 The university is also famous for its French language and civilization research.The present of the school of foreign language is honored as "Chevalier des Palmes Académiques(knight of academic golden Palm in 2011.From 1937 through to 1947, the noted mathematician Professor Xiong Qinglai was invited to become the President of Yunnan University, under whose leadership Yunnan University was restructured along the same academic model as Tsinghua University.