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...

[Message from the Editor: In the time of COVID-19 pandemic, ZJU community is concerned about the lives of overseas students. Here is the second part of our dialogue with them.]SUN Tiantian, PhD CandidateMajor: Marine Resources and EnvironmentOverseas university：Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (Germany)Starting time: Dec, 2019“Leibneiz institute has been scheduled to be closed from March 15th to April 19th, 2020. Since then, I have started to study from home. Group meeting i...

Despite advanced therapies, approximately 1/3 of the patients with early-stage breast cancer will experience recurrence or metastasis, with a four-year survival rate of about 20%. Metastases in lungs are the leading cause of breast cancer deaths. Clinically, the systematic treatment of metastatic breast cancer after surgery is largely dependent on chemotherapy. However, the efficacy of this treatment is hindered by the inadequate drug delivery, where many existing therapeutic drugs cannot reach ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN). The UN has launched the UN75 Dialogues, the largest global series of dialogue activities to date, encouraging research institutions around the world to carry out dialogues on the topic of building a better future for all. School of Public Affairs (SPA) of Zhejiang University responded to the call of the UN and held a dialogue event with the theme of “Public Governance Research under the Pandemic” on April 21, 2020. 14 expert...