On Jan. 27, 35 students from ZJU’s School of Management and School of Computer Science and Technology arrived at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) for the 2019 Design + Innovation Singapore Winter Program. In the following week, they were brought through an innovation process that helped them better understand and practice user-centric design thinking.Organized by ZJU’s School of Management, the workshop aims to provide students with a unique design and innovation ...

The research team headed up by Prof. LU Linrong from the Institute of Immunology publishes an article entitled “Phosphatase PP2A is essential for TH17 differentiation” in the journal of PNAS. Phosphatase PP2A expression levels are positively correlated to the clinical severity of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and IL17A cytokine overproduction, indicating a potential role of PP2A in controlling TH17 differentiation and inflammation. By generating a mouse strain with ablation of t...

Recently, Dr. WANG Dawei and Prof. WANG Haohua from the Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, in collaboration with several domestic and overseas teams, have successfully synthesized antisymmetric spin exchange interactions in an artificial quantum system and explored a novel approach to chiral spin clusters in superconducting circuits. Relevant findings are published in the January 21 issue of Nature Physics.When it comes to quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat ...

To the ZJU community and our international friends, Warmest greetings from the Office of Global Engagement for a Happy New Year.  We wish you and your family a joyful and prosperous 2019!Find out more about Chinese New Year: https://chinesenewyear.net/greetings/

On Jan. 31, a new Innovation Center of ZJU International Innovation Institute (ZIII) was set up in Tokyo.  ZHAO Rongxiang, director of ZIII delivered a congratulatory speech at the unveiling ceremony. He introduced Global ZJU to the guests and shared with them the achievements that ZIII has made in recent years. He expected the ZIII Tokyo Innovation Center to connect the University with Japan, thereby contributing to the docking of talents, technology and capital, the construction of a...

A research team led by WANG Fudi, a professor at the School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, discovers that ferroptosis, a programmed iron-dependent cell death, as a mechanism in murine models of doxorubicin (DOX)- and ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced cardiomyopathy. Five effective approaches are explored to preventing cardiac injuries, including ferroptosis inhibitor Fer-1, iron chelatordexrazoxane (DXZ), mitochondria-targeted antioxidant MitoTEMPO, Hmox1 inhibitor zinc protoporphyrin I...

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...