stroll on a beautiful modern campus and are preparing to continue their research at top universities across the globe....

A recent international research collaboration has shed new light on DNA replication. The collaboration, led by Professor Bo Sun from the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University and Professor Michelle D. Wang from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Cornell University, revealed a new replication recovery pathway. Their paper, “Helicase Promotes Replication Re-in...

On June 4th and 5th, ShanghaiTech hosted SWEDCS 2018, offering a platform for top scientists and experts in emerging devices, circuits and systems to share their research results and inspire next-generation talents in all areas of information science and technology. SWEDCS 2018 focused on the theme of “Internet of Things” (IoT), and included a technical program covering four sessions in ele...

Back when ShanghaiTech’s first class of undergraduates visited for Campus Assessment Day back in 2014, there was not much of a campus to visit and ShanghaiTech was more of an idea than reality. Now, four years later but in what seems just a blink of an eye, ShanghaiTech’s senior class has made it from impressionable young freshmen to accomplished and promising graduates. In this first of a two p...

Roche-RSC International Symposium on Scientific Frontiers to Enable Drug Discovery was successfully held in ShanghaiTech University on June 1, hosted by F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG (Roche) and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and co-organized by ShanghaiTech University and Shanghai Institute of Biophysics and jointly chaired by Dr. Shen Hong, head of Medicinal Chemistry at Roche Innovation Center Shan...

On June 5th 2018, Mr. Heng Swee Keat, Minister of Finance of Singapore, visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng. In the meeting, Provost and Vice President Yin Jie presented ShanghaiTech’s new developments. Minister Heng was very interested in the research and educational collaboration between ShanghaiTech and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Meanwhile, President Jiang learned...

Jointly established by Shanghai Municipal Government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ShanghaiTech is devoted to fostering the next generation of leading scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs and exploring cutting-edge research areas critical to national, economic and social development. During his visit, Li Qiang was given an introduction of ShanghaiTech and affirmed the progress achieved b...

The inauguration of Center for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy (ChEM) and international electron microscopy forum was successfully held in SPST from May 27th to 29th. After nearly three years of construction, under the coordination of the whole university's functional departments, an advanced electron microscopy research and teaching center with excellent equipment and service in the front...

In May, a ShanghaiTech delegation headed by President Jiang Mianheng visited a group of American institutions of higher education. President Jiang met with presidents from Yale University, MIT and Drexel University and exchanged ideas with leadership members from University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Berkeley. He met and talked with renowned scholars and professors from Universi...

In May, President Jiang attended the 4th International Universia Presidents Meeting in the University of Salamanca, Spain and visited the headquarter of Santander Bank. He met with Executive Chairman of Santander Bank Ana Botín, CEO of Santander Group Jose Antonio Alvarez and Senior Executive VP Victor Matarranz and discussed further cooperation with Santander Bank on the basis of existing p...

On May 24, 2018, Professor Eike Martin, Director of the International Affairs of German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), visited ShanghaiTech. A ShanghaiTech delegation, headed by President Jiang Mianheng, visited Europe last time in November 2017 and Professor Martin’s visit was to continue the discussion of a possible collaboration.Vice President Hua Renchang gave Professor Eike Martin a warm wel...

Zhong Chao’s Group in the Division of Materials and Physical Biology at ShanghaiTech’s School of Physical Science and Technology (SPST) has recently reported an engineered bacterium, which could sense environmental signals (for example, light or small molecules) to produce biofilms and, and simultaneously direct the assembly of inorganic nano-objects with spatiotemporal control in a dynamic, rec...

The 2018 ASC World Supercomputer Contest (ASC18) ended on May 9th at Nanchang University with Tsinghua University successfully defending their championship. ShanghaiTech University, a first-time finalist, won Silver Medal and the e Prize award. National Tsing Hua University won the award for Highest Computing Performance. Russian St. Petersburg National University, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universi...

On May 11th, Dr. Eyal Propper, Consul General of Israel in Shanghai visited ShanghaiTech and met with President Jiang Mianheng.President Jiang welcomed Dr. Propper, and Vice Provost Jiang Ge presented the university’s latest developments. In the meeting, President Jiang asked that Consul General Propper help introduce outstanding Israeli scholars and scientists to ShanghaiTech. Dr. Propper agreed...