The latest Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database reveals that Zhejiang University comes in 130th place globally and ranks 4th in China on the top university ranking list by ESI papers. Among the total 22 specific fields of research, 18 disciplines of ZJU have entered the global top 1%. Eight disciplines of ZJU have made it through to the dazzling global top 0.1% and five disciplines are among global top 50 - the results make ZJU a front-runner among universities on Chin...

The Third International Prominent Forum on the Rule of Law and Reform was held in Hangzhou on November 11-12. Hosted by Zhejiang University and supervised by the China Law Society, this year’s forum centers around Law and Society and helps consolidate academic wisdom for building a rule-of-law society.This year’s forum was jointly organized by the National “2011 Plan” Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization, Guanghua Law School, and the Academy of Humanities and Social Scien...

The leaves of gingko trees are painted golden and the Alumni Woods displays a wide range of carnival colors on ZJU’s Zijingang campus.On this special occasion, 120 newlyweds who have graduated from ZJU attended the Love@ZJU group wedding ceremony in their alma mater on November 12. They walked the line to the altar with the best wishes and greetings from their instructors, counselors, friends and families.Professor ZOU Xiaodong, secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang University, presided ...

Recently, the research team headed by Dr. ZHOU Min with ZJU’s Institute of Translational Medicine, and the research team from ZJU’s Second Affiliated Hospital, have invented high-efficient clearable nanoparticles for multi-modal imaging and image-guided cancer therapy. The relevant findings are published as a back-cover article in Advanced Functional Materials.Renal-clearable nanoparticles render it possible to overcome the toxicity by nonspecific accumulation in healthy tissues/orga...

With the successful conclusion of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics provides wisdom and new thoughts for global development, drawing extensive attention around the world.Giusto Patricio Javier, graduate student of the class of 2017 from Institute of China Studies, Zhejiang University, and professor of Politics at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, shared his views on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics ...

Professor Tomas Lindahl, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015, delivered a lecture titled “DNA Stability and Repair” at Zhejiang University Global Lecture Series on November 6.According to the lecture, our DNAs are exposed to ultraviolet radiation and destroyed by free radicals and other cancer-inducing substances every day. Even if they are not subjected to external attack, DNA molecules are far from stable per se. Thousands of cell genomes are undergoing changes spontaneously. In a...

On October 27, the Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Crowd Innovation Space was officially inaugurated in Zijin Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub, a special area in west Hangzhou developed by ZJU and the regional government for technology transfer and business incubation.The Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Crowd Innovation Space is projected to incubate roughly 60 enterprises in such fields as artificial intelligence and big data applications. The space aims to provide a series of favo...

Dr. KAN Yue, a professor with ZJU’s College of Education, attended the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the University Twinning and Networking (UNITWIN)/UNESCO Chairs Program on October 31 in Paris. He was invited to talk about the current development and future vision of ZJU’s entrepreneurship education at the event.The celebration took place during the 39th session of the General Conference and brought together over 200 UNESCO Chairholders, Network Coordinators and other key UNITWIN actors fr...

The 2017 edition of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) was held from October 30 through November 3 in Dallas, Texas. A paper titled “Dolphin Attack: Inaudible Voice Commands” stood out among 11 nominated competitors and was selected as one of the five best papers.The paper was authored by the research team led by XU Wenyuan and JI Xiaoyu with the Ubiquitous System Security Lab (USS Lab) in ZJU’s College of Electrical Engineering. This is the first time that...

The International Conference on the Construction of the Entrepreneurship Education System was held in Hangzhou on October 29-30. The event was jointly organized by the UNESCO Entrepreneurship Education Network (EE-Net) National Chapter in China and Zhejiang University.Approximately 200 scholars and experts from various international organizations and countries, including the UNESCO, the United States, Germany, South Korea, South Africa, Croatia, and the Philippines, attended the conference. They...