Jianxiong Academy
Release time：2023-04-25
Introduction
Jianxiong Academy was established in July 2022 and is the seventh Academy established by Nanjing University in the School of First-Year Students. It is an academy mainly focused on the construction of new engineering and new liberal arts in Suzhou campus, and it admitted the first batch of 500 freshmen in the Technology and Science Experimental Class in 2022. The name of the Academy is taken from Wu Jianxiong, a well-known Nanjing University alumnus from Suzhou and a world-renowned experimental physicist.
The Dean of Jianxiong Academy is Shi Yi, Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars of the Ministry of Education.
The Academy Council is composed of the Dean, the Vice Dean of the Undergraduate College of Suzhou Campus, the Vice Dean/Vice Director of Teaching and Learning of the relevant faculties and departments, and the Director of the Student Affairs Center of the Academy, which is mainly responsible for studying the daily construction and talent cultivation of the Academy.
A standing body, the Office of Student Affairs, is set up under the Academy Council to maintain close linkage with the School of Undergraduate Studies on the Suzhou campus and relevant departments to form a strong team for collaborative education.
The Academy is based on the requirements of the “Melting Pot Project” and the new talent training system of “Three Elements and Four Dimensions” at Nanjing University, as well as the school positioning at Suzhou Campus. It centers around the “Eight Comprehensives” work objectives of the School of First-Year Students, promotes the Suzhou spirit of “admiring literacy and wisdom, achieving a harmonious society, adopting openness and iclusiveness, and competing to create excellence,” inherits the spirit of “nurturing morality to cultivate talents, pursuing learning to achieve joy, serving the country with our own ways, and constantly innovating with the world” at Nanjing University, and upholds the Academy motto of “Profound and elegant, with daily renewal.” It adheres to the educational concept of “integration, practicality, precision, sincerity, and innovation,” and gathers resources from multiple parties in one university and two cities to jointly create a Academy-based learning and living community centered around the teacher-student community.
Jianxiong Academy is mainly for the construction of new engineering in Suzhou Campus. After one year of training in the Academy, students will enter Suzhou Campus and will be shifted to new colleges such as College of Intelligent Science and Technology, College of Intelligent Software and Engineering, College of Integrated Circuit, College of Digital Economy and Management, etc. The talent cultivation system breaks the barriers of traditional disciplines and specialties, fully promotes cross-border fertilization, and aims to cultivate a group of top-notch innovative talents with the “greatness of the nation” in mind, cross-thinking and composite ability, and those who can lead the future technological revolution and industrial change.
Wu Jianxiong (May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997)
Born in Liuhe Town, Taicang, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, was one of the world’s most outstanding experimental physicists. She is known as “Madame Curie of the East”, “Queen of Nuclear Physics”, and “First Lady of Physics” for his worldwide contributions in the field of β decay research.
Wu Jianxiong graduated with a B.S. degree in physics from National Central University (predecessor of Nanjing University) in 1934 and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1940. In 1952, Wu became an associate professor at Columbia University and was promoted to professor in 1958, elected to the American Academy of Sciences in the same year. In 1975, she was awarded the National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor in the United States. In 1990, the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences named the asteroid with the international number 2752 “Wu Jianxiong”, and in 1994 Wu was elected as one of the first foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The main academic work of Wu Jianxiong is the experimental demonstration of cosmological non-conservation in weak interactions, i.e., the experimental demonstration of nuclear beta decay in vector flow conservation law, combined with experimental studies on muon, meson and antiproton physics, thus verifying “cosmological non-conservation in weak interactions”, which has established Wu as one of the world’s leading experimental physicists.
