Three faculty members of ZJU were listed among the 35 "Innovators Under 35" in China by MIT Technology Review today. Dr. DI Dawei, one of the three honorees and a principal investigator at the College of Optical Science and Engineering, talked with the Global Communications of ZJU about his research and his journey from Sydney to Cambridge, and to Hangzhou.You were awarded the 2018 Innovators Under 35 in China by MIT Technology Review for your contributions to the research of orga...

A team headed by Prof.LI Xiaoming, executive vice dean of School of Medicine, made a major breakthrough in the study of depression. The study, published in the January 15th issue of Nature Medicine, found new molecular and circuit mechanisms mediating the pathogenesis of depression.For the past five years the team has focused on a brain area called the amygdala. Postmortem brain analyses and imaging studies of depressed patients have implicated basal lateral amygdala (BLA) dy...

Light travels in a straight line. However, scientists have contrived approaches to change the way it travels. A team of researchers from Zhejiang University, China and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has now announced the realization of the world’s first three-dimensional (3D) photonic topological insulator. Relevant findings are published in the journal of Nature.A 3D/2D topological insulator is a material with non-trivial symmetry-protected topological order that has a bulk bandga...

At 10:26 am Beijing time on Jan. 3, 2019, China’s Chang’e 4 probe (named after a famous Chinese Goddess of the moon) became the first to land on the far side of the moon in a historic moment for human space exploration.“It is when the image of the landing of Chang’e 4 probe was successfully transmitted to the earth that my pounding heart eventually calmed down,” said Prof. XU Zhihai from the College of Optical Science and Engineering.The close-up image of the landing was...

Jumping three places from last year, ZJU makes it into the top three in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies University Rankings 2019. The University has seen improvements in many aspects, especially in international outlook, teaching and industry income, according to THE.China again dominates the ranking: universities from Chinese mainland account for seven spots out of the top ten universities.  Altogether 104 Chinese universities are represented in the list (72 ...

Editor’s Note: This is the second article written by Hughes Ian Benjamin, a foreign correspondent invited by the Division of Global Communications. What does he think about the academic life at Zhejiang University?Responsibility. Hard work. Loyalty. These are the three tenets of a good life according to Zhejiang University Associate Professor Imran Haider Shamsi, a man who embodies the university’s motto: seeking truth, pursuing innovation.Eighteen years at ZJU has helped to cultivate Sha...

Mobvista Inc., a technology platform that provides mobile advertising and analytics services for APP developers worldwide was officially listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Dec. 12, 2018. The company was founded by DUAN Wei, member of the ITP Class of 2008 at ZJU. Just a week ago, Mogu Inc. co-founded by CHEN Qi and WEI Yibo, both ZJU Class of 2004, went public on the New York Stock Exchange.ZJU has been dubbed "the university that nurtures the highest rate of alumni st...

Activating a neural pathway from the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) to the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus (DRN) could significantly reduce morphine addiction while not affecting its analgesic effect, suggests new research led by Prof. LI Xiaoming from ZJU’s School of Medicine.The study, published in the January 10 issue of Neuron, found two parallel inhibitory neural pathways from VTA to DRN: The rostral VTA (rVTA) sends more projections to the DRN GABAergic neurons, whereas the caudal ...

When a waiter warmly brings you drinks and recommends something for you, do you keep smiling but secretly hope him to leave me alone?When your friends throw a surprise party for you or send you birthday presents, do you feel touched, whilst worrying about repaying the kindness?In many cases, offering consumers favors generates positive effects in sales. However, to some, such practice arouses discomfort. A study shows that considerable individual differences exist in feeling anxious in situation...

CHEN Hui, a researcher in the Department of Psychology, is elected one of the 2018 APS (The Association for Psychological Science) Rising Stars for his exceptional studies on the rapid processes by which visual information is attended, encoded in working memory and used. He is the one and only winner of this award from Chinese mainland this year.  CHEN Hui has long engaged in research into visual attention, memory and consciousness. In recent five years, he has made groundbreaking adva...