First Cultural Festival lands on International Campus2018-04-25On April 21, the first ever Cultural Festival of International Campus kicked off. Students from 46 different countries and regions wore special costumes, hosted stalls and played games, offering a wonderful feast for the audience.The international zone exhibited cultural traditions of different countries. The Nepal students showed their beautiful mountains, the splendid Spanish students showed the... READ MORE |
Origami Robot Workshop dazzles at 5th National Collegiate Art Exhibition2018-04-24On April 16, the 5th National Collegiate Art Exhibition, co-hosted by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai People’s Government, kicked off in Shanghai Exhibition Center. It attracted 47 creative and innovative workshops from domestic universities. The Origami Robot Workshop, established by ZJU’s International Design Institute, dazzled visitors at the exhibition. “Origami robots are made ... READ MORE |
ZJU shines at 46th Int'l Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva2018-04-19Zhejiang University is proud to announce that four projects from the ZJU-led delegation have won a total of four awards at the prestigious 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva held in Switzerland on April 11-14. Held annually in Geneva, the International Exhibition of Inventions is recognized as the most revered and specialized event of its kind in the world. It attracts exhibitor... READ MORE |
Researchers develop software to curb kids' obsession with smartphones2018-04-18If you give your smartphone to an elfish kid, you may encounter the following scenarios. A two-year-and-a-half old boy who wants to watch an animated film tries passcode after passcode like crazy. As a result, the phone will be “locked” for 48 years. A 7-year-old British girl cracks the password of her parent’s phone and spends over ￡10,000 in booking a package tour of the Disneyland.After num... READ MORE |
Nobel laureate Michael Levitt joins ZJU with an honorary professorship2018-04-16On the afternoon of April 13, Prof. Michael Levitt, the 2013 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, joined the ZJU's Center for Quantitative Biology as an honorary professor.President WU Zhaohui delivered a welcome address at the ceremony. Also present at the ceremony was Vice President ZHANG Hongjian.Michael Levitt is one of the first researchers to conduct molecular dynamics simulations of DNA and... READ MORE |
Students on live show to introduce ZJU2018-04-16On April 14, two ZJU students, JIN Yufei and DENG Yunqiu, attended a live show on China Daily as hosts and took the audience to a tour around Zhejiang University.Screenshot of this live show on the phoneSince the second event of Vision China will be held in Hangzhou, China Daily presents a series of live shows introducing the city as pre-event warmup on Facebook. As the best university in the... READ MORE |
The 1st International Student Sports Day kicks off on Zhoushan Campus2018-04-16On April 14, the 1st International Sports Day was held by International Students Association at Ocean College, Zhejiang University.On the Sports Day, international students were grouped into Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter teams. A fierce competition kicked off with the first game “needle and thread”.In the following games of "tog a war", "balloon step... READ MORE |
Human intervention in Trapa natans may date back to 6,000 years ago2018-04-16WANG Wei, a Tang Dynasty Chinese poet, once wrote “And by the ferry torches and lanterns are burned, with loads of water chestnuts the folk have returned.” This poem mirrors a time-honored tradition of cultivating and picking Trapa natans (a.k.a water chestnuts) in China.Recently, a research team led by GUO Yi, an associate professor with the Department of Archaeology and Museology, Zhejian... READ MORE |
Stunningly beautiful tulips in blossom on Zijingang Campus2018-04-13Located in the western area of Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University, is a small plot with pink tulips in bud or in blossom. These tulips are tended by three students from the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology. The newly-imported tulip bulb from the Netherlands is as large as an egg, but it will be reduced to the size of a quail egg due to nutrition absorption after one-year growth. The deg... READ MORE |
Paper on Content Addressable Memory received by world’s top symposia2018-04-12Recently, a paper focused on the Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) has been received by the 2018 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits (VLSI Symposia). The paper was written by Prof. ZHAO Yi’s research group in ZJU’s College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering.This work utilizes semiconductor integrated circuit technology to design and develop a new kind of TCAM bas... READ MORE |
Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics programs graded “outstanding” by experts2018-04-11Normal010 磅02falsefalsefalseEN-USZH-CNX-NONEZJU's College of Energy Engineering has achieved top grades during a three-day international evaluation. Image: Experts visit research facilities at ZJU.According to a recent evaluation, Zhejiang University’s academic programs in Power Engineering and EngineeringThermophysics have been considered “outstanding” by international standards.The ... READ MORE |
ZJU hosts Hokkaido University Day2018-04-10From March 27 to 28, ZJU's Zijingang Campus received a group of special guests from Japan's Hokkaido University (Hokudai), led by President Professor Toyoharu Nawa. This delegation consists of 25 faculty and staff members from different schools, including agriculture, engineering and health sciences, as well as 21 students. During their stay in Hangzhou, the Japanese guests had an in-... READ MORE |
How not to be an online conversation killer2018-04-10Artificial intelligence can tell whether your next post to an online forum will engage others or fall flat.JIAO Yunhai, a senior student majoring in computer science at Zhejiang University, developed a deep learning model called the ConverNet, which can judge whether or not a conversation will continue after careful analyses. AI can tell what kind of words will run a higher risk of becoming a conv... READ MORE |
ZJU joins hands with Alibaba Cloud to establish “SmartCloud Laboratory”2018-04-08On April 3, 2018, the “SmartCloud Laboratory”, jointly initiated by the Information Technology Center of Zhejiang University and Alibaba Cloud, was officially inaugurated. The lab will be committed to research into technologies and theories concerning cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the 5th generation wireless system (5G), future networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) and intro... READ MORE |