[3][6] While at Michigan she was a Barbour Scholar, a program designed to support students from Asia and the Middle East.
[7] Chengshu would remain in Michigan for the ten years following her Ph.D.[6] During this time she spent two periods at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, 1945 to 1946 and 1948 to 1949.
[8] She returned to China in 1956[9] where she worked at the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences while concurrently serving as a professor at Peking University.
[1] During her time in the United States, Chengshu mainly engaged in the study of kinetic theory of gas molecules.
[14][2] In 1964 China launched its first atomic bomb, and Chengshu was hailed by Mao Zedong as a female hero due to her role in this test.