Professor Lu Geyu： Insist on seeking truth from facts and innovation, adhere to academic integrity, and do meaningful and tasteful scientific research.

Enhance the sense of innovation and do scientific research with taste.

Innovation is the key to scientific research. According to different research attributes, innovation has different types: original innovation, cutting-edge innovation, technological innovation, integrated innovation, applied innovation and so on. No matter what kind of innovation, the innovation subject needs to have innovative consciousness, put forward innovative ideas, carry out innovative practice and produce innovative results. Innovation consciousness is the premise of scientific innovation activities. Researchers should consciously enhance their innovation consciousness, not follow others’ advice, follow the crowd and chase hot spots, think independently, dare to be the first and find a new way, and on the basis of predecessors’ work, through profound insight, rich imagination, careful thinking and concrete practice, find problems, raise problems and then solve them.

Academician Gao Dingsan, the founder of the Institute of Electronics of Jida University, was keenly aware of the importance of semiconductor devices in the mid-1950s, and took the lead in developing high-power germanium rectifiers and point-contact germanium diodes in China, which started the research of semiconductor devices in China. This innovative consciousness and spirit can be passed down and carried forward among the new generation of young scholars. Professor Feng Li, winner of the National Outstanding Science Foundation and State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structures and Materials, used the solid physical and device foundation laid during his undergraduate and doctoral years in the School of Electronics and combined with his years of research practice in the field of organic optoelectronics, put forward and verified a new concept of organic electroluminescence with two-line exciton emission, which broke through the limitations of closed-shell molecules of organic electroluminescent materials, opened up a new field of free-radical open-shell molecular electroluminescence, and wrote a strong stroke for China scholars in the field of organic optoelectronics.

Innovation needs taste. Taste is awe of the profession, demanding of oneself and respect for peers. Taste also reflects the pride, persistence, perfection and craftsman spirit of researchers. Teachers in Jilin University should cultivate innovative consciousness, carry out tasteful research, contribute to mankind, serve the country, serve the society and achieve themselves.

Adhere to the spirit of seeking truth from facts and do meaningful scientific research.

Seeking truth from facts is the key to scientific research. Seeking truth is to pursue scientific truth, discover real phenomena, obtain real data, reveal the essence and connotation of science, and then expand the boundary of human cognition, and use it to transform the world and make it a better place. The process of seeking truth from facts is a painful and happy one, and this process will inevitably encounter many difficulties and challenges, some of which are confusion of thinking methods, some are lack of hardware conditions, and some are shortcomings of the research team. However, no matter what kind of situation you encounter and what kind of situation you are in, as long as you are realistic and do not change your mind, you will open roads and bridge rivers, overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, and finally reach the other side of scientific truth.

Jilin University has an academic tradition of seeking truth from facts, and the old president of Tang Aoqing is a model of seeking truth from facts. In 1986, Mr. Tang Aoqing stepped down as the principal and became the director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. In addition to his busy management work, he still insisted on the research of polymer solidification theory and scale. In five years, he wrote 104 personal letters to his collaborators and doctoral students in Beijing to discuss the progress of research and the problems he encountered. As early as 1960s, Mr. Tang Aoqing got the sol-gel distribution formula by using the theory of dynamic random branching, and he wanted to get the polymer solidification theory on this basis. However, when dealing with the problem of internal Aa cross-linking, Mr. Tang found the shortcomings of previous work. In his letter to his collaborator, he wrote: "I found that there was an error in the previous derivation of the problem of internal Aa cross-linking. I was aware of this problem when I visited West Germany. After reading your letter, the problem became clearer. I re-derived the formula and attached it. Please ask Comrade Zesheng to do some concrete calculations and verify it to see if it is correct." (Quoted from Tang Aoqing and His Disciples, Xiamen University Press, November 2015, p. 161) Between the lines, Mr. Tang’s scientific spirit of seeking truth in learning is reflected, which is a model for our people to learn, and a scholarly character and spiritual wealth that Jilin University should cherish and inherit.

Professor Liu Shiying, the late famous optoelectronics scientist in the Institute of Electronics, is also a good teacher who is realistic. Mr. Liu is a founding veteran of the Institute of Electronics and one of the founders of the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics. He has made outstanding research achievements in integrated circuits, semiconductor lasers, integrated optoelectronics and organic optoelectronics. He is not only active in thinking, rigorous in academic research, and realistic, but also teaches young teachers and students by example. Whenever young teachers and graduate students report on their scientific research work, Mr. Liu will ask about the details of the experiment and the physical nature of the experimental phenomenon. The young teachers and graduate students who were questioned felt humiliated and embarrassed at that time. However, after they calmed down, they will feel that this kind of realistic style of study is very important, and they will strictly demand themselves and then teach them to their own students, gradually forming a rigorous and realistic style.

Stick to academic integrity and be a convincing good scholar

Academic integrity is the life of academics and also the life of scholars. Academic misconduct or academic anomie not only destroys the atmosphere of academic community, leads to the prevalence of unhealthy trends, but also misleads and interferes with the research of other scholars. If papers based on false data are published, peer scholars will track, repeat and verify these results. When they don’t get the same or similar results, peer scholars will first suspect that there is something wrong with their own experimental methods or details, thus spending a lot of time, energy and resources to repeat experiments, resulting in a lot of waste of time and resources, which is a direct damage to peer scholars. Therefore, adhering to academic integrity is the basic requirement and professional bottom line of scientific research teachers.

In recent years, the alienation tendency of evaluation criteria has led to impetuous wind. Aiming at publishing papers with high impact factors, keeping up with hot spots, frequently switching research directions, not deeply exploring experimental phenomena, not excavating the scientific essence and connotation, and lacking in depth and systematicness in research are also bad habits that need to be broken urgently. Every year, I spend more energy on revising project applications for some teachers. Most of the applications are novel and innovative, and the key scientific issues are concise and accurate, and the research content and scheme are concrete and feasible. The application is carefully written and can express the research to be carried out in the demonstration with accurate language and strict logic. However, some teachers’ project books are in contrast with the published research papers. The reason is that these teachers only pay attention to the appearance of research, neglect to ask and think about the connotation of their own research, and lack deep insight and understanding of the development trend in this field. Pursuing scientific truth and carrying out innovative research, like teaching and educating people, is a sacred and lofty cause and an important mission of universities. We should cultivate the sense of innovation, adhere to the spirit of seeking truth from facts, adhere to academic integrity, and be a good teacher with taste, character and bottom line.

A series of articles on teachers’ morality and the construction of study style;

President Zhang Xi: Some thoughts on the construction of teachers’ morality and study style

Moral Education, Truth-seeking and Innovation —— Speech at the 2020 Teacher’s Day Celebration and Commendation Conference of Jilin University

Seeking Truth and Pursuing Excellence —— Speech at the Opening Ceremony of Class of 2020 Freshmen

Principal Zhang Xi: Practice of Integration of Research and Learning

Professor Liu Zhongshu: Creating Excellent School Spirit and Learning Style and Strengthening the Construction of Teaching Staff

Professor Chi Baorong: The Soul of a Virtue Teacher; Teaching by example is better than teaching by words.

Professor Sun Zhengyu: Supporting teaching with scientific research and cultivating people with theory.

Professor Zhang Hanzhuang: Deepening Curriculum Construction and Practicing Education Mission

Professor Cai Lidong: Shielding the ego from crossing the ID and forging the ego.

Academician Ren Luquan: The cultivation of teachers’ morality lies in seeking truth and the cultivation of study style lies in seeking truth.

Professor Han Xiping: To be a new era teacher with noble morality and responsibility.

Jilin University held a special education report meeting on the construction of teachers’ morality and study style

Professor Jiang Qichuan: Fulfilling the mission and responsibility of a people’s teacher.

Jilin University held a special education report meeting on "Pre-service training of teachers in Jilin University and the construction of teachers’ morality and study style"

Jilin University held the third report meeting on the special education of "Pre-service training for teachers and the construction of teachers’ morality and study style". Professor Zhang Hanzhuang gave a report entitled "Do not forget your initiative mind remembers its mission"

Professor Wei Cuncheng: Teaching and scientific research are complementary.

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