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...

The research team headed by DING Nai at the College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences published an article entitled “Eye Activity Tracks Task-Relevant Structures during Speech and Auditory Sequence Perception” in the December 18 issue of Nature Communications. Their results show that your eye movements may tell if you are interested when listening to a speech.In daily life, a lot of things call for our attention. For example, we need to listen attentively in class, st...

Another three collections of The Series of Ancient Chinese Paintings—A Collection of Paintings from the Warring States Period to the Tang Dynasty, A Collection of Ming Dynasty Paintings and A Collection of Qing Dynasty Paintings—marked their debut on Dec. 12 in Beijing.ZOU Xiaodong, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang University, delivered a speech at the Debut Ceremony. “Zhejiang University adheres to the tenets of connecting the past with the present, linking the east and the west, mer...

A new version of the four-legged “Jueying” robot was released on Dec. 4. The new “Jueying” robot, a small-sized quadruped robot that can handle 20 kg objects, is capable of running and climbing stairs.The new “Jueying” robot is marked by a better ability to strike a balance while running and a greater capability of adapting to more complicated terrains, said one of the developers.“Jueying” can issue an order every 0.5 millisecond, adapt quickly to the environment, give an order while it ...

On Dec. 11, Vice President HE Lianzhen led a delegation to attend the conference of the ZJU-SUTD Cooperation Administrative Committee at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).  At the conference, the two universities reported the latest cooperation programs, discussed the plan for future partnership and reached a consensus in regard to co-hosting 2019 Technology and Design International Symposium at Zhejiang University.Vice President HE Lianzhen and SUTD President Ch...