On November 21st, 2019, the 3rd China-New Zealand Technology Innovation Summit was held in Hangzhou. Professor Yang Tingzhong from the Tobacco Control Research Center of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (TCRC) was invited to attend the conference and gave a speech at the opening ceremony.The theme of this conference is "IDEAS TO LIFE", creating a better world with innovation. Professor Yang said tobacco control is an important method not only to promote population health, but als...

The 3rd Joint Symposium on Integrated Biosciences between Zhejiang University and the University of Tokyo was held in the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology on November 22-25. “ZJU and UTokyo have worked in close partnership with each other and yielded fruitful results in various aspects. I look forward to strengthening ties to develop further links in the future,” said CHEN Xuexin, dean of the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, in the opening ceremony.“I hope that part...

The most basic and pivotal structure of the chip is the field-effect transistor (FET) which is responsible for data storage and operation in this crucial “brain” with stunning rapidity.The FET is primarily comprised of silicon semiconductors. A “highway” is built for electrons or holes to run at the interface between silicon and insulating oxide. Metal electrodes are combined to control the “on/off” switch of the “highway”, thus forming a fundamental metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) ...

Zhejiang University is up seven slots, from #13 to #6, in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Asia University Rankings for 2020.  QS Asia assesses universities based on academic reputation (30%), employer reputation (20%), faculty/student ratio (10%), international research network (10%), citations per paper (10%) and papers per faculty (5%), staff with a PhD (5%), proportion of international faculty (2.5%) and proportion of international students (2.5%), proportion of inbound exchange students (...

On November 24, the grand final of the 1st “Intel Cup” China Postgraduate AI Innovation Competition was concluded in Deqing City, Zhejiang Province. Zhejiang University performed remarkably, clinching a total of six prizes.  “Holding competitions in the field of artificial intelligence among college students is an integral part of serving the national entrepreneurship and innovation strategy and stimulating the innovative potential of young students. I hope that students will integr...

On November 22, the 5th Global Zhejiang Entrepreneurs Innovation & Entrepreneurship Symposium was convened at Zhejiang University. Themed on “Innovation empowers high-quality development,” it attracted 300 distinguished participants in academic and business circles.Present at the symposium were HUANG Zhengqiang, Vice Chairman of Zhejiang Federation of Industry and Commerce, and WU Xiaocheng, Vice Secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang University.“Since the founding of the People...

Two Zhejiang University researchers are among 139 new members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS）and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and 49 foreign associates from 19 countries, the academies announced Friday.The two – YE Zhizhen, a professor of Material Science and Engineering; REN Qilong, a professor of Chemical Engineering and Technology– bring the total number of living ZJU faculty members who are members of the academy to 49.YE, who is director of MOE's Key Laboratory of Biom...

The annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) was hosted in St. Louis, USA, on November 17-20. LIU Shusheng, a professor at the Zhejiang University College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, was elected as a Fellow of ESA for 2019.ESA is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists and individuals in related disciplines. Founded in 1889, ESA has more than 9,000 members affiliated with educational institutions, health ...

20 Zhejiang University scholars are among the world's most influential in their fields, according to the Clarivate Analytics 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List.Spanning several fields of the sciences and engineering, from IoT and soil pollution remediation to clean energy solutions, ZJU scholars named on the list this year are: HUANG Feihe（Chemistry）QIAN Guodong（Chemistry）WU Haobin (Chemistry，Materials Science)REN Kui (Computer Science)SU Hongye (Computer Science，En...

On November 18, the construction of the Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility (CHIEF) kicked off in Hangzhou. Located in Hangzhou Future Sci-tech City, CHIEF covers an area of 89 mu (1 mu≈667 m2) and is expected to be completed within 5 years. CHIEF, the outcome of 13-year scientific and technological research, is headed by CHEN Yunmin from the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture at Zhejiang University. CHIEF is a large-scale complex scientific experi...