Source: Graduate School

Written by: Academic Training Office

Translated by: Wang Dongmei

Recently, the Ministry of Education and the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council announced that 20 PhD students of Sun Yat-sen University were honored with the 2012 “PhD Student Academic Newcomer Award”. A total of 699 current PhD students from 43 graduate training units won the award.

In April 2010, in order to implement the strategy of strengthening the nation, encourage original innovation and independent innovation, and improve the quality of PhD programs, the Ministry of Education and the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council set up the “PhD Student Academic Newcomer Award”. The aim of the award is to “cultivate academic newcomers and encourage innovative development”, and provide funding to excellent PhD students with outstanding academic results and strong potential for research innovation. This is the highest academic award for PhD students nationwide.

The annual “PhD Student Academic Newcomer Award” selects around 5% of the national total enrollment in PhD programs of the year. Each winner is awarded 30,000 to 50,000 yuan of research funding to help the student take part in high level international and national academic exchange, participate in innovative scientific research and write a high quality dissertation.

A List of SYSU winners of the 2012 “PhD Student Academic Newcomer Award” by the Ministry of Education

School of Government Wen Mingyue

Department of History Gu Mengzi

Department of Chinese Zhang Qian

Lingnan College Chen Zhongfei

Shool of Business Zhou Shaorui

School of Life Sciences Liu Xubing

School of Physics & Engineering Hu Wei, Xin Hongbao

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Bao Xin, Liu Yiwu

School of Environmental Science and Engineering Kong Lingjun

School of Information Science and Technology Guo Dongsheng, Su Zhuo

Zhongshan School of Medicine Zhao Qiang, Wu Sihan

Guanghua School of Stomatology Wu Tong

The First Affiliated Hospital Liu Zhonghua

The Third Affiliated Hospital Guo Xiaoyan

Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center Yang Xuejiao

Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center Wang Deshen