1. The 2023 National Natural Science Foundation project of the Plant Protection Department was approved, reaching a new historical high

According to the "2023 Hainan University Funded Project List" announced by the Research Development Office of Hainan University on August 28, there are 13 projects of teachers from the Department of Plant Protection approved by the National Natural Science Foundation 2023, including 2 projects of the Youth Science Fund, 2 general projects, and 9 projects supported by the Regional Science Fund. It is a year with the largest number of projects approved by the funds of the Department of Plant Protection in recent years.

The Department of Plant Protection has always attached great importance to the declaration of national funds, so it is mobilized as early as possible, formulated the declaration process time nodes, and invited well-known experts outside the university to give lectures and guidance on the declaration. With a multiple measures of organizating teachers to make reports, acquiring comments and guidance from experts, tracking the progress of declaration at any time and getting feedback on the quality of the declarations, we finally won the good news after many rounds of serious revisions by teachers.This year, the Department of Plant Protection submitted 38 project proposals and 13 were approved, showing a 34.2% approval rate.

2、Prof. Sun Ranfeng's team discovered 2-naphthol, a nematicidal natural product, from a tropical plant, Actephila merrilliana

3、2023 Summer Teacher-Student Exchange Program between Hainan University and the University of Tokyo, Japan, was ended successfully

4、Prof. Gao Lizhi of Hainan University was elected as an academician of Academia Europaea