The Institute of China Studies aspires to educate students through interdisciplinary curriculum and in-depth field research in contemporary China’s political, economic, historical, and societal context.The Program in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership (PIEGL) is designed for recent graduates from international prominent universities, with the aim of nurturing future business leaders who can obtain a deeper understanding of the emerging markets and work in global or multicultural...

A study, jointly conducted by Chinese and foreign scientists, sheds light on the impact of air pollution on global warming. Scientists point out that aerosol particulate pollution caused by human activities has a cooling effect on the earth, which can thus in part offset global warming triggered by greenhouse gases. It is also possible to make a more precise measurement of the climate effects of aerosol-affected clouds and improve the accuracy of future climatic forecasts. The study is published...

MIT Technology Review debuted its 2nd China edition of “Innovators Under 35” for 2018 yesterday. This year, three faculty members of the University, Dr. DI Dawei of College of Optical Science and Engineering, Dr. LI Tiefeng of  School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Dr. LU Yingying of College of Chemical and Biological Engineering and two ZJU alumni, LI Dong and SHI Jianping, were recognized as top innovators in China.DI DaweiOrganic and perovskite l...

Any object on the earth is subject to gravity as a result of the gravitational attraction and the centrifugal force caused by the earth’s rotation. Scientists perceive the gravitational field as the normal gravitational field (1g≈9.8 m/s2) and define the condition where the force of gravity exceeds that on the surface of the earth (greater than 1 g) as hypergravity.Apparently, in the context of hypergravity, there will emerge some magical effects indiscernible in daily life. First, hypergravit...

Three faculty members of ZJU were listed among the 35 "Innovators Under 35" in China by MIT Technology Review today. Dr. DI Dawei, one of the three honorees and a principal investigator at the College of Optical Science and Engineering, talked with the Global Communications of ZJU about his research and his journey from Sydney to Cambridge, and to Hangzhou.You were awarded the 2018 Innovators Under 35 in China by MIT Technology Review for your contributions to the research of orga...

A team headed by Prof.LI Xiaoming, executive vice dean of School of Medicine, made a major breakthrough in the study of depression. The study, published in the January 15th issue of Nature Medicine, found new molecular and circuit mechanisms mediating the pathogenesis of depression.For the past five years the team has focused on a brain area called the amygdala. Postmortem brain analyses and imaging studies of depressed patients have implicated basal lateral amygdala (BLA) dy...

Light travels in a straight line. However, scientists have contrived approaches to change the way it travels. A team of researchers from Zhejiang University, China and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has now announced the realization of the world’s first three-dimensional (3D) photonic topological insulator. Relevant findings are published in the journal of Nature.A 3D/2D topological insulator is a material with non-trivial symmetry-protected topological order that has a bulk bandga...

At 10:26 am Beijing time on Jan. 3, 2019, China’s Chang’e 4 probe (named after a famous Chinese Goddess of the moon) became the first to land on the far side of the moon in a historic moment for human space exploration.“It is when the image of the landing of Chang’e 4 probe was successfully transmitted to the earth that my pounding heart eventually calmed down,” said Prof. XU Zhihai from the College of Optical Science and Engineering.The close-up image of the landing was...

Jumping three places from last year, ZJU makes it into the top three in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings 2019. The University has seen improvements in many aspects, especially in international outlook, teaching and industry income, according to THE.China again dominates the ranking: universities from Chinese mainland account for seven spots out of the top ten universities.  Altogether 104 Chinese universities are represented in the list (72 ...

Editor’s Note: This is the second article written by Hughes Ian Benjamin, a foreign correspondent invited by the Division of Global Communications. What does he think about the academic life at Zhejiang University?Responsibility. Hard work. Loyalty. These are the three tenets of a good life according to Zhejiang University Associate Professor Imran Haider Shamsi, a man who embodies the university’s motto: seeking truth, pursuing innovation.Eighteen years at ZJU has helped to cultivate Sha...