Ø From July 18 to 22, 2016, the first Summer Camp of Paleontology for college students hosted by NIGPAS was kicked off in Nanjing.
Ø On June 28, 2016, a wonderful graduation party was held for new obtainers of PhD and MS degrees at NIGPAS.
Ø On June 25, 2016, a Chinese version of the book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction translated by Prof. XU Honghe and Dr. Jiang Qing from NIGPAS was nominated as one of 2016 CAS Outstanding Popular Science Books.
![南京古生物所图书获评2016年中科院优秀科普图书 南京古生物所图书获评2016年中科院优秀科普图书](./W020160823421622003460.jpg)
Ø From June 24 to 27, 2016, a national convention of micropalaeontologists and fossil phycologists was held in Hezheng, Gansu, China that was organized by Palaeontological Society of China (PSC).
Ø On May 14, 2016, Prof. YUAN Xunlai from NIGPAS gave a talk "The Mysterious Origin of Life" to the public, which is the first of the Darwin Lecture serials organized by Nanjing Palaeontology Museum.
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Ø On May 4, 2016, three photographs provided by NIGPAS were awarded "Discovery of the Beauty in Science" by CAS.
![南京古生物所三作品获中科院“发现科学之美”优秀奖 南京古生物所三作品获中科院“发现科学之美”优秀奖](./W020160823421622055420.jpg)
![王鑫-网 王鑫-网](./W020160823421622062915.jpg)
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Ø On March 3, 2016, Academician RONG Jiayu from NIGPAS gave a lecture "Introduction to Biological Evolution - Evidences from Palaeontology and Stratigraphy" at Nanjing University, as the opening of a university general selected course "Biological Evolution and the Environment".
Ø On February 26, 2016, the research project "Late Mesozoic Daohugou-Jehol Biota and insect fossils" finished by Prof. HUANG Diying and his research group from NIGPAS won the first prize of 2015 Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Award.
![南京古生物所荣获2015年度江苏省科学技术奖一等奖 南京古生物所荣获2015年度江苏省科学技术奖一等奖](./W020160823421622103932.jpg)
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Ø From January 13 to 17, 2016, the annual meeting of a national basic research program (973 Program) “From Snowball Earth to the Cambrian Explosion: Coevolution of life and environment around 600 Myr” and the 2015 symposium of Sino-German cooperation project were held in Yichang, Hubei Province, China, attracting more than 170 experts from 15 domestic institutions and 4 countries abroad.
![会议野外考察灯影组埃迪卡拉化石群产地 会议野外考察灯影组埃迪卡拉化石群产地](./W020160823421622136681.jpg)
.....CONTENTS OF PALAEONEWS NO.3......