The 2018 Marine Science Joint Summer School kicked off in the Ocean College on July 13. Over 60 participants attended the opening ceremony, and were warmly welcomed by Prof. LI Chunfeng, chair of Department of Marine Science. "I’m quite delighted to welcome students and teachers from Bandung Institute of Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO) to our University. I hope all of them will learn something from this program and enjoy t...

Unable to carry signals based on sights and sounds to the genes that record memories, a broken shuttle protein may hinder learning in patients with intellectual disability, schizophrenia and autism. This is the implication of a study conducted by researchers from ZJU School of Medicine and NYU School of Medicine, which was published in the June 22, 2018 online issue of Nature Communications.Specifically, the research team found that mice engineered to lack the gene for the γCaMKII shuttle ...

Recently the School of Software Technology launched the Zhejiang University International Education-Research-Industry Program (ZIERIP), which integrates academic and cultural activities at ZJU and internship at top tech companies in China. The program is open to master's and PhD students of top universities in the world, and this year’s participants include students from Stanford University, National University of Singapore, Imperial College London and many others.The fi...

FEATURE STORYFor leading ophthalmologist YAO Ke, accolades are flattering but the greatest reward is found in scientific progress and improving people's lives...On June 16, exciting news arrived from Spain.During the 36th World Ophthalmology Congress, the President of the Chinese Ophthalmological Society, a specialty society of the Chinese Medical Association, Prof. YAO Ke, from the Eye Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of ZJU School of Medicine became a member of the Academ...

The research team led by Prof. GUO Sujian with the School of Public Affairs publishes an article entitled “Assessing national renewable energy competitiveness of the G20: A revised Porter’s Diamond Model” in the journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. To ensure energy security and tackle global challenges, such as climate change and environmental degradation, governments have formulated and implemented various public policies to encourage the development and utilization of renewa...

On June 29, the "Mon Then Lads" team, consisting of 4 students from ZJU’s Master Program in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Global Leadership (PIEGL), was proud to make it to the top 5 in the 2018 Siam Commercial Bank Future Leader Competition. The competition attracted 203 teams from 24 countries, and 12 teams that made it to the semi-final includes Shooting Stars from the National University of Singapore, Apostles from the University of Cambridge, Powered by FEP from the ...

A classroom is a learning space, but great changes have been shaping various types of classroom. At Zhejiang University, a dazzling array of novel classrooms is designed to meet diverse needs of students.Type 1: Augmented Interactive ClassroomTeachers can write something on a board with a capacitance pen directly while delivering lectures. Moreover, what is written can be saved in the real-time database. Students can have free discussions very easily. Type 2: Long-distance Interactive ClassroomT...

Aiming to go into business full-time, Masamba Senghore has been involved in the start-up community in the UK for some time. Yet, he found the Idea Explorer Innovation & Entrepreneurship Global Summer Camp at ZJU an unmissable opportunity.“The content of the lectures, just from what I saw, sounded great and something that would have been a value to myself. That’s why I applied,” said Masamba Senghore, an economics undergraduate at University College London. “And the city itself ...

The research team headed by LI Yuezhou with ZJU’s School of Medicine collaborated with the research team headed by ZHENG Hairong with CAS’s Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology in research into ultrasonic control over neural activity. Their findings are published in the June 19 issue of the journal of Nano Letters.External control over the excitation of a neuronal subset through ion channels activation can modulate the firing pattern of an entire neural circuit in vivo. As nanov...

World-renowned pioneer of public-key cryptography Bailey Whitfield Diffie joined ZJU today as full-time professor and honorary director of ZJU’s Institute of Cyber Security Research. His course in cyber security will be open to graduate students in October.Professor Diffie shared the 2015 Turing Award with Martin Hellman for their profound contributions to modern cryptography. Their groundbreaking paper, “New Directions in Cryptography”, introduced a new method of distributing cryptographic k...