On November 12, the “Science for Future Society” workshop, one of the events in the 2019 General Meeting for the World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS), was held on Zijingang Campus at Zhejiang University.Keynote speakers include Mohamed Hassan (President of TWAS), HUAI Jinpeng (Fellow of CAS and Executive Vice President of China Association for Science and Technology), WU Zhaohui (Fellow of CAS and President of ZJU), RomainMurenzi (Executive Di...

Quantum science and technology is a key research area of 21st century, and may lead to revolutionary advancement in material science and information technology. Over the past decades, quantum information science and technology have witnessed huge achievements, but a continuous effort is still in great demand to move forward the scientific research frontier and develop disruptive applications. Zhejiang University has organized an interdisciplinary disc...

On November 5, ZJU-China, a multi-disciplinary undergraduate team from Zhejiang University, brought home a gold medal from the 2019 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition held in Boston. This is the seventh time that the team has clinched gold at iGEM.Supervised by Professor CHEN Ming from the College of Life Sciences, the team comprises 12 undergraduate students from 6 different colleges: the College of Life Sciences, the Chu Kochen Honors College, the School of Me...

Zhejiang University ranked No. 20 in the world out of 500 academic institutions and 6th among Chinese universities for publication of scientific research, according to the latest report from the Nature Index.  The ranking is based on research results published in 82 high-quality scientific journals. The rate of our inclusion in those prestigious journals in chemistry, life sciences, physical sciences and earth and environmental sciences is taken into account and co-authorship is adjusted fr...

Normal07.8 磅02falsefalsefalseEN-USZH-CNX-NONE“Excuse me, has the information session of Oxford started already?”several students rushed to the registration desk, panted, “yes, 3rd floor”, answered by the staff working in Office of Global Engagement. To offer our students a wide range of overseas study opportunities, the 2nd ZJU Study Abroad Fair is held as scheduled on Oct. 31st. About 30 representatives of ZJU international partner institutions, including universities from Europe...

The central nervous system was previsouly assumed as the major “culprit” behind depression and anxiety. Little attention was paid to the role that other organs played in this process. Recently, researchers from the JIN Jin Lab at the Zhejiang University Life Sciences Institute found that physical stress-induced leukotriene B4 triggers severe mitochondrial fission in CD4+ T cells, which further leads to a variety of behavioral abnormalities including anxiety, depression, and soci...

Research team led by Prof. HE Yong from the Zhejiang University School of Mechanical Engineering recently fabricated all‐printed flexible and stretchable electronics by an integrated multi-material 3D printing process composed of direct ink writing (DIW) of sealing silicone elastomer and special LM-silicone (LMS) inks. The flexible electronics exhibit with excellent printability and good conductivity, significant electrical response to deformation, and great reliability. Their findings...

The 4th edition of the Mobile Application Innovation Contest, part of the China Collegiate Computing Contest, was successfully concluded at Zhejiang University on October 27. Organized by the Ministry of Education and co-hosted by Apple Inc. and Zhejiang University, the Contest attracted about 1,600 teams from colleges and universities throughout China. A total of 30 winning teams were qualified to attend the upcoming Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.Themed on “the application of scie...

On October 18, the inauguration ceremony for the Zhejiang University Food Systems and Policy Lab (FSPL) was held on Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University. Present at the ceremony were about 200 scholars from universities and research institutes both at home and abroad.  YE Min, vice secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang University, delivered a speech at the ceremony. “Zhejiang University will lend generous support to the FSPL and make every endeavor to promote the sustainable public h...

This October, we’re celebrating the 20th anniversary of our Intense Training Program (ITP) for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Chu Kochen Honors College. Thinking back over two decades of progress, “ITP is a trailblazer in China，which establishes innovation-based entrepreneurial education model,”says WU Zhaohui, President of Zhejiang University and Dean of Chu Kochen Honors College. “The creation of the ITP was on-par with everything else ZJU does. We set the bar very high and ...