Defying gravity, conquering peaks, and pushing boundaries - when these keywords come to mind, one might instantly think of the fearless adventurers who scale treacherous mountains. Rock climbing is an extreme sport that tests strength, technique, and determination, and for many, it appears to be an extraordinary feat that is out of reach. However, a group of students on campus are dedicating their sweat and effort to this sport. They are the members of the Zhejiang University Rock Climbing Team....

The sedentary lifestyle and refined food consumption significantly lead to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related complications, which have become one of the major threats to global health. These diseases could be effectively guarded against by daily foods rich in resistant starch (RS). Rice is a traditional staple in China. However, common rice varieties are deficient in RS, so to breed high-RS rice varieties remains a challenge.LI Jiayang from the CAS Institute of Genetics and Developmental Bio...

Arid and semi-arid zones are not only environmentally fragile but also the major source of global dust deposits and sandstorms. In the context of global warming, studies about the history of environmental changes in arid zones are crucial to predicting future trends as well. However, there has long been a paucity of paleoenvironmental records in arid zones. Moreover, relevant opinions have always been the subject of intense debate. LI Hongwei and YANG Xiaoping et al. at the Zhejiang Un...

【Editor’s Note: YU Hangyan is a Ph.D. candidate studying psycholinguistics at the School of International Studies, Zhejiang University. Her access to Chu Kochen Scholarship (2021-2022), the highest annual honor a student could ever obtain from the University, was secured by her academic excellence—no doubt—but it would be awfully prejudicial if we mistake her simply for a bookish researcher working in a lonely laboratory around the clock, and disregard her comprehensive capabilities beyond aca...

Comparative genomic analyses of 50 primate genomes reveal crucial genetic mechanisms of primate speciation, phenotypic adaptability, and social system evolution●Researchers from Zhejiang University, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Northwest University, and Yunnan University, and Aarhus University have jointly led a series of significant new studies that are published in a special issue of the journal Science, and in papers in Nature Ecology & Evolution and Science Advances.●With 27...

On May 10, 2023, Zhejiang University Supercomputing Team won the First Prize and the Highest Linpack award at the 10th ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge Finals, held at the University of Science and Technology of China. Led by Assoc. Prof. CHEN Jianhai, Researcher WANG Zeke, and Assoc. Prof. ZHANG Yin, the team This team consists of CHEN Yi, YANG Zihan, QIAN Xingjian, and CHEN Kaiqi from College of Computer Science and Technology, and XU Shaojun from College of Control Science and Engineering....

Zhejiang University has always regarded mental health as an important dimension of education. In 1987, ZJU established the Mental Health Education and Counseling Center, among the first of its kind established at Chinese universities. The Center covers an area of 3,000 square meters and aims to be a comprehensive platform providing teaching, research and consulting. It organizes various forms of psychological quality training activities targeting diverse needs of students' self-developm...

Ambient noise imaging has been a revolutionary and transformative technique in seismology in the last two decades, and its extensive application has greatly promoted the understanding of the Earth’s internal structure. The traditional ambient imaging method entails recording vibration signals in multiple stations simultaneously and extracting useful seismic wave signals from chaotic “noises”. In real fieldwork, this method is not applicable as it is virtually impossible to set up a large numb...

On May 12th, the International Committee of the Red Cross announced the recipients of the Florence Nightingale Medal for the year 2023. Among the 37 recipients from 22 countries was ZHAO Xuehong, deputy director of the Nursing Department at the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (FAHZU) andchairperson of the Disaster Nursing Professional Committee, Zhejiang Nursing Association. This remarkable achievement marks a historic milestone as she becomes the first nurse fr...

On May 19, Dr. Michael Spence, president & provost of University College London, visited Zhejiang University and gave a lecture in the Global Lecture Series.ZJU President DU Jiangfeng warmly welcomed Dr. Spence and his delegation, briefing them on ZJU’s latest development. He emphasized the significance of UCL as an important partner of Zhejiang University, highlighting the strong foundation of cooperation between the two institutions. He expressed the hope that Dr. Spence's visit would...