Chapter 773 - One’s Own Style
Chapter 773: One’s Own Style
There was less than two months until June.
All of the academician selection candidates already submitted a 3000-word essay. They were quietly waiting for the first round of evaluations to begin.
Of course, this was just the calm before the storm.
Even though the first round of evaluations wasn’t a total bloodbath, various lobbying strategies had already begun.
Some people enjoyed the competition, some didn’t care for it, and some even went to foreign academic conferences to avoid the sh*tshow.
PLA General Hospital, Institute of Medical Sciences, Laboratory of Cell Cryogenic Medicine.
Two noob researchers stood in front of the thermo incubator, “happily” doing experiments.
Compared to other Chinese universities, the PLA General Hospital might sound prestigious, and it was ranked fairly high in the industry. However, it was still ranked below other top universities.
The reason was obvious. It was just like how universities with more academicians couldn’t defeat factions like Yan University and Aurora.
The more diverse the talent pool was, the more competition there was. All of the talents were from different places.
Compared to hiring people from other institutes, they were more inclined to train people of their own.
This was true in academia and any public institutions that had an ounce of bureaucracy.
By contrast, the noob researchers at the Laboratory of Cell Cryogenic Medicine were quite happy.
If everything went well, their mentor, Director Liu, should be able to be an academician this year.
The academician selection was more about fate and luck. Director Liu was well aware of this, that was why he still hadn’t submitted his 3000-word personal essay.
After all, convincing other people to vote for him meant he had to owe them a favor in the future.
Not to mention he had already lost twice before.
After three consecutive unsuccessful elections, the candidate’s election eligibility would be suspended. All of the candidate’s previously submitted material must not be reused. It was very rare for someone to become an academician after three unsuccessful elections.
Even big names were no exception.
Because of this, these noob researchers didn’t have to help Director Liu make connections with the academician committee.
Song Siyuan: “This year’s academician election is interesting.”
Zhuo Ruicai: “Why is that?”
Song Siyuan: “Have you read the first round of primaries announced by the Chinese Academy of Sciences?”
Zhuo Ruicai said, “I’ve seen it, what’s wrong with it?”
“In the past years, the academician election was a battle of the elderly. The average age of the academician candidates was over 70 years old.”
Even though Jin Ling University had the third most academicians in the country, it had a serious aging issue. It had been a long time since Jin Ling University had a new academician.
However, this year the trend flipped. Many young scholars from Jin Ling University emerged on the primaries list.
Zhuo Ruicai: “What is so surprising about that, Jin Ling University has Professor Lu, so of course this year is going to be different! Forget about Jin Ling University, any university with Professor Lu would explode in the talent pool.”
Song Siyuan: “That’s not the entire reason.”
Zhuo Ruicai: “There are other reasons?”
Song Siyuan nodded and said, “Even though Professor Lu is from Jin Ling University, do you really think Jin Ling University can still contain him? The reason why Jin Ling University is this strong is because of Professor Lu’s goodwill.”
Zhuo Ruicai was a little muddled, and he asked, “Then what department do you think he’s from?”
Zhuo Ruicai was a newcomer in academia, so he didn’t know about the inner academic community gossip.
Song Siyuan looked at him and said, “Just look at the academician election.”
Zuo Ruicai hesitated for a bit and shook his head.
“I have no idea, is he a part of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study?”
The Jinling Institute for Advanced Study had been gaining popularity under the leadership of Professor Lu, and the institute had made many outstanding achievements and published many high-quality papers.
Not just that, but because of its relaxing academic atmosphere, many foreign Chinese scholars had made it their goal to return to China and work at the institute.
Even then, the Institute for Advanced Study wasn’t comparable to top universities.
After all, it was only established recently.
Song Siyuan looked at his confused co-worker and slowly spoke.
“He’s in his own league.”
Another noob researcher sitting beside them looked shocked.
He’s in his own league…
He’s probably the only person who’s in his own league!
Zhuo Ruicai also looked surprised.
“If only our supervisor was this nutty.”
“You’re talking about Director Liu?” Song Siyuan coldly smiled and said, “Forget about it, we’re in a no-name field, it’s a miracle our supervisor is in the Changjiang Scholars Program!”
Even though Song Siyuan didn’t want to admit it, his supervisor, Liu Zuobing, was an outstanding scholar. However, Liu Zuobing wasn’t quite yet at the level of an academician.
Changjiang Scholars Program might be his ceiling.
There was nothing sad about this. The Changjiang Scholars Program was an amazing accomplishment. Many people tried for their entire lives to get into the program.
The door was suddenly pushed open.
The two noob researchers immediately stopped talking.
Liu Zuobing walked into the laboratory and walked straight into the refrigerator incubator. He looked at the nematode cells and then looked at his students.
“How’s the sample condition?”
Song Siyuan replied with a stutter, “It’s… It’s still alive.”
He just realized how useless his sentence was.
However, his supervisor didn’t seem to care about the incubator samples at all.
“Send me a sample observation report tomorrow, then immediately pack your bags. We are going to Jinling tomorrow!”
To Jinling?!
What is going on?
Zhuo Ruicai and Song Siyuan were muddled, so were the other noob researchers in the laboratory.
Professor Liu Zuobing took a deep breath and spoke seriously, hiding his excitement.
“This morning, I received an invitation from Professor Lu to participate in the joint cryonics project at the Institute for Advanced Study!”
“Human cryonics project?” Song Siyuan nervously said, “But the public opinion on this… isn’t good, right?”
Scientific ethics was a serious issue.
Ethical misconduct could cost one an academician title!
However, Professor Liu Zuobing didn’t hesitate at all.
He said, “Scientific research requires sacrifices, I am willing to sacrifice for my country!”
Song Siyuan: “…”
Zhuo Ruicai: “…”
The other noob researchers: “…”
F*ck sake!
How come this is the first time I’ve seen you so patriotic?
Professor Liu continued to speak in a serious tone.
“I’ve already accepted to join the human cryonics dormancy project at the Institute for Advanced Study. The institute is supportive of my decision, and they want me to leave for Jinling as soon as possible! I want to contribute to the space race!”
Song Siyuan nodded and replied, “Okay.”
Honestly, he was a little bewildered.
Not because of human cryonics dormancy, after all, his supervisor had always been interested in cryonics…
He didn’t expect his supervisor to participate in this project during a sensitive time like this.
As for contributing to the space race…
That was totally a lie!
Even though cryonics might be helpful for the aerospace industry, for scientific academic scholars like them, the space race was quite meaningless.
However…
It seemed like the old man was more excited than if he had won the academician election?
What is happening…
The two noob researchers watched their supervisor leave the laboratory. They looked at each other in shock.
Song Siyuan spoke.
“F*ck me, is he still going to run for academician or not?”
Zhuo Ruicai gulped.
After a while, he replied, “Professor Lu really is nutty…”