Take a look at some of the projects Shandong University students are involved in this new year.

The Tunnel Geology and Disaster Prevention and Control Research Team of Shandong University is working on a grouting treatment project for a railway tunnel in the Tibet autonomous region. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]

Gong Yanmin (first from left), attending physician of the Obstetrics Department of Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, delivers the first baby in the hospital in the new year. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]

Zhao Shanshan (left), an anesthesiologist at the Second Hospital of Shandong University, performs an ultrasound-guided brachial plexus block on a patient at a hospital in Kiribati. Zhao is currently serving in an aid program in Kiribati, an island country in the central Pacific Ocean. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]

Chen Yuxue, a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Qilu Transportation, Shandong University, conducts a geological survey of the undersea pump house with fellow team members at the site of the Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Second Submarine Tunnel Project on the first day of the new year. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]

Students from the Cultural Relics Conservation Laboratory use scientific instruments to discover the secrets hidden in the tombs and the changes in the cultural relics on the first day of the new year. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]

Teachers and students from the university's School of Space Science and Physics and the university's Institute of Space Sciences, perform ionospheric detection noise tests, as part of their Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Correlation Research Group on the first day of the new year. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]

Teachers and students of the Institute of Biochemical and Biotechnological Drugs of the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Shandong University, pose for a photo in the lab on the first working day of the new year. The team has focused on the research and development of glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis and drugs. [Photo/sdu.edu.cn]