Honors Program
The honors program is for students who have enjoyed their experience in research with a guide teacher and are looking for a highlight experience during their final year. The program has specific requirements for our majors described below.
Application
Students participate in the honors program during their final year. Students who expect to have a 3.5 accumulative GPA by fall of senior year should have identified a guide teacher and applied for NBB honors by May 1st of their third year. Applications are brief and include basic infomation such as guide teacher name, project title, and current GPA.
Coursework
During senior year, honors students take two research-experience courses. Participation in these courses includes at least 12 hours of work on the research project each week as well as weekly meetings with other researchers to develop professional skills.
Essay
The majority of our majors work with guide teachers in research experiences, and many students co-author manuscripts (手稿) published in leading journals. However, only honors students are guided and helped through the process of writing an essay. All students' essays are published online through the university library and, after the data being forbidden to be included in other articles, the essays are available to search.
A short cooking video posted by a netizen on Tiktok has recently become a popular hit on the site. Bearing the tag "Chinese food", the video not only showed off the chief's superb skills in making Chinese dishes, but it also got netizens abroad wanting to get a taste of China's unique food culture.
Although the video was nothing master-level, just a rather standard homemade fried potato dish, it received more than 200,000 likes after only three days of posting. In addition to praising the chef, commenters wondered why such a simple Chinese dish could look like a fancy cuisine that had been made through tons of effort. "Even the most basic Chinese dish needs to have three elements: color, smell and taste. For example, color not only requires a chef to have sharp eyes, but also valuable experience," said Wang, an experienced Chinese chef in Guangzhou.
Chinese cooking is not the only type of content covered by the tag. Other popular videos under the tag include "odd food" challenges, traditional Chinese dishes and Chinese snack tasting, the latter of which has become particularly popular among young omnivore vloggers (video bloggers) living in a world of continually expanding cultural globalization.
"I have been a fan of Chinese food ever since my Chinese friend cooked me di san xian at university. I was surprised by the dish's taste and its look, which was very different from my home food, but felt it was very familiar to me because I noticed we share similar cooking skills," said Bianca, an Italian Asian food fan.
"I started my channel by recording my roommate tasting my cooking. These videos got likes and comments gradually. Seeing some people commenting in German or English and saying 'I want to try it', I felt these videos can narrow the gap between the two cultures," said Mr. Bear, a vlogger on Bilibili who promotes Chinese cooking.
Since 1998, when NASA kicked off the biggest search for near-Earth asteroids (小行星), scientists have detected more than 25,000 of them. 2020 turned out to be a record year for discoveries. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic interrupting many of the surveys, astronomers recorded 2,958 previously unknown near-Earth asteroids over the year.
A large number came from the Catalina Sky Survey, which uses three telescopes in Arizona to hunt for threatening space rocks. Operations closed briefly last spring because of the pandemic. A wildfire in June caused a longer closure, yet the Catalina survey still discovered 1,548 near-Earth objects.
These included a rare 'mini-moon' named 2020 CD3, a tiny asteroid less than 3 metres in diameter (直径) that had been temporarily captured by Earth's gravity. The mini-moon broke away from Earth's pull last April.
Other discoveries last year, 1,152 came from the Pan-STARRS survey telescopes in Hawaii. The finds included an object named 2020 SO, which turned out to be not an asteroid, but a leftover rocket booster that had been circling around in space since it helped to launch a NASA mission to the Moon in 1966.
Some of the asteroids discovered last year came close to Earth. At least 107 of them passed the planet at a distance less than that of the Moon. Last year's narrow escapes included the tiny asteroid 2020 QG, which skimmed just 2,950 kilometres above the Indian Ocean in August. That made it the closest known approach, a record broken just three months later by another small object, 2020 VT4. That one passed less than 400 kilometres from the planet, and wasn't spotted until 15 hours after it had zipped by. Had it hit, it would probably have broken apart in Earth's atmosphere.
All of these discoveries are making astronomers more conscious of the ball objects of the Solar System, where plenty of asteroids spin around in the space near Earth.
When I was younger, I thought science would make good things for everybody. It was obviously useful; it was good. But then during the war I worked on the atomic bomb. This result of science was obviously very serious — it represented the destruction of people and put our future at risk. I had to ask myself, "Is some evil involved in science?" I thought long and hard about this question, and I will try to answer it in this talk.
The first way in which science is of value is familiar to everyone: scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to apply it. Such power has obvious value — even though the power may be denied by what one does with it.
Another value of science is the intellectual enjoyment it can provide us with. When we look at any question deeply enough, we feel the excitement mystery coming into us again and again. With more knowledge comes a deeper, more wonderful mystery, inspiring one to look deeper still. Never concerned that the answer may let us down, with pleasure and confidence we turn over each new stone to find unimagined strangeness, just like opening a box of chocolate.
I would now like to turn to a third value that science has. The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of great importance. When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has an idea as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt.
Our freedom to doubt was born out of deep and strong struggle against authority in the early days of science. In order to progress, we must not forget the importance of this struggle; we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Permit us to question — to doubt — to not be sure.
It is commonly known that when people have disease or feel ill, they will have pills or go to see a doctor in the hospital. They are accustomed to seeing a human doctor. However, have you tried seeing a doctor that is not a human being?
Many hospitals employ therapy dogs to comfort and inspire patients. Peyo is a 15-year-old horse who used to compete professionally with his trainer Hassen Bouchakour. Now, he's comforting patients and family members alike.
The staff in the French hospital always call him "Doctor". His trainer Hassen Bouchakour says that even at competitions, Peyo seemed to seek out contact specifically with those struggling physically or mentally. After a few years of research, vets believe Peyo's brain functions in a unique sympathy-rich way.
In the hospital, Peyo goes from door to door in the care center. He has been highly effective for reducing patients' stress and relieving anxiety for their family members as well. According to doctors, they knew how beneficial Peyo's presence was by observation.
Peyo has stayed with many patients right until the end of their lives. One patient, Daniel, was a former athlete. When he passed away this year, his family requested that the horse accompany his coffin to the funeral.
Animals are born with power to comfort us. Perhaps this uplifting story of animal companionship will encourage more medical facilities to look into the healing benefits of animals.
A. Even during the most difficult times, they may help.
B. A scientific research finds that dogs are capable of that.
C. If possible, hospitals can employ more therapy animals.
D. He gradually developed a very close connection with Peyo.
E. Peyo seems specially gifted for detecting the sick or injured.
F. However, in a French hospital, a different animal wanders in the halls.
G. They noticed patients interacting with him more required fewer strong drugs.
I am very happy to have had a few close friends to rely on when I've struggled with low mood and anxiety during my lifetime. I want to share my experience of one specific episode (一段经历) where my two friends helped me in 1 ways.
The episode began when I had completed my A-levels and my relationship of over two years 2. I felt lost, 3 acute low mood and anxiety. My closest friend lived in the same town and he was a huge help in finding my way 4 this episode. He helped me by taking me to 5 and find exciting activities for us to do.
We never really spoke of my troubles 6. When I got low mood, I lost 7 and doing things always seemed like a struggle. If it were not for my friend dragging me out, I would have found this episode even more difficult and I certainly would not have had so many 8 memories of enjoying myself.
However, another friend 9 me more explicit psychological help by being there to talk to and share my feelings with. The best thing she did for me was to listen without 10 and show that she cared. This was hugely important in 11 my emotions and the situation that I found myself in.
It's 12 to feel as though you're being a burden by telling someone when you're struggling, but it's important to 13that these are shared moments. It was not just a case of me expressing without any input or 14 from her. She understood me more as a person and sharing on such a personal level helped us become even 15 as friends.
More and more (ambition) parents in the world are signing their children up for Chinese classes. Keen for their children to succeed in life, they see (be) fluent in a second or third language as an advantage. In the USA, twice as many primary and middle school students took Chinese in 2017 (compare) to 2015. In France, the number of students learning Chinese in the same age group (increase) by 400% between 2007 and 2017. And an estimated 100 million foreigners are now learning Chinese, up from 30 million in 2004.
It is easy to understand Chinese is becoming so popular. Learning Chinese may help people get more job opportunities. For example, there is China's Belt and Road Initiative, motivates many countries along the Silk Road to cooperate more closely. It has created thousands of local jobs for people with knowledge of Chinese. Another reason is that studying Chinese provides access wonderful Chinese history and culture. Adam Turner, a school head teacher in the UK, cites this as one appealing aspect of the (recent) added Chinese course. "Learning Chinese helps them see life from a new perspective and (broad) their minds to the outside world," he explains.
My parents and I had just driven down the narrow mountain road from Marrakesh with all its sharp bends, and had finally arrived at Merzouga. Before us stretched the unending sand dunes (沙丘) that marked the beginning of the Sahara.
Our vehicle set off, quietly running over the sand and small stones. It wasn't long before we were surrounded by enormous sand dunes, towering above us on all sides. The wind was blowing grains of sand from the tops of the dunes, the sun was beating down hard and bright, and the sky was a deep shade of blue that I had never seen before. The wild beauty of the desert was about to reveal itself. There was not a plant to be seen. The desert appeared completely empty, which was calming and threatening at the same time.
Eventually, as the last rays of sunlight were falling on the sand, we arrived at our desert camp. Stars were already shining brightly in the darkening sky and it was getting cold with the approach of the night. I grabbed my bag and headed towards the warm campfire. I was starving and rushed to put a steak on the barbecue. We enjoyed two days in the camp with camel riding and campfire parties before we set off for Kenya.
A few days after our departure from the camp, we were very near to our rest camp in the Amboseli National Park. Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, rose up over the plains before us. Tall grasses and trees dotted the plains, which were alive with the African wildlife. Giraffes, with their long necks, were pulling leaves from the highest branches. In the distance, elephants were eating grass, ears flapping lazily as they moved slowly over the plains.
The rest camp was in sight. Several huts made from brick settle across a large pool of water. The walls reflected the afternoon sun. My father, against my mother's advice, decided to drive through the pool of water that stretched across the dirt road.
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Then, our car was truly stuck in the mud.
……
We got out of the car.
