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, 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

On June 7, Prof. HUANG Jun from the Zhejiang University Life Sciences Institute and ZHOU Zheng from the CAS Institute of Biophysics co-published a research article entitled “Structural insight into BRCA1-BARD1 complex recruitment to damaged chromatin” in the journal Molecular Cell. It reveals the molecular and structural basis for the recruitment of the BRCA1-BARD1 complex to DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs).DNA is subjected to various kinds of damage every day and DSBs are one of the...

ZJUI Professor K.C. Ting, Consultant and Former Vice Dean of the International Campus, Zhejiang University, and Department Head Emeritus in the ABE Department, UIUC, received the 2021 Lalit and Aruna Verma Award for Excellence in Global Engagement from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) at the ASABE Annual International Meeting. Prof. Ting was the fifth winner of the award since its first giving. The award recognizes Prof. Ting’s contributions to the professio...

Dr. REN Shaobo, chairman of the Zhejiang University Council, led a delegation to visit Macao on July 11-13. Dr. REN Shaobo (left) exchanged gifts with Mr. Ho lat Seng (right) On July 12, Dr. Ren met with Mr. Ho lat Seng, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR). Mr. Ho commended Zhejiang University for its constant endeavors to cultivate talent for the development of Macao. Dr. Ren said that the University will deepen cooperation with Macao in talent cultivation...