Today 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 these flying mammals. The intermediate host involved in the transmission to humans, which is probably ...

[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 by www.thepaper.cn and CGTN GlobalBusiness. She shared some insights on this issue and the meas...

At 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 accelerometer to eavesdrop on the speaker by recognizing the speech emitted by the speaker and reco...

The 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 staff.After the epidemic broke out, he was very moved to see his mentor and doctors and friends imm...

This 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.

[Editor’s Message: The outbreak of novel coronavirus has had a widespread impact on Chinese society. In view of the epidemic, "Internet + Education" has become the best choice for teaching. The large scale practice of online training of this spring offers unique chance to explore the future development of online education in China.In this context, Joshua Kobb,deputy dean of Zhejiang University International Business School shared his views on the topic "Living the Moment: Wh...

“Life is of paramount importance. When an epidemic breaks out, a command is issued. It is our responsibility to prevent and control it,” Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said, calling on Chinese people to prioritize efforts to battle coronavirus nationwide.Since the outbreak of COVID-19, ZJU scholars have contributed their expertise and knowledge to this fierce battle. They have submitted more than 20 reports to departments at various levels and published over 40 edi...

On February 20, LI Lanjuan, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, walked out of the ICU ward of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University. When she took off her protective goggles, there were two deep furrows on her haggard face. People cannot help bursting into tears at the sight of this photo.During the outbreak of COVID-19, two names—ZHONG Nanshan and LI Lanjuan—have left an indelible impression on the Chinese people.  Following is a flashback of LI Lanjuan’s life in the past 18 day...

PinduoduoOn January 29, Zhejiang University set up the Zhejiang University Fund for Prevention and Control of Viral Infectious Diseases in conjunction with Shanghai Xunmeng Information Technology Co., Ltd. (Pinduoduo), which was founded by HUANG Zheng (a member of the Class of ’01 in computer sciences at Zhejiang University), with a scale of 100 million yuan. This fund is earmarked for the prevention and treatment of viral infections and respiratory infectious diseases, particularly for the sup...

Times Higher Education (THE) has released its latest ranking ofinstitutions in emerging economies.Zhejiang Univesity is proud to learn that it has been ranked 3rd of the top universities in 47 countries or regions.The announcement was made in London on Febuary 18, 2020. The ranking considers research-led universities from the 50 countries classified by FTSE as emerging countries (advanced and secondary) or “frontier economies”. These include countries such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Egypt...