The selection process of Top 10 ZJU Academic Advances 2019 was officially launched on January 16, 2020. A total of 32 projects were shortlisted for the award. A panel of judges, consisting of distinguished members of the ZJU Academic Committee and specially invited experts, evaluated candidate projects and singled out 10 projects as the best 10 academic advances.Following are Top 10 ZJU Academic Advances in the year of 2019.1Research into Chinese Classics and Modern Chinese HistoryHeaded by SANG...

If you were to divide 100 students into two groups, what would you do? Would you split them up at random or would you divide them in accordance with certain traits, say, boys or girls? Apparently, the former is far easier.As a matter of fact, an act like this is staged in our living organism at every moment. This is technically termed as cell division, the process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. Conventional wisdom has it that cell constituents are equally distrib...

[Message from the Editor: Recently Joshua Kobb, Vice Dean of International Business School published an article in China Daily with the title ‘Delocalization could be future of higher education.' Global Communication contacted him and he shared some thoughts on trends and perspectives for higher education in the post-COVID-19 world.]Q1: What are current trends in student mobility?Kobb: Over the last several years trends in student mobility have been changing. The US, whi...

Tuesday 12 May is International Nurses Day and a day of celebration for nurses across the world.It is the time to salute the “lady with the lamp”, Florence Nightingale – who was born 200 years ago tomorrow– and to show our appreciation of today’s heroes, the nurses who have been working long, arduous shifts on the coronavirus front line.As President XI Jinping offered his thanks to the “incredible staff” during the pandemic on this special day, we also speak to nurses from the Universi...

Ocean currents provide a clean, non-polluting, renewable energy capable of ending our dependence on fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Recently, the 650 kW H-axis tidal current turbine, developed by Zhejiang University, has been put into operation again.“This 650 kW H-axis turbine is based on a chain of predecessors: the 30 kW, 60 kW and 120 kW turbines and it has the largest unit power in China,” said LI Wei, deputy director of the Zhejiang University Ocean Academy and chair professor of the in...

Caps off to you, graduates! It's time to celebrate. However, as a part of precautions taken amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 2288 spring graduates won't be crossing the stage this year, as the University canceled its in-person commencement.Last week they finally returned to campus and took their graduation photos with their commencement regalia — cap, gown. These photos are served as a way to capture their ZJU experience and make one more memory together.Here is the note from Global Communica...

How have mountains, hills, deserts, rivers and marshes gradually evolved over eons? Why is Pluto, marked by an extremely low air density, dotted with an abundance of dunes? Will there be sandstorms on Mars which is known as a desert planet?It is these enigmas in nature that geophysicists have been endeavoring to unravel. Previous studies indicate that sediment transport is a universal phenomenon in aeolian and fluvial environments and is one of the most fundamental natural processes that shape o...

Zijingang Stadium is the basketball venue for 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. Recently construction of its auxiliary facility - a training center for athletes broke ground, which is scheduled to be completed in Mar, 2021.The 19th Asian Games will be held in Hangzhou from September 10 to 25, 2022. It will be the third Asian Games to be hosted in China, after Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou 2010.

Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the All-China Youth Federation awarded the National May 4 Youth Medals, the top honor for youths in the country, to 60 outstanding individuals and 34 elite groups from various fields across the country. May 4 is China's Youth Day, which is celebrated annually to pay tribute to the May Fourth Movement in 1919. The movement has inspired the ambition and confidence of the Chinese people and nation to realize n...

Today is International Labor Day – a time to honor labor and build the labor solidarity all over the world. This labor day is special as the world is being profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In face of the challenges，ZJU faculty, students, researchers, and staff have been working alongside hospitals, state and city leaders, and many more across China to support the response to the coronavirus outbreak.  One of the important measures against the community spread of the virus is t...