PAIR Distinguished Lecture Series: Experimenting Higher Education Reform at Westlake University

Biography

Prof. Shi is a world-renowned structural biophysicist, who mainly uses biochemical and biophysical methods to study the molecular mechanism of cell apoptosis, the structure and function of important membrane proteins, and intracellular biological macromolecules. His analysis of the key complex structure of eukaryotic messenger RNA splicing bodies reveals molecule layer mechanisms. Prof. Shi is a recipient of the Searle Scholar Award, the Rita Allen Scholar Award, the Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award (2003), the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics (2010), the Qiu Shi Outstanding Scientist Award of the Qiushi Foundation (2010), the CC Tan Life Science Achievement Award (2010), the Gregori Aminoff Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2014), the Wu Jieping-Paul Janssen Medicine and Pharmaceutical Science Award (2014), the “You Bring Charm to the World Award”(2015-2016), the Science and Technology Achievement Prize of the Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Foundation (2016), the Future Science Prize of the Life Sciences Prize (2017), the achievement award of the VCANBIO Award for Biosciences and Medicine (2017), and Tan Kah Kee Science Awards(2020). He was nominated as a Foreign Associate of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2013.

Abstract

Professor Shi Yigong will reflect on the challenges in global higher education, based on his 37 years of learning, scientific research, and teaching experience in academia. He will present Westlake University's educational reforms in university operations, governance, talent recruitment, student development, research and academic evaluation, and interdisciplinary studies, which altogether provide new opportunities for future-oriented higher education.

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