World Book Day 2019 at ZJU2019-04-23To observe the World Book and Copyright Day 2019, ZJU library organizes a "Reading & Exploring " event to further promote reading, publishing and protection of intellectual property. A series of activities will be held from April 23 to May 31. Here are the main highlights.- Series of lectures about intellectual property- Exhibitions on library resources, books publishe... READ MORE |
Dialogue @ ZJU | Why ZJU - words from international students2019-04-23Over 7000 international students are studying at ZJU. More than half of them are pursuing a ZJU degree. What do them think about life at the University and in Hangzhou? Two recent activities may help us hear their voices.2019 ZJU Ambassadors by College of Intenational Education“ZJU is a leading Chinese university. Also the 'soft' power of Hangzhou city is very important to me. Hangzhou is... READ MORE |
Can digitalization help preserve cultural relics forever?2019-04-23The whole world was extremely grieved at the news that Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral was engulfed in flames, causing its main spire to collapse and raising fears for the future of the 850-year-old building and its precious artworks. Just as President XI Jinping said in his condolence message to his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, Notre Dame Cathedral is an iconic symbol of the French civiliza... READ MORE |
International Campus showcases vibrant campus life at Open Day 20192019-04-22On April 14, some 500 prospective students and their families arrived at the Haining International Campus (IC) for the second IC open day. Current students and staff on campus welcomed the visitors with a wide array of activities.Visitors explored the Campus by engaging in various activities and speaking to the current lecturers and students. Leaders of IC, including Prof. FU Qiang ... READ MORE |
ZJUI students win Outstanding Winner Award in Mathematical Contest in Modeling 20192019-04-21The ZJU-UIUC Institute team clinched the Outstanding Winner Award and the INFORMS Award for their exceptional performance at the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) 2019.The MCM 2019 presented six problems for the teams to choose from. Members of the ZJUI team, LIN Hangzheng, TONG Xinhao and YUAN Jinsong competed online in Problem B — Send in the Drones: Developing an Aerial Disa... READ MORE |
Scientists develop a new method to synthesize positively charged sequence-defined polymers2019-04-18A team headed by Prof. GAO Chao, director of Zhejiang University’s Institute of Polymer Science, developed a new polar-inverse strategy (PIS) for scalable synthesizing sequence-defined polymers with positively charged backbone by alternately processing Menschutkin reaction and Cu-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction.“Our research enables cost-effective large-scale production of ... READ MORE |
Scientists discover a 3D structure of PTH1R2019-04-17Scientists in China and the US report a high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure (3.0Å) of the human parathyroid hormone type 1 receptor (PTH1R) bound to a long-acting parathyroid hormone (PTH) analog and the stimulatory G protein. The study, published in Science on April 12, provides valuable insights into structural basis and dynamics of PTH binding and long-term ac... READ MORE |
Lose less water without affecting carbon fixation in plants? Recent study offers a novel approach2019-04-17Stomata are pores in the leaf epidermis that play a crucial role in plants. They allow CO2 uptake for photosynthetic carbon assimilation at the expense of water loss via transpiration. Efforts to improve plant water use efficiency (WUE) have focused on reducing stomatal density, despite its implicit penalty in carbon assimilation. Approaches to reducing transpiration without incurring a ... READ MORE |
CAB delegation visits Pakistan2019-04-16From April 7-10, Prof. CHEN Xuexin, dean of the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology (CAB) led a delegation to Pakistan. An MOU signing ceremony between ZJU and University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan's top agricultural university was held, which is witnessed by H.E. Mr. Yao Jing, China's Ambassador to Pakistan, and H.E. Dr. Syed Safdar Ali Shah, Director-General (CPEC... READ MORE |
The key role of RAB2 in autophagic structures identified2019-04-16Autophagy is a lysosomal degradative pathway essential to development and homeostasis. The deregulation of autophagy is tightly associated with a variety of human diseases. Studies have shown that the biogenesis of autophagosomes needs membranes from multiple sources, including ER, the Golgi network, mitochondria, the endosomes and ER-Golgi intermediate. It remains elusive as to how the ... READ MORE |
QS Stars rates School of Management as a 5 Stars institution2019-04-15Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the world’s largest, international higher education network, made an official announcement that ZJU's School of Management was rated as a 5 Stars institution through rigorous and independent data collection and analysis of performance metrics as set out in the QS StarsTM methodology. It is another accreditation that the School of Management has r... READ MORE |
From the evolution of MCR-4 to the functional unification of the MCR family2019-04-15The research team led by FENG Youjun at the School of Medicine has made major breakthroughs in research into the mechanism behind mobile colistin resistance (MCR) recently. Their findings were published in two articles in Advanced Science on April 3, 2019.Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and social develo... READ MORE |
ZJU to offer two majors in robotics engineering and AI，open Turing Class this year2019-04-11New majors will fill educational gap and meet growing workforce needs.China will launch around 400 programs related to big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in universities in 2019, China’s Ministry of Education announced recently. From this fall, Zhejiang University will offer two new undergraduate programs in robotics engineering and AI, which will meet a growing workforce need fo... READ MORE |
An integrated microfludic system for PET tracers synthesis invented in ZJU2019-04-10Radioactive tracers are needed during the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan, a nuclear medicine functional imaging technique. Dependent on what to detect, different ligands are used for different imaging purposes, including the measurement of glucose metabolic rate, the quantification of cardiac perfusion or the determination of gene expression. Up to date, there are more than 100 trace... READ MORE |