President's medal of USTB is the top honor for students at our university. The evaluation is proceeded annually to select the best students who are about to finish their bachelor, master or PhD study. The winners are awarded with gold medal in the graduate ceremony.

In the up-to-date round of competition, our doctoral student, Dr. Xi LAN, successfully made it. She passed the evaluation of academic committee of SKLAM and USTB in sequence and competed with a group of top students from the other schools and institutes, and finally won her place in the top 20 recipients of 15th President's Medal.

Dr. LAN enrolled as a doctoral student in 2016 and her mentor is our director (Prof. Zhancheng GUO). During her doctoral study, she worked hard and obtained superior academic achievements, including 10 publications (8 SCI papers and 2 EI papers) and attending two international conferences. She also won many academic honors, such as "ACerS Spriggs phase equilibria award", "Top ten academic stars of Postgraduates", "Excellent graduates of Beijing Universities", "National scholarship for doctoral students" and so on. Among them, the ACerS Spriggs phase equilibria award by the American Ceramic Association is awarded to the authors who have made the most valuable contributions in the academic literature published in the two years in the field of phase equilibrium, and only one research achievement is awarded every year in the world. Prof. GUO helped her dramatically in her academic study.