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...

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...