To observe the World Book and Copyright Day 2019, ZJU library organizes a "Reading & Exploring " event to further promote reading, publishing and protection of intellectual property. A series of activities will be held from April 23 to May 31. Here are the main highlights.- Series of lectures about intellectual property- Exhibitions on library resources, books published by Macao and Hongkong publishers- Hand drawing competition- Workshops on protection of ancient boo...

Over 7000 international students are studying at ZJU. More than half of them are pursuing a ZJU degree. What do them think about life at the University and in Hangzhou? Two recent activities may help us hear their voices.2019 ZJU Ambassadors by College of Intenational Education“ZJU is a leading Chinese university. Also the 'soft' power of Hangzhou city is very important to me. Hangzhou is developing fast and there are many job opportunities here.”“I am attracted by academic excellence...

The whole world was extremely grieved at the news that Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral was engulfed in flames, causing its main spire to collapse and raising fears for the future of the 850-year-old building and its precious artworks. Just as President XI Jinping said in his condolence message to his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, Notre Dame Cathedral is an iconic symbol of the French civilization and an outstanding treasure of human civilization.Fortunately, Andrew Tallon, a professor of ar...

On April 14, some 500 prospective students and their families arrived at the Haining International Campus (IC) for the second IC open day. Current students and staff on campus welcomed the visitors with a wide array of activities.Visitors explored the Campus by engaging in various activities and speaking to the current lecturers and students. Leaders of IC, including Prof. FU Qiang (Vice Dean), Prof. K.C. Ting (Vice Dean) and deans of the two joint institutes, introduced the educa...

The ZJU-UIUC Institute team clinched the Outstanding Winner Award and the INFORMS Award for their exceptional performance at the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) 2019.The MCM 2019 presented six problems for the teams to choose from. Members of the ZJUI team, LIN Hangzheng, TONG Xinhao and YUAN Jinsong competed online in Problem B — Send in the Drones: Developing an Aerial Disaster Relief Response System. The team was one of the 22 outstanding winners and the only recipient o...

A team headed by Prof. GAO Chao, director of Zhejiang University’s Institute of Polymer Science, developed a new polar-inverse strategy (PIS) for scalable synthesizing sequence-defined polymers with positively charged backbone by alternately processing Menschutkin reaction and Cu-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction.“Our research enables cost-effective large-scale production of multifunctional positively charged polymers, paving the way to their applied research and real appli...

Scientists in China and the US report a high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure (3.0Å) of the human parathyroid hormone type 1 receptor (PTH1R) bound to a long-acting parathyroid hormone (PTH) analog and the stimulatory G protein. The study, published in Science on April 12, provides valuable insights into structural basis and dynamics of PTH binding and long-term activation of the receptor, thereby laying a solid foundation for discovering novel therapeutics again...

Stomata are pores in the leaf epidermis that play a crucial role in plants. They allow CO2 uptake for photosynthetic carbon assimilation at the expense of water loss via transpiration. Efforts to improve plant water use efficiency (WUE) have focused on reducing stomatal density, despite its implicit penalty in carbon assimilation. Approaches to reducing transpiration without incurring a cost for photosynthesis must circumvent this inherent coupling of carbon dioxide and water vapor dif...

From April 7-10, Prof. CHEN Xuexin, dean of the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology (CAB) led a delegation to Pakistan. An MOU signing ceremony between ZJU and University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan's top agricultural university was held, which is witnessed by H.E. Mr. Yao Jing, China's Ambassador to Pakistan, and H.E. Dr. Syed Safdar Ali Shah, Director-General (CPEC), Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. At the signing ceremony, the Ambassador H.E. Mr. Yao Jing ...

Autophagy is a lysosomal degradative pathway essential to development and homeostasis. The deregulation of autophagy is tightly associated with a variety of human diseases. Studies have shown that the biogenesis of autophagosomes needs membranes from multiple sources, including ER, the Golgi network, mitochondria, the endosomes and ER-Golgi intermediate. It remains elusive as to how the membranes from different sources are directionally delivered for the formation and expansion of a ph...