Peking University, May 9, 2026: The U.S. National Academy of Sciences recently announced its newly elected members in April. Professor He Chuan, founding director of the Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor at the University...

Peking University, May, 8, 2026: Students from Peking University (PKU) claimed the championship title at the finals of the 11th China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC), delivering a standout performance against some of China’s best university programmers.The winning team feat...

Peking University, May 6, 2026: The winners of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize—often referred to as the “Oscars of science”—were officially announced in April, and three Peking University alumni were among them. Wang Hong and Tang Yunqing were awarded the New Horizons in Mathematics...

Peking University, May 6, 2026: On April 27, PKU welcomed Samia Yaba Christina Nkrumah, founder and director of the Kwame Nkrumah Foundation, former chairperson of the Convention People's Party and the daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first Prime Minister and a Non-Aligned Move...

Peking University, May 1, 2026: For most people, time is measured in seconds. In Anne L’Huillier’s lecture, however, the meaningful unit was the attosecond, an almost unimaginably short slice of time that allows scientists to probe the motion of electrons inside atoms. In a lectu...