Zhejiang University has launched a new CREATE Action Plan aimed at providing a strategic direction to the various global endeavours undertaken in the University. Through a collaborative exercise involving multiple administrative offices,the Action Plan, comprised of six pillars which intentionally intersect in scope and goals to promote interactions and reap the benefits of global reach, was developed to meet the overaching goal of ZJU as a world-class university.Six objectives and the related a...

On December 8th, the 2019 International Conference for Big Data and Intelligent Health was convened at Zhejiang University. The conference was co-organized by School of Public Health, the Second Affiliated Hospital of School of Medicine and the National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine at Zhejiang University. Themed on “Population Health and Intelligent Medicine in the Era of Big Data”, it attracted more than 200 participants from academic and industry. Prof. WU Xifeng, d...

Understanding large-scale crop growth and its responses to climate change is critical to yield estimation and prediction. Remote sensing provides timely and cost-effective monitoring of crop progress on a large scale based on the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and plant material.  Identifying and understanding the cumulative and nonlinear relationships between meteorological factors and corn yield is critical to learning how weather change affects agricultural production. How...

The winner of the 2019 AR New into Old awards, alongside two Highly Commended and three Commended buildings, for sustainable alternatives to building anew have been selected by the panel of judges, consisting of Roz Barr, director and founder of Roz Barr Architects, Hugh Strange, founder of Hugh Strange Architects, and Catherine Slessor, writer, critic and former editor of The Architectural Review, recently.  Qingyuan Young Professors’ Club by the Architectural Design and Research Institut...

Last year, Children’s Hospital attached to Fudan University cured a special patient. He was a two-year-old Chinese boy, with periodic fever episodes occurring every eight to ten days and lasting for three to five days. Doctors suspected him of developing a hereditary disease, but they failed to pinpoint the specific reason.With the advice of researchers, doctors adopted a novel therapeutic method, by which the boy experienced clinical improvement and the frequency of fevers declined significant...

MIT Technology Review announced its regional list of the top 35 innovators under the age of 35 in China—the TR35 China at EmTech China. 3 ZJUers earned the title of pioneers and inventors.WU Dan was selected for the MIT TR China as a pioneer for her work in improving the resolution of medical images and the imaging speed. She developed a three-dimensional high-resolution diffusion MRI sequence which achieved an ultra-high resolution (0.1x0.1x0.1 mm) of high-field in vivo brain imaging....

The 1st edition of Zhejiang Provincial Contest on Intelligent Robotics Innovation was held at Zhejiang University on December 6-8. A total of 283 teams from 39 universities across the province participated in the contest.There were three categories in the contest: “Innovative Design: Intelligent Robots Make the Future More Colorful”, “Innovative Athletics: Rubik’s Cube Robots Challenge Human Extremes” and “Innovative Fighting: IRFC Intelligent Robot Fighting Contest—Fusion of Modern S...

The IEEE Globecom 2019 Best Paper Award Ceremony was held in Hawaii on December 12. The research article entitled “iLoc: A Low-Cost Low-Power Outdoor Localization System for Internet of Things”, authored by Ph.D. candidates HU Kang and CHEN Yuhao under the supervision of Prof. HE Shibo, Prof. SHI Zhiguo and Prof. CHEN Jiming from the College of Control Science and Engineering, was honored to win the Best Paper Award.  This work is concerned with a LoRa-based localization system for IoT wh...

Study in ZJU, start an inspiring journey.Applications for Chinese Government Scholarship-Chinese University Program to study in Zhejiang University are open until March 31st, 2020.This scholarship offers full financial support, including tuition fee, accommodation expense on campus, stipend (granted in accordance with the relevant standard) and comprehensive medical insurance, to outstanding international students who pursue any eligible postgraduate degree in Zhejiang University .   Key in...

The International Anti-Corruption Day, which falls on December 9 every year, is observed to raise public awareness of fighting against corruption all over the world.On the International Anti-Corruption Day this year, four students from the Zhejiang University College of Computer Science and Technology, including SHEN Lvkesheng, LU Ziyi, XING Shuting and CAI Yu, stood on the podium at the 2019 International Youth Contest of Social Anti-Corruption Advertising “Together against Corruption!”. Thei...