I. About SCMUSouth-Central Minzu University (SCMU) operates under the direct administration of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission and receives joint support from the Commission, the Ministry of Education, Hubei Provincial Government, and Wuhan Municipal Government. Located on the shores of South Lake in Wuhan, a city known as the "homeland of White Clouds and Yellow Cranes", SCMU spans ove...

On June 26–27, the Second Annual Conference on Disaster Anthropology was held at SCMU. The conference was hosted by the School of Ethnology and Sociology, and co-organized by the NEAC Belt and Road Country and Regional Studies Center (the Silk Road Studies Center), the Office of Development Planning and Discipline Construction, and the Center for Western Borderland Governance and Border Securi...

The research team led by Professors Liu Jikai and Chen Heping at the School of Pharmaceutical Science has long focused on the discovery of bioactive natural products and the elucidation of their biosynthetic mechanisms. Recently, the team has made new advances in the biosynthesis of fungal meroterpenoids. On June 15, the research findings were published inOrganic Letters, a Nature Index journal...

On June 4, the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at SCMU achieved a new milestone in educational research. An educational research paper by Associate Professor He Jie and Professor Zhang Zehui, titled “Development and Implementation of a Hands‑On Laboratory Experiment:Preparing Fe/TiO₂ Catalysts for Photocatalytic Ammoxidation of Alcohols to Nitriles”, was officially published in th...

On May 18, the National Center for Philosophy and Social Sciences Documentation (NCPSSD) released theNCPSSD Achievement Report (2016-2026)and theNCPSSD Most Popular Journal Report (2025). The Journal of SCMU (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition) was honored with the title of “NCPSSD Most Popular University Journal of 2025”, with a popularity index of 0.1247. It ranked 19thamong 289 univers...

On May 15, the summary conference of the 6thHubei Provincial College Teachers’ Teaching Innovation Competition was held at SCMU. Qiao Zhiqiang, Second-level Inspector of the Department of Education of Hubei Province; Zhou Yingjia, President of the Hubei Association of Higher Education; and Xu Yeqin, Secretary of the University Party Committee, attended the conference. More than 170 people atte...

On the morning of May 11, a delegation led by Zha Daolin, Secretary of the University Party Committee and Head of the United Front Work Department of Central China Normal University (CCNU), visited SCMU for a focused research and exchange on the course development of “Introduction to the Community for the Chinese Nation”. Ma Yutang, Member of the Standing Committee of the University Party Com...

In April, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the 2025 registration and approval of undergraduate majors at regular institutions of higher education. The Future Robotics major submitted by SCMU was successfully approved. This marks the second interdisciplinary major approved at SCMU, following the approval of the Intelligent Medical Engineering major last year. Both majors are am...

On April 8, Professor Zhang Zehui’s research group from the School of Chemistry and Materials Science / Key Laboratory of Catalytic Conversion and Energy Materials Chemistry of the Ministry of Education published their latest findings inNature Communications, titled“Controlled Transfer-reduction of Functional Groups with Ethanol by Their Interaction Strength with the Oxygen Vacancies”(source...

In March, the College of Life Sciences of our University and the Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Characteristic Plant Germplasm Resources in the Wuling Mountains, in collaboration with the Guangxi Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, published a research paper in the international academic journal PhytoKeys, of...