Hunan University (HNU) announced on April 1 that a team of scientists led by Prof. Liu Xuanming from HNU College of Biology, Yang Yuanzhu from Hunan Yahua Seeds Science Academy, and Li Laigeng from Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences identified a gene named STRK1 (salt tolerance receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase 1) that limits yield losses in rice plants expose....

​On March 21 morning, Ronald Egan, Confucius Institute Professor of Sinology at Stanford University, gave a lecture titled “Li Qingzhao and the Reception History on Her Literature” at Hunan University (HNU). The lecture was hosted by HNU Collage of Chinese Language and Literature and HNU International Chinese Studies Research Center. Prof. Niu Hairong from the Collage of Chinese Language and....

On March 7, KBS 1, the premier channel of the Korean Broadcasting System, broadcast a special interview on HNU Confucius Institute Dean Zuo Quanwen (Chinese-side Dean) at its primetime show.The program provided exhaustive coverage of the HNU Confucius Institute, which was co-built by Honam University and HNU. Dean Zou, and Chinese volunteer teachers’ work and life in South Korea were also repo....

On March 9, Prof. Nicholas Xuanlai Fang from Massachusetts Institute of Technology was invited to give a lecture titled “Architectured Metamaterials：From Tunable Thermal Expansion to Vascular Tissue Scaffolding” in Hunan University (HNU). HNU President Duan Xianzhong, together with more than 200 teachers and students attended.Prof. Fang presented the development of three-dimensional micro/na....

Academician Tan Weihong, professor of College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and College of Biology, Hunan University (HUN) won the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Spectrochemical Analysis recently. Tan is also the director of HNU’s State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics.The award ceremony will be held in this August in Boston, USA.  Founded in 1876, the....

​Spring comes to HNU as the new semester starts. Kinds of flowers bloom to decorate the campus. As an old saying goes that, "plan your year in spring and your day at dawn". Students are ready for their study and keep pursuing their dreams..