Professor D. R. Grischkowsky from Okalahoma State University was awarded an honorary professorship at Tianjin University on April 10, 2008. President GONG Ke met with Professor Grischkowsky. Discussions were made on collaboration between TU and OSU in the field of Terahertz Waves. Professor Grischkowsky said he would come to TU at least once a year to help advance the research on Terahertz Waves here. During his stay at TU, Professor Grischkowsky attended the 4th International Symposium on Ultrafast Phenomena & Terahertz Waves and gave a keynote speech.

Professor D. R. Grischkowsky has published more than 140 refereed journal articles in his career. His work is internationally respected and very widely cited, and he is well known as an active leader and scholar in his field of ultrafast nonlinear optics and terahertz radiation. Dr. Grischkowsky has been elected to Fellow status in three professional societies (American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and has won three prestigious international scientific prizes, including the Boris Pregel Award for Applied Science and Technology, from the New York Academy of Sciences, the R. W. Wood Prize, from the Optical Society of America, and in 2003 the William F. Meggers Award, from the Optical Society of America.