Recently The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) announced the 2019 SPIE Fellows. Prof. LIU Xu from the College of Optical Science and Engineering scooped this special honor.Prof. LIU Xu is recognized for his remarkable achievements in the development of the first liquid crystal light vale & the large screen full color projection display in China, and the new optical engine for the liquid crystal on silicon projector.SPIE was founded in 1955 to advance e...

Editor’s Note: Hughes Ian Benjamin, a foreign correspondent was invited by the Division of Global Communications to visit ZJU campus. During his visit he interacted with many students and faculty members on Zijingang Campus and Haining International Campus. This is the first article he wrote about his impression of the University.The consensus is unequivocal. Javid, Maddelena and Xihang Wu are effusing about their experiences of student life at Zhejiang University’s hugely impressive...

On Jan. 8, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council held a grand ceremony for national science and technology awards in recognition of the remarkable contributions of distinguished scientists, engineers and researchers to scientific and technological progress, social and economic development as well as the modernization of national defense. ZJU clinched one first prize in the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, two second prizes in the State Technological Invention Award an...

The 2018 Campus International Marathon of ZJU took place on the morning of last Sunday. Over 4000 ZJU students, faculty and alumni joined the race to greet the New Year.Participants competed in three different races: half marathon, mini marathon and mini marathon for Nike University Elite Challenge, according to the organizing committee. This year’s course took runners through the newly-built western part of Zijingang Campus.This year's marathon is the third edition of the event, which...

On Dec. 30, 2018, School of Economics held the inauguration ceremony for Maskin Research Center of China’s Economic Development (MRCCED) on Yuquan Campus. Eric Maskin, the 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics and the Adams University Professor at Harvard University, attended the ceremony and delivered a keynote speech on “Mechanism Design Theory”.“The university will lend immense support to MRCCED,” said REN Shaobo, executive vice president of Zhejiang University. “I hope that M...

The 20th China Patent Awards Conference was held in Beijing on Dec. 25. The Method for Preparing Stable-type Vitamin A Microcapsules Continuously, invented by ZJU scholars, garnered the WIPO-CNIPA Award for Chinese Outstanding Patented Inventions.This year, a total of 30 patents won the WIPO-CNIPA Award, which is the most prestigious award in the domain of patents in China award. Among gold-prize winners was The Method for Preparing Stable-type Vitamin A Microcapsules Continuously, headed b...

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“Our opponents are very tough, but we had to be brave and face them. This is part of the kendo spirit,” said HE Fan, president of ZJU’s kendo club after his team won the second prize in the team competition in the Sixth Kobayashi Cup.Every year, university students from China and Japan come to Hangzhou for the Kobayashi Cup, an annual competition held by Hangzhou Kendo Club. This year, the competition is held during December 22-23. The first prize winner of team competition is led by ZJU’s g...

Integrated photonics is the key enabling technology for the “photonic chip” in optical communication system of the 21st century. This area is on the brink of exciting breakthroughs. The work by LIN Hongtao from the College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering and Skylar Deckoff-Jones and HU Juejun from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is recently selected as one of the 30 most intriguing research articles in optics and photonics in 2018 by ...

The Cambridge-ZJU Biotechnology Symposium was held at Clare Hall, Cambridge on December 11. The symposium consisted of three sessions: biomimetics, biomedical materials, and biomedical engineering. More than 50 participants from the two universities discussed a suite of common issues in collaborative research endeavours and achieved consensus in multiple aspects.The symposium was organized with joint efforts of the University of Cambridge Strategic Partnerships Office, ZJU Office of Gl...