Flying disc, a trending sport, goes viral on campuses for its fun competition, less physical contact and social interactions. As Ultimate—the disc competition governed by Spirit of the Game—is increasingly finding favor among the young, Zhejiang University’s Ultimate team, Hawk Soar, is also soaring in popularity. Today let’s turn the spotlight on their stories with discs.Why “Hawk Soar”?Hawk Soar is a team of Ultimate-fans led by LIU Chenlu, a graduate student in ZJU’s Life Science Institu...

Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a clinical syndrome defined as premature exhaustion of the resting pool of primordial follicles before the age of 40 years and characterized by oligo-/amenorrhea for at least 4 months with elevated gonadotrophins. Approximately 1% of women under 40 years of age are affected. POI causes severe daily life disturbances in these patients, including hot flashes, sweating, sleep disorders, vaginal dryness, depression, and compromised mental health. Another major ...

The recent years have witnessed the remarkable progress of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy in the treatment of hematological malignancies. However, unexpected serious toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome still hinder the therapeutic application. Furthermore, the role of the intestinal microbiome in treating the malignancies has raised great attention and the intestinal microbiome is found to affect the effi...

In recent years, with the rapid development of sequencing technology, a massive quantity of genomic data has been accumulated, thus laying a solid foundation for mining excellent genes at whole genome-wide, constructing new breeding strategies, and developing genome-targeted breeding by design platform. In the past decade, the team at the Zhejiang University College of Agriculture and Biotechnology led by Prof. HU Yan, Assoc. Prof. FANG Lei, Dr. SI Zhanfeng and Prof. ZHANG Tianzhen has...

【Editor’s Note: Located in the west district of Zijingang Campus, the North Building, also called Duan Yongping Teaching Building (named after Mr. DUAN Yongping, '82, Wireless Electronics Engineering), was recently put into use. This 40,000-square-meter building complex has nearly 200 classrooms with various functions, offering more than 12,300 seats for students’ daily use. Empowered by AI and ZJU Cloud, the highly smart North Building delineates the borderline of cyber space and the rea...

On October 6, the Exhibition Hall of the History of the School of Earth Sciences was officially opened at Zhejiang University. The exhibition hall is located in the new building of the School of Earth Sciences on Zijingang Campus. It aims to display the history of the School and the disciplinary development of earth sciences, the scientific style of eminent scholars in earth sciences, the achievements of talent training, the power of technological innovation, and the vision of disciplinary devel...

Bone injury is common in the clinic, and critical-sized bone defects cannot be self-healed. The "golden standard" of clinical treatments for such defects is still dependent on the transplantation of autologous / allogeneic or artificial bone grafts. However, there are such flaws as donor limits, immune rejection, infection risk and poor osseointegration, which may eventually lead to secondary surgery due to heterogeneous scar regeneration, delayed healing or even nonunion. Despite the ...

[Editor’s Note: LI Sihan, recipient of the 12th “Top Ten Students” as well as the Chu Kochen Scholarship 2020-2021 of Zhejiang University, is working on his doctoral dissertation about innovative management in his final year at the School of Management. Looking back through these four years till the September when he called himself a ZJUer for the first time, Sihan summarized, “I revealed my true self in one and another identity.”]From engineering to management Sihan became a freshman ...

【Editor’s Note: When Maotai Ice Cream opened its flagship store in Hangzhou, it achieved sales of over RMB2 million in its first week. During a press conference of the State Council Information Office in March 2022, Commerce Minister WANG Wentao pledged support for the first-store economy and the debut economy, alongside developing new consumer models based on customization, experience, AI, and fashion in qualifying cities. First store launches have been widespread and vigorous in Beijing and ...

On September 28, Prof. WU Zhaohui, president of Zhejiang University, and Prof. Rik Van de Walle, rector of Ghent University, signed a university-level double PhD agreement virtually. Prof. LI Min, director of the Zhejiang University Office of Global Engagement, presided over the meeting. WU Zhaohui expressed his great delight in meeting virtually with Rector Rik Van de Walle and colleagues from Ghent University. He believed that this double PhD agreement “will mark a new chapter for the partner...