Updated: March 4, 2017
On the afternoon of February 19, the XMU Beutler Institute honors class of 2017 was officially opened. The institute was so named in honor of the American immunologist and geneticist Bruce Alan Beutler who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. At the commencement ceremony, Prof. Beutler delivered a lecture entitledWhy I became a scientist.
Professor Beutler shared his growth and research experience with the 19 new students selected from Xiamen University, Zhejiang University, University of Science and Technology of China, Chang Gung University of Taiwan, etc. and he exhorted them to explore the mysteries of nature with an open mind and positive attitude.
The institute was inaugurated officially at Xiang’an Campus of XMU in January last year. Prof. Beutler has contributed considerable time and efforts to its establishment. The first-year honors class of 2016 enrolled 18 students, 11 of whom have received admission offers for further scientific training in top-tier universities including Cambridge University, Oxford University and UT Southwestern Medical Center of the United States.
The increase rate of its enrollment is 20% compared with last year. The overall performance of the enrolled students also outstripped last year's. Prof. Beutler believed that Beutler Institute of XMU will go a long way towards nurturing high-caliber talents in the realm of life science.
Photo courtesy of School of Life Sciences of XMU
Edited by Guo Yanyan and Long Jin
