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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> Key Cross-Disciplinary:<br />

Recruiting for Graduate Students <strong>of</strong><br />

2004<br />

By Sun Yuxiang<br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2003—11--10-<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=72160629<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Nov 10th, 2003: As the first university in Mainland China<br />

who recruited cross-disciplinary graduate students last year, <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> is still<br />

carrying out this scheme this year.<br />

Cross-discipline is an innovative research pattern among international science and<br />

education area. Many famous universities, such as Stanford, Harvard, have already<br />

established cross-disciplinary research centers that cover the field <strong>of</strong> biology,<br />

physics, chemistry, informatics and so on. The key cross-disciplines in last year‘s<br />

recruiting scheme are biology-informatics, biology medical engineering and<br />

nanometer technology respectively. This year‘s scheme has increased two other<br />

cross-disciplines, namely computing science and Confucianism thoughts and sutra.<br />

Still, there are many other cross-disciplines in some departments, such as Center for<br />

Information Science, China Center for Economics Research.<br />

Following is a simple introduction <strong>of</strong> the five cross-disciplines:<br />

1.Biology-informatics<br />

It is objected on biology big molecules such as nucleic acid and protein, based on<br />

natural science, information science and computer science, using computer<br />

hardware, s<strong>of</strong>tware and internet as main tools, storing, administrating and<br />

processing the data <strong>of</strong> the big molecules to get information with straightforward<br />

meanings. This programming is expecting undergraduate students with the major <strong>of</strong><br />

biology, computer science, mathematics, physics, and chemistry.<br />

2.Biology medical engineering<br />

Its aim is to solve the problems in biology and medicine with the technology and<br />

engineering method. It is a cross-discipline <strong>of</strong> biology, medicine and engineering.<br />

The research directions include biological chip, medical image processing, computer<br />

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