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...

    DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the most deleterious form of DNA damage, which if unrepaired or repaired incorrectly, can contribute to various genetic disorders including cancer, neurodegeneration, and immunodeficiency. There are two types of DSBs: Two-ended DSBs and replication-associated one-ended DSBs. DSBs are mainly repaired by either homologous recombination (HR) or non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ).  Molecular mechanism of AUNIP to identify different DSBs...

  A Zhejiang University delegation headed by President WU Zhaohui paid a special visit to Yale University to promote strategic cooperation on October 11, 2017. The delegation exchanged ideas with Peter SALOVEY, President of Yale University, and the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). The two universities signed a cooperation agreement in the domain of public health, marking a deeper partnership between them.        Group photo of ZJU delegation with Presi...

               On Oct 17, 2017, Time Higher Education released the latest World University Rankings on two subjects, Computer Science and Engineering & technology. Our position in these two subjects has demonstrated an impressive jump from last year. ZJU Computer Science rises from 50th to 45th.  More importantly, Engineering & technology climbs from 67th to 50th this year, making a debut on globla top 50 list. In addi...

    Starting from June 25, 17 undergraduates from KTH Royal Institute of Technology conducted optical physics projects at Zhejiang University for three weeks. This is the  second year that the ZJU’s College of Optical Science and Engineering  has organized the summer research program. The program is carried out  under the Joint Research Centre of Photonics, a collective force of the  world-class research teams on photonics from ZJU, KTH, and the...

    From June 30 to July 22, 23 students from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Zhejiang Sci-Tech University participated in the ZJU-NCSU Joint Field Course titled “Plant Resources, Ecology & Culture of Eastern China”.    Headed by NCSU professors Jenny Xiang and Tom Wentworth, this is the fifth year that a delegation from NCSU’s Department of Plant & Microbial Biology has come t...

    Zhejiang University (ZJU) has continued its steady rise in Asia as it moved up three places to 21st in the 2018 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings: Asia, following Tsinghua University(#6), Fudan University(#7), Peking University(#9).    ZJU ranks 4th in China, surpassing Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which remains 22nd as last year. A total of 23 Chinese universities are listed among thetop 100 inQS University Rankings Asia 2018.  ...