Received a heavyweight prize
But very low-key in the back of the canvas bag
Keep coming back to work
These two days
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Professor Zhao Dongyuan of Fudan University
"Brushing the screen" again and again
On the morning of November 3, he was awarded the first prize of the National Natural Science Award in the Great Hall of the People. This is another award for Shanghai scientists after 18 years.
In the early morning of November 4, he appeared on the campus of Fudan University, and in order to give lessons to students, he rushed back to Shanghai after winning the grand prize.
Behind the "brush screen", this academician has insisted on teaching undergraduates for 18 years, almost without interruption.
He is also the only "academician united front work minister" in colleges and universities across the country, which is a unique scenery.
"5 minutes late is a teaching accident"
"As a professor, we can't be late, more than a hundred students are waiting for class, and being 5 minutes late is a teaching accident." Zhao Dongyuan said. At 8:00 a.m. on November 4, in Room 3208 of the Third Teaching Building, Zhao Dongyuan, wearing a jacket and sneakers, stood on the podium and began to teach "General Chemistry". The night before, Zhao Dongyuan insisted on preparing for class until 11 p.m.
For 18 years, he had been giving classes to undergraduates, twice a week, almost without interruption, and even though he had been in a meeting abroad the day before, he must have flown back overnight.
So, there was a photo of the circle of friends on November 4. In the photo, Zhao Dongyuan carries a cloth bag containing his first prize certificate.
Zhao Dongyuan had just finished two undergraduate classes. Photo by Zhou Guifa
Zhou Guifa, who took this photo, went to a meeting at ten o'clock in the morning and did not expect to meet Academician Zhao at the door of Yuan Chengying's building. At this time, Zhao Dongyuan had already finished two undergraduate classes, his face was rosy, with the excitement of having just finished class.
"I don't usually take pictures and don't send circles of friends. Academician Zhao was very low-key, just returned from receiving the award, turned around and went to work again. I felt it and sent a circle of friends, I didn't expect to be on the hot search. Zhou Guifa said that Academician Zhao's first prize certificate of the National Natural Science Award was packed in a canvas bag, and it had not yet been brought to the office.
For Zhao Dongyuan, the class is bigger than the sky. A few years ago, he needed a minor surgery, and in order to give classes to undergraduates, he also asked for a postponement.
"Mr. Zhao has never been absent from the class, his class is very vivid, so that people will be interested in chemistry." Liu Xiaorui, a 2021 natural science experimental class, said.
Zhao Dongyuan attaches great importance to undergraduate education and insists on taking the professional basic course "General Chemistry" for the first-year students of the natural science category of the whole university. This general studies course has many concepts and abstract content, but he can always talk witty, interesting, in-depth and simple, and explain the nature of elements in combination with the latest advances in materials science.
He also guided many undergraduate students to complete research projects such as "Zhengzheng Scholars" and "Wangdao Plan", and the course won the "Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award" in 2013, and also became the first batch of demonstration courses for the ideological and political construction of Fudan University.
Zhao Dongyuan has been selected as "Good Teacher in My Mind" and "Good Tutor in My Mind" by undergraduate and graduate students for many times, and was awarded the title of "Excellent Communist Party Member (Teacher Moral Pacesetter)" by the Party Committee System of Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Work in 2016, and the honorary title of "Four Haves" Good Teacher (Teaching and Educating Model) in Shanghai in 2018.
"If you have a problem, feel free to come to me,
The doors of my office are always open to you."
"He is the 'man who made holes,' but he is not 'Brother Kong Fang.'" Zhou Guifa, who took the hot search photo, said. The team led by Zhao Dongyuan has an unwritten rule that 20%-30% of the prize money obtained by Academician Zhao every time he wins an award is used to fund the development of young scholars.
Zhao Dongyuan told every student in the laboratory: "You have questions, come to me at any time, the door of my office is always open to you." To this day, he still keeps his students' experimental notes and bound graduation papers.
Records of student experiments kept by Zhao Dongyuan
As an international top scientist in the field of functional mesoporous materials, he has trained nearly 100 high-level materials discipline talents, created a new field of mesoporous organic polymer and carbon material research, and opened up the road to the rapid development of Materials Science in China.
More than 50 class hours, more than 100 students. As a practitioner of national unity education, every Thursday in the second half of last year, Zhao Dongyuan would embark on a flight to Kunming, Yunnan Province, and rush to Yunnan University, one of the corresponding universities in Fudan, to teach the course of "General Chemistry". "In class, I will integrate the scientific research I have done and my own understanding of knowledge, and cultivate students' innovative concepts and consciousness."
The only "Academician United Front Work Minister" in colleges and universities in China
Zhao Dongyuan is a 36-year-old Communist Party member. "At that time, the original intention of joining the party was to see the party's vanguard model and leading role among the masses, and when I was young, I asked myself to walk in the forefront." Zhao Dongyuan believes that with the will to dare to compete for the lead and the determination to constantly improve, he can play a leading role in any work.
Zhao Dongyuan is the director of the United Front Work Department of Fudan University, and the only "Academician United Front Work Minister" in the country's colleges and universities, which is a unique scenery.
In the Yuan Chengying Building of Fudan University, Zhao Dongyuan often used platforms such as "minister's luncheon" and bimonthly forums for non-party personages in the "One Heart Studio" to carry out scientific research discussions, answer questions, and talk with young reserve talents of democratic parties and united front groups.
The four working groups mobilized by Zhao Dongyuan and 52 members of the democratic parties formed a 75,000-word democratic supervision work report in a year after field research, questionnaire interviews, and symposiums, which provided useful guidance for the in-depth promotion of Fudan University's "three all-round education" work.
Source: Shangguan News