The International Campus of Zhejiang University extended a warm welcome to hundreds of visitors for the ZJU Open Day on April 8. Open Day exhibited many of the unique offerings of the ZJU-UIUC and ZJU-UoE community of learning.Zhejiang University is working in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh and The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to set up the ZJU-UoE Institute and the ZJU-UIUC Institute on International Campus in Haining. The two institutes provide undergraduate...

As an important event for the celebration of our 120th anniversary, Zhejiang University – University of Chicago Academic week was held jointly by Department of Polymer Science and Engineering (DPSE) of ZJU,the Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) of UChicago and the International Relations Office of ZJU: 9 professors from ZJU, 8 professors from UChicago and more than 100 students attended this event, which lasted from April 13th to 15th on the Yuquan Campus. Th...

Perhap some of you will remember Mr. Ray, the Manta Ray who acts as an underwater teacher and sometime schoolbus in the 2003 hit Disney movie Finding Nemo. Inspired by the Manta Ray’s soft body and flexible flapping wings of this incredible animal, a great development in the field of bioengineering was made by the engineers Tiefeng Li and Zhilong Huang in the College of Aeronautics and Astronautics of ZJU. The new bionic fish design could lead to lifelike robots that can explore the ocean, moni...

 The 45th International Exhibition of Inventions-Geneva was held between March 29 and April 2. The exhibition was founded in 1973 under the patronage of the Swiss Federal Government and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Roughly 1,000 inventions from more than 40 countries and regions, including 83 inventions from mainland China and 14 from Hong Kong, were on display at this exhibition.The Industrial Research Institute of Zhejiang University submitted three inventions for this ex...

Founded in 1973 and supported by the Swiss Federal Government and the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva is known as the thinking man’s fiesta for modernism and innovation. Between March 29 and April 2, 2017, about 1,000 inventions from more than 40 countries and regions debuted on its 45th competition,including 83 inventions from mainland China and 14 from Hong Kong. The Industrial Research Institute of Zhejiang University were h...

 On March 30, Wu Zhaohui, President of Zhejiang University, met with a delegation from the University of York led by Vice-Chancellor and President Koen Lamberts.The two presidents held a talk about the prospects for further enhancing substantial cooperation in more fields and concurred that the two universities should set up a collaborative platform as soon as possible―ZJU-York Joint Research Center―so as to promote research partnerships. Meanwhile, both sides will expand student exchange...

 The 25th Pacific Congress on Marine Science and Technology-PACON, co-hosted by the Ocean College of Zhejiang University and the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was held on Zhoushan Campus on March 28-29. The conference attracted 200-plus experts and researchers from 10 nations, including China, America, Russia, Japan, Korea and Indonesia.PACON International is an organization comprised of marine scientists, engineers, industrialists, and policy-m...

In February 2017, Gentaro Watanabe who is working as a faculty member of Department of Physics and Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics at Zhejiang University, has published his research on quantum thermal machines in Physical Review Letters as an Editors' Suggestion. Gentaro Watanabe is the first and corresponding author of this paper. This paper is also featured in APS Physics Synopsis (physics news issued by the American Physical Society).Technological development has spurred the fabricat...

 On the morning of March 28, Prof. Martin Schmidt, Provost of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, paid a visit to the International Campus of Zhejiang University. Song Yonghua, Executive Vice President of Zhejiang University and Dean of the International Joint Institute, gave a detailed introduction about the construction of the International Campus and relevant academic information. They carried out an in-depth discussion in regard to the potential cooperation between ZJU and MIT.

 Editor's note: The winners of the London Book Fair International Excellence Awards were announced at a prestigious awards ceremony held on March 14, 2017 at Olympia, UK. In its 16 Awards Categories, the Academic and Professional Publisher Award went to OECD Publishing (France) while Journal of Zhejiang University-Science (JZUS) and CSIRO Publishing (Australia) were nominated for this award. It is the first time that an academic journal has been shortlisted since the establishment ...