The 2nd World Industrial Design Conference was held in Mengqi Town, Hangzhou on April 21-28. Guests from more than 30 countries and regions and around 60 international design organizations attended the conference.With the theme “Design and Ecology”, the conference aims to set up an international cooperation platform to promote design creation and harmonious development between economy and society. ZJU and local government of Yuhang District jointly planned the conference.The con...

Zhejiang University and the University of Sydney have signed a university-wide partnership agreement, each committing to invest RMB500,000 every year for the next three years to fund joint research projects and academic mobility.     ZJU and USyd share a long history of cooperation. The two universities signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2008, and a student exchange agreement in 2009. In 2017, ZJU and USyd signed an agreement on short-term faculty exchange, to provide funding...

The ocean is teeming with energy and it is inexhaustible. It plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of mankind.Three gigantic electricity-generating platforms using ocean current energy are in smooth operation near Zhairuoshan Island, Zhoushan.Over the past month, Guodian United Power Technology Co. Ltd. has developed an electro-hydraulic variable-pitch turbine with a capacity of 300 kW, based on a sample device designed by ZJU. The turbine has successfully produced electricity at t...

“Attention! Eyes right! Eyes front!”These military commands are quite familiar to us. But do you really know what “turning your head forward” is? If you are asked to look straight ahead while your body tilts somewhat to the right, will you first adjust your body and then turn your head in the stated direction or will you maintain your rightward posture and shift your gaze right ahead?This is an instantaneous response and is intimately akin to spatial encoding in the brain. Movements are rela...

Upright figure Source：http://www.knowledgebank.irri.orgThe research team led by Prof. ZHANG Chuanxi published an article entitled “A comprehensive omics analysis and functional survey of cuticular proteins in the brown planthopper”, which reveals the full complement of CPs and their functions in the brown planthopper (BPH), in the April 30 issue of PNAS. Ph.D students PAN Penglu and YE Yuxuan from the Institute of Insect Science are lead co-authors and Prof. ZHANG Chuanxi is the corresponding...

“Glasses for the blind are changing constantly. The GPS has been incorporated into new versions and it is predicted that the state-of-the-art face-recognition software will tell the wearer who is standing in front of him,” said CHEN Zuobing, Director of the Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of the Industrial Technology Research Institute and Director of the Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University.This pair of glasses is developed to ...

XU Xiaozhou, dean of Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, recently paid a visit to New York upon the invitation of UN, Fordham University, Pace University and SBCAA for academic and cultural cooperation between U.S and China. The 2018 UN Chinese Language Day was celebrated on April 20. Professor XU was invited to give a speech titled “Achievements, Challenges and Prospects of Chinese Higher Education” at the Forum of Chinese Education and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Aft...

A delegation of ZJU's Ocean College paid a visit to University of Malaya (UM) and Tunku Abdul Rahman University (UTAR) in Malaysia from April 16 to 18, aiming to increase the international presence of the College and explore potential collaborations with Malaysian universities.In UTAR, Dr. WEI Yan and the delegation was welcomed by Dr. Lai Soon Onn, director of Community and International Networking Division, Dr. Lim Tuck Meng, dean of Faculty of Science, Dr. Yong Thian Khok, deputy dean of ...

On April 21, the first ever Cultural Festival of International Campus kicked off. Students from 46 different countries and regions wore special costumes, hosted stalls and played games, offering a wonderful feast for the audience.The international zone exhibited cultural traditions of different countries. The Nepal students showed their beautiful mountains, the splendid Spanish students showed their excellent football culture, the United States students showed their diversity, the Brazil student...

On April 16, the 5th National Collegiate Art Exhibition, co-hosted by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai People’s Government, kicked off in Shanghai Exhibition Center. It attracted 47 creative and innovative workshops from domestic universities. The Origami Robot Workshop, established by ZJU’s International Design Institute, dazzled visitors at the exhibition. “Origami robots are made of paper, driven by motors and controlled by programming. The Origami Robot Workshop, which fuses de...