On the morning of January 14, at the “Transformation and development: Library serves the future – Seminar on Library Information Commons” held at Zhejiang University, Robert Miller, Global Director of Books of the largest U.S. non-profit digital library “Internet Archive”, signed a donation agreement with Vice-President Luo Weidong to donate 700,000 paper books in foreign languages to Zhejiang University.

In February 2012, Zhejiang University initiated strategic research projects on marine areas. Eight strategic research teams composed of experts and professors from relevant disciplines were set up, covering research fields such as ocean exploration and equipment engineering, marine delivery vehicles, marine energy engineering, marine living resources engineering, marine ecology and environmental engineering and so on.

Recently, Ministry of Education announced the list of “2012 Ph.D. Candidate New Talent Award”, granting the honor to 699 Ph.D. candidates in domestic universities. 25 Ph.D. candidates at Zhejiang University were enrolled.