Goodwill Scholarship: Every year, hundreds of USTC students face the financial challenge to start/continue their study. In November 2007, USTCIF began its help to these students. This scholarship, 3,000RMB per year, brings great relief to the families of these financially challenged students. The supports would continue until their financial conditions improve.

Guo Moruo Scholarship: In honor of Mr. Guo Moruo, the first President of the University, Guo Moruo Scholarship is the most prestigious scholarship in the Univesity. Guo Moruo Scholarship is also the first award established in a university in Mainland China. Since 2007, USTCIF has become the only outsider sponsor besides the University and Guo’s family and increased the award from 2,000RMB to 10,000RMB, the highest amount of any undergraduate scholarships in the University.
Prospective Students Fund: To attract excellent high school graduates to attend the University, USTCIF set up the “Prospective Students Fund” in 2007. We provide financial support to the recruiting teams; inspire outstanding fresh USTC graduates and Ph.D. candidates to volunteer in the recruiting teams; participate directly in the recruiting events; invite renowned alumni to hold seminars in high schools throughout the nation. All these measures contribute greatly to the success of attracting high-quality prospective students.

Teaching Excellence Award: In 2006, Dr. Yadong Liu set up an annual Teaching Excellence Award to honor professors who demonstrate outstanding dedication, creativity and innovation in undergraduate classroom and laboratory teaching. Every year, over 20 professors are honored with “life-time achievement in teaching” award, “outstanding teaching” award, and “excellent teaching” award. In 2009, USTCIF started to administer this teaching award and provide part of the financial need.
USTCIF Chair Professorship: To help the University recruit first-class teaching staff, in March 2008, USTCIF set up Chair Professorship Fund to attract worldwide renowned professors and scholars to join the University. Candidates are nominated by distinguished scholars in close related field. Their credentials and related documents are submitted to and reviewed by a special evaluation board. Till today, we already have two renowned professors joining USTC: Professor Jianwei Pan in Modern Physics and Professor Guoqiang Bi, Shouhong Guang in Biology.

Oral History of USTC: USTC will celebrate her 52 birthday in September. In the past half century, the University has witnessed and shared the hardships and glories of the nation. After the pioneering stage (1958-1970), USTC rapidly ranked itself among the national key universities. Since 1978, recovering from the Cultural Revolution, the University has made remarkable development: initiated the resumption of the National College Entrance Examinations; set up the first Class for the Gifted Young to foster the gifted young nationwide; set up the first graduate school in Mainland China. The main part of the project is to retrospect a number of major events in the 80s of last century, by interviewing several alumni as important witnesses of that decade. We have interviewed Professor Fang, a vice president of the University in the 1980s, a key witness to that rapid changing decade. We also interviewed Mr. Lifeng Wang, as a witness to the founding and development of the Class for the Gifted Young.