2024
- In October 2024, the doctoral degree conferring program in Environmental Science and Engineering was approved
- In September 2024, research by Prof. Zheng Yi’s team was selected for the 2023 Top 10 Scientific Advances in the Nitrogen Cycle
- In June 2024, Prof. Hu Qing won the First Class Prize of the 2023 State Technological Invention Award
- In May 2024, Ph.D. candidate Dai Yanhui was listed in the List of Representative Winners of the National Graduate Scholarship 2022–2023 Academic Year released by People’s Daily
- In March 2024, Prof. Liu Junguo’s team published a paper in Science on anthropogenic climate impacts on the seasonality of global river runoff
- In March 2024, Prof. Kuang Xingxing Prof. Zheng Chunmiao Prof. Liu Junguo and others co-published a paper in Science on the critical role and dynamics of groundwater in the global water cycle
- In February 2024, Prof. Zheng Yi’s team published research on machine learning guided global farmland ammonia emission reduction in Nature
2023
- In December 2023, Prof. Hu Qing won the First Class Prize of the Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award
- In November 2023, Prof. Hu Qing won the First Class Prize of the 2023 Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award
- In November 2023, the first Guangdong–Hong Kong Joint Laboratory Guangdong–Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for Soil and Groundwater Pollution Prevention Control and Remediation was approved
- In November 2023, Prof. Zheng Yi’s team won the First Class Prize of the 2023 Guangdong Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award for intelligent water environment management technology
- In November 2023, Prof. Chen Hong received the 2023 Young Environmental Chemist Award from the Chinese Chemical Society
- In August 2023, Prof. Zheng Yan was awarded SUSTech’s first Innovative Research Group Project
- In June 2023, Prof. Liu Junguo received the Volker Medal from the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
- In May 2023, Prof. Qiu Wenhui won the Gold Award of the 2023 Ecological Environment Youth Science and Technology Award from the Guangdong Society of Environmental Sciences
- In May 2023, the team led by Prof. Zhang Zuotai and Prof. Yan Feng won the Grand Prize with Special Commendation at the 48th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
- In May 2023, Prof. Feng Lian received the 2023 Shenzhen Youth May Fourth Medal
- In April 2023, the Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water–Groundwater Pollution Prevention and Control in River Basins Ministry of Ecology and Environment passed acceptance
- In April 2023, Prof. Tian Zhan received the 2023 International Distinguished Scholar Partnership Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering UK
- In April 2023, the school successfully hosted the First National Conference on Environmental Geoscience
- In March 2023, Prof. Feng Lian’s team published the school’s first Nature cover article revealing the rising trend of global coastal phytoplankton blooms
2022
- In December 2022, Prof. Liu Junguo was elected an Academician of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
- In December 2022, Prof. Liu Junguo won the 2022 TWAS Award The World Academy of Sciences
- In November 2022, the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement and Early Warning for Urban Environmental Health Risks was approved
- In November 2022, Prof. Wang Junjian received the 8th Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Soil Science Society of China
- In November 2022, SUSTech’s Environmental and Ecological Sciences entered the ESI Top 4‰ globally
- In August 2022, Prof. Zeng Zhenzhong received the AOGS Kamide Lecture Award
- In June 2022, Prof. Feng Lian won the 2021 National Young Geoscientist Award
2021
- In November 2021, the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area Background Station for Coastal Atmospheric Environment and Climate Research SUSTech’s first Guangdong Provincial Field Scientific Observation and Research Station was approved
- In October 2021, Prof. Liu Junguo received the Paul A. Witherspoon Lecture Award in Hydrology from the American Geophysical Union
- In September 2021, Prof. Wang Junjian and Prof. Chen Hong won the Young Scientist Award from the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences
- In September 2021, Prof. Zheng Yan was elected an AGU Fellow
- In September 2021, the Party Committee of the School of Environment was established
- In July 2021, the professional master’s degree program in Resources and Environment was approved
- In June 2021, Prof. Chen Hong and Prof. Tang Yuanyuan won the 2021 Ecological Environment Youth Science and Technology Award from the Guangdong Society of Environmental Sciences
- In May 2021, Ph.D. candidate Meng Ying received the Tang Xiaoyan Environmental Science Innovation Scholarship from Peking University becoming SUSTech’s first recipient
- In May 2021, SUSTech’s Environmental and Ecological Sciences entered the ESI Top 1% globally
- In April 2021, Prof. Liu Junguo received the Shenzhen May 1st Labor Medal
- In January 2021, the Guangdong Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Prevention Control and Remediation passed acceptance
- In January 2021, Prof. Liu Junguo Prof. Zhang Zuotai Prof. Tang Yuanyuan Prof. Qi Wei and others won the First Class Prize of the Shenzhen Science and Technology Progress Award Public Welfare Category
2020
- In December 2020, the project led by Prof. Zheng Chunmiao’s team won the Second Class Prize of the 2020 Environmental Protection Science and Technology Award
- In December 2020, Prof. Liu Junguo won the TWAS Award The World Academy of Sciences
- In December 2020, Prof. Hu Qing won the First Class Prize of the 2020 Environmental Technology Progress Award
- In November 2020, Prof. Zeng Zhenzhong was named a 2020 Global Highly Cited Researcher
- In October 2020, Prof. Zeng Zhenzhong received the Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award
- In September 2020, Prof. Tang Yuanyuan was awarded 2020 Outstanding Head Teacher of Shenzhen
- In August 2020, Prof. Yi Shuping was named 2020 Outstanding Ecological and Environmental Scientist
- In July 2020, Junguo Liu was elected as Members of Academia Europaea.
- In June 2020, the fifth anniversary of the foundation of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering (
- In May 2020, Professor Yan Zheng was invited to publish the prospective called
- In March 2020, Professor Xing Yang serve becomes the dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering.
2019
- In December 2019, the “Environmental Science and Engineering” major of the School of Environmental Sciences was elected as the “Double Ten Thousand” plan for the first-class undergraduate major construction in Guangdong Province.
- In September 2019, Professor Yi Zheng won the 2019 "Outstanding Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Natural Resources Society".
- In August 2019, Professor Chunmiao Zheng was elected AGU Fellow.
- In August 2019, Assistant Professor Lian Feng won the "Outstanding Award of the Second Young Scientist Award of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences".
- In July 2019, Liu Fuming, the first doctoral graduate (Southern University of Science and Technology-Macao University joint program), became the only outstanding doctoral graduate of the University of Science and Technology of that year.
- In July 2019, the undergraduates who majored in "Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering", which are Tian Yiqun and Yao Yao won the title of "Top Ten Graduates" of Southern University of Science and Technology.
- In June 2019, Professor Junguo Liu won the China Youth Science and Technology Award and was our school’s first winner of the award.
- In February 2019, the opening ceremony of the College Public Platform, which was our school’s first department-level large-scale instrument-sharing platform.
- In February 2019, Professor Junguo Liu was nominated as the Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
2018
- In September 2018, Dean Chunmiao Zheng was nominated as a member of the President's Office and the Minister of International Cooperation; Professor Youkuan Zhang served as the Executive Dean of the college.
- In July 2018, the first college graduate from the master degree joint program of SUSTech and Harbin Industrial University.
- In July 2018, the first undergraduate of “Environmental Science and Engineering” graduated from the School, of which Rongpeng Huang and Libo Song won the title of “Top Ten Graduates” of Southern University of Science and Technology.
- In July 2018, the college was granted the first municipal engineering laboratory—Shenzhen Environmental Internet of Things Technology and Application Engineering Laboratory.
- In June 2018, Dr. Park Cangyi became the sole winner of the World Meteorological Organization Young Scientist Award that year.
2017
- In December 2017, Professor Junguo Liu won the Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education - Youth Science Award, which was the first winner in Shenzhen.
2016
- In December 2016, the major of “Environmental Science and Engineering” at the School of Environmental Sciences was awarded advanced key major in the Guangdong.
- In April 2016, the college was approved by the Shenzhen Municipal Key Laboratory of Municipal Solid Waste Recycling Technology and Management.
- In February 2016, the first undergraduate major of the School, "Environmental Science and Engineering" passed the record and approval of the undergraduate major of the general colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education.
2015
- In November 2015, the institution was approved as the first municipal key laboratory - Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Soil and Groundwater Pollution Prevention.
- In October 2015, the Ministry of Environmental Protection commended the college for participating in the emergency treatment of the "8.12" major explosion accident in Tianjin Port.
- In September 2015, the School opened its first curriculum "Global Environmental Issues".
- In August 2015, Professor Junguo Liu published a paper about water resources management in Science, introducing scientific frontier issues related to water management in green infrastructure
- In July 2015, the college hosted the founding conference which is the first strategic development seminar.
- In June 2015, the Engineering and Technology Innovation Center (Beijing) of Southern University of Science and Technology was created, which became the first base which locates outside of SUSTech and the School of Science and Engineering and Shenzhen.
- In June 2015, the School of Environmental Science and Engineering (“Environmental College”) of Southern University of Science and Technology was formally founded; Professor Zheng Chunmiao served as Dean of the Founding Institute.
