“Do you know antibiotics are available on prescription?”“Do you know the culprit of bacteria’s resistance to drug?”Antibiotics are both “familiar” and “unfamiliar” to the general public. In China, virtually every household will prepare some antibiotics, but their proper use is far from well-understood. On October 20, the 1st National Contest for Proper Use of Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance took place on Zijingang Campus at Zhejiang University. A total of 30 teams from 17 insti...

Shenzhou 11, a manned spaceflight of the Shenzhou program of China, was successfully launched on October 17, 2016. Before that, a non-invasive cardiac output monitor developed by Zhejiang  University had been “waiting for” astronauts at the Tiangong 2 space laboratory and it will monitor and analyze such physiological parameters as heart rates, blood pressure and oxygen saturation for them, thereby ensuring their healthy condition.The College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Sci...

 On the evening of October 15, the 2016 Qiu Shi Awards presentation ceremony was grandly held at Peking University. Two Zhejiang University researchers―JIN Yizheng from the Department of Chemistry and YU Qian from the School of Materials Science and Engineering―received the “Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award”.The Qiu Shi Science & Technologies Foundation was established by Mr. Cha Chi Ming (1914-2007) and his family in Hong Kong in 1994. It was named after the predecessor of Z...

The 2nd edition of China’s “Internet Plus” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest for College Students took place on October 12-15 at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan. A total of 120 teams, including 4 teams from Zhejiang University, got through to the final and competed for 30 gold medals. 3 projects designed by Zhejiang University, including the air faucet system, wearable devices based on EEG detection and the BaaS platform, won gold medals, and 1 project―the UMA smar...

 “Congrats to the Zhejiang University team for their app Tipix, winner of our first University app contest,” Apple CEO Tim Cook sent his congratulations through his Twitter-like Sina Weibo account on October 12. The China Collegiate Computing Contest received 361 app designs and projects submitted by entrants from 161 universities and colleges over a period of six months. On the morning of October 12, four finalists, including two Zhejiang University teams, one Tongji University team and ...

 The United Nations launched a special promotion of its outreach programme on human resources at Zhejiang University on October 13. “Currently, there is still a paucity of Chinese staff in the UN, so we expect more Chinese youngsters to engage in international affairs,” said six programme officials in the promotional campaign.John Ericson, Chief of the Outreach Unit in the Office of Human Resources Management of the United Nations Secretariat, said that China has become the third-largest ...

Dr. Yu Guanding, an associate professor of the College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2016 of the prestigious IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), for his strong publication record and active participation in conference activities over the last three years. The award was established in 2001 with the aim of honoring capable researchers aged 35 or below. This year, six young scienti...

The 6th World Junior Wushu Championships was held in Burgas,  Bulgaria, from September 29 to October 3. Zheng Mengxuan, a freshman majoring in Wushu and National Traditional Sports, attended the championships on behalf of China and won a gold medal in Girl’s Jianshu A.  The World Junior Wushu Championships (WJWC) is an international Wushu competition organized by the International Wushu Federation for competitors below 18 years of age. The 6th edition of the WJWC attracted more than 6...

The 6th China International UAS Conference & Exhibition (UAS 2016) was held in Beijing on September 20-23. At the exhibition, ZJU UAV Sci-tech Alliance displayed a series of devices, including high-performance target drones, unmanned helicopters, multi-rotor UAVs and key components of the unmanned aerial system. These devices riveted the attention of many visitors. Founded in 2015, ZJU UAV Sci-tech Alliance is a systematic research and development institution merging the innovation chain and...

 The research team, led by Prof. Wang Di of the Institute of Immunology, the School of Medicine, discovers the function of bile acids in controlling inflammation and metabolic disorder by inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome and reveals the PKA-induced phosphorylation and ubiquitination of NLRP3. Their findings were published online in Immunity on September 27, 2016.Reciprocal interactions between the metabolic system and immune cells play pivotal roles in diverse inflammatory diseases, but the un...