Zhejiang University today announced the creation of three new Double Degree Programs in Math, in collaboration with École Polytechnique, Mines ParisTech, and Université Paris-Saclay respectively.Starting in fall 2020, these programs will allow top-notch students to earn both French and Chinese degrees in five to six years’ time. Students will learn to analyze complex problems in mathematical sciences and develop global competence crucial to the rapidly-evolving world.Take the program with Écol...

Dr. CHEN Zhong, a professor from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Zhejiang University, publishes a review article entitled “An Update for Epilepsy Research and Antiepileptic Drug Development: Toward Precise Circuit Therapy” in the journal of Pharmacology &Therapeutics.   Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder marked by repeated, spontaneous epileptic seizures caused by excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Taking anti-epileptic drugs...

The TruSense team, comprised of 11 students from different colleges at Zhejiang University, including the College of Life Sciences, the CKC Honors College, the Department of Chemistry, the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, the School of Medicine and the School of Economics, won the Public Inspiration Award at SenseUs 2019 held from August 26 to September 4 in the Netherlands.SensUs, launched by the Eindhoven University of Technology in 2015, is an annual international student c...

Echinochloa crus-galli (E. crus-galli) is the most hazardous weed which mankind has made every endeavor to decimate over several millennia. Researchers at ZJU’s College of Agriculture and Biotechnology and China National Rice Research Institute discover that in order to evade“eradication”, it has picked up the skill of“camouflaging” itself by bearing closer resemblances to rice.“Human behavior has accelerated the evolution of E. crus-galli, thereby giving rise to unintentional se...

As Charles Darwin put it, living fossils are an exceptional group for examining evolution issues such as extinction, competition, and adaptation. The ginkgo tree is an enigmatic living fossil, characterized by morphological stasis with almost no morphological change for at least 245 million years. A once-diverse and widespread group of gymnosperms, the ginkgo lineage has survived glaciations as a relic in China and is widely distributed all over the globe. Hence, ginkgo has long been perceived a...

Professor YAN Jianhua and Professor LU Guodong have won the first prizes in the 2018 National Teaching Achievement Award（higher education）. This quadrennial Award is the highest national award in teaching and education granted by the Ministry of Education (MoE) in recognition of excellence in higher education teaching.Professor YAN is Professor in the College of Energy Engineering and vice president of Zhejiang University. He won the award for leading the “Research on Innovatio...

How did you spend your summer vacation? Did you plant mangroves in Thailand? Or maybe you worked in the world renown labs of ULCA? Regardless of how your holidays went, planting mangroves and lab work in UCLA were some of the activities students of Zhejiang University carried out during the 2019 summer vacation.Having been awarded the International Strategy of the Year by Times Higher Education, Zhejiang University continues to break boundaries and lead in the quality and the quantity of op...

On August 26, the research team led by Prof. WANG Huiming in the Stomatology Hospital affiliated to the Zhejiang University School of Medicine published an article entitled “Chiral Geometry Regulates Stem Cell Fate and Activity” in the journal of Biomaterials. This work offers a pioneering research into the role of chiral geometry in regulating stem cell fate and activity.Chirality is a fundamental property in nature and chiral objects are not superimposable with their mirror images. Ever...

Prof. WU Zhaohui, president of Zhejiang University, led a delegation to Europe this week as part of the university’s efforts to strengthen its connections in the region.The university has strong ties with international organizations and further extension on cooperation is one of the important actions of its global strategy – GLOBAL ZJU: CREATE to impact. During this trip,ZJU delegation visited the World Economic Forum (WEF), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), U.N. Institute ...

Hello, ZJUers across the globe!Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a holiday that is all about giving thanks, for nature’s abundance and for joyful reunions with loved ones. On this special day, no matter where you are, Zhejiang University wishes you and your family a wonderful time!About Mid-Autumn FestivalThe Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in many East Asian communities. In China, it's a reunion time for families, just like Thanksgiving in the US.The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called th...