Tsinghua University professor Bao Jie has developed a small spectrometer that can literally identify bad apples in the bunch. Spectrometers measure changes in light when it interacts with matter in ways that detect more than the naked eye. Before he went to MIT, Bao earned a bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University and his doctorate in chemistry at Brown University between 2006 to 2010. He uses this approach with his Tsinghua students. Completing a PhD is a process of connecting the dots in life－what you have studied before will finally assist your research, Bao says.

Source: The China Post September 01, 2017 06:00 UTC