On November 7, the West Lake Photonics Symposium was held at Zhejiang University. This top-notch symposium attracted a galaxy of eminent scientists in the domain of photonics from around the world.One of the keynote speakers is Prof. Sune Svanberg, who is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Prof. Svanberg has been working in China since his retirement from the Nobel Committee for Physics. In Sweden, he owned a...

 The 7th edition of the Formula Student China (FSC) was held on October 11-15 in Xiangyang City, Hubei Province. The Qizhen Racing Team from Zhejiang University came in at No. 2 in the marketing category.FSC is a comprehensive engineering competition where college students design, build, and race a small-scale formula-style racing car. A total of 79 racing teams from Zhejiang University, Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Tianjin Univ...

 The 2016 edition of Mobile Pwn2Own has concluded in Tokyo, Japan. With multiple successful exploits, Tencent Keen Security Lab Team claimed the title of the Master of Pwn with 45 points and a cash prize of $215,000 in total. On Tencent Keen Security Lab Team are two students from Zhejiang University—He Qidan who graduated from Zhejiang University and is currently working in Tencent Keen Security Lab and Liu Gengming who is a senior majoring in information security.Pwn2Own is a computer hac...

On October 26, Dr. Luo Liqun, a professor of biology from Stanford University, delivered a speech tilted “Great Discoveries in Neuroscience”. This speech is part of Qizhen Global Vision Lecture Series in celebration of the coming 120th anniversary of Zhejiang University.In his lecture, Prof. Luo introduced his single-author textbook—Principles of Neurobiology, shared with the audience a series of breakthroughs and cutting-edge research in brain and neural sciences in the past 100 years, and in...

On October 26, Dr. Luo Liqun, a professor of biology from Stanford University, delivered a speech tilted “Great Discoveries in Neuroscience”. This speech is part of Qizhen Global Vision Lecture Series in celebration of the coming 120th anniversary of Zhejiang University.In his lecture, Prof. Luo introduced his single-author textbook—Principles of Neurobiology, shared with the audience a series of breakthroughs and cutting-edge research in brain and neural sciences in the past 100 years, and in...

 At the 2016 Zhejiang Provincial Entrepreneurial Leader Summit, the 2nd Zhejiang Provincial Industry Award was unveiled. Zhejiang University won the coveted Special Contribution Award thanks to its enormous contribution to the transformation of economic development via technological innovation. Zhejiang Provincial Industry Award is the highest award in the industrial field. It is jointly presented by Zhejiang Federation of Industrial Economics, Zhejiang Enterprise Confederation and Zhe...

“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...