1. The Vice Dean Qingwen Wang was transferred to be the director of Pensioners Office and his position was taken over by Mr. Rengong Lou. (January)
2. Portugal-China Joint Innovation Center for Advanced Materials was established in DPSE. (January)
3. The project “graphene liquid crystal and the macroscopic self-assembly graphene fibers” leading by Prof. Chao Gao was named as one of ten outstanding academic breakthroughs of Zhejiang University in 2012. (May)
4. New administrative staffs were determined after democratic evaluations and party inspections. (July)
5. Prof. Qiang Zheng and Prof. Jian Ji acquired the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China. (July)
6. Prof. Lie Ma and Prof. Binyang Du acquired the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. (July)
7. MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization passed the first assessment successfully. (September)
8. Prof. Chao Gao acquired the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. (September)
9. Prof. Hanying Li won the Life Time Achievement (Junior) Award (also called Young Talents Award) on the 12th International Conference "Polymers for Advanced Technologies" (PAT). (October)
10. The subsidies of most faculty were increased after new Job subsidies adjustments were taken into effect. (November)
11. Sipei Li and Xiangsheng Liu won the Chu Kochen Awards, the highest honor for graduate students in Zhejiang University. 12 graduate students will be offered the honors every year. (December)
12. Four young teachers acquired the “Qiushi Young Scholar” honors. All young teachers under 35 years old have acquired this honors. (December)
13. Minmin Shi was promoted to professor, Qiao Jin was promoted to associate professor and Gaohe Wang was promoted to associate research fellow. Prof. Liyan Qiu, winner of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, became a member of DPSE. (December) |
