Category Archives: InE News

DKUers Supporting Rural Education in Xinjiang Acrossing a Thousand Miles

From June 4th to 7th, 2023, a group of 9 teacher and students from Duke Kunshan University embarked on a meaningful educational support and teaching mission in Atush, Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. Led by Professor Liqi Ren, the Associate Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative at Duke Kunshan University, the volunteer teaching team consisted of 8 students from three project teams: “Youngsters,” “Houtu…

PULSE: Holistic Health App for Universities

The PULSE team aims to address the challenges of college students’ busy lives and limited time for self-care by conducting scientific health tracking through research and app development, with the goal of improving their physical and mental well-being.

Print out of Box: Introduction to 3D Printing and Exploration of Printing Culture Recap

We all have once observed the marvelous world around us as spectators, enjoying every exciting experience. However, have we ever had the opportunity to transcend the boundaries of observation and sketch out our own imagined, designed, and created lives? Looking back to March of this year, DKU Innovation Lab organized a workshop with the theme “Print out of the Box”, aiming to provide participants with a gateway from imagination to reality through the use of 3D printing.

U-Corp @ The Forum: Lighting the Way of Future Economy

The World Economic Forum (The Forum) is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders from various industries to set global, regional, and industry agendas.
In 2022 fall, through the U-Corp Lab, Duke Kunshan University cooperated with the World Economics Forum to carry out two research projects on Quantum Computation and Chief Digital Officers on campus, providing future development directions for relevant industries/businesses.

AxBrain: How Auditory ASMR Triggers Affect Chinese Young Adults’ State Anxiety Levels?

The AxBrain team emphasizes the importance of developing effective strategies to alleviate anxiety, particularly given the significant levels of “involution” and anxiety among young individuals. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is emerging as a promising and accessible relaxation technique. ASMR is a human perceptual phenomenon evoked by diverse stimuli, with auditory triggers being the most prevalent. Previous studies have demonstrated the potential of ASMR to alleviate depression, underscoring its value in mitigating negative emotional states among humans.

2023 Spring U-Corp Lab Call for Application!

University-Corporation Innovation Lab (U-Corp Lab) is a co-innovation platform established to provide long-term strategic partnerships between innovative organizations/companies and Duke Kunshan University. U-Corp Lab helps innovative organizations/companies develop relationships with the vibrant DKU research and entrepreneurial community and access emerging talent through co-innovation projects.  At the same time, DKU students will be involved in co-innovation projects with companies, mastering industry-proven innovation research methodologies through productive practice.

Blue Bear: First Show · Hainan VEX National Competition Won the Jury Award

Blue Bear, founded in July 2022, is one of the newest members of DKU iNNOVATION iNCUBATOR. Their immediate goal is to design a stable robot structure and program that can pick up and shoot a Frisbee, which also has the ability to score with a two-color cylinder. In December 2022, they presented their research and development results for the first time at the 15th VEX Asian Robot Championship China Selection Competition held in Ocean Flower Island, Hainan, and achieved a good result.

Expecting the Blossoms after Sowing Seeds: 2023 Spring Dii Fair

How time flies! As 2023 begins, a brand new Dii Fair was held successfully, waiting for new seekers to reveal the veil of starting up innovative/creative projects. To unveil the overview of Dii, current Dii projects, supports and resources, as well as its running mechanism, Dii Fair was held as scheduled on a rainy Monday.

2023 DKU InE Summer Program: Design Thinking and Social Entrepreneurship

Design thinking is the core methodology of this program that has been recognized as one of the most creative and effective tools to address innovation in the modern world. Particularly for non-designers, it provides a new way of looking at problems as well as a systematical approach to developing creative solutions that can be applied to a vast range of topics and disciplines. This program will provide an immersive experience of design thinking from emphasizing, defining, ideating, prototyping, and testing.

Your Girl RayRay: Cross-national Media Content Creation in Cultures Through the Lens of University Students

“Your Girl RayRay” is an entrepreneurship project focusing on the creation of videos from the perspective of students from sino-foreign cooperative universities on domestic and global social media platforms (such as YouTube, Instagram, Red, Bilibili, Weibo, etc.). Its videos are mainly about cultural similarities and differences, including topics like sharing language learning skills, UG students’ experiences in study and job hunting, gender awareness of women, and the health of women. Its target audience is Chinese and international students aged from 16 to 25. The profits are mainly from advertising revenue, video sponsorship, physical or online products, and pay-per-view on the platforms.