The 2019 ASME Pressure Vessels & Piping Conference was held on July 14-19 in San Antonio, USA. The PVP Conference is known as an outstanding international technical forum through which participants can exchange opinions and ideas with leading experts from industry and academia, and deepen their knowledge base through exposure to diverse topics.The 2019 edition attracted 895 participants from 37 countries and regions. As a routine, one research paper was awarded the Outstanding Technical...

On July 10, BI Lei, a principal investigator with the School of Earth Sciences at Zhejiang University, received the 2019 IAMAS (International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences) Early Career Scientist Medal Award at the 100th IAMAS Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada in recognition of his outstanding contribution to research on light scattering by non-spherical and inhomogeneous particles with applications in atmospheric radiative transfer, remote sensing and clim...

Anticancer nanomedicines, such as liposomal doxorubicin, are supposed to be delivered to the cytosol of cancer cells in solid tumours like a “package”. However, at present, clinically-used nanomedicines can do nothing more than reduce their side effects, thus unable to improve their therapeutic efficacy significantly. One of the major reasons is that nanomedicines fail to penetrate into every cancer cell in tumors in a “door-to-door” manner.Then, how to deliver nanomedicines to cancer cells ...

More than 60 students from across the Strait participated in a summer camp on Chinese martial arts starting on July 6.Organized by ZJU, the five-day event featured thematic seminars and lectures, friendly matches and performances. It covered topics such as the spirits and values of martial arts, the standardization issue of martial arts development, and the relationship between martial arts and dancing.“I learned from this summer camp that martial arts and Chinese culture are intertwined with e...

On July 12 - 18, a total of 54 students from Chinese University of Hong Kong, Taiwan Central University, Nanjing University, Beijing Normal University and Zhejiang University took an exciting journey together in the 2019 Eco-Innovation Competition Camp. Supported by the Cross-strait Green University Consortium, the Camp is themed with “Beginning with Soil, Ending with Beauty”.  Based on academic backgrounds and interests， 15 teams were formed to participate in the soil conservation  ...

The 2019 World Aquatic Championships and the IAAF Diamond League kicked off on the evening of July 21. Two ZJUers—SUN Yang and XIE Zhenye—dazzled the whole world with their stellar performance.XIE Zhenye, who started to pursue his master’s degree in athletic training at Zhejiang University in 2016, broke the Asian men’s 200 meters record by clocking 19.88 seconds, becoming the first Asian to finish the race within 20 seconds.SUN Yang, the 2014 Class of athletic training at Zhejiang University,...

“We want to find out the most valuable seller and the most prospective buyer among 100 million subscribers,” one of the digital engineers with Ant Financial Services Group talks about this challenge at work.“The framework we have created may help,” replies HE Shibo, a prinicipal investigator with the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, “At the core of this issue is the evaluation of every single node in a multilayer network.”The research team led by Prof. CHEN ...

A well-fed mouse is dozing off. All of a sudden, a yellow optical fiber in its brain evokes its feeding behavior and it starts to devour food ravenously again.This scene can be observed in a lab of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University. Neurologist WANG Hao discovers a set of neurons which can “unplug” mice’s feeding behavior.The relevant finding is published in the July 16 issue of Cell Reports. This “on/off switch”—GABAergic cells as an inhibitor—is located in the anterior vent...

Three projects designed by the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University (UAD) won the World Architecture Awards 2019 recently, which marks a significant milestone for UAD.1. Yiwu Culture Square  Construction site: Yiwu, ZhejiangConstruction area: 82,360 m2Design year: 20102. Permanent Site of UN Geospatial Information Management Forum, Deqing County  Construction site: Deqing County, ZhejiangConstruction area: 72,063 m2Design year: 20133. Newly ...

Dr. Hailan Hu, professor at the Center for Neuroscience of ZJU's School of Medicine, is awarded the Twelfth IBRO-Kemali International Prize for Research in the field of Basic and Clinical Neurosciences. This is the first time that the IBRO-Kemali Prize has been awarded to a scientist outside of Europe and North America since it was established in 1998. Dr. Hu will be awarded the prize and its award of 25,000 EUR by the IBRO President at the next FENS Forum in Glasgow, Scotland...