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...

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...