ZJU has been shortlisted in the International Strategy of the Year category in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia 2019.The THE Awards Asia celebrate and publicize excellence in five key areas of university activity, namely Leadership and Management Team, International Strategy, Teaching and Learning Strategy, Outstanding Support for Students and Technological Innovation.The award of International Strategy of the Year recognizes outstanding success of an insti...

Recognized as a modern economy running on reliable roads and rails, China has made great efforts in developing transport infrastructure for decades. The network of roads and railways ties the country together and is at the heart of China’s outstanding economic growth.For any roads and railways, foundation is key to their construction, safety and long-term use. Complex geological conditions in China pose many challenges to this step. For example, in the coastal areas of southern China,...

█▌FEATURE ▌Nestled in a quiet corner near the university’s newly opened northeast gate, a group of paddlers gently push multi-coloured boats into the chilly waters. One by one, the boats slide into the calm lake. The sound of splashing water intersperses the light banter of the paddlers. Rays of sunlight pierce through the fresh flower buds of the overhanging trees, a gentle spring breeze adds to the crisp morning atmosphere.The tranquility belies the intense training about to begin for me...

The research team led by WANG Ben, an associate professor in the Zhejiang University Institute of Translational Medicine, develops a shear-flow-driven layer-by-layer (SF-LbL) in situ self-assembly technology. Their research is published in the journal of ACS Nano. This technology not only boosts the assembly speed tremendously and optimizes the surface texture of assembly films but also produces the in situ assembly film on wounded corneas and skin and accelerates the restoration of ch...

On Jan. 27, 35 students from ZJU’s School of Management and School of Computer Science and Technology arrived at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) for the 2019 Design + Innovation Singapore Winter Program. In the following week, they were brought through an innovation process that helped them better understand and practice user-centric design thinking.Organized by ZJU’s School of Management, the workshop aims to provide students with a unique design and innovation ...

The research team headed up by Prof. LU Linrong from the Institute of Immunology publishes an article entitled “Phosphatase PP2A is essential for TH17 differentiation” in the journal of PNAS. Phosphatase PP2A expression levels are positively correlated to the clinical severity of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and IL17A cytokine overproduction, indicating a potential role of PP2A in controlling TH17 differentiation and inflammation. By generating a mouse strain with ablation of t...

Recently, Dr. WANG Dawei and Prof. WANG Haohua from the Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, in collaboration with several domestic and overseas teams, have successfully synthesized antisymmetric spin exchange interactions in an artificial quantum system and explored a novel approach to chiral spin clusters in superconducting circuits. Relevant findings are published in the January 21 issue of Nature Physics.When it comes to quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat ...

To the ZJU community and our international friends, Warmest greetings from the Office of Global Engagement for a Happy New Year.  We wish you and your family a joyful and prosperous 2019!Find out more about Chinese New Year: https://chinesenewyear.net/greetings/

On Jan. 31, a new Innovation Center of ZJU International Innovation Institute (ZIII) was set up in Tokyo.  ZHAO Rongxiang, director of ZIII delivered a congratulatory speech at the unveiling ceremony. He introduced Global ZJU to the guests and shared with them the achievements that ZIII has made in recent years. He expected the ZIII Tokyo Innovation Center to connect the University with Japan, thereby contributing to the docking of talents, technology and capital, the construction of a...

A research team led by WANG Fudi, a professor at the School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, discovers that ferroptosis, a programmed iron-dependent cell death, as a mechanism in murine models of doxorubicin (DOX)- and ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced cardiomyopathy. Five effective approaches are explored to preventing cardiac injuries, including ferroptosis inhibitor Fer-1, iron chelatordexrazoxane (DXZ), mitochondria-targeted antioxidant MitoTEMPO, Hmox1 inhibitor zinc protoporphyrin I...