The Tsinghua International Students & Scholars’ Gala Night 2018 took place on Friday night, December 15th, to much anticipation from the international community. Hundreds of students and professors gathered to be amazed by gravity-defying martial arts, awe-inspiring dance moves, and enchanting songs.

On November 23, 2017, a group of 20 international students from Tsinghua University visited Meituan’s headquarters in Beijing. The visit is the first of the "Discover China Through Company Visits” series organized by Tsinghua University International Students and Scholars Center, aiming to help international students better understand the leading lifestyle e-commerce platform and the future development of this market leader.

The Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Mr. Erik Solheim, visited Tsinghua University and delivered a speech to The Tsinghua Forum to share his insights on global environmental governance and the role of youth on December 11th.

On November 20th, a group of researchers under the dynamic leadership of Prof. Yong Luo (Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University) and in collaboration with Prof. Xiangdong Zhang (University of Alaska, Fairbanks), Dr. Suping Nie (Associate Research Fellow in the National Climate Center), and others, published an online article entitled “Recently amplified arctic warming has contributed to a continual global warming trend” in the journal Nature Climate Change. Using a new interpolation method, a set of surface temperature sequences in the Arctic region over a time span of more than 100 years with a strong spatial and temporal homogeneity was established. Analysis of the new dataset shows that the global climate is persistently warming without any sign of hiatus or slowdown. New insights have been put forward to the international scientific community to debate over the existence of a “global warming hiatus” and its possible mechanism in recent years.

On November 18th, the 15th National Challenge Cup came to a close at Shanghai University. In the final, the student delegation from Tsinghua University was awarded two Grand Prizes, one First Class Prize, one Second Class Prize, and two Third Class Prizes.

On November 27th, the Chinese Academy of Engineering announced its 2017 list of newly elected academicians, which includes four Tsinghua professors and seven alumni.

Friends socialize at the opening ceremony of the GIX building in Seattle in the United States.[Photo provided to China Daily]

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ACM named a 12-member Chinese team, five of whom are from Tsinghua University, as the recipients of the 2017 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, for their research project, “18.9-Pflops Nonlinear Earthquake Simulation on Sunway TaihuLight: Enabling Depiction of 18-Hz and 8-Meter Scenarios.” Using the Sunway TaihuLight, which is ranked as the world’s fastest supercomputer, the team developed software that was able to efficiently process 18.9 Pflops (or 18.9 quadrillion calculations per second) of data and create 3D visualizations relating to a devastating earthquake that occurred in Tangshan, China, in 1976. This is the second time that the prize has been given to a Chinese research team.

On Nov 13th, the China-Italy Design Innovation Hub launch ceremony and China-Italy Design Innovation Day, hosted by Tsinghua University and the Politecnico di Milano, and organized by Tsinghua’s Academy of Arts & Design together with TUS-Holdings Co., Ltd., took place at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University. Experts and scholars in the domain of design and innovation from both China and Italy attended the ceremony, and together witnessed the launch of the Innovation Hub as well as the unveiling of Tsinghua Arts and Design Institute in Milan.

On November 3rd, Xie Zhenhua, China’s special representative on climate change and Vice Chairman of the Committee of Population, Resources and Environment of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), attended a donation ceremony held at Tsinghua University and donated a total of 20 million Hong Kong dollars to the Tsinghua University Education Foundation. The amount donated was Mr. Xie’s prize money from winning the Lui Che Woo Prize (Sustainability Prize).

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with members of the advisory board of the elite Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 30, 2017.

by Andrew Czyzewski, Imperial College, UK

Yesterday marked one of the most anticipated days in the Tsinghua academic calendar: freshman move-in day. Today, August 24th, the opening ceremony for the new incoming students was held this morning at the university’s sports center.

The sixth World Peace Forum (WPF) was held from June 24 to 25. Arken Imirbaki, the Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress of China, addressed the opening ceremony held on Saturday.

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May 25th marked a new beginning in the history ofTsinghua University as it inaugurated its first-ever African StudentAssociation – THUASA (Tsinghua University African Student Association).  The event for the first time ever united theinternational African student body in Tsinghua that includes over 110 enrolled students representing 27 African countriesand opened a platform for collaboration among these students and the wider bodyof the University.

On the morning of June 8, a China-California Clean Energy and Low-carbon Development Dialogue was held at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. Jointly organized by Tsinghua University and the Government of the state of California, and co-organized by Tsinghua University’s Low-carbon Energy Laboratory, the dialogue was intended to strengthen and deepen exchange and cooperation between China and California in clean energy and low-carbon development.

On May 30th, Tsinghua University Chairperson Chen Xu paid a visit to Washington D.C., where she held talks with Matthew Pottinger, Special Assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump and National Security Council senior director for East Asia. She also visited the U.S. Department of Education later the same day. Tsinghua University Vice President and Provost Yang Bin accompanied Chen Xu on her visit to the U.S. capital.