Zhejiang University and World Leisure Organization (WLO) officially launched the cooperation on establishing a World Leisure Center of Excellence (WLCE) on Nov. 2, Prof. GU Jianmin, dean of College of Education and Prof. Cristina Ortega Nuere, chief operating officer of World Leisure Organization signed the cooperation agreement.Dean GU expressed his warm welcome to Prof. Nuere and thanked the World Leisure Organization for its trust and support. “It’s our great honor to be the fourth glo...

The research team led by ZHOU Qi from the Life Science Institute of Zhejiang University published a research paper entitled “On the regulatory evolution of new genes throughout their life history” in the November 3 issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution.  Every gene has a birthplace and an age, i.e., a cis-regulatory environment and an evolution lifespan since its origin. However, how the two shape the evolution trajectories of genes remains obscure. ZHOU Qi et al. addres...

Just as Auguste Rodin famously remarked, “Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.” If you place a mineral water bottle under a polarizer, you may find a polychromatic pattern. For these random and free colors, scientists propose a precise encoding method. They invented a kind of programmable plastics in which a precise “invisible” pattern can be inserted via digitalized modulation of internal stresses.The research team led by P...

The award presentation ceremony for the 2018 Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize was held in Beijing on Nov. 6. A total of 56 eminent scholars in scientific fields were awarded the 2018 Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology. Prof. WANG Jian’an from the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of the Zhejiang University School of Medicine and Prof. GAO Xiang from the College of Energy Engineering won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement and the Ho Leung Ho ...

In the just-concluded 1st China College Computing Contest - Artificial Intelligence Innovation Contest, students from the College of Computer Science and Technology have won several prizes, including a grand prize, a first prize and a second prize.More than one thousand teams from 369 universities at home and abroad signed up for the competition. After online screening and expert review, a total of 120 teams entered the semi-finals. 37 of them were selected to the final pitch. In late ...

The 18th Biennial IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation (CEFC 2018) kicked off in Hangzhou on Oct. 29. More than 500 scholars and engineers gathered at the grand academic feast to exchange views on the subject "Electromagnetics Computation and Application, Interaction between Electromagnetic Field and Substance". On behalf of Zhejiang University, Prof. SHENG Kuang, dean of the College of Electrical Engineering extended his warm welcome to all the academic deleg...

China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition was held at ZJU on Nov. 1-3. ZJU dazzled the audience by clinching six gold medals, ranking the 1st at the competition.On the evening of Nov. 1, the curtain of the finals of China College Students’ Entrepreneurship Competition 2018 went up brilliantly. Present at the opening ceremony were YIN Dongmei, secretary of the Chinese Communist Youth League, WANG Wenxu, vice governor of Zhejiang Province, WU Zhaohui, president of Zhejiang Univer...

“Spending some time abroad and engaging with different cultures and people will provide a lot of inspirations and insights to those young people,” said Prof. LI Min, director of the Office of Global Engagement at the opening ceremony of 2018 ZJU Study Abroad Fair. When speaking of her own experience, Prof. LI Min emphasized a lot on student mobility to promote students’ global competence and social responsibility. “I went to study in the United States many years ago. I know how challenging a...

Zhejiang University is responsible for the first large-scale cultural relic restoration project by China undertaken in Nepal.At the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage and the Department of Archaeology under the Nepalese Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, LI Zhirong, associate dean of the Cultural Heritage Institute, led a team of 3 engineers to engage in chronicling digital data regarding Taleju Temple located at Kathmandu Durbar Square in Nepal.Taleju Temple is...

The 2nd Exchanges Mechanism Conference of CPEC Consortium of China-Pakistan Universities is held on Zijingang Campus on Nov. 1, 2018. More than 70 representatives from around 30 Chinese and Pakistani universities gather at ZJU to report on the 2017-2018 annual work and discuss the future of the Consortium.In his speech, DU Yubo, president of China Association of Higher Education, points out the significance of the platform development for both countries in terms of educational, cultural and...