China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition was held at ZJU on Nov. 1-3. ZJU dazzled the audience by clinching six gold medals, ranking the 1st at the competition.On the evening of Nov. 1, the curtain of the finals of China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition 2018 went up brilliantly. Present at the opening ceremony were YIN Dongmei, secretary of the Chinese Communist Youth League, WANG Wenxu, vice governor of Zhejiang Province, WU Zhaohui, president of Zhejiang Univer...

“Spending some time abroad and engaging with different cultures and people will provide a lot of inspirations and insights to those young people,” said Prof. LI Min, director of the Office of Global Engagement at the opening ceremony of 2018 ZJU Study Abroad Fair. When speaking of her own experience, Prof. LI Min emphasized a lot on student mobility to promote students’ global competence and social responsibility. “I went to study in the United States many years ago. I know how challenging a...

Zhejiang University is responsible for the first large-scale cultural relic restoration project by China undertaken in Nepal.At the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage and the Department of Archaeology under the Nepalese Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, LI Zhirong, associate dean of the Cultural Heritage Institute, led a team of 3 engineers to engage in chronicling digital data regarding Taleju Temple located at Kathmandu Durbar Square in Nepal.Taleju Temple is...

The 2nd Exchanges Mechanism Conference of CPEC Consortium of China-Pakistan Universities is held on Zijingang Campus on Nov. 1, 2018. More than 70 representatives from around 30 Chinese and Pakistani universities gather at ZJU to report on the 2017-2018 annual work and discuss the future of the Consortium.In his speech, DU Yubo, president of China Association of Higher Education, points out the significance of the platform development for both countries in terms of educational, cultural and...

The 2018 ceremony of the Zhejiang Government West Lake Friendship Award was held in Hangzhou on the afternoon of Oct. 30. Four foreign experts at Zhejiang University received this honorable award. They were Philip Theodore Krein, executive dean of the ZJU-UIUC Institute, Therese Hesketh, vice director of the Center for Global Health in the School of Medicine, Frank Steglich, director of the Center for Correlated Matter and Imran Haider Shamsi, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture...

On Oct. 29, ZJU-China won the gold medal at the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition at Haynes Convention Center, Boston, USA. This was the ninth time that ZJU-China participated in the competition and the sixth time the University has won the gold medal. The team, led by Prof. CHEN Ming, comprised of 14 members from 8 colleges: College of Life Sciences, Chu Kochen Honors College, School of Medicine, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, College...

GUO Fang, a researcher in the Department of Neuroscience of School of Medicine, identifies a neural circuit of Drosophila linking circadian neuron APDN1 with the sleep center ellipsoid body EB-R2. This study provides crucial clues to understanding the connection mechanism between the circadian clock and the sleep regulation.Researchers forecast that in the future, light sleepers may cure insomnia by taking certain medicine so as to have better-quality sleep. It is also surmised that with mo...

Rust and adhesion of marine creatures are two constant headaches for ocean-going vessels. To ensure the working condition of a vessel, it’s necessary to clean up iron rust, deteriorated paint and adhesive marine creatures periodically. However, manual cleaning is typically labor-intensive and has some intractable problems, such as high risk of injuries caused by aloft work, environmental and physical hazards in sandblasting work and the escalating labor costs.To tackle these problems, the team ...

Prominent scholars and business leaders around the globe came to Hangzhou on Oct. 21 for the Fifth International Advisory Board (IAB) Annual Meeting of School of Management, Zhejiang University. All the participants had gathered to learn and exchange views on the theme of “Building a world leading management school rooted in China”.The morning plenary session featured three keynote speeches and a roundtable discussion involving more than 400 faculty members, students and alumni.In his welcome ...

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released its 2019 Asia University Rankings, and ZJU makes it into the top 20 universities in Asia, rising eight places from last year’s 21st to 13th.This year, the number of universities featured in the QS Asia rankings is increased from 450 to 505. With 111 featured universities, Chinese Mainland has made impressive progress in the rankings. Five of them are listed in the top 20, including Tsinghua University at 3rd, Peking University at 5th, Fudan Unive...