Teachers’ Day Special: Meet the winners of the Yongping Distinguished Teaching Award2021-09-10[Editor’s note: Yongping Teaching Award is the highest accolade for teaching at Zhejiang University. Set up by Mr. DUAN Yongping ('82, Wireless Electronics Engineering) in 2011, the Award was conferred annually in the first seven years and now in the even-numbered year. In recognition of outstanding dedication and accomplishment in teaching, the Award is composed of three categories: the... READ MORE |
Dialogue@ZJU: With Grand Prize winners at CUPT2021-09-08[Editor’s note: The 12th China Undergraduate Physics Tournament (CUPT), supported by the Ministry of Education, was hosted online by Harbin Normal University from August 21 to 24, with 63 teams from 62 institutions of higher education across China participating. The team from Zhejiang University won the Grand Prize with flying colors, and WANG Hongru, one of the team members, clinched the honorar... READ MORE |
A novel regulator enhances both texture and nutritional quality2021-09-07Fruit softening is a key component of ripening, causing the damage and loss in the fruit food supply chain. It has thus become a scientific and industrial hotspot in the field of post-harvest biology, storage and logistics. Modern breeding often sacrifices fruit quality, such as flavor, aroma and nutrition. Biotechnology has become an important pathway to improving agronomic traits of fruit. One o... READ MORE |
ZJU scientists discover the molecular mechanism of RBSDV inducing cell autophagy in Laodelphax striatellus2021-09-06Rice viruses are prevalent in many rice-growing countries and often cause serious damages to rice production. Among them, the rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV), transmitted by the small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatellus, causes tremendous losses in China’s grain yields every year. Therefore, discovering the transmission mechanism of RBSDV is of immense significance for its effective ... READ MORE |
BRIDGE Design Week kicks off2021-09-04“To achieve the UN’s SDGs, we need to consider multiple aspects – technology, art, culture, humanity, and business – and come up with creative, practical solutions to specific development challenges,” Prof. SUN Shouqian, secretary-general of Innovation Design Alliance of China, said at the opening ceremony of the BRIDGE Design Week 2021, which was held on Sept. 4 at Zhejiang University. BRIDGE&... READ MORE |
ZJU continues to rise in the THE World University Rankings2021-09-02Zhejiang University continues to rise in the newly released Times Higher Education World University Rankings, climbing 19 places to rank 75th in the world.The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.ZJU maintains its strength in the knowledge ... READ MORE |
Effects of high temperature on two mirid predators in rice ecosystem2021-09-01In recent years, atmospheric temperature has been on the increase and extreme heat events have occurred frequently, which may not only affect the growth and development of individual organisms but also disturb the inter-species balance in competition, predation and parasitism, thereby exerting deleterious impacts on biodiversity and the ecosystem. Many studies have concluded that global warming ma... READ MORE |
Scientists design peptidic positive allosteric modulators targeting TRPV12021-08-31With the expeditious development of structural biology techniques represented by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, the 3D structures of an increasing number of important proteins have been revealed. Taking ion channels as an example, at present, the structure of at least one member of virtually every major ion channel family has been successfully resolved. It is thus one major research dir... READ MORE |
Crucial role of circadian clock in plant thermomorphogenesis2021-08-30Global warming has a dramatic impact on plant ecosystems as well as on crop productivity. Plants are able to sense ambient temperatures and transduce these signals to trigger subsequent responses for physiological adjustment and developmental adaptation. Mild-warm temperatures induce morphological changes, including hypocotyl / petiole elongation, leaf hyponasty, and accelerated flowering, known a... READ MORE |
Insight@ZJU: Professor WEI Longbao shares the main points of the new book co-published by ZJU and FAO2021-08-29[Editor’s Note: Recently, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Zhejiang University co-published the Digital Agriculture Report: Rural E-commerce Development Experience from China, exploring the role of rural e-commerce in transforming the agri-food systems in China. Just as Mr. QU Dongyu, the FAO Director-General, wrote in the Foreword, the report “marks a step on th... READ MORE |
Join us in the Youth Statement on Climate Action2021-08-26[Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, Zhejiang University, with its commitment to the SDGs, launched an action plan named A Global ZJU for Social Good (Z4G) and joined forces with 60 peer universities from 31 countries and regions to make a joint statement on the 2030 Agenda. Now at the invitation of the Organizing Committee of the 16th UN Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY1... READ MORE |
International Campus: a living laboratory for sustainability2021-08-25[Editor’s note: Today, China celebrates its ninth annual National Low Carbon Day, a campaign created to boost awareness of energy efficiency and low-carbon development policies. Let’s visit ZJU's International Campus, the first university campus in China that has joined the Eco-Campus certification system and received a platinum award, to see how it commits itself to building a zero-carbon l... READ MORE |
Role of Dscam1 alternative splicing bias in neuronal wiring2021-08-23The Drosophila Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (Dscam1) can generate 38,016 different isoforms through alternative splicing, which has been illustrated as a classical example in many textbooks and treatises. It has been suggested as an important regulator of neural circuits. Each neuron acquires a unique cell surface identity through the expression of a unique combination of tens of isof... READ MORE |
Dialogue@ZJU: With Dr. SHAO Fangwei from the International Campus2021-08-22【Message from the editor: Opening in 2015, the International Campus is now composed of two joint institutes, one international business school and one institute of China Studies, offering 7 undergraduate program, 14 master’s degree programs and 23 Ph.D. programs. Located in the city of Haining, between Shanghai and Hangzhou, the Campus is currently the home to 55 full-time faculty memb... READ MORE |