First-hand experience in fighting COVID-19 shared with doctors overseas2020-03-16A trans-continental video seminar, involving experts in Hangzhou, Wuhan, Ireland and the UK, started at 6 p.m. sharp on March 13. Organized by Oisín J. O’Connell, Honorary Senior Medical Lecturer at University College Cork in Ireland, 30-plus overseas specialists had this opportunity to gain access to China’s first-hand experience in dealing with COVID-19.At the seminar, WANG Jian’an, Dean of ... READ MORE |
ZJU students clinch Winner Award in Asia Design Prize 20202020-03-13Have you ever imagined a lamp which can express different emotions like a pet animal? MOMO, which is co-designed by ZHENG Zi and YANG Qihao from the College of Software Technology and LI Jiaji from the College of Computer Science and Technology, is such a lamp that uses emotions to remind you to put down your phone. This desin took home the winner award in Asia Design Prize 2020.MOMO can capt... READ MORE |
RESEARCH@ZJU platform officially launched2020-03-12On the morning of March 7, the RESEARCH@ZJU platform—the one-stop online research space of Zhejiang University—was officially put into operation. This platform aims at promoting online collaboration among research teams and creating a shared research community.“The RESEARCH@ZJU platform will help boost the administrative quality, ease burdens for both faculty and students, build an innovative res... READ MORE |
Dialogue@ZJU: Original innovation is a long-term exercise2020-03-11[Messages from the editor: Scientists hold the belief for a long time that the ferromagnetic quantum critical point does not exist. However, Professor YUAN Huiqiu, executive deputy director of the Center for Correlated Matter (CCM), has been taking an opposite position. SHEN Bin and ZHANG Yongjun, PhD candidates in YUAN’s group, recently shared a Nature paper- “Strange metal behavior i... READ MORE |
ZJU scientists discover new setting for strange metals and quantum criticality2020-03-10A study led by Prof. YUAN Huiqiu at the Center for Correlated Matter and Department of Physics reported the discovery of a quantum critical point and strange metal behavior in the ferromagnet CeRh6Ge4. Their findings overturn the prevailing belief that ferromagnetic quantum critical points do not exist in nature, and establish the existence of an enigmatic “strange metal” phase in a ne... READ MORE |
Research by ZHANG Xing hailed as one of China’s Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 20192020-03-09The Basic Research Management Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology announced China’s Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2019 recently. With the collaborative efforts of research teams led by SHEN Jianren and KUANG Yanyun from the CAS Institute of Botany, SUI Senfang from Tsinghua University, and ZHANG Xing from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, the supermolecular organiza... READ MORE |
Happy International Women’s Day2020-03-08Today is International Women’s Day, a global day to honor women’s rights and achievements across the political, economic, social and cultural spheres. Women in ZJU community stay in the frontline of education，research and innovation and many of them are heroes in harm’s way. ZJU is very proud of these empowering women. There is no better time to shine a light on what they have been... READ MORE |
On the speculation of truth-seeking spirit: A commemoration of Prof. CHU Kochen on his 130th birthday2020-03-07ZJUers are constantly pondering the two questions raised by Prof. CHU Kochen: “ What is your original aspiration on enrollment? Where do you want to go in life?”From 1936 to 1949, Prof. CHU Kochen served as the president of National Chekiang University (now known as Zhejiang University) and elevated our institution to one of the most prestigious universities in China.He encourages youn... READ MORE |
Novel disinhibitory circuit identified for regulation of seizure in TLE2020-03-05Epilepsy is one of the most pervasive neurological disorders, affecting 7.0‰ of the population in China. It is considered to be a circuit-level syndrome pathologically characterized by excessive or hypersynchronous discharges with enhanced neuronal excitability due to excitatory–inhibitory imbalance. Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is particularly challenging from a therapeutic perspective beca... READ MORE |
One World, One Health2020-03-03Today is the UN World Wildlife Day，which is observed to mark the adoption of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1973. The theme of 2020 is Sustaining all Life on Earth.The world is tackling with COVID-19 infection，which is thought to be related to other coronaviruses that circulate in bats. Natural reservoir of this virus is probably th... READ MORE |
Dialogue@ZJU with Prof. ZHANG Weiwen, Vice Dean of the School of Public Affairs2020-03-03[Messages from the editor: Urbanization of migrant workers in China has been discussed extensively. These workers take up the largest proportion of passengers during the holiday. During the outbreak of COVID-19, those who returned to their hometowns before the Spring Festival and those who will return to work may well become the victims of the epidemic.Recently Prof. ZHANG accepted interview ... READ MORE |
Your smartphone may be tapped via a zero-permission app, recent study shows2020-03-02At the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium 2020, the research team comprised of scientists from Zhejiang University, McGill University and the University of Toronto delivered an unsettling message to the general public. In their paper, they claimed that they discovered a new way of attack on a smartphone. Specifically speaking, an app in a smartphone can employ its built-in... READ MORE |
International students lent a hand in the battle against COVID-192020-02-28The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has affected teachers and students throughout the University, including international students. Earlier this month, MAHER, a 2017 PhD candidate of ZJU medical school from Syrian came to the Zijingang campus and handed over more than 4,300 masks to the teachers of the International College. Prior to this, he had donated five large boxes of masks to first-line medical... READ MORE |
How COVID-19 changes us？2020-02-27This Monday more than 40,000 ZJU students experienced a unique first day of new semester. 774 undergraduate classes and 185 graduate classes were online at the same time. Most of them are live streaming, in addition to some previously recorded or MOOC classes.How do ZJUers feel about online learning? Here is a short video about it. READ MORE |