ZJU’s Global Summer School recruitment kicks off
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2022-04-01
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Curious about future cities in science fiction movies? Eager to address digital divide in the upcoming smart city? Want to know how many trees you need to plant to neutralize your carbon emissions in a year? Heads up! Keys to these interesting questions are hidden in ZJU’s Global Summer School! As part of Z4G, Zhejiang University’s sustainability action plan, the two-week Summer School is launched to inspire the young students to electrify the global community in response to the UN 2030 Agenda...
Vice President HE Lianzhen: higher education community can play a key role in addressing global challenges
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2022-03-31
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“The higher education community can play a key role in addressing global challenges and advancing the process of sustainable development,” Vice President HE Lianzhen told the webinar, which was held by the International Association of Universities (IAU) and Higher Education Teaching & Learning Association (HETL) on March 29.Prof. He shared ZJU’s sustainability action plan (Z4G) and her insights into the role of higher education leadership in building a more sustainable community.Universit...
Transgenic maize ‘Ruifeng 125’ is remarkably resistant to corn borers
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2022-03-29
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Maize is one of the world’s top three staple foods and the most important forage crop. China has a planting acreage of approximately 600 million mu (equal to 40 million hectares), ranking first in the world. On January 21, 2020, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs granted Safety Certificates of Agricultural GMO for 192 plant varieties.Ruifeng 125, an insect-resistant transgenic maize developed by Prof. SHEN Zhicheng’s team at the Zhejiang University, College of Agriculture ...
ZHANG Yi: Aspiring to do her bit for patients with rare diseases
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2022-03-24
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[Editor’s Note: ZHANG Yi, an undergraduate of BA Denian Medical Class at Chu Kochen Honors College, is one of the recipients of the CKC Scholarship, the highest scholarship at Zhejiang University. Determined, devoted, and diligent, Zhang steps on the way to a clinical scientist with her commitment to tackling the rare diseases. In this feature story, we will learn more about her growth trajectory.] Determination throughoutAll things are possible for those with unflagging determination, and...
Academic cross-pollination ignites sparks
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2022-03-22
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On March 14, WANG Chao, a master’s student at the College of Electrical Engineering, and LIN Xin, a PhD candidate at the School of Management, co-authored a research article entitled “Coordinating Thermal Energy Storage Capacity Planning and Multi-Channels Energy Dispatch in Wind-Concentrating Solar Power Energy System”, which will come out soon in the Journal of Cleaner Production.This interdisciplinary “pollination” started from a summer social practice program. In 2020, the Col...
ZJU establishes School of Physics
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2022-03-21
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The Department of Physics was renamed the School of Physics on March 11.President WU Zhaohui expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Prof. LIN Haiqing, a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, for joining the Zhejiang University community as dean of the School of Physics. He hoped that the School of Physics would gear up efforts to build the world’s leading discipline, open up new vistas for physics tuned in to China’s key strategic needs, and lead the high-quality development of basic disci...
Extracellular vesicles derived from NELL1-modified mesenchymal stem cells improve acellular bone regeneration
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2022-03-17
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EVs are nanoparticles (30–200 nm) secreted by various cell types, and the lipid bilayer of EVs can retain their bioactivity for a long time and protect functional molecules inside, such as miRNAs. EVs-mediated cell-free therapy is considered a promising alternative to stem cell transplantation. Proper gene modification of EVs can significantly improve cellular uptake or therapeutic RNA delivery to promote therapeutic efficacy. Neural EGFL-like 1 (NELL1) is a protein that stimulates bone formatio...
Insight@ZJU: School of Management releases the Innovation Economy Index for 57 Chinese Cities
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2022-03-16
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[Message from the Editor: On February 25, the Blue Book of China’s Urban Innovation Economy 2020-2021 (hereinafter, the “Blue Book”) was officially released at the Alibaba Cloud Guangdong Summit 2022. Compiled by the National Institute for Innovation Management (NIIM) and the Zhejiang University School of Management, with data support from Alibaba Cloud, the Blue Book included the Innovation Economy Index for 57 Chinese Cities (hereinafter, the “Innovation Economy Index”), re...
A plant-based diet with better quality might lower mortality risk in Chinese older adults
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2022-03-15
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A plant-based dietary pattern is usually defined as a diet rich in plant-based foods and low level of animal-based foods, and has received accumulating attention for its potential health and environmental benefits. However, not all plant-based foods are necessarily beneficial to health, and most prior studies focused only on the western population, while there is limited evidence for the East Asian population with a tradition of plant-based diet.On March 7, 2022, the research team led by D...
ZJU scholars publish latest research findings about optical absorption of black carbon aerosols
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2022-03-15
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Recently, Prof. LI Weijun and doctoral student WANG Yuanyuan from the School of Earth Sciences and Prof. HUANG Jin from the College of Computer Science and Technology co-published their research findings about the optical absorption of black carbon (BC) aerosols in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.BC, emitted by the incomplete combustion of biomass and fossil fuels, can strongly absorb sunlight in the atmosphere, affecting the...