On March 31, a cricket tournament was held for international students on Zijingang Campus. Ocean College team, comprised of 8 international students, got the 3rd prize in the tournament.The sports event was held to promote health and physical activities among international students. “We highly appreciate this sports activity and look forward to more activities like this in future. These physical activities are essential to campus life.” said Hassnain Agha Naqvi, member of Ocean College te...

A team of undergraduates from ZJU’s School of Computer Science and Technology have clinched the second place at the National Network Security Challenge held on March 25, behind the Tencent team by a narrow margin.Ranking graphNamed “AAA”, the team comprises ZJU freshmen and sophomores ZHU Songbo, SHI Gongyu and HUANG Shan, and junior/senior students such as ZHU Jiaqi, CHEN Jianyu, CHEN Xingyu and XU Shengjie.Despite intense pressure, AAA members had a brilliant performance with continuou...

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...