Research News

In the evening of May 8th, as part of the series of lectures themed “I Love Typhoons – Natural Forces: An ecosystem perspective” and hosted by WKU Chinese Curricula Center and Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, a speech was delivered by Dr. King Hen Biau, a famous ecologist and freelancer in Taiwan, who shared with the staff and students some of his opinions on natural forces from an ecosystem perspective. During his speech, Dr. King mainly introduced our living planet, natural forces,…

Can undergraduates do research? WKUers answered: Why not? Every year in April, there is a strong academic atmosphere on the WKU campus because of Student Research Day. A few days ago, the 3rd Student Research Day (SRD) began. Nearly 70 student groups showed their academic research results from this year to the audience by giving presentations and making posters which attracted a record number of participants. Starting with the release of the SRD application notice last year, the students had…

1     时间 Time 2018年4月18日早上8:50-9:30 8:50-9:30 a.m. April 18, 2018 2     主会场Main Venue 分会场 Parallel Sessions 主会场Main Venue：教学楼 B101 GEHB101 分会场Parallel Sessions：教学楼 B101/C304/C305/C307/C402/C403 GEH B101/C304/C305/C307/C402/C403 3     参加人员Participants 校领导 WKU Leaders 科技局领导 Wenzhou Municipal Science and Technology Bureau 大院各校专家 Experts from different colleges and universities 校办、科研办、教学部、媒体中心 University Affairs, ORSP, Academic Affairs, Media and Design Center 教师代表 Aloysius Wong Faculty Represent…

Publishing papers in an authoritative, international journal like Bioinformatics did not come easy for anyone, even to many professors in this field, but the undergraduate students Nuo Xu, Dongfang Fu, Shi’ang Li, and Yuxuan Wang from Wenzhou-Kean University (WKU) managed to do the impossible! GCPred Web Server In February, their research article – GCPred Web Server (http://gcpred.com) – was published online in the journal. The project was directed by Aloysius Wong, an associate professor in bi…

Recently, Wenzhou Science and Technology Bureau publicized that the Primary Exploration on A Mobile Application System for Smart Care of the Aged: Highly Customized and Individualized Cloud Computing Based Spatial Memory Training Mobile Application System to Improve Functional Independence of the Aged, a study project conducted by Dr. Pinata, a teacher of WKU Computer Engineering Department, and the Construction of the Chimera by Polypeptide K16ApoE and Lysosomal Enzyme TPP1 and Its Effect on Co…

Three computer science undergraduate researchers and their advisors, Drs. Pinata Winoto and Tiffany Tang attended the prestigious ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (known as ACM IDC’2017, http://idc2017.stanford.edu/) from June 27 to June 30 at Stanford University. Figure 1. Dr. Winoto was giving a presentation at ACM IDC’2017 The annual conference attracted researchers and graduate students from such universities as Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of T…

Recently, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Committee announced the sponsored projects in 2017.The project “Mechanism of a novel and efficient in-trans drug carrier K16ApoE across the blood-brain barrier” led by Dr. Meng Yu from Wenzhou-Kean University has been evaluated and funded 190,0000.NSFC, as one of the funding projects in China, plays an important role in China’s scientific research system. It is the first time that WKU received the NSFC for Youth Science Fund. The init…

Wenzhou Techweek was officially launched in the Century Plaza on May 20, 2017. Wenzhou Kean University faculty, staff, and students participated in the Techweek on the subject of Science and Technology Power, Dream-true Innovation, with the research and creative works. Local colleges and universities, research institutes presented their works and provide their services through display, information dissemination, consultancy service, technical services, medical clinic, exchange, etc. Our theme o…

In his lab at Wenzhou-Kean University, Dr. Aloysius Wong, Assistant Professor of Biology recently concluded and published a study on negative side-effects of probiotic bacteria that are widely used in a variety of “health foods.”  Benefiting from an institutional Students partnering with Faculty (SpF) research grant, Dr. Wong and two of his students, Min Zheng and Ruijia Zhang, embarked on a project to explore some of the undesirable side-effects that may occur. Probiotic bacteria are known to h…

Director LIU Huanbin, from Department of Science & Technology Cooperation, and Associate Director ZHANG Feng, from Department of Administrative Examination and Comprehensive Management, of Wenzhou Municipal Science & Technology Bureau, gave an attractive and content-rich research seminar on grant applications to more than 40 WKU faculty, staff and students on March 4 at Room GEH B302. Director ZHANG Feng shared the information of the development of science & technology in Wenzhou, as…