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...

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...