This year’s ASCE Mid-Pacific Student Conference was held from April 6-9 on Reno Campus, the University of Nevada. Zhejiang University attended two of the seven competitions: the GeoWall competition and the Steel Bridge competition. The ZJU team for the GeoWall competition was comprised of four members, including Fu Lei, Li Ke, Zhuang Yansheng and Yang Songqing while the ZJU team for the Steel Bridge competition included Shen Kai, Wang Weidi, Zhan Xingbin and Ao Shuang. The mission of the Steel ...

Mr. Eric Maskin, an American economist and a 2007 Nobel laureate in economics, was invited to deliver a speech entitled “Why Has Inequality Increased in China?” on April 10 at Zhejiang  University. It marks the beginning of the Academic Masters Lecture Series in celebration of the 120th anniversary of the university.Eric Maskin is recognized with Leonid Hurwicz and Roger Myerson “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”. He is the Adams University Professor at Harvard...

 “Vision 20: International Summit on Global Governance’s New Frontier” (Vision 20) was held between March 31 and April 1 at Zhejiang  University. Present at the summit were more than 50 eminent scholars, think-tank leaders and government leaders from various countries and regions, including China, Canada, the USA, Australia, Japan, Korea, the UK, India and Indonesia. ZJU President Wu Zhaohui attended the opening ceremony.“The G20 is set to be held in Hangzhou this year. I hope that...

  On April 1, Dr. Stephen Z.D. Cheng, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a professor of the University of Akron, delivered a speech in Qizhen Global Vision Lecture Series. He shared with the audience his cutting-edge research in his speech titled “Giant Molecules Based on Precisely Functionalized ‘Nano-atoms’: Turning from Crystals to Frank-Kasper and Quasicrystal Superlattices”.Prof. Stephen Cheng is an American polymer scientist and chemical engineer. He is th...

 The past few years has witnessed remarkable development in the domain of robotics. Since its establishment in 2001, the Robotics Laboratory of the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, has made a series of significant achievements in high-speed visual sensing, flexible kinetic designing and precise balance controlling. The table tennis robot system and the soccer robot system have riveted massive attention from various research institutes and mass media both at h...

 The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has announced the SIAM Fellows Class of 2016. Prof. Bao Gang, Dean of the College of Mathematics  Science, Zhejiang University, is honored to become a SIAM fellow.Founded in 1952, SIAM is currently the most influential organization in applied mathematics and computational science in the world. The membership of SIAM has grown to more than 14,000. It publishes 16 peer-reviewed journals and holds a series of academic conferences ...

On March 23, the School of Medicine, Zhejiang  University, held a commencement ceremony for international graduates in the MBBS program. A total of 66 students from 14 countries completed their course studies and clinical internships successfully and obtained their bachelor’s degree.Executive Vice President Song Yonghua delivered a speech at the ceremony. He expressed his cordial hope that graduates will contribute all they can to the medical field for all humanity. Wang Li, Dean of the In...

The Zhejiang University delegation led by Vice President Yan Jianhua visited Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), École Polytechnique, Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen), Technische Universitaet Berlin (TUB) and Technische Universitaet München (TUM) to explore the prospects for partnership on March 13-22. On March 14, the ZJU delegation paid a visit to TU/e in the Netherlands and held a talk with Executive Board Chairman Jan Mengelers, Rector Magnifi...

The Zhejiang University delegation led by Executive Vice President Song Yonghua visited Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) to explore the prospects for partnership on March 14-19. Meanwhile, together with the ZJU delegation, the University of Bath delegation led by Provost Bernie Morley made a joint trip to USP and UNICAMP in order to strive for bilateral or trilateral cooperation in education and resear...

The select list of the 12th batch of the Recruitment Program for Young Professionals was officially unveiled yesterday. Zhejiang University recruits 33 outstanding scholars, thus ranking 1st among China’s institutions of higher learning and research institutes.To attract young talents, ZJU renders massive support in various aspects, such as paychecks, research funds and housing. In 2014, it inaugurated the Talent Introduction & Cultivation Award (the “Bo Le” Award) with a view to encourag...