Botany

Overview

In the long development history of Henan University, the earliest Life Science Discipline was founded in 1923. For a variety of reasons, its running process has been completely interrupted in 1950 and 1962 for two times.

In 1987, the new biology department started again from the beginning, rebuilt and recruited new students without any basis. In April 2002, the biology department was transformed into College of Life Science. During the past 20 years of struggling, it has developed into a college with a complete educational system of science, industry and agriculture, a complete training system of undergraduate, master’s degree candidate in Botany, doctoral candidate and post-doctor.

Faculty

The college has 148 teachers, including 128 full-time teachers, 39 professors, 38 associate professors, 21 doctoral supervisors, 103 teachers who have obtained their doctorates and 11 teachers who are Ph.D. candidate. 

Among the faculty, there are 1 Dual-Employed Academician, 1 Changjiang Distinguished Professor, 1 National Mid-Aged Expert with Remarkable Contributes, 2 Chief Scientists in 973 Program, 1 Chief Scientist of The National Mayor Scientific Research and Development Program, 4 experts in the Hundreds Talents Plan of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 member of the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Leader Project of national technical faculty, 1 professor awarded as one of the national outstanding scientific and technical workers, 1 national excellent specialist, 2 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 1 expert of the Project of Thousand Youth Talents in China, 1 professor awarded as the National Labor Medal, 4 candidates of the Millions of Talent Projects, 7 experts obtaining the special allowance of State Council, 2 winners of Zeng Xianzi educational prize. 

The college also hire 3 national central plains scholars, 1 lecture professor in Henan province, 19 distinguished professors of Henan University who are the experts of the Special Zone Support program of the university and Yellow River scholars, 2 provincial excellent experts, 5 provincial excellent teachers and 5 distinguished teachers in Henan University. 

Besides, 10 teachers were awarded as both national and provincial excellent teachers and virtue pacesetters, and 6 teachers won the Outstanding Youth Prize in Henan province. Moreover, 3 faculties are cultivated in the Innovative Talents Program of the universities in Henan Province, 5 science and technology leader of Henan province, 10 outstanding youth and middle-aged key teachers of Henan university.