The call for the 2026 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award is open!About the awardTsinghua University Press announces the 2026 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award. This award is intended to recognize and encourage outstanding early career researchers in the areas of carbon-related materials, catalysis, energy conversion and storage, as well as low carbon emission process and engineering. The award includes an honorarium of $1,000 for each awardee (up to 10 awardees).EligibilityThe nominee must be a current PhD student or postdoctoral researcher.The nominee's research should ...

At the beginning of 2026, Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR)—a peer-reviewed English journal co-sponsored by Tsinghua University and the China Intelligent Transportation Systems Association—fully transitioned back to SciOpen, the international digital publishing platform developed independently by Tsinghua University Press. This move marks a new chapter of independent operation for the journal. Beyond a platform upgrade, this return signifies the journal's commitment to its mission: deepening services for the global transportation academic community.Launched in ...

On January 17, 2025, the inaugural symposium and editorial board meeting for iLibrary, an English-language academic journal focused on intelligent library research, was held in a hybrid format at the Lecture Hall of Tsinghua University Library. Over 30 attendees, including editorial board members and staff, participated in the meeting to collectively deliberate on the journal's development path. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Jianbin Jin, Editor-in-Chief of the journal and Director of Tsinghua University Library. Scene at the meetingProf. Maosong Sun, Chair of the Editorial Boa...

Greetings esteemed colleagues,It is with great honor that we announce the official launch of a comprehensive academic journal Ocean, an international and peer-reviewed journal that offers open access and serves as a multidisciplinary platform for the state-of-the-art research, development, and practice in the domains of ocean science, technology, and engineering. On behalf of the editorial board, I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the experts and scholars who have long been concerned about and supportive of ocean research.The ocean, covering 71% of Earth's surface, is...

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Foundation Models for Intelligent Control in Autonomous Driving Traffic SystemsSubmission Deadline: 1 June 2026Theme: "Foundation Models for Intelligent Control in Autonomous Driving Traffic Systems"We are excited to announce a special call for papers for an upcoming issue of Communications in Transportation Research (COMMTR) that is dedicated to the emerging intersection of generative models and intelligent control in autonomous driving traffic systems. This issue aims to explore how Large Language Models (LLMs), Visual Language Models (VL...

It is our great pleasure to announce the awardees of 2024 Nano Research Young Innovators (NR45) in nanomaterial self-assembly. Nano Research initiated the NR45 program in 2018 to recognize outstanding young researchers under 45 years of age across diverse fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. This initiative celebrates their exceptional achievements and potential to advance their respective disciplines through groundbreaking contributions. Awardees are selected via a rigorous competitive process by an award committee comprising members of the journal's editorial board. The 20...