On March 30, Prof. James Bacchus was appointed as Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. The installation ceremony was held in Severance Hall of Zhijiang Campus. Prof. HU Ming, associate dean of Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. ZHOU Jianghong, executive vice dean of Guanghua Law School, Prof. ZHAO Jun, vice dean of Guanghua Law School, as well as faculty and students from Law School attended the ceremony.Prof. ZHOU Jianghong chaired the ceremony, and Prof. HU M...

On March 21, Zhejiang University School of Medicine celebrated the Graduation Ceremony for 63 MBBS international students in the Class of 2018.LUO Jianhong, ZJU’s vice president, delivered a passionate speech offering his cordial congratulations to every graduate. “You have completed your task at this stage, but becoming a qualified doctor remains a long and arduous journey for you. I hope that you will pass on what you have acquired at ZJU and promote it to a wider arena,” said Luo in his sp...

On March 24, the 2018 AIIA Contest for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine was officially launched at the 2018 China Hospital Information Network Conference (CHINC) at Hangzhou International Expo Center.The 2018 AIIA Contest for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, part of the AIIA Artificial Intelligence Tournament, aims at promoting the provision of medical resources, revolutionizing conventional technologies and innovating service patterns so as to cater to the demands for multiple and divers...

96Normal010 磅02falsefalsefalseEN-USZH-CNX-NONEImage: Xinhua/Huang ZongzhiThe inaugural International Elite Universities Dragon Boat Race kicked off in east Hangzhou’s Jinsha Lake on March 27, with 15 college teams vying for the top honors.The 2018 dragon boat race has drawn student-athletes from 15 renowned universities, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, China’s C9 League Universities, Tongji University and...

Some of the world’s brightest college students are in Hangzhou this week to take part in a dragon boat race jointly held by Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Satellite Television.On the afternoon of March 24, over 50 student-athletes from Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and the University of Oxford had an impressive tour around ZJU’s Zijingang Campus. In the company of student volunteers, the student-athletes had lunch in one of the campus caf...

The lab of LING Daishun, a professor of pharmaceutical sciences at ZJU’s College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has published an article titled “Renal-Clearable Hollow Bismuth Subcarbonate Nanotubes for Tumor Targeted Computed Tomography Imaging and Chemoradiotherapy” in the top-tier research journal Nano Letters (IF: 12.712). They reported on the hollow bismuth subcarbonate nanotubes (BNTs) assembled from renal-clearable ultrasmall bismuth subcarbonate nanoclusters for tumor-targeted imagi...

More than 60 prominent domestic and international scholars gathered at Zhejiang University (ZJU) on Monday for the International Conference on the Development of World-class Discipline of Education and Seminar on the Educational Thoughts of Professor WANG Chengxu, one of the most influential figures in comparative education in China.The conference facilitated discussion and exploration of the development of education as an academic discipline, under the context of the “Double First-class Initia...

Research led by Dr. RUAN Zhichao, a professor of physics from ZJU, has been listed among the 2017 Top 10 Scientific Achievements of China in Applied Optics. Group photo of honored researchersIn a paper titled “Plasmonic Computing of Spatial Differentiation”, the team revealed that the interference effects associated with surface plasmon excitations at a single metal–dielectric interface can perform spatial differentiation. They experimentally demonstrated edge detection of an image without any...

Are you ever curious about the places that TANG Xianzu (1550-1616), a renowned Chinese playwright of the Ming Dynasty, went to in his lifetime? Do you want to catch a glimpse of the traces and doings of CHU Kochen when he served as president of Zhejiang University? Are you interested in acquiring information concerning the characters in The Complete Works of Song, The Complete Works of Yuan and Yuan Poetry? Tracking the traces of TANG XianzuAll these will become an easy task with ...

YANG Kailun, a PhD candidate in ZJU’s College of Optical Science and Engineering, recently won the only Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Frontiers of Image Processing (ICFIP 2018) held on March 9-11 in Barcelona, Spain.The paper is titled “Long-range Traversability Awareness and Low-lying Obstacle Negotiation with RealSense for the Visually Impaired”. It was jointly penned by ZJU’s visual assisting technology team, led by Dr. WANG Kaiwei, and the RobeSafe te...