ZJU has landed a new donation for education, with an alumni company giving ¥500,000 to its College of Electrical Engineering.SUN Xihang, a ZJU alumnus and board member of Zhejiang Kinlead Innovative Materials Co. Ltd, made the donation on January 26. The money will be used to support education at the College of Electrical Engineering, from which SUN graduated.SUN recalled the time when he studied at the College and his experience in starting a business. "Time at ZJU has ...

In 1817, English doctor James Parkinson published an essay describing the characteristic resting tremor, abnormal posture and gait, paralysis and diminished muscle strength, and the way that the disease progresses over time. Hence this disease was named Parkinson’s disease (PD) in honor of James Parkinson.Illustration of Parkinson's disease by William Richard Gowers, first published in A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System (1886).“PD is a long-term degenerative disorder of the ce...

A fraction of severe cancer patients may suffer from an unbalanced immune system. As a consequence, they are subject to viral disease and thereby develop and even die of certain complications. It is evident that malignancies can compromise innate immunity, but their mechanisms remain largely obscure at present.According to the findings of a research team led by Professor ZHANG Long in ZJU’s Life Sciences Institute, via tumor-derived exosomes (TEXs), cancers are able to transfer the activat...

CAI Tianxin, a professor at ZJU’s School of Mathematical Sciences, has won a national award for his book Legends of Mathematics: Those Great Mathematicians.A book written by ZJU professor CAI Tianxin has won the second prize of China’s National Science and Technology Progress Award for 2017.The book, titled “Legends of Mathematics: Those Great Mathematicians”, rewrites about some representative figures in the history of mathematics, including their inner world, life experiences and grow...

Thermoelectric materials are characterized by its Seebeck effect in converting heat into electricity and the Peltier effect in converting electricity into refrigeration in an efficient way, thereby becoming a promising type of environmentally-friendly energy source. The primary drawback with current thermoelectric materials is the fact that their thermoelectric figure of merit can hardly reach one.However, researchers have reported an extraordinary thermoelectric conversion efficiency of ZT = 2....

1. First Prize Winner of the State Technology Invention Award: Development and application of key technologies concerning ultra-low emission of coal-fired units Participating Researchers: GAO Xiang, WU Guochao, ZHU Songqiang, ZHENG Chenghang, HU Daqing and CEN KefaAbout the Project: Coal burning is the major culprit of severe haze in certain areas. The ultra-low emission of coal-fired units is of immense significance to cope with coal pollution in China. Researchers have made a series of br...

  

An alliance between Chinese and French institutions of higher education to promote artificial intelligence (AI) is established so as to apply innovation to a wider spectrum of domains by means of cross-disciplinary international cooperation.Eight educational institutions from the two countires, including Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University and Sorbonne University, set up the France-China AI Consortium.“This alliance brings together a galaxy of AI experts from China and France and is of imm...

XIA Changliang, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, has become a chair professor at ZJU.On January 6, Zhejiang University held an appointment ceremony to welcome XIA Changliang, an accompolished member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, to join his alma mater as Qiushi Chair Professor. ZOU Xiaodong, secretary of the Party Committee of ZJU, presented XIA with an appointment certificate. Present at the ceremony were heads of relevant departments of ZJU as well as students and faculty fr...

Led by LI Lanjuan, Member of Chinese Academy of Science, “Major innovations and technological breakthroughs in the prevention and treatment system of emerging infectious diseases: Prevention of human infection with H7N9” won the grand prize of the State Science & Technology Progress Award. Emerging infectious diseases have long posed a severe threat to global safety and constituted a significant challenge to mankind all over the globe. This research team achieved 6 major innovations and te...