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...

A PhD student from the University of Toronto (U of T) is set to come to Zhejiang University for co-supervision of her research into childhood brain cancer. This exciting opportunity arises from a newly implemented joint PhD program between ZJU and U of T.Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto has evolved into Canada’s top institution of higher education.Charmaine Rodrigues is currently a doctoral stream student in the lab of Dr. Chi-Chung Hui, a professor in U of T’s department of mol...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain the leading cause of deaths in China. One of the primary reasons for the constantly rising death rate is heart failure due to the loss of cardiomyocytes caused by myocardial infarction (MI). Existing therapies have failed to reverse the process of heart failure.Therefore, a large body of scientists have endeavored to “resurrect” or “to culture” cardiomyocytes so as to change the seemingly “irrevocable” process. Key to this issue are to reduce the loss ...

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by troubles with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. It first appears during infancy or childhood, and generally follows a steady course without remission. The number of people affected is estimated at 1–2 per 1,000 people worldwide. To this day, there has been no effective therapy for autism.A research team headed by Prof. LUO Jianhong, vice president of ZJU, published an article entitled “Gamma Oscil...

On March 4, Dr. YANG Shu, a research professor at ZJU's College of Electrical Engineering was featured on China Central Television (CCTV) news for her efforts to innovate energy-efficient power devices.Headlined "Post-90s PhD Supervisor YANG Shu: Pouring Efforts into Research and Creating Environmentally-friendly and Energy-saving Devices", the news footage highlighted the significance of Yang's research as well as her decision to return to China after her postdoctoral stu...