Entrepreneurship Education — the first English academic journal about entrepreneurship education in the Asia-Pacific region — is co-published by Zhejiang University UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurial Education and Springer. Prof. XU Xiaozhou, chair of the UNESCO EE-Net National Chapter in China and director of Zhejiang University UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurial Education, serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. On the editorial board are experts from America, Britain, Germany, Australia, Kor...

Editor's note: Recently the Beijing News interviewed Dr. LU Yingying from ZJU’s College of Chemical Engineering about her research. Here is a translated extract of the interview.Born in 1988, LU Yingying is one of the youngest PhD supervisors at ZJU. As a scientist in chemical engineering, LU believes doing research is a spiral of trial and error, and encourages women to think independently.1. The Beijing News: Prof. Lynden A. Archer, your PhD supervisor at Cornell University...

With the acceleration of the global modernization process, CO2 emissions have escalated tremendously and the greenhouse effect has intensified, contributing to global warming and rising sea levels. The human living environment and the ecological balance have thus been deleteriously affected. It has become the focus of scholars to engage in researching into technologies concerning CO2 separation, capture, storage and utilization in a cost-effective way. Porous materials for CO2 ads...

TU Dezhan, a third-year master’s student majoring in control science and engineering, wins the China’s University Student of the Year 2018 Award for his exceptional work and dedication to research into the leakage detection system for urban water supply pipelines.TU Dezhan is assiduous and perseverant. While preparing for the “Challenge Cup” Competition of Science and Technology, he committed himself to acquiring a totally new 3D modeling framework on his own in order to improve the human-co...

When facing life-threatening stimuli, animals show various types of fear behaviors, ranging from risk assessment and freezing to flight. Freezing, a passive coping strategy, is elicited when the danger stimulus is inescapable, whereas flight, an active defense response, is evoked when the stimulus is controllable or escapable.  The thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN), a shell-shaped nucleus located between the cortex and the thalamus, is composed of GABAergic neurons, among which parvalbu...

Recently, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University (SAHZU) signed an agreement with the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (RCP) of the UK to launch a joint teaching program, making it the first partner of the Federation in the Chinese mainland.The Federation, based in the UK and with international reach, is a partnership between the Royal College of Physicians of London, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and ...

On April 25, 2019, Hangzhou City celebrated the 100th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement and presented the “Ten Outstanding Young Talents Award”. Tim Clancy, an Australian student at Zhejiang University, won this coveted title. It is the first time that an overseas youngster has received this award. Tim Clancy is an undergraduate student majoring in clinical medicine. In his spare time, he dedicates himself to volunteer work and is thus hailed as a foreign “Lei Feng” in Hangzhou. Me...

Today is National Youth Day. It also marks the 100th anniversary of May Fourth Movement.ZJUers across the globe celebrate this special day with a classical patriotic song, “Sing in Praise of our Motherland”. With deep feelings of the new era, we yearn for a more glorious future of China.Guess who are the singers?Prof. LI Lanjuan, epidemiologist and member of Chinese Academy of EngineeringProf. TANG Xiaowei, nuclear and high-energy physicist, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and ...

Aiming high, participating actively and sharing openlyOn April 25-26, the second Belt and Road Forum is hosted in Beijing, which takes stock of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) five years on and draw a new roadmap for the coming years. As an important part of BRI,“Belt and Road” Education Action Plan was published by Ministry of Education in 2016, which shows China’s determination to work with and expand people-to-people exchanges, strengthen cooperation in the cultivation of...

ZJU was named International Strategy of the Year at 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Awards Asia on May 1. “It is only with the strategic thinking of our senior management team and joint efforts across the whole University that we are able to better embed international and intercultural dimensions into our education and research, and contribute to our global future,” said Dr. CHEN Weiying, deputy director of the Office of Global Engagement of ZJU. The judges said that they were...