GEC 2023 May Newsletter
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Featured Story
GEC Academy Successfully Hosted the April Global Top Scientists Forum at Imperial College London
The Third Global Top Scientists Forum, co-hosted by GEC Academy and the Chinese Students & Scholars Association of Imperial College, came to a successful close on April 19th with the theme of "New Strategies and Technologies in Biosensing & Analytical Chemistry". The keynote speaker for this academic seminar was Professor Joshua Edel, Professor of Biosensing & Analytical Sciences in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, who has also been working with GEC for many years. Notably, this academic seminar marked the first time since the inception of the Global Top Scientists Forum that an offline lecture format was adopted, while utilizing online live streaming to encourage greater interaction among students from both UK and China. This event was also the first academic seminar hosted onsite since the Pandemic outbreak.
GEC 2023 College Admissions Results (Updated in May 1st, 2023)
In this May, we are thrilled to announce that, with the guidance of GEC's exceptional teaching faculty, our 2023 students have achieved outstanding results in their college and university applications. Our students have received offers from some of the most prestigious universities in the US and UK, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Princeton University, Yale University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and more. We are incredibly proud of our students' achievements, and we recognize that these results would not have been possible without the unwavering support of our dedicated teaching staff. We value your hard work and efforts immensely.
Recap of 2023 April Faculty Meeting on the On-site Summer Research Program
On April 27th, GEC Academy held an information session during the April Faculty Meeting for approximately 30 professors who had expressed interest in the upcoming 2023 GEC On-site Summer Research Program. Mr. Sheng Yan, President of GEC Academy, presented important details on program arrangements, available support, and useful tips for the attending professors. In addition to Mr. Yan's presentation, two members of GEC's teaching faculty, Professors David Shimko from New York University and Professor Pavlos Protopapas shared their personal experiences at GEC's on-site camps. Their insights proved to be valuable in providing the attending professors with a clear understanding of what they could expect during their stay in China.
Faculty Work Gallery
This month we introduced a book - White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness from Professor Nicholas Mirzoeff. If you are interested in showcasing your research, grants, book releases, conference presentations, or any work you deem valuable and interesting to share, please feel free to contact us.
About the book
White supremacy is not only perpetuated by laws and police but also by visual culture and distinctive ways of seeing. Nicholas Mirzoeff argues that this form of “white sight” has a history. By understanding that white sight was not always common practice, we can devise better ways to dismantle it. Spanning centuries across this wide-ranging text, Mirzoeff connects Renaissance innovations—from the invention of perspective and the erection of Apollo statues as monuments to (white) beauty and power to the rise of racial capitalism dependent on slave labor—with ever-expanding surveillance technologies to show that white sight creates an oppressively racializing world, in which subjects who do not appear as white are under constant threat of violence. Analyzing recent events like the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd and the Central Park bird watching incident, Mirzoeff shows that we are experiencing a general crisis of white supremacy that presents both opportunities for and threats to social justice. If this moment is not taken to dismantle white sight, then white supremacy might surge back stronger than ever. To that end, he highlights activist interventions to strike the power of the white heteropatriarchal gaze. White Sight is a call to action for anyone who refuses to continue to live under white-dominated systems.
GEC Culture
GEC Visiting Team Finished the First Campus Tour in the US!
In March and April 2023, Edison Yan, President of GEC Academy, and Wendy Wang, Director of GEC Academy's Teaching and Research Department, led a visiting team to the United States for a one-month visiting tour to meet with some of GEC Academy's collaborating faculty and friends the first time after the pandemic.
Introducing New Faces
We’re pleased to welcome 2 new faces to the GEC team - Qiuxiang & Qingqing!
Latest News of China Education
Hainan Releases Plan to Attract Foreign Universities
Foreign higher education institutions and those from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions and Taiwan will be permitted to independently set up and run universities and higher vocational schools in the Hainan Free Trade Zone, according to a recently released plan, marking another important step in opening up China's education system.
More than 52,000 College Graduates to be Hired as Teachers in Rural Areas
China plans to hire 52,300 college graduates this year to work as primary and middle school teachers at under-developed rural areas in central and western regions, a notice said on Tuesday. The notice, issued by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance, said the special recruitment effort is expected to improve the teaching quality in rural schools and increase the number of teachers in subjects such as physical education, foreign languages, science and art.
Amazing Work From GEC Students
Each month, GEC will introduce some of our exceptional students’ work in a specific research area to our audiences. This month we selected two articles from our previous students in the field of Biosensing Technology.
Recent Advances in DNA Biosensors
Traditional DNA sequencing technologies are complicated and expensive, which greatly hinders its application. With the development of DNA biosensors, different biosensors based on different mechanisms have been put into use in DNA sequencing, biomacromolecule detecting and many other fields. In this review, three different kinds of biosensing methods including solid-state nanopores, fluorescent biosensors and electrochemical biosensors, will be given respectively. Specifically, their advantages, mechanism, applications and existing problems are discussed in detail. And also, prospects for future development will be outlined in this paper.
Application of Different Approaches to Increase the Sensitivity of Electrochemiluminescence Biosensor for MicroRNA Detection
The detection of microRNA is growing in a hotpot using electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensors. The mechanism of ECL biosensors can be divided into three parts, which are the ion annihilation process, co-reactant process, and hot electron-induced cathodic process. Based on such mechanism, the approaches to increase the sensitivity of ECL biosensors, including catalyzed hairpin assembly, hybridization chain reaction, and nitrogen-doped carbon quantum dots have been introduced. ECL-based biosensing is a novel detection method, allowing it to present broad applications in diverse fields of biochemistry.
What Programs does GEC Offer in May 2023?
In May, GEC launches a total of 95 online research programs in the areas of Finance, Marketing, Economics, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanic Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, International Relations, Linguistics, and so on, and provides 1 personalized program for China Medical University. In this month, GEC also set up 2 customized lectures for Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University. We will continue to gather students, faculty, and staff for an unrivaled academic experience. The tables - GEC 2023 May Program List, GEC Personalized Programs for Universities, GEC Customized Lectures for Universities in May 2023 - show detailed information about the programs that GEC launches in May. Please click HERE to find previous program/course offerings.
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