Zhejiang University alumnus CHENG Kaijia, fellow of the Chinese Academy of Science, the winner of the “Two Bombs and One Star” Meritorious Medal, the winner of the 2013 National Science and Technology Award, and the winner of the “August 1st Medal”in 2017, passed away at the age of 101 years in Beijing on Nov. 17.CHENG graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics from Zhejiang University in 1941. In 1946, he studied at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and obtained a doctor...

With energy crisis looming large, search for clean and sustainable energy has become a global issue. As the largest manufacturing and consumption country in solar cells, China is playing an increasingly important role.Recently, the research team led by Prof. WANG Peng from ZJU's Department of Chemistry, and the research team led by Prof. Michael Grätzel in the Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering, École Polytechnique, engaged in collaborative research in stable and...

ZOU Xiaodong, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang University, led a delegation to visit universities in Japan and America in order to promote deep exchanges and global strategic cooperation and attend the 42nd Annual Conference of the ZJU Alumni Association in North America on Nov. 12-18.On Nov. 13, the delegation met with leaders from the University of Tokyo, including President Makoto Gonokami, Executive Vice President Haneda Masashi and Former President Arima Akito. Both parties a...

The Asia Pacific FinTech Landscape Symposium and the inaugural ceremony for ZJU's International Business School were held on International Campus located in Haining on Nov. 15.  “The establishment of International Business School is one of the major advances that Zhejiang University has made in promoting its educational level and optimizing its educational layout. I believe it will make great contributions to the socio-economic development of the province, even the whole country. I hop...

The first edition of the Belt & Road Chengdu-Australian Open University Tennis Championship was held in Sichuan International Tennis Center on Nov. 7-11. Participants included 8 varsity teams all over the world, including the University of Melbourne (Australia), the University of Mumbai (India), Mara University of Technology (Malaysia), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), the University of Belgrade (Serbia), Loughborough University of Technology (England), Zhejiang University and Che...

The 2018 Symposium on Engineering Talent Cultivation in the Context of Belt & Road and the 13th International Conference on Scientific and Educational Development Strategies were held in Hangzhou on November 9-11. A constellation of scholars, experts and business magnates from approximately 100 domestic and foreign universities, enterprises and organizations delved deeply into problems, opportunities and challenges related to engineering education in the context of the Belt & Road I...

As a Chinese advertisement puts it, you will have more of this food if it is delectable. YANG Zhe, a PhD student at the Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, observed this phenomenon in the kingdom of fruit fries. Thus, he followed this crucial clue in his research and identified a key sensor to detect amino acids, only to find that fruit fries could also taste gourmet food via their “taste buds” in their gastrointestinal tract. It seems like that we really should trust our “gut feeli...

The Chinese Academy of Translation and Translation Studies of Zhejiang University was officially inaugurated on Nov. 10.  Vice President HE Lianzhen and Prof. XU Jun, director of the Chinese Academy of Translation and Translation Studies, unveiled the plaque for the Academy.“We should promote the fusion of eastern and western cultures, encourage the groundbreaking innovation of the Chinese culture in a cooperative manner and invigorate the Chinese culture in an interdisciplinary way,...

█▌FEATURE ▌Clayton Stromberger’s farthest ever outreach trip began when he saw the familiar phrase “all the world’s a stage” at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. As a friend of Prof. John Rumrich and an outreach expert for “Shakespeare at Winedale”, Mr. Stromberger came to Hangzhou to join a global Shakespeare session. Initiated by Prof. SHEN Hong from School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, and Prof. John Rumrich from College of Liberal Arts, ...

The research team, led by Prof. YUAN Huiqiu from the Center for Correlated Matter and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, obtained empirical evidence for the existence of Weyl fermions in the heavy fermion semimetal, thereby providing a novel platform for the exploration of the interplay between topology and strong electronic correlations. Their findings are published in the November 5 issue of the journal of Nature Communications.  We can use two common daily objects to explai...