Sun Yuhan first announced the opening of the meeting, and then Vice President and Chairman of the first Degree Committee Prof Jiang Biao announced the Notice on Establishing the First Degree Evaluation Committee, introduced the roles and responsibilities of the Committee, and hoped that the committee members could seriously shoulder the responsibilities, playing a positive role in improving and strengthening graduate degree granting work. Jiang Biao pointed out that as a newly established institute, it is of vital importance to emphasis and strengthen the science and technology ethics construction of supervisors and graduate students, and stressed the significance of experiment original records, all the committee members should set a good example, strictly follow the work ethics, avoiding plagiarism. After the speech, Jiang Biao issued letter of appointment to all the committee members.

Prof Jiang Biao announced the Notice on Establishing the First Degree Evaluation Committee

Professors Wang Hui and Zhu Yan spoke on behalf of the committee members, expressed their thanks for the trust and felt the burden on their shoulders. Graduate students are becoming an importance force for science and technology development, it is the mission of the committee members to help set up a good learning environment, training the students with innovation and entrepreneurship, to be recognized by society.

Prof. Wang Hui

Prof. Zhu Yan

President of SARI Professor Feng Songlin made the closing remarks, pointing out that SARI is going right on track after the acceptance check, and the establishment of degree committee signifies the independent granting of graduate degrees at SARI. Feng Songlin hoped that the degree committee should not just judge by the papers published, but also focus on the real innovative results to measure the granting of degree and the merit students, thus forming the academic atmosphere of advocate science and respecting diversity of ideas at SARI.

Feng Songlin made the closing remarks

After the committee member appointment ceremony, the committee reviewed and agreed the Regulations on Tutors for PHD Students Appointment and Implementation Details of Graduate Degree Granting, and also reviewed and identified the appointment of SARI’s first PHD student tutors, and reviewed the degree granting of 2013 summer graduate students.

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