George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, was awarded the title of Honorary Professor of Zhejiang University on October 30.After the awarding ceremony, Professor Church was invited to deliver a keynote speech titled “Technologies for Reading & Editing DNA and Medical Applications” at Xinglin Forum, a high-level academic activity hosted by ZJU’s School of Medicine.Professor Church’s speech was greeted by waves of applause among the audience. He introduced several s...

Two projects from ZJU’s Architecture and Design Institute have been awarded Honorable Mentions by the American Architecture Prize (AAP) 2017 jury.The first project, Zhejiang University Young Professors Club, received an honorable mention in the category of Restoration & Renovation. The club was transformed from the former Tsing Yuen Primary School in Tsingyi Village, Tonglu County, around 90 km from Hangzhou.  The project includes the renovation of two old school buildings and the...

On October 25, Dr. CHEN Zhu, China’s former health minister, was presented with the second “Dr. Clyde and Helen Wu Award for International Understanding” at Zhejiang University. The award ceremony was a major highlight of the First Joint Forum of ZJU-ITM and CUMC held at ZJU on October 24-25.Footage from China Global Television NetworkSet up by cardiologist Dr. Clyde Wu and his wife Helen Wu, the award is given annually by the Wu Family Center for Health Initiatives at Columbia Universit...

The First Joint Forum of ZJU-ITM and CUMC was held at Zhejiang University on October 24-25. This forum was co-organized by ZJU’s Institute of Translational Medicine (ZJU-ITM) and the Wu Family China Center for Health Initiatives at Columbia University.The forum was co-chaired by Prof. SUN Yi, dean of ZJU-ITM, and Dr. Anke Nolting, director of the Wu Family China Center and associate dean of Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).LUO Jianhong, vice president of ZJU, made opening remarks ...

Vibrio vulnificus is a species of Gram-negative, motile, curved, rod-shaped (bacillus), pathogenic bacteria of the genus Vibrio. Present in marine environments such as estuaries, brackish ponds, or coastal areas, V. vulnificus is related to V. cholerae, the causative agent of cholera.  Recently, the research team led by Prof. ZHU Yongqun of ZJU’s Life Sciences Institute discovered that a toxin produced by the bacterium that causes cholera has a catalytic activity that contributes to i...

The 2017 ZJU-Stanford Symposium on Materials Science was held on ZJU’s Yuquan Campus on October 11-12, providing an excellent platform for around 200 faculty members and students to learn and discuss the latest research findings on materials science. A delegation of nine researchers from Stanford University attended the event.Opening remarks by Paul McIntyre and HAN GaorongAt the opening ceremony, Prof. Paul McIntyre, chair of materials science and engineering at Stanford (MSE Stanford), and Pr...

YANG Jian (right first) is one of the winners of 2017 Australia’s Prime Minister's Prize    Professor YANG Jian, from the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), was awarded the Prime Minister’s Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year—a prize in honor of Professor Frank Fenner AC, an Australian virologist who played a key role in the worldwide eradication of smallpox and also directed the effort to redu...

    On the sidelines of the third World Leisure Expo held in Hangzhou from late October to mid-November, Dr. Roger Coles, chair of the Board of Directors of World Leisure Organization (WLO), led a delegation to visit Zhejiang University on October 21.    Coles was accompanied by WLO Chief Operating Officer Cristina Ortegaas well as other WLO board members and participants of the expo.    Ms. LI Min, director of ZJU’s Office of Internat...

On October 21, Haining International Campus of Zhejiang University was officially put into use. To celebrate the grand opening of this new campus, International Higher Education Forum was organized by Zhejiang University and International Education Committee, China Society of Educational Development Strategy.The construction of International Campus is one of the major steps towards serving national and local economic development, promoting institutional capacities, and accelerating the cons...

  On October 13, Zhejiang University and Harvard University signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with respect to the joint development of the Chinese Academic Mapping Platform at Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). Present at the ceremony were WU Zhaohui, President of Zhejiang University, Peter K. BOL, Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard and Mark ELLIOTT, Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard.Geographic information is intimately tied to hum...