Prof. LU Yongxiang, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), made a special inspection of South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) and gave an important speech on December 19, 2009. Dr. HUANG Hongwen, director of SCBG presented a progress report on SCBG for the year 2009 in the symposium. The report contains: research progress and outputs, China's Strategy for Plant Conservation (in-situ and ex-situ), popular science and tourism development, capacity of research facilities and platform construction, and International cooperation and exchange.
The High Magnetic Field Laboratory, CAS, (CHMFL) held the first International Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting from Dec. 15th to 17th,2009 at Hefei, Anhui province. Ten senior and lead scientists from United States, France, Germany, and Korea, attended the conference as the CHMFLInternational Advisory Committee members.
Results of the 2009 American Physical Society (APS) membership elections were announced recently. Four new members of APS are University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) alumni. They are Qian Jianming, Department of Modern Physics (1977), Xu Nu, Department of Physics (1977), Zhang Shiwei, Department of Physics (1983), and Duan Luming, Department of Physics (1990).
Prof. XU Baiqing of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) has recently published the paper, "Black soot and the survival of Tibetan glaciers", on the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). In collaboration with colleagues from the Institute of Earth Environment and Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute in the CAS and those from the NASA, Prof. XU analyzed black soot composition in ice cores retrieved from a wide range over the Plateau.
Chinese scientist’s research on iPS was recently chosen as one of Time’s top 10 medical breakthroughs for the year 2009. The result of "mice made from induced stem cells" by researchers from Institute of Zoology (IOZ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiaotong University was first reported online in Nature in July, 2009.
Chinese scientists have found through genetic studies that modern humans had successfully colonized the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the Late Paleolithic Age, at least 21,000 years ago. "Through Paleolithic era stone tools excavated from the plateau years ago, archaeologists believed human beings possibly inhabited the plateau 30,000 years ago," said Zhao Mian, a researcher from the Kunming Institute of Zoology with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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