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...

Portable electronic devices, say the smartphone and the laptop, have become a necessity in daily life. The expeditious development of these devices benefits enormously from renewable and environmentally-friendly batteries. As such compact and handy wearables as sports bracelets are becoming all the rage, it is top on the list of priorities that efficient, clean and sustainable electrical energy should be made available.Recently, a research team led by Dr. ZHU Zhiyuan from ZJU’s Ocean College&nb...

The World Martial Arts Confederation ran the 2018 International Martial Arts Referee Class on June 1-19 in Pordenone, Italy and Penang, Malaysia. LIN Xiaomei, a professor of physical education in the College of Education, was invited to give relevant lectures to more than 240 entrants from over 50 countries, including Germany, Italy, Russia, France, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and China. LIN Xiaomei is an experienced chief referee. During her teaching, she elaborated on international rules, refereein...

On June 30, the Zhejiang University National Health Big Data Institute was officially set up by Zhejiang University and the Chinese Health Information and Big Data Association.Present at the plaque-unveiling ceremony were JIN Xiaotao, Director of the Chinese Health Information and Big Data Association, and WU Zhaohui, President of Zhejiang University. XU Zhengping was named the inaugural director of the institute.The Zhejiang University National Health Big Data Institute will be committed to sma...

On June 30, ZJU Commencement 2018 was held at Zijingang Stadium, Zijingang Campus. The whole university community gathered at this momentous event to celebrate for the Class of 2018.Attending the commencement were over 6000 domestic and international students, who have worked hard to reach this point. These new graduates have built an impressive “portfolio” for their upcoming career, with strong academic accomplishments and competitiveness on the national and international stage.The achievemen...

With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, mankind has stepped into an era featured by heavy reliance on fossil fuels, concomitant with which has been the emission of massive exhaust gas. Carbonyl sulfide (COS), a key intermediate of the atmospheric sulfur cycle and the most abundant sulfur-containing gas in the troposphere, causes haze, acid rain, and ozonosphere damage, and is also a one-carbon (C1) heterocumulene and structural analog of carbon dioxide (CO2).The research team led by ZHANG ...

The Journal of Urban Management (JUM), co-launched by ZJU’s School of Public Affairs and the Chinese Association of Urban Management, has been indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), which is a new database launched in 2015 and managed by Clarivate Analytics. This selection marks a significant milestone for JUM.JUM is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal covering planning, administering, regulating, and governing urban complexity. It is particul...

The laboratory headed by TONG Chao, a professor with the Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network, published an online article entitled “Mitochondrial protein import regulates cytosolic protein homeostasis and neuronal integrity” in Autophagy on June 18, 2018.Mitochondria are the primary site for ATP synthesis, and they are also involved in the transmission of signaling molecules and various metabolic processes. Neurodegeneration is characterized by pr...

On June 21, Patrick Maxwell, Head of the School of Clinical Medicine of the University of Cambridge, delivered a lecture entitled“How Genomics Is Changing Medicine as part of the Qizhen Global Vision Lecture Series at Zhejiang University.Patrick Maxwell was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK and was appointed Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Cambridge in 2012. Patrick Maxwell has been centrally involved in a series of discoveries that have revealed how ...