University of Science and Technology of China

University of Science and Technology of China

中国科学技术大学
Motto	红专并进，理实交融
Motto in English	Being both responsible and professional, integrating theory with practice
Type	Public
Established	1958
President	Wan Lijun
Academic staff	1,812
Undergraduates	7,667
Postgraduates	8,921
Location	Hefei, Anhui, China
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	AEARU, APRU, C9
Website	en.ustc.edu.cn

The University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) is a national research university in Hefei, Anhui, China, under the direct leadership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It is a member of the C9 League formed by nine top universities in China. Founded in Beijing by the CAS in September 1958, it was moved to Hefei in the beginning of 1970 during the Cultural Revolution.^[1]

USTC was founded with the mission of addressing urgent needs to improve China's economy, defense infrastructure, and science and technology education. Its core strength is scientific and technological research, and more recently has expanded into humanities and management with a strong scientific and engineering emphasis. USTC has 12 schools, 30 departments, the Special Class for the Gifted Young, the Experimental Class for Teaching Reform, Graduate Schools (Hefei, Shanghai, Suzhou), a Software School, a School of Network Education, and a School of Continuing Education. In 2012 the Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China was founded.

History

USTC was founded in Beijing by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in September 1958. The Director of CAS, Mr. Guo Moruo was appointed the first president of USTC. USTC's founding mission was to develop a high-level science and technology workforce, as deemed critical for development of China's economy, defense, and science and technology education. The establishment was hailed as "A Major Event in the History of Chinese Education and Science." CAS has supported USTC by combining most of its institutes with the departments of the university. USTC is listed in the top 16 national key universities, becoming the youngest national key university.^[2]

In 1969, USTC was moved to Hefei, the capital of Anhui province.

USTC set up the first graduate school in China in 1978. The campus for graduate study in Hefei was established in 1986. Original campus for graduate study in Beijing was later renamed the Graduate School of the CAS in 2001.

In 1995, USTC was amongst the first batch of universities obtaining support through the National 9th Five-Year Plan and the "Project 211". In 1999, USTC was singled out as one of the 9 universities enjoying priority support from the nation's "Plan of Vitalizing Education Action Geared to the 21st Century". Since September 2002, USTC has been implementing its "Project 211" construction during the 10th National Development Plan.

Administration

• Professor Zhou Guangzhao, USTC Honorary President, Chairman and Honorary Chairman of the China Association of Science and Technology, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1987–1997).
• Professor Wan Lijun, President, Chemist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences^[3]，alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Professor Xu Wu, Party Secretary.

Presidents:^[4]

• Guo Moruo, September 1958 – June 1978
• Yan Jici, February 1980 – September 1984
• Guan Weiyan, April 1985 – January 1987
• Teng Teng, January 1987 – February 1988
• Gu Chaohao, February 1988 – July 1993
• Tang Honggao, July 1993 – June 1998
• Zhu Qingshi, June 1998 – September 2008
• Hou Jianguo, September 2008 –January 2015
• Wan Lijun, March 2015 -

Academics

USTC consistently adheres to the school-running principle of pursuing the national interest and innovative pioneering. It upholds the combination of science with technology, teaching with research, and theory with practice. In a short period, USTC has turned into a comprehensive national key university of science and technology, with emphasis on the forefront of science and high and new technology. USTC also offers management studies involved with science and technology and the humanities.

With the motto, "Studying diligently, making progress both in study and development of moral character", USTC has made distinguished achievements in talent fostering, scientific research and technology transfer, turning into an important base of high-qualified talent training and high-level scientific research for the nation. USTC is regarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology as one of the 4 universities with best scientific research performance in China. It ranks among the best in the review of Chinese top universities by the US journal "Science" and the French journal "Research".

There are 13 schools, 27 departments, the Special Class for the Gifted Young, the Experimental Class for the Teaching Reform, the Graduate School, School of Management (Beijing), the Software School, School of Network Education, School of Continuing Education and Institute of Advanced Technology. USTC offers 43 undergraduate specialties, 17 first-category Ph.D. degree programs, 89 second-category Ph.D. degree programs, 105 second-category master's degree specialties. It becomes the key base for the education of the Ph.D. students within the CAS.

USTC has three national research institutions and 6 key laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It also has some key scientific research institutions such as the CAS Research Center for Thermal Safety Engineering and Technology.

16 academic societies are affiliated with the University, including the Synchrotron Radiation Committee under the China Society of Physics, the System Simulation Committee under the China Society of Automation, and the Quantum Optics Committee under the China Society of Physics. The University publishes some important academic journals, such as "Journal of the University of Science and Technology", "Fire Science", "Journal of Low Temperature Physics", "Journal of Chemical Physics", "Experimental Mechanics", and "Education and Modernization".

There are more than 3600 faculty and staff numbers, 46 CAS and CAE academicians, 528 professors. The number of students accepting normal higher education at USTC totals around 13794, 8243 undergraduate students, 3873 master's degree students, and 1498 Ph.D. students among them. Besides, it also has 1575 professional master's degree students, 110 post-doctoral fellows and 134 guest professors.

USTC has been likened to the Caltech of China "due to its dominant leadership position in scientific research, elite undergraduate education, and rigorous academic programs" .

Campus

There are four campuses: East, South, West and North Campus. The campuses cover an area of 1.46 million square metres (360 acres), with 890,000 square metres (9,600,000 sq ft) of building area. The Center Campus is now starting to construct. The library has a collection of 1.73 million books, 3000 kinds of journal in the language of Chinese,4000 kinds of English, 600,000 electronic books and 20,000 electronic journals in Chinese or in English.

An overview of USTC, including the Teaching Building II and the library

A first-class campus computer network is running within the campus. Five public experimental centers for teaching and research are under construction, namely the Center of Physical Science, Life Science, Information Science, Engineering and Material Science, and Application of Synchrotron Radiation.

Main library building located in the west campus

Transportation The campus bus runs from 7:00 am till 23:00 pm. Teachers and students board the bus using their E-card and are free of charge. There are 130 bus-trips per day on weekdays and 24 bus-trips on weekends and holidays. Round-trip buses go every 30 minutes and pass through all 4 campuses. Direct-line buses run every 5 minutes between each the campus.

Hospital The school hospital, is a specific attachment to the university, and holds the aim of providing such services as disease prevention, health care, treatment and health education for the teaching staff and the students. After over forty years of development and construction, the hospital has been steadily expanded, the level of treatment has continuously improved, and the equipment has constantly been upgraded. The hospital covers 5,200 m2, with 110 beds and more than 110 employees.

The hospital is committed to the treatment and health care services for over 10,000 students, about 3,000 teachers and more than 700 retired employees, plus the families of the employees who live on the campus, which adds up to more than 20,000 people. A branch hospital and an outpatient department have been established separately on the west and the south campuses that are also centers for students' living and studying activities. The medical personnel are on duty around the clock for the convenience of the people.

In addition to carrying out daily diagnosis and treatment, the school hospital also, according to the college hygiene regulations, undertakes physical examination services under the principle of prevention. It is already a convention for students to take physical examinations both after their entrance and before graduation, and another check during their college years. Physical examinations are given every two years for school personnel and those who have retired.

To fulfill the demands of the science-major students for medical knowledge, the corresponding doctors of the school hospital have compiled a book titled Health Education for College Students, which, as the textbook for the selective course of health education, illuminates medical knowledge systematically from various angles. In recent years, this course has been taken by increasing numbers of students, and the title "advanced collective" has been bestowed on the hospital by the education authorities.

Campus view: http://en.ustc.edu.cn/news/campus_view/

Statistics

As of 2010:

Present

A sculpture near the library on the East Campus

Since its participation in the CAS Experimental Program of Knowledge Innovation, USTC has achieved a batch of important and innovative results in the basic research of nano science and technology,^[5] quantum information science, life science research, fire science and fire protection technology, polar scientific investigation and research, bio-mass clean energy research.

USTC actively encourages and push forward transfer of the research results and the industrialization of high and new technology. The University-Region (Enterprise) Cooperation Committee was established for the strengthening of the cooperation with the local governments and enterprises. It has established and developed the relationship of cooperation with some famous large and medium-sized enterprises such as the Daqing Petroleum Administration, Sinopec, the Bao Steel Group, Lenovo Group, and Haier Group. In total, 16 local governments and enterprises have become members of the USTC-Region (Enterprise) Cooperation Committee. Some research results incubation bases have been established, such as the Hefei National University Garden of Science and Technology, the Luohe Hi-tech Garden, the Guiyang Industrial Garden of Science and Technology, the Shanghai Research and Development Center, and the Shenzhen Futian Base of Industry, Teaching and Research. The Anhui Provincial Government and USTC have jointly presented the "Province-University Cooperation Program", fostering the industrialization of technological results. USTC also actively files applications for the "Seed Funds" established by prefectures and cities in China, sparing no efforts in making contribution to the regional economic construction and social development.

USTC has concluded agreements of cooperation and exchange with around 100 universities and research institutions in more than 30 nations and regions. Around 300 international experts and scholars will visit USTC every year for lecturing and collaborative research. USTC has sent around 10,000 individual visits to more than 30 nations and regions for study and cooperative research.

There are 16 affiliated academic societies, including the Synchrotron Radiation Committee under the China Society of Physics, the System Simulation Committee under the China Society of Automation, and the Quantum Optics Committee under the China Society of Physics.

Rankings

USTC has taken a leading position among Chinese universities on the number of research papers published internationally and in the citation rate of the papers. Since 1996, USTC consistently ranks No. 4 on the number of papers included by SCI; Since 1999, it ranks No. 1 on the number of papers published in the journals with high-impact factor among universities across China. Between 1991 and 2000, USTC ranks No. 1 among Chinese universities on the number of papers published in the internationally distinguished journals of "Science", "Nature", "PRL", and "JACS". USTC ranks No. 2 among the universities and research institutions in the world on the number of nano-research papers published from 1996 to 2000. The 2010-2011 The Times Higher Education Rankings^[11] ranked USTC 49th overall in the world and 2nd in China. The 2010 QS World University Rankings^[12] ranked USTC 154th overall in the world, coming 71st in Engineering & IT, 102nd in Life Sciences & Biomedicine, and 77th in Natural Sciences.

Laboratories

Only the National Laboratories, State Key Laboratories, and Key Laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are listed below, among which the National Laboratories have the highest qualification. USTC is the only university in mainland China which possess two National Laboratories at the same time.

National Laboratories (2)

• The National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory ^[13]
• Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale (under construction).^[14]

State Key Laboratories & Ministerial Level Units

• The State Key Laboratory of Fire Science (SKLFS) ^[15]
• National High Performance Computing Center (Hefei) ^[16]
• National Engineering Laboratory of Speech and Language Information Processing ^[17]
• The State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics (Under Construction)
• Mengcheng National Geophysical Observatory
• Microsoft Key Laboratory of Multimedia Computing and Communications, Ministry of Education

Key Laboratories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

• The Key Laboratory of Bond Selective Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Wu Wenjun Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences ^[18]
• The Engineering & Technology Research Center for Thermal Safety, Chinese Academy of Sciences^[19]
• The Key Laboratory of Material Mechanical Behavior and Material Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Structural Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Strong Magnetic Field Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Basic Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ^[20]
• The Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Galaxies and Cosmology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Network Communication System and Control Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences (training building)
• The Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Brain Function and Brain Disease, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic, Space, and Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Research Center of Solar Thermal Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• The Quantum Technology and Application Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Schools and Departments

Highlights: USTC set up the first graduate school in China in 1978 to effectively cultivate its postgraduate students.

• Special Class for the Gifted Young^[21]
• School of Mathematical Sciences^[22]
• School of Physical Sciences^[23]
  • Department of Modern Physics
  • Department of Astronomy
  • Department of Physics
  • Department of Optics and Optical Engineering
  • Physics Experiment Teaching Center
• School of Chemistry and Materials Science^[24]
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Chemical Physics
  • Department of Materials Science & Engineering
  • Department of Polymer Science and Engineering
  • Chemical Experimental Teaching Center
• School of Nuclear Science and Technology^[25]
• School of Life Science^[26]
  • Molecular Biology and Cell Biology
  • Neurobiology and Biophysics
  • Systems Biology
  • Biomedicine and Biotechnology
• School of Engineering Science^[27]
  • Modern Mechanics
  • Thermal Science and Energy Engineering
  • Precision Machinery and Instrumentation
• School of Information Science and Technology^[28]
  • Electronic Science and Technology
  • Automation
  • Electrical Engineering and Information Science
  • Information Security
• School of Computer Science and Technology^[29]
  • Computer Science and Technology
• School of Earth and Space Science^[30]
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Faculty of Geochemistry and Environmental Science
• School of Software Engineering^[31]
• School of Business^[32]
  • Business Administration Training
  • Statistics and Finance
  • Management Science
  • Information Management and Decision Science
• Humanities & Social Science^[33]
  • Sci-tech Communication and Sci-tech Policy
  • The Teaching and Research Division of Marxism
  • Scientific History and Archaeometry
  • Center for Modern Art
• School of Environment Science and Electrooptical Technology
• School of Material Science and Engineering
• Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study, USTC
• Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studies, USTC
• Institute of Advanced Technology, USTC
• Continuing Education

Notable people

Alumni

• Xiaowei Zhuang^[34] - Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Physics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Harvard University, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Tianxi Cai^[35] - Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard University
• Xi Yin^[36] - Professor of Physics, Harvard University
• Jia-huai Wang^[37] - Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
• Liqun Luo^[38] - Professor of Biological Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Stanford University, member of National Academy of Sciences
• Shanhui Fan^[39] - Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
• Yi Cui^[40] - Associate Professor of Materials Science, Stanford University
• Lu Chen^[41] - Professor of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
• Shan X. Wang^[42] - Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & Electrical Engineering, Director of Stanford Center for Magnetic Nanotechnology, Stanford University
• Peidong Yang^[43] - Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
• Xin Guo^[44] - Coleman Fung Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley
• Qiang Zhou^[45] - Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, University of California, Berkeley
• Kunxin Luo^[46] - Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Berkeley
• Fenyong Liu^[47] - Professor, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
• Weinan E^[48] - Professor, Department of Mathematics and Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
• Wei Xiong^[49] - Professor of Economics, Princeton University
• Stephen Y. Chou^[50] - Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering, Princeton University
• Kai Li^[51] - Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University
• Xiao-Gang Wen^[52] - Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, MIT
• Ju Li^[53] - Battelle Energy Alliance Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
• Hong Liu^[54] - Professor of Physics, MIT
• Chi-Wang Shu^[55] - Theodore B. Stowell University Professor, Chairman(1999–2005), Division of Applied Mathematics, ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Brown University
• Zhong Shao^[56] - Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
• Yuanqing Yang^[57] - Chairman of the Board and former CEO, Lenovo Group
• Ya-Qin Zhang^[58] - Corporate Vice President, Chairman of Microsoft China and Microsoft Research China Microsoft
• Ruimin Zhang^[59][60] - Chairman and CEO of Haier Group
• Xingde Li^[61] - Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, OSA fellow, SPIE fellow, AIMBE fellow
• Dongming Wang^[62] - Cheung Kong Professor of Computer Mathematics at BUAA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
• Liu Gang^[63] - Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Bell Labs
• Wei Tong^[64] - Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Yale
• Zhongwen Zhan^[65] - Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Caltech
• Liang Fu^[66] - Assistant Professor of Physics, MIT
• Xudong Huang^[67] - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
• Jian Lin^[68] - Henry Bryant Bigelow Chair Senior Scientist of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Ruixin Huang^[69] - Scientist Emeritus of Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Steven Kou^[70] - Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University
• Ying Wei^[71] - Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University
• Shuang Wang^[72] - Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University
• Hua Gu^[73] - Irene Diamond Associate Professor of Immunology, Columbia University
• Xiaodong Cao^[74] - Associate Professor of Mathematics, Cornell University
• Dong Lai^[75] - Professor, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University
• Quan Hao^[76] - Director of MacCHESS, Cornell University
• Dan Luo^[77] - Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
• Liu Jing^[78] - tenured professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management, UCLA
• Yuanxun Wang^[79] - Associate Professor of Physical and Wave Electronics, UCLA
• Ying Nian Wu^[80] - Professor of Statistical modeling and learning, UCLA
• Song-Chun Zhu^[81] - Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, UCLA
• Songwu Lu^[82] - Professor of Computer Science, UCLA
• Bing Ren^[83] - Professor of Genomics and Biomedicine, UC San Diego, member of Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
• Chuan He - Professor of Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, University of Chicago.
• Yong Tan^[84] - NEAL AND JAN DEMPSEY Professor of Information Systems, University of Washington
• Dayong Gao^[85] - Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington
• Huimin Zhao^[86] - Centennial Endowed Chair Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Jiawei Han^[87] - Abel Bliss Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Xiaodong Song^[88] - Professor, Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Yuguo Chen^[89] - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bing Zhou^[90] - Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
• Junjie Zhu^[91] - Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
• Jianmin Qian^[92] - Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
• Jing Sun^[93] - Professor, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan
• Haitao Li^[94] - Professor of Finance, University of Michigan
• Luming Duan^[95] - Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
• Jun-Lin Guan^[96] - Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan
• Xiaowu Wang^[97] - Founder and President of Polysoftware International, Inc
• Shiyu Zhou^[98] - Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Qiang Cui^[99] - Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Xiuxiong Chen^[100] - Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Da-Lin Zhang^[101] - Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Maryland
• Rugang Ye^[102] - Professor of Department of Mathematics, University of California Santa Barbara
• Qiang Du^[103] - Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematic, Columbia University
• Lingyin Li^[104] - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, ChEM-H Institute, Stanford University
• Jiti Gao^[105] - Donald Cochrane Chair Professor of Econometrics, Monash University

Faculty

• Melba Phillips (1907-2004) - doctoral student of J. Robert Oppenheimer, so-called "father of the atomic bomb"
• Guo Moruo (1892–1978) - A Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, the first president of USTC.
• Yan Jici (1901–1996) - Pioneer of Modern physics research and education in China, former Vice-president, President and Honorary President of USTC.
• Hua Luogeng (1910–1985) - Pioneer of modern mathematics research and education in China, former Chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Vice-president of USTC.
• Qian Xuesen (1911–2009) - Father of missiles of China, former Chairman of the Department of Mechanics with USTC.
• Zhao Zhongyao (1902–1998) - Pioneer of modern particle physics research and education in China, one of the first in the world to find positrons, former Chairman of the Department of Modern Physics with USTC.
• Qian Linzhao (1906–1999) - Famous physicist and educator, pioneer of scientific history and education in China, former Vice-president of USTC.
• Zhou Guangzhao (1929- ) - Famous theoretical physicist, Vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, Honorary President of USTC at present.
• Meng Xuenong (1948-) - Former Mayor of Beijing, and former Governor of Shanxi Province
• Fang Lizhi (1936–2012) - Former professor of astrophysics and vice president of the USTC

See also

• List of universities and colleges in Anhui
• List of universities in China

References

External links

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