At the annual meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) on November 5 in Baltimore, Prof. XU Jianming from the College of Environmental and Resource Sciences was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.Established in 1907, ASA is the most influential professional society of crop and soil scientists, educators and practitioners who work to discovery and apply agronomic solutions to feed and sustain the world. Being designated a fellow is among the society’s top ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released the IEEE Fellows Class of 2019 on Nov. 21. Two professors from Zhejiang University—Prof. WU Zhaohui and Prof. CHEN Jiming—were elected to be IEEE fellows for contributions to intelligent service computing and for contributions to resource allocation and optimization in wireless sensor networks respectively.IEEE, an association dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity, is t...

The research team headed by CHEN Baohui from Zhejiang University School of Medicine published an article entitled “Efficient labeling and imaging of protein-coding genes in living cells using CRISPR-Ta” in the November 29 issue of Nature Communications. Their studies open up a new technology for labeling non-repetitive genomic elements and display an efficient, easy, and scalable DNA tagging system in living human cells, thus laying a solid foundation for exploring the connection bet...

Michael W. Young, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2017 and American biologist and geneticist, visited Zhejiang University (ZJU) on Dec. 4, as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative (NPII) 2018 in China.Professor Young gave a lecture entitled “Genes that control sleep and circadian rhythms”, which attracted more than 400 students and scholars in Qiushi Lecture Hall. In the seminar, he elucidated the function of three important genes—Period, Timeless and Double-time genes in the...

ZHENG Qiang, deputy secretary of the CPC Zhejiang University Committee, led the ZJU Graduate Art Troupe and a delegation of ZJU postgraduate students to visit Moscow State University (MSU), Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) on Nov. 20-23.MSU is the highest-ranked and largest university in Russia. ZHENG Qiang met with Yuri A. Mazei, Vice-re...

Recently, ZHAO Bo from the College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering published a paper entitled “A Low-Power Compact IEEE802.15.6 Compatible Human Body Communication Transceiver with Digital Sigma—Delta IIR Mask Shaping” in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. ZHAO Bo is the leading author of this paper.  The IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits publishes papers each month in the broad area of solid-state circuits with particular emphasis on transistor-level de...

Recently, the research team headed by Prof. ZHOU Tianhua from the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, published an article entitled “Long Non-coding RNA GMAN, Upregulated in Gastric Cancer Tissues, is Associated with Metastases in Patients and Promotes Translation of Ephrin A1 by Competitively Binding GMAN-AS” in the journal of Gastroenterology. They identified long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that are upregulated in gastric cancer tissues from patients and did research into their func...

The 4th edition of Rice Chemistry and Technology, edited by Prof. BAO Jinsong in ZJU's College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, is a new, fully revised update on the very popular previous edition published by the AACC International Press.It is the first time that the book has been edited by a Chinese scholar.Rice Chemistry and Technology is a highly definitive book in the field of rice science. The 1st edition, the 2nd edition and the 3rd edition were published in 1...

Seventeen Zhejiang University faculty members were named in the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List by Clarivate Analytics. These faculties are identified as influential researchers in Cross-field (6), Chemistry (4), Materials science (4), Computer Science (3), Agricultural Science (1) and Engineering (1). ZJU boasts sixteen more than the three named in 2017 and is 3rd among Chinese institutions.This results reflect the importance and influence of scientific works by ZJU researchers.C...

On November 19, the First United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC), co-hosted by the United Nations, the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources and Zhejiang Provincial Government, kicked off in Deqing, Zhejiang. UNWGIC aims to provide a convening, participatory and inclusive environment to enhance the communication, understanding, knowledge and application of geospatial information management to address local, regional and global challenges.Prime Minister LI Keqiang sent a le...