On the morning of June 3rd, Kathy Denton, President of Douglas College (DC) in Canada, led a delegation including Thor Borgford, Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairsfrom DC, and Leonel Roldan Flores, Vice Dean of International Education, to visit our university. Principal Yuan Wen and Vice Principal Jiang Mingjun warmly met with the guests.At the beginning of the meeting, President Yuan Wen briefly introduced the remarkable achievements of our university in the process of internationaliza

Recently, the 34thInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) announced the acceptance results of the paper. The paper Wave-driven Graph Neural Networks with Energy Dynamics for Over-mood Mitigation written by Zhao Qins research group from the School of Information and Computer Science was accepted by the conference. Wu Peihan, a masters student of SHNU, and Qi Hongda, a young teacher, were co-firstauthors, Associate Professor Zhao Qin was the corresponding author, and Shan

On the morning of May 9th, the AI Era Education Policy and Research: A Comparative Perspective between China and Japan forum, part of the Masters Lecture Series, was heldat Shanghai Normal University(SHNU). This forum is jointly organized by the Social Sciences Department of Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai Education Press, and the School of Education of Shanghai Normal University, and hosted by SHNU Learning Technology Laboratory. Chinese and Japanese experts are invited to exchange and dis

On May 24th, 2025, the 3rdDragonBoat Racefor Yangtze River Delta University Foreign Students was successfully held in Tonghai Lake, Fengxian Campus of East China University of Science and Technology. 33 universities from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Anhui Provinces, including Fudan University, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, and University of Science and Technology of China, competedwith 792 athletes from 102 countries. The spectacular scene attracted thous

Recently, Professor Wan Yings team from theSHNUSchool of Chemistry and Materials Science published a research paper titled eg Electron Occupancy as a descriptor for Designing Iron Single Atom Electrocatalystsin Advanced Materials. For the first time, they proposed using the eg orbital electron occupancy of single iron atoms as a key descriptor to guide the design of high-efficiency oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts. This study breaks through the bottleneck of traditional trial and

On May 20th, in order to continue the essence of Chinese culture and promote the revitalization of intangible cultural heritage classics, Shanghai Normal University (SHNU), in conjunction with the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, held a themed event to support the integration of culture and education under the project High Art in Campus. National Second level actor and Kunqu Opera performer Ji Yunfeng was specially invited to give an art tour to teachers and students.At the event, Teacher Ji Yunfeng

On the morning of May 12th, the 2025 the Belt and Road co-construction senior research project for national education administrators, funded by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, co-organized by the UNESCO Teacher Education Center (hereinafter referred to as the UNESCO Center) and the International Exchange Office of Shanghai Normal University, officially kicked off. The theme of this years exchange is STEM Teachers in the AI Era, aiming to promote cross-border cooperation by facilitat

Recently, Professor Zhao Baoguo and Professor Xiao Xiaos team from the SHNU College of Chemistry and Materials Science have made new progress in the field of vitamin B6 biomimetic catalysis. Through strategic design of a novel central chiral pyridoxal catalyst, they achieved direct asymmetric allylic alkylation of unprotected α-substituted amino acid esters, generating a series of α-quaternary carbon glutamic acid derivatives that are important for pharmaceuticals and synthesis. The relevant res

On April 20th, 2025, the annual conference of the Shanghai Big Data Social Application Research Association and the Digital Economy Seminar kicked off at SHNU School of Business.At the meeting, the Digital Economy Research Center of Shanghai Normal University (SHNU) was unveiled and established. This conference is jointly organized by the Shanghai Big Data Social Application Research Association and Shanghai Normal University, with the theme of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and the F

Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the registration and approval results of undergraduate majors in colleges and universities for 2024, and Shanghai Normal University was approved to add a new undergraduate major in bio-pharmaceuticals.The bio-pharmaceutical major will startenrollment in the autumn of 2025, relying on the high-quality resources of the School of Life Sciences, focusing on cutting-edge technologies in bio-medicine, and cultivating interdisciplinary talents in the bio-ph