Poverty is expected to be eliminated in 2020, but this unexpected COVID-19 poses a new challenge to this tough battle. To alleviate poverty, immense attention should be attached to education. On March 12, six universities, including Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Wuhan University and Xi’an Jiaotong University, jointly launched the “Spring Rain” Initiative in an effort to prepare high school seniors for the Gaokao in times of a...

A 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 the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, introduced to the participants a series of me...

Have 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 capture the attention of the user via its variations in emotion and light and “beg” the user to intera...

On 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 research organizational pattern and promote disciplinary fusion and resource sharing. It not only cater...

[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 in a pure ferromagnetic Kondo lattice” with co-first authorship. They shared with Global Commun...

A 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 new setting, that of ferromagnetic materials. Related article was published on 5th March 2020, Nature....

The 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 organization and function of a huge number of protein subunits and pigments of the PSII-LHCII supercomplex w...

Today 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 doing.  Their achievements have been acknowledged by the MoST of China, MIT TR35 China, Ho Leu...

ZJUers 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 younger generation to look inward, reflect upon themselves and set a goal in life.Today, on his 130th&nb...

Epilepsy 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 because of frequent resistance to anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs). Moreover, surgical resection of epileptic...