Recently, Professor Li Qi and Professor Liu Shikai from the Laboratory of Shellfish Genetics and Breeding at Fisheries College in collaboration with researchers from the University of Edinburgh, have made new progress in the research field of genome diversity in bivalves. Their findings have been published online in Cell Reports titled “Haplotype-resolved genomes provide insights into the origins and functional significance of genome diversity in bivalves.”Bivalves, such as oysters, scallops, an

On June 8, which marks the 17th World Oceans Day and the 18th National Ocean Publicity Day, the launch ceremony of Blue New Opportunities, an integrated media program produced by the CMG Finance and Economics Program Center, was held at OUC. The event was co-hosted by the CMG Finance and Economics Program Center and OUC. The Research Team on Financial Support for Marine Economy and Marine Disaster Management was invited to participate in the event. Chief expert of the team, Professor Zhao Xin, d

In May 2025, the protozoology team led by Professor Gao Shan from Marine Biodiversity and Evolution Research Institute published their latest research titled Identification and characterization of the de novo methyltransferases for eukaryotic N6-methyladenine (6mA) in the journal Science Advances.

Recently, the Frontier Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System/the Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography at OUC published their latest research outcome titled “Combined Dynamical-Deep Learning ENSO Forecasts” in Nature Communications. The study introduced two hybrid forecasting strategies that integrate deep learning with dynamical models, significantly improving the accuracy of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) predictions. The paper was co-authored by PhD student Chen Y

Recently, the Conversation Analysis Research Team from OUC has made a significant breakthrough in the study of apology behaviors in Mandarin Chinese. Their findings, titled “Apologies in Mandarin Chinese conversation: Lexical format and the reflexive construction of ‘apologizeables’”, have been published in the Journal of Pragmatics, a top-tier international journal in pragmatics. The first and corresponding author of the paper is Professor Yu Guodong, head of the research team. Co-authors inclu

From May 16 to 18, “Community of the Chinese Nation and Cross-cultural Writing: Academic Seminar on Wang Meng’s In Ili,” co-hosted by OUC, Writers Publishing House, and the National Joint Committee on Wang Meng Studies, was held in Qingdao. The seminar was organized by OUC’s College of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Communication, and OUC’s Wang Meng Research Institute. Wang Meng, renowned artist and former Minister of Culture, attended the seminar.Zhang Jing, Executive Deputy Secretary of the CPC

On May 18, a symposium on the publication and launch ceremony for Archival Documents on Education in the Qing Dynasty (Series II, 30 volumes), a project under the National Key Publication Programs during the “14th Five-Year Plan” and a major project supported by the National Fund for the Collation and Publication of Ancient Chinese Books, was held at OUC. At the event, a full set of the series was presented to the OUC Library. This event was co-hosted by Modern Education Press and OUC, and organ

Recently, OUC’s research paper titled Maintenance of the Great Late Ediacaran Ice Age has been published in Nature Communications. This study utilized numerical simulations based on climate and weathering models to reveal the significant role of Earth system True Polar Wander (TPW) activity in sustaining the Great Late Ediacaran Ice Age.

Recently, Professor Li Ming from the School of Medicine and Pharmacy, in collaboration with Professor Li Xuechen from the University of Hong Kong and Professor Chen Sheng from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has made significant progress in the synthesis of capsular oligosaccharides from Campylobacter jejuni and the evaluation of their immunogenicity. Their research findings, titled “Synthesis of Campylobacter jejuni Capsular Oligosaccharides and Identification of a Potential O-Antigen aga

Associate Professor Shi Xiaofeng from the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering and the Engineering Research Center of Advanced Marine Physical Instruments and Equipment, and Professor Zhao Jian from the College of Environmental Science and Engineering and the Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology have made significant progress in the precise manipulation, enrichment, and detection of nanoplastics in water. Their latest research findings, titled Capturing, enriching and detec

Recently, the research group led by Professors Su Ying and Zhao Long from the Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, in collaboration with BGI-Qingdao, has achieved significant progress in the field of zebrafish heart regeneration. Their findings have been published in Nature Communications on April 19th under the title An Organ-wide Spatiotemporal Transcriptomic and Cellular Atlas of the Regenerating Zebrafish Heart.Zebrafish possess a remarkable capacity for heart regeneration. Follow

Recently, Wang Shaoxin, a doctoral candidate from the School of Foreign Languages, published a study titled Reanalysis in English “Direct Object/Subject” Garden Path Sentence Processing” in the journal Foreign Language Teaching and Research. This research was collaboratively conducted by members of the Shandong Provincial Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences Experimental Laboratory (Class A) - the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory of Second Language Acquisition.The garden path phe

Recently, OUC’s research paper titled “The Motivation and Impact of the Rise of Government-Created Platform Enterprises Under the Transformation of Public Service Platformization” has been published in the fourth issue of Journal of Management World (2025), a top-tier journal in the field of management studies. Xu Yaqian, lecturer from the School of International Affairs and Public Administration, is the corresponding author of the paper.

The research team led by Professor Zhang Wei and Professor Dong Junyu from the Faculty of Information Science and Engineering has published a series of research outcomes on AI-based weather radar inpainting in top-tier journals, including ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. Guided by the implicit knowledge of weather radar specific to certain climate and terrain conditions, the research introduce