ZJU's contribution to the world's longest sea-crossing bridge2018-10-24The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world's longest sea-crossing bridge, was open to traffic on Oct. 23. The bridge spans the waters of the Pearl River Estuary and cuts the travel time between Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao from three hours to 30 minutes.The bridge, crowned as a modern Wonder of the World, carries more than 400 original patents and sets seven world records. When people ma... READ MORE |
Ideas to reality: International College Students' Entrepreneurship Invitational Competition 20182018-10-23"At first it all began with a simple idea: make running more fun," said LI Chenxiao, CEO of StepBeats and a sophomore from ZJU’s College of Media and International Culture. "One day I heard someone complaining beats in his music doesn’t match his running steps, and it came to my mind that it would be great to have music produced in real time in sync with the runner... READ MORE |
ZJU ranks first in 4th China College Students' 'Internet Plus' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition2018-10-22The 4th China College Students’ ‘Internet Plus’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, themed on “Ride the Tide of the Era and Strive for Excellence in China”, was held at Xiamen University on Oct. 12-15. More than 2.65 million college students from both China and abroad signed up for the competition with over 640,000 projects in total. Zhejiang University has clinched 2 cham... READ MORE |
2018 China-Korea-Italy Workshop on Submerged Floating Tunnel held at ZJU2018-10-21A Submerged Floating Tunnel (SFT) is a great potential traffic structure for crossing long waterways and deep straits. It has been included in one of the 60 important scientific and engineering technical problems by China Association for Science and Technology in this year. Currently, the design and construction technology of SFT has attracted great attention and special research from scienti... READ MORE |
Hepatic neoplasm kinetics revealed by Holo-Seq2018-10-20The research team headed by JIA Junling at the Life Sciences Institute and the research team led by ZHENG Min in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University co-published a research article entitled “Holo-Seq: single-cell sequencing of holo-transcriptome” in the October 17 issue of Genome Biology, a top journal in genomics.Researchers used the single-cell holo-transcriptome sequencing (H... READ MORE |
A novel type of battery developed to store energy using porous carbon from mold2018-10-19The research team, headed by XIA Xinhui at the School of Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, developed a novel type of high-energy lithium-sulfur（Li/S）battery using porous carbon from Aspergillus Oryzae， a species of fugi to ferment soybeans for soy sauces in eastern Asian countries. They introduced porous carbon fermented from waste fruits and vegetables into the ene... READ MORE |
Professor Diffie delivers his first undergraduate lesson on Yuquan Campus2018-10-17Pioneer of public-key cryptography and Turing Laureate Bailey Whitfield Diffie had his first lesson for undergraduates on Yuquan Campus today. Students from sophomore to senior coming from different campuses gathered for this first lecture.The first lesson is an introduction to cyber security. Starting from the example of a phony caller asking for secret information, Prof. Diffie talked ... READ MORE |
A new approach to reconstruct pelvic bone defects using autograft2018-10-17Pelvic surgery has long been a hard nut to crack in the medical field due to the complex structure of the pelvis. Pelvic ring reconstruction after resection of pelvic malignancies or aggressive benign tumors remains challenging and formidable both at home and abroad.Recently, the research team led by Prof. YE Zhaoming in the Department of Orthopedics at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zheji... READ MORE |
ZJU's inaugural edition of Major Festival kicks off2018-10-15Mid-October is the time for more than 6,000 ZJU freshmen to declare their majors. In order to help them learn about different majors, the university held a special "major" exposition last weekend.At this exposition, professors from 34 departments and schools acted as “exhibitors”. They showcased the dazzling highlights in their discipline to freshmen in a vivid and tangible manner.The ... READ MORE |
Progress made on super-planckian near-field radiative heat between graphene sheets2018-10-12The research team headed by Prof. MA Yungui at the College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, made significant progress in experiments on near-field thermal radiation. Their findings are featured in a research article entitled “Observing of the super-Planckian near-field thermal radiation between graphene sheets” in the October 2 issue of Nature Communications.Objects ... READ MORE |
Undergraduate survey says ZJUers are happy about the education quality2018-10-10Results are finally in! An education survey has been conducted for five consecutive years since 2014. With information provided by the University, Mycos Inc. independently performs this survey.Curious about how ZJUers think about the overall training they get here, student satisfaction, employment rates and starting salaries?Here is the infographic for you. READ MORE |
Regulatory role of LncRNA identified in Ca2+ Signaling-Mediated Tumor Microenvironment Remodeling2018-10-09The research team led by LIN Aifu, a researcher at the College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, published a research paper entitled “LncRNACamK-A Regulates Ca2+ Signaling-Mediated Tumor Microenvironment Remodeling” in the September 13 issue of Molecular Cell.The tumor microenvironment is the cellular environment in which the tumor exists. The tumor and the surrounding microenviro... READ MORE |
Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital shares practices of an "Internet+" hospital in China2018-10-08Here is the case when you get sick and want to see a doctor in China. Four line-ups are ahead of you: The first line-up is for making an appiontment, known as guahao in Chinese. After guahao, you wait in line to see the doctor. Then you get your prescription and line up again to pay for it. Now you reach the last queue to pick up your medication.Just imagine the time you spend on waiting.&nbs... READ MORE |
New PIEGL students start their journey at ZJU2018-10-05“PIEGL is a program that has so much to offer for people like me. It is a program right at the centre of current business global trends of innovation and entrepreneurship. I hope to learn and gain knowledge from the professors and especially my fellow classmates,” said Jo-Anne Zuze from Zimbabwe, one of the new program participants on the welcome ceremony.Jointly developed by ZJU’s Internationa... READ MORE |