The 2nd International Higher Education Forum was held on International Campus yesterday. More than 40 scholars from the University of Edinburgh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Cambridge, University of Birmingham and University of Southampton joined the forum to share fresh insights on the innovation and opening-up in international education resources.“Globalization transforms the environment where universities perform their missions,” said ZJU President WU Z...

China’s large population poses great challenge on producing sufficient crops to meet growing demand on food, feed grain, oil and other consumer goods. Meanwhile it is also a critical question about maintaining the quality and quantity of resources for future generations. Therefore, it is important to conduct research on issues that affect horticultural breeding, growth, and production.Recently researchers from the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology answered three key questions regard...

In honor of the World Rare Disease Day of 2019， China Charity Federation announced six winners of the Best Advocacy Award for Rare Disease. HE Wenjiong, professor of economics at the School of Public Affairs won the prize for his contributions to welfare policies of rare disease at the provincial and state level, as well as his significant efforts towards increasing the awareness and understanding of rare diseases among the public.The diagnosis of rare diseases and the availabili...

On Feb. 28, Hangzhou Municipal Government and Zhejiang University (ZJU) signed an agreement to co-establish the ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center. In alignment with the provincial innovation-driven development strategy and ambitious plan on the construction of Greater Zhejiang Bay Area, the Center is expected to play a key role in building Hangzhou into a globally known innovation hub. As announced at the signing ceremony, this center will be located in...

On Feb. 27, 2019, the Basic Research Management Center of the Ministry of Science and Technology announced the 14th edition of China’s Top 10 Scientific Advances. The research team led by Prof. HU Hailan from the ZJU School of Medicine offers a systematic explanation for the mechanism of depression that the bursting activity of lateral habenula neurons inhibits downstream monoaminergic reward centers and drives depression-like behaviors. Their discovery on this neuronal circ...

Immunotherapy, as one of the most promising cancer treatments, boosts the body’s immune system to fight cancer by activating T cells. T-cell receptors (TCRs) on T cell surface specifically and sensitively recognize rare foreign antigen or tumor neoantigen presented by major histocompatibility complexes (pMHCs) on cancer cells, which plays a vital role in recognizing and killing cancer cells. However, it still remains enigmatic that how to improve and control the efficiency of T cell killing in ...

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...