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 ...

While the Russia 2018 World Cup is in full swing, RoboCup 2018, an international robotics competition, kicks off in Montreal, Canada. On the afternoon of June 21, ZJUNlict came in first in the Small Size league, one of the RoboCup league divisions. This is the third time that ZJU has won the championship.RoboCup 2018 started on June 18 and it attracted a galaxy of students from top universities all over the world. The Small Size league includes the group stage, the playoff stage and the grand fi...

The restoration techniques of cultural relics, which were introduced in the documentary Masters in the Forbidden City, opened its door to ZJU students and faculty, thanks to Ancient Book Preservation on Campus, an event held last Thursday at ZJU's Basic Branch Library.The event was jointly organized by Zhejiang University Library and the National Ancient Book Preservation Center of Zhejiang Library. It provided participants with a unique access to the skill and encouraged them to care a...

On June 16, more than 40 students from 12 countries and regions arrived at ZJU and attended the opening ceremony of the 7th "Idea Explorer" Innovation & Entrepreneurship Global Summer Camp. For the next three weeks they will be involved in academic lectures, tech giant tours and cultural immersion activities on and outside the campus."I am absolutely delighted to welcome this group of excellent and intelligent students from across the globe to the School of Management. As...

XIE Zhenye, a postgraduate student of the Department of Physical Education, Zhejiang University, dashed to a 9.97-second winning mark in the men’s 100-meter event at the Meeting de Montreuil on Tuesday, cutting 0.07s off his personal best while breaking the national record by 0.02s.The 24-year-old XIE outraced Akani Simbine of South Africa to notch his landmark victory with a 0.9m/s tailwind. Simbine finished second in 10.04s, followed by Paul Camilo De Oliveira of Brazil in 10.10s.XIE’s previ...

On June 14, President WU Zhaohui signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation with Gilles Bloch, President of the University of Paris-Saclay under the witness of YUAN Jiajun, Governor of Zhejiang Province, and Valérie Pécresse, President of the Regional Council of Île-de-France.In accordance with the MoU, the two universities will promote cooperation in faculty and student exchange, double degree and joint research programs in various fields, including economics, ma...