On July 22, 2025, the 1st Global Technology Innovation Competition officially launched in Hangzhou, China. The event is jointly hosted by Zhejiang University, Westlake University, and the Economy and Information Technology Department of Zhejiang.This international competition invites universities, research institutions, and startups founded within the last five years from around the world. Unde...

Westlake University undergraduates took on vital roles as teaching assistants (TAs) for the Westlake Pre-college Summer Program, a STEM initiative centered around international collaboration.The program gathered58 high school students from 16 countries,including China, the U.S., and the U.K., for a two-week experience that went beyond academic enrichment to have participants solve actual proble...

The Westlake University School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Medical Center recently signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement, marking the beginning of a new chapter in interuniversity collaboration.The agreement focuses on the practical development of medical education and outlines plans for cooperation in areas such as undergraduate medical education, the construction of...

Westlake University marked the 2025 graduation of doctoral students on Sunday July 6, with a commencement ceremony filled with pride, reflection, and encouragement for the future. Beneath the sunlit dome of the university’s Auditorium, graduates in blue and red robes gathered to celebrate thecompletionof their Ph.D. journeys and the beginning of new chaptersin their lives.The event emphasized ...

Researchers at Westlake University have determined the structure of the BAX repeating unit shared by various BAX oligomers. The structural information shows how BAX oligomerizes into highly flexible oligomers. Prof. Yigong Shi’s team published the research article “Structural basis of BAX pore formation” in the journal Science. In this study, the structure of the BAX repeating unit was dete...

When Prof. Yiyuan She, an internationally renowned statistician, recently joined Westlake University as a chair professor in the School of Science and the Institute for Theoretical Sciences, the odds were pretty good that his office would quickly become a popular hub for faculty discussion and collaboration.That’s because statistics, as the core foundation of data science, is an indispensable...