Hi ZJUers and our friends around the world!  Ready your phones, GoPros, and cameras for our #HelloBRI video contest! We challenge you to best showcase your country/region — everything from food, scenery spots to local culture, anything you think it is worth to share!  Amaze us with your widely creative video. Learn more about the rules, criteria, & prizes at http://1t.click/7FmImportant DatesVideo Submission: Now – August 31st, 2019, 23:59 (GMT+8, Beijing)Announcement of Winners: S...

“The world of future cannot be understood without understanding China. If you want to understand China within a short period of time, this is the program for you,” said a participant at the closing day of ZJU’s 8th Idea Explorer Summer Camp. “In the past three weeks, I got an insider’s perspective of how to do business in China. This is a fantastic experience.”  Centered on the theme “Start A Business In/With China”, the 8th Idea Explorer Innovation & Entrepreneurship ...

The 11th Chinese Vocal International Competition was held on July 26-27 in Singapore. Seventeen students from the Graduate Art Troupe of ZJU performed spectacularly and clinched four gold and four silver medals.  The International Chinese Vocal Competition is one of the major activities at the International Chinese Arts Festival (ICAF) which is an authorized and specialized arts festival. This year, the Competition is held in Singapore, attracting approximately 800 contestants.The Grad...

Zhejiang University’s ZHAO Yujie has been named the 2018 recipient of ZwickRoell Science Award. The accolade was created to gain new insights in the world of material sciences. ZHAO was presented at the 10th annual Academia Day with the award in Shanghai, China.Her method of in-situ voltage impedance monitoring in magnetic fields lands ZHAO the Third-place. She is the only undergraduate student and other three winners are post-docs with more research experience.Daniel Barba from the Univer...

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,...