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Weiru’s Half Day in Huanghua Primary School as a Teacher

On May 31th, Weiru got involved in the activity to popularize environmental scientific knowledge to primary students, which was organized by Huanghua Primary School. That was a sunny day and kids were super cute that they put on performances including taekwondo, sing and poetry recitation. They were so brilliant that I could ignore the intense heat of summer.

Based on the story of DDT, Weiru designed a 剧本杀 game to let the students experience the whole process of scientific research, including pointing out the problem, designing sampling campaign, lab work and even putting forward controlling measurements. It was far beyond our imagination that kids at their age could easily clarifying the meaning of POPs, biodegradation and extraction (feeling proud of them!). I am more convinced that China’s scientific research will have a bright future!

Kids under the sun and buildings with pretty paintings.

Amazing taekwondo performance.

 

Us with letters of appointment.

He was answering the question about how to select a representative sampling site.

They were all very concentrated and enthusiastic.

Paromita and Elvis’ new family

Paromita wrote to update her life and family. I see big change taken place, but happy to know that life is going on peacefully/normally after the roller ride. I am very happy to see the three lovely girls luckly staying with Paromita and Elvis the family. She has been promoted to professor and head of Centre for Research in environment, sustainability advocacy and climate change of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, in SRM University, at Tamil Nadu, India.

I would like to share the following updating message from Paro with all former and current group members. Cherish our life!

Dear Prof Gan, After a long time, I am writing you. Both professionally and personally I was taking some time to understand my new roles and responsibilities. I have now become a mother of three daughters. Last year was therefore a roller coaster ride for us but slowly things are taking the normal course. Unfortunately during the peak pandemic phase lot of kids lost their parents and me and my husband, Elvis is now the new parent to three little princesses who were left alone in a home after the death of their parents.  I can’t believe they are with us for just one year now. Life is way more beautiful and fun-filled with them around. They are our life-line and by God’s grace, everything is moving forward in our lives. 

Me, Elvis, and our daughters Shayna (11yrs), Isha (9yrs), and Myra (7yrs) wish you to visit us someday in India with your family and my little ones get to see my stalwart mentor who taught me not only science but also special aspects of life.

POPs Forum 2022 in Qingdao

On May 17-19, Gan Zhang, Shizhen Zhao and Weiru Wang attended the POPs Forum 2022 held in Qingdao, which has been postponed till 2023 due to the COVID-19. Gan delivered an excellent presentation on POPs in atmosphere. We also met Limin Hu and Tian Li in Qingdao. Thanks for Prof. Tian and Prof. Limin’ s enthusiastic guide, we went a wonderful sightseeing in Zhanqiao (栈桥) and Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学, OUC for short) for nice food and fun hiking at night. Besides, we also do appreciate that Prof. Xinhong Wang and Prof. Jianhui Tang treat us to fancy dinner. All in all, it was a wonderful journey for academic exchanges and old friends gathering together.

The delegation. (from left to right: Limin, Tian, Gan, Shizhen and Weiru)

Gan gave an oral presentation, gaining legions of fans.

Prof. Tian with a typical poker face.

Elegant Prof. Xinhong.

Prof. Jianhui.

Cutie Shizhen with her loving lager and “五月的风” (one of the landmarks of Qingdao) on hand. What a powerful beauty!

Qingdao definitely has the best beer in the world! Say hooray for Qingdao beer!

Say “yeah” to our lives. 😊

Hiking around the sea, admiring the boat and the sparkling sea at sunset.

We at OUC.

Gan’ s posture of 地化人 (specialists in geochemistry) has to be highlighted. 🙂