Chapter 468: Silence

The members of the Faculty have the status of emperors in Chinese universities, and Professor Cai has walked all the way, and the students have taken the initiative to give way, like the waters separated by Moses. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

In front of Yang Rui, Professor Cai's expression began to become vivid, he first picked up a copy of "Cell", said "good", then flipped to the place, and said "good", and then, he quickly read the index, and praised: "The writing is excellent." ”

Professor Cai was surrounded by people from the Propaganda Department, taking advantage of Professor Cai's time to flip through the book, and took pictures, looking serious, as if he was making a literary film.

Yang Rui was also treated by photographers, and about one-third of the film was tilted on Yang Rui.

With the blessing of the flashing lights, the basketball court has become formal, and Yang Rui said seriously: "Thank you, Professor Cai, without the school's funding, without the moderate space given by the school, and the strong academic atmosphere, I would not be able to achieve what I am today." In addition, the 600,000 yuan funded by the department also played a great role. ”

Dean Cai didn't care about this kind of thing as much as Dean Liu, and said with a smile: "We are all afterthoughts, what is 600,000 yuan, such a project and thesis ......"

He shook the "cell" in his hand and said, "I can't buy it for 6 million yuan." ”

Of course, he can't buy it, Yang Rui spent more than $600,000 on the project, and someone else will do it, such as the unlucky Professor Richard, who spent more than $1 million in the first phase alone, which is stronger than more than 10 million yuan.

Top journals need top papers, top papers need top projects, and top projects need top expenses.

Standing at the height of the faculty member, Professor Cai talked with Yang Rui about the topic of top projects, but the hearts of the students around him were swaying, especially the students of the non-biology department, who were even more curious.

The students of ethnology said with great envy: "You students can apply for hundreds of thousands of projects, and our professors only apply for a few thousand yuan for a project." ”

The biology students had the urge to show off, but none of them spoke.

A project of 600,000 yuan is also a fantasy for them, and even a project of several thousand yuan is not something that students can apply for if they want to.

The school fund that Yang Rui applied for last year was only 2,000 yuan, which was still the result of a thesis with a champion bonus.

"Okay, don't be around, I'll take you to meet a few people, many people want to watch this issue of "Cell", Lao Liu, come together. Professor Cai affectionately hugged Yang Rui's shoulders, separated the crowd like Moses again, and walked out of the basketball court.

Dean Liu asked people to take back the journal and the single book, and followed behind with a smile.

The other students could only look at the backs of Professor Cai and Yang Rui, wiping their saliva vigorously.

The image of the school committee member is too tall, so tall that students need to look up to him, and Yang Rui, who is laughing side by side with him, is more incomprehensible.

Everyone is a freshman in the first year of undergraduate, although Yang Rui is the national champion, but who is weak here?

Before the end of the first school year, the gap has reached so much that it is really unexpected.

As for the teachers' minds, it's complicated. The age gap of one or twenty years old, as well as the identity gap between teachers and students, originally gave them some psychological advantages in front of these heavenly pride.

However, Yang Rui simply broke their psychological safety zone.

Geniuses have always been difficult to understand, and competing with geniuses in the same field is even more painful.

Thinking about the articles they have published, thinking about the projects they have done, and then looking at the work completed by Yang Rui, many people have uncomfortable feelings - most people's discomfort is aimed at themselves.

Yang Rui, who was still wearing sportswear and sweating, gradually moved away, and the people who stayed on the basketball court slowly became active.

Especially the students majoring in biological sciences are even more excited.

"I have long known that our classmates at Peking University are not simple, but I didn't expect Yang Rui to get up so early, I think we should have an activity to learn from the classmates around us. Liu Anping, the squad leader, gathered the squad cadres together and discussed in a whisper.

Bai Ling raised her hand in agreement for the first time, and said: "I think this suggestion is good, it's okay to follow the Youth League Committee to learn Lei Feng's activities, it's better for us to do an activity to learn Yang Rui and let the Youth League Committee follow us." ”

The squad leader's eyes lit up when he heard this, he is a person who likes political activities more than academic activities, and if he can command the Youth League Committee as a freshman, it will be regarded as a small achievement. Liu Anping immediately said: "I agree, Yang Rui's success is very typical, and it is worth learning from all the students in the school." ”

"Described as success, will it be too heavy, besides, can he compare with Lei Feng?" Geng Jian has been obedient for a long time, but he still can't stand activities like "learning from Yang Rui".

Bai Ling glanced at Geng Jian and asked, "Being able to make world-class achievements can't be described as success, it should be that your success is too heavy." ”

Geng Jian wanted to refute with a single mouth, but his head was raised, but his waist was bent down. He didn't dare.

Recently, whenever he has a conflict with someone at school, even if it is not a very fierce conflict, Miao Sha will come to the door in the name of the creditor to ask for money, twenty yuan, ten yuan or even five yuan or three, Geng Jian has nothing to borrow, and he is worried that the other party will make trouble, so he can only wash the dishes for the other party to pay off the debt.

Basically, Geng Jian had a conflict with someone, and depending on the scale of the conflict, he had to wash the dishes for one to five nights, and after so many times, Geng Jian was forced to settle down.

Now, he still owes Miao Sha more than 300 yuan, and the magic is that as long as he is a low-key person, Miao Sha will not come to him to ask for money.

People with a little bit of intelligence understand that there is a cat in it at this time. However, Geng Jian has been offending people since he was in school, and he can't figure out who is looking for his trouble.

In the past, when he was studying in his hometown, Geng Jian was the treasure of the whole school, and the city education bureau and the county education bureau knew his name, even if he hated his personality, it didn't matter. However, in Sijiu City, the situation is obviously very different.

At this time, Bai Ling's voice was loud, and Geng Jian couldn't get up.

Bai Ling didn't care if Geng Jian was comfortable or not, seeing that he didn't object, she immediately said: "I can contact the Youth League Committee, class leader, you go and contact the student union, as long as one side agrees, I think you can do it." ”

"Okay, I don't think there should be a big problem, let's try for it. The more Liu Anping thought about it, the more excited he became, and if this was the first step in his political career, it would be a good choice for him.

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Dean Cai took Yang Rui to the conference hall of the Administration Building.

It didn't take long for a group of professors from the Department of Biology to come in talking and laughing. There are Professor Tang Ji, Professor Wang Yong, Professor Lu Yueping, who are familiar to Yang Rui, as well as Cheng Shi, An Linhai and others who have met one or two faces, as well as Dean Liu, Professor Fu and others who have just separated.

It is not a simple task to just pull such a group of busy people together, Yang Rui glanced at Professor Cai, and thought to himself, that is, the members of the school department, are qualified to hold such a meeting temporarily.

However, even if you are a member of the school department, you have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, otherwise, everyone has their own projects, busy experiments and teaching tasks, and occasionally they are recruited once or twice, and no one can come and go immediately.

Yang Rui, who was always immersed in excitement, began to spin his brain rapidly, this was obviously not a simple meeting.

Even if "Cell" is published, Professor Cai, a member of the faculty and dean, comes forward, and the face is already enough, and so many people are called to the meeting, then there must be content of the meeting.

Or maybe it happened to be a plenary session of the Department of Biology?

Within a few seconds of this thought, it was pulled down by Professor Cai's action of handing out a single book.

"Yang Rui's newly published paper, everyone has a look. After Professor Cai finished speaking, he picked up the original version of "Cell" and began to read.

One minute.

Two minutes.

Five minutes.

Ten minutes.

Twenty minutes passed, and still no one spoke, and the conference room, where dozens of people had gathered, remained in astonishing silence.

Such a paper, if read or skimmed roughly, would take only ten minutes or less.

In fact, when you get your paper, half of them do it.

It's almost a habit, and it's almost impossible for scholars who read a lot of literature every day to read every important paper, and it's necessary to save time by first reading or skimming through it and then deciding whether to read it carefully.

Ten minutes or later, the teacher who chose to read or skim again turned to the first page and re-read it.

This is clearly a paper worthy of detail.

Moreover, as a professor or associate professor at Peking University, the teachers present can also see more information than ordinary people.

It is the struggle and constraint that is not written in the words, but flows between the lines.

Lack of money does not necessarily mean lack of money, of course, lack of money must be tight, but in the process of research, sufficient funds are only the most basic condition.

On top of sufficient funds, there must be a smooth way to spend money, so as not to be tight.

In Yang Rui's paper, mutagenic Drosophila cells require Drosophila, and if you look at the references in Europe and the United States, the best way is to buy parental Drosophila, and then cultivate it yourself with the help of professional tools.

However, it is not so convenient to buy the desired fruit flies and professional tools in China, so they cultivate not only the offspring fruit flies, but also need to determine the status of the parent fruit flies, so Yang Rui's references, there are articles in Chinese journals.

In a similar situation, there are various reagents needed to clone mutant genes, and European and American researchers are accustomed to buying ready-made reagents from biological companies, just like domestic laboratories in later generations, which is the simplest and the nature of the reagents can be traced.

However, not all reagents are suitable for procurement and transportation back to Beijing, and if there are no reagents that must be used, Yang Rui has to synthesize them by himself. The content of these selected reagents naturally does not need to be published in the main text, but in the column of references, a paper on the synthesis of reagents is added.

This constraint is not unique to China, it is a problem faced by researchers in all underdeveloped regions.

And the struggles exposed by Yang Rui are not real struggles, but self-doubt before every choice.

In the world of scientific research, where a single experiment can ruin the results of several months, no matter how successful a scholar is, he cannot get rid of a strong sense of self-doubt.

In China, all great discoveries are made after struggling and struggling.

The teachers sat in their chairs in tacit understanding, or looked at the papers in their hands, or at the people who read the papers.

This is a bit like the silence of the national flag, which has both the calmness of the appearance and the agitation of the heart, and more respect and self-respect, as well as the pride of the same clan.

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