[Message from the editor: BAI@QTEM is a 2.5-year master degree program in Business Analytics and Innovation in collaboration with Quantitative Techniques for Economics and Management, an international network bringing together outstanding students, Academic Partners and International Corporations. It highlights learning and practice in business analytics and quantitative techniques to support students in future careers. With 24 partner universities in 17 countries for academic exchange, the...

On the morning of April 27, Prof. WU Zhaohui, president of Zhejiang University, and Brain P. Schmidt, vice-chancellor and president of the Australian National University (ANU), had a virtual meeting and signed a Memorandum of Understanding for university-level partnership, marking the beginning of an official partnership between the two universities. Also present at the MoU signing ceremony was Prof. HE Lianzhen, vice president of Zhejiang University.“In 2018, President Schmidt and I attended B...

[Editor’s Note: Recently, the 17th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest drew to a close at Sichuan University. A total of 9,371 students from 555 institutions of higher learning across China participated in this year’s “Challenge Cup”. With 2 grand prizes, 3 first prizes and 1 second prize, Zhejiang University ranked 2nd in overall score nationwide. What’s more, it won the “Excellent Cup” and the Outstanding Organi...

Myelin is a multiple-layered structure formed by oligodendrocytes. The ensheathment of axons by myelin plays an important role in both functional integrity and long-term survival of axons and thus regulates activity of the central nervous system (CNS). However, with ageing, some myelin sheaths exhibit myelin ageing and even myelin degeneration termed as demyelination, which is the key pathological feature of the autoimmune inflammatory diseases of CNS such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and an early...

【Editor’s Note: How long haven’t you seen an old paper photo? Curious about how a black-and-white photo is made by hand? In the laboratory of East Building at Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University, there is such a fantastic class which not only imparts theoretical knowledge of camera and photography, but also brings students a time travel to the age of black-and-white photos. That is the course of Camera and Photographic Techniques, lectured by Prof. LI Qi from ZJU’s College of Optica...

Have you ever tried to check whether there is a hidden camera in a hotel room? Have you ever worried about being secretly filmed while trying on clothes in a fitting room? Unsurprisingly, how to detect the illegal “electronic eyes” in a hidden corner quickly and accurately has become an urgent demand for privacy protection.With nearly five years of research and testing, the research team led by Prof. XU Wenyuan and Assoc. Prof. JI Xiaoyu at the Ubiquitous System Security Lab (USS Lab...

Interested in the beautiful melodies of merry old ballads? Curious about how would a Chinese ballad sound like, or even look like? The team led by Prof. CHEN Xiaojiao and Prof. WANG Xiaosong at Zhejiang University School of Art and Archeology made it possible by reviving the ancient Chinese ballads collection Shijing with the assistance of visualization technology. The project, “Echoes of Ancient China: Visualizing Refrain and Music in the Shijing”, was recently granted the Best Post...

On April 19, Zhejiang University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) held an online meeting, marking the kick-off for the celebration of the 20th anniversary of partnership. Present at the meeting were ZJU President WU Zhaohui, ZJU Vice President HE Lianzhen, UIUC Chancellor Robert J. Jones, UIUC Vice Chancellor Susan Martinis, UIUC Vice Chancellor Sean Garrick, and representatives from the two universities. The meeting was co-chaired by LI Min, director of the ZJU Off...

Since November 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has spread expeditiously all over the world and gradually superseded the previous attention-capturing the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs). The Omicron variant harbors more than 30 mutations in the spike protein, leading to immune evasion from many therapeutic neutralizing antibodies. Therefore, it is of immense clinical significance to develop a potent neutralizing antibody against the Omicron variant.On March 28, 2022, Prof. ZHU Yongqun at ...

You might get used to the 3D glasses in the movie theatre, but have you seen an ophthalmologist wearing 3D glasses and staring at the screen in the operating theatre?On March 24, two combined cataract and vitreoretinal surgeries were conducted by Prof. FANG Xiaoyun with the help of NCvideoHD, a three-dimensional high-definition visualization system, at the Eye Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU).The success of the surgeries not only indicates ...