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...

Peking University, April 30, 2026: On April 29, 2026, the Global South Sustainable Development Forum & the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development (ISSCAD) were held at Peking University (PKU).Peking University holds forum to co...

Professor Marc Baer gave a talk about his new book at Peking University on April 17.Peking University, April 28, 2026: On April 17, Marc David Baer, Professor of International History at LSE, gave a talk about his book "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs." He drew on conne...