ZJU’s XIE Zhenye joins men’s 4×100m relay final to tie national record at Tokyo Olympics
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In the attention-riveting men’s 4×100m relay final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on August 6, China’s relay quartet came in 4th at 37.79 seconds, equaling the national record. XIE Zhenye, a doctoral candidate in the discipline of athletic training at the Zhejiang University College of Education, was one of the members in the squad. Xie’s personal best in the 100 meters of 9.97 seconds makes him the second Chinese sprinter to record a time below the 10-second barrier, after SU Bingtian, me...
Dialogue@ZJU: With Prof. ZHAO Zhirong, Dean of School of Public Affairs
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2021-08-07
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[Message from the editor: In June, Prof. ZHAO Zhirong was appointed the new dean of the Zhejiang University School of Public Affairs. Prior to this position, he was the Gross Family Professor of Public & Nonprofit Management at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on public budgeting, public finance and urban governance. In an interview, Prof. Zhao spoke about his research and insights in the future development of public affairs and shared ...
Germanium-lead perovskite LEDs: a new way to reduced toxicity
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2021-08-06
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Metal-halide perovskites are a new class of semiconductor materials for LED display and solar-energy harvesting. However, the best-performing devices are often made from lead (Pb)-based perovskites, whose toxicity may cause potential environmental concerns. To resolve the toxicity problem, an effective method has been the use of tin (Sn) as a partial or full replacement of lead in the perovskite materials. This strategy has been particularly successful for perovskite solar cells. However, tin-ba...
ZJU freshman WU Qingfeng ranks 5th in the Women’s 50m Freestyle Final
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2021-08-03
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On August 1, WU Qingfeng, an incoming freshman from the Zhejiang University College of Education, ranked 5th in the Women’s 50m Freestyle Final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In the Women’s 4×100m Freestyle Relay on July 25, China came in 7th, setting an Asian record of 3 minutes 34.76 seconds. The 18-year-old Wu was also one of the quartet in the relay. This is the first time that Wu has competed at the Olympic Games. “There were surprises as well as regrets at the Olympics,” said Wu, adding ...
Professor YANG Huayong Awarded Robert E. Koski Medal by ASME
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2021-08-02
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Professor YANG Huayong, dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University, has been named the recipient of the 2021 Robert E. Koski Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).The award recognizes individuals who have advanced the art and practice of fluid power motion and control through education and/or innovation. It was established in 2007 by the ASME Fluid Power Systems and Technology Division to honor Robert E. Koski's contributions to the fiel...
Interpretable machine learning predicts terrorism worldwide
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2021-07-31
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About 20 years ago, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killed almost 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, New York and at the Pentagon. Since then, a vast amount of research has been carried out to better understand the mechanisms behind terrorism in the hope of preventing future potentially devastating acts of terror. Despite the large efforts invested to study terrorism, quantitative research has mainly developed and applied approaches aiming at describing regional cases of terrorist...
Scientists discover role of lncRNA in regulating Hippo signaling via phase separation
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Membraneless compartments which are formed via active liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) or condensation are crucial for spatiotemporal regulation of cellular functions. LLPS is driven by multivalent, weak interactions, involving intrinsically disordered regions (IDR), folded protein, and scaffolding DNA or RNA molecules. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are emerging as a new class of important regulators of signal transduction in tissue homeostasis and cancer development. By coordinating with R...
ZJU scientists unravel mechanism of genome instability by DNA Pol μ misincorporatio
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2021-07-23
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Endogenous and exogenous factors may result in a variety of DNA damage, among which DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are the most perilous type of DNA damage. If they fail to be repaired promptly, it will affect genome stability considerably and even lead to cell death. Nonhomologous end joining (NHEJ) is one of the main pathways to repairing DSBs.X family polymerases (Pol μ, Pol λ, and TdT) are involved in the NHEJ pathway and perform gap-filling repair synthesis. Pol μ can effectively misins...
Forum held on Urban Energy Internet Development and Cooperation Under the Goal of Achieving Peak Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Carbon Neutrality
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2021-07-22
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On July 16, the Forum on Urban Energy Internet Development and Cooperation Under the Goal of Achieving Peak Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Carbon Neutrality was held on Haining International Campus, Zhejiang University. The forum gathered over 200 participants from Tsinghua University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and key renewable energy enterprises. Prof. QIU Aici, a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering and honorary dean of the School of Electrical Engineering at Xi’an Ji...
Dialogue@ZJU: With Idea Explorer Innovation & Entrepreneurship Global Summer Program 2021
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[Editor’s note: Idea Explorer Innovation & Entrepreneurship Global Summer Program 2021 concluded successfully. Initiated in 2012 and suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19, the Program was shifted online this year, bringing together 297 students from 26 countries across 5 continents. Themed on “Embrace Digital World”, it offered the opportunity to unlock different facets of knowledge targeting entrepreneurship and find uniqueness of Hangzhou. 30 Participants also were selected to...