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Nobel laureate Michael Levitt joins ZJU with an honorary professorship

2018-04-16

On 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...

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Students on live show to introduce ZJU

2018-04-16

On 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...

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The 1st International Student Sports Day kicks off on Zhoushan Campus

2018-04-16

On 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...

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Human intervention in Trapa natans may date back to 6,000 years ago

2018-04-16

WANG 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...

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Stunningly beautiful tulips in blossom on Zijingang Campus

2018-04-13

Located 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...

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Paper on Content Addressable Memory received by world’s top symposia

2018-04-12

Recently, 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...

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Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics programs graded “outstanding” by experts

2018-04-11

Normal010 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 ...

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ZJU hosts Hokkaido University Day

2018-04-10

From 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-...

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How not to be an online conversation killer

2018-04-10

Artificial 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...

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ZJU joins hands with Alibaba Cloud to establish “SmartCloud Laboratory”

2018-04-08

On 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...

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ZJU scientists develop a system for CRISPR-Cpf1-mediated genome editing in human pluripotent stem cells

2018-04-08

Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), including human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), offer a promising solution to study human early development and investigate human diseases.It is of paramount importance to develop methods for rapid, efficient, and controllable genetic manipulation of hPSCs. However, precise genome editing in hPSCs remains time-co...

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Rhodes Scholars interact face to face with ZJU students

2018-04-06

On April 4, seventeen Rhodes Scholars and 17 student representatives from Zhejiang University gathered on the Zijingang Campus for talks and discussions on significant global issues.Rhodes scholarship was founded by British politician and businessman Cecil Rhodes in 1902. Also known as the Global Nobel Prize for undergraduates, the scholarship aims to finance students from all over the world ...

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UN official shares professional experience with students

2018-04-03

A senior official from the United Nations visited Zhejiang University on April 2 to share his professional experience with students.Dr. Yong Ho, a Chinese Language Supervisor of the UN Chinese Program, was on ZJU’s Xixi Campus to give a lecture titled “Approach to the United Nations”. The talk is part of the Lecture Series on Talent Training for International Organizations organized by ZJU’s C...

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Hangzhou leads the nation in innovation and entrepreneurship, new index says

2018-04-02

With China’s economic development stepping into the new normal, “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” has become the strategic thrust of the comprehensive development of a city. The unique entrepreneurial climate and pragmatic innovative spirit have made Hangzhou one of the leading cities in innovation and entrepreneurship nationwide, according to a recent index.The “2018 Hangzhou Index of In...

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