On the afternoon of April 20, Zhejiang University held a grand appointment ceremony to welcome 6 overseas academicians, including Donald Grierson, a fellow of the Royal Society of England, Michael Thomashow and Harry Klee, fellows of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, Ian Ferguson, a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and Mondher Bouzayen, a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. They joined the Joint Overseas Academician Workshop for Fruit Quality Biology....

 In a discovery that advances the understanding of how Angiotensin II works in the human body, an international group of scientists including Professor Haitao Zhang from the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences have for the first time acquired a three-dimensional atomic image of the human angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R) using an X-ray free electron laser technique.The crystal structures reveal surprising features of this enigmatic hormone receptor,giving scientists new insights into dru...

 At the NTC/Pure Athletics Spring Invitational in Clermont, Florida, on April 16, Xie Zhenye, a postgraduate student in the Department of Physical Education, Zhejiang University, won his heat in 9.91, aided by a 4.1m/s following wind. This is the record time in men’s 100m in China.This remarkable performance gave Xie Zhenye a boost. One of the major tasks for China’s sprinter team this year is to attend the IAAF World Championships London 2017 in August. It is hoped that Xie will giv...

Timothy M. Swager, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the American National Academy of Science, delivered a speech entitled “Molecular Electronics for Chemical Sensors”.Prof. Timothy introduced CP and CNT in his speech. He also elaborated on the idiosyncrasies of various chemical materials for sensors via a series of charts and a set of data. Moreover, he talked about the applications of chemical sensors in smart phones, se...

 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...