New International Life Sciences Journal to Debut This Spring The first issue of Vita, a top-tier international scientific journal that will focus on the fields of life sciences and biomedicine, will debut this spring. It will be published by China's Higher Education Press, led by Westlake University, and jointly developed by member institutions of the recently formed Life Sciences Open Alliance.

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Westlake Undergraduates Head to Berkeley, Edinburgh and Beyond for Study Abroad While the new freshmen in 2025 celebrated their admission to Westlake University, two of their senior classmates, Wenhao Zhou and Zhonghe Huang, were already seated in a classroom at Monash University in Australia.

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Like Father, Like Son: The Moraes Choose Westlake It was a sunny day on the Yungu Campus, just outside the gleaming new Westlake Library and the iconic tower. Standing there were two men — one applying for a teaching position, the other hoping to join the 2025 cohort of international undergraduates.

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Bridging the Gap: Summer Program Eases Freshmen Into Life at Westlake University Westlake University officially welcomed its newest cohort of undergraduates on Aug. 10. While most universities begin the academic year in September, Westlake starts nearly a month earlier. The reason? To give incoming students a head start through an intensive orientation known as the Westlake Summer Bridge Program—a three-to-four-week experience designed to guide students from the world of high school into the rhythm of university life.

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Westlake University Welcomes New International Undergraduates Not long ago, Westlake University sent out admission letters. Now it has opened its gates to welcome the incoming freshmen at the New Undergraduate Student Convocation this Sunday. Typically, students begin arriving the day before the event. However, this year the international students were the first to reach the Yungu Campus, arriving ahead of the larger cohort.

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Westlake University holds its New Undergraduate Student Convocation Westlake University held its New Undergraduate Student Convocation for the 2025 cohort on Aug. 10. This year marks a series of breakthroughs in Westlake University admissions. For the first time, the university has enrolled undergraduates from beyond Zhejiang Province, opening its doors to students from Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong, Henan, and Chongqing. It has introduced a new and expanded selection process that considers students’ gaokao results and overall academic performance. Westlake has launched a new undergraduate program in medicine. Additionally, the university has now welcomed students from Hong Kong, Macau, and overseas Chinese communities through the National Unified Examination.

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Westlake University To Admit Its First Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Students Westlake University, a new type of research university, has always encouraged cross-disciplinary collaboration. This year, it has taken that philosophy a step further by launching admissions for interdisciplinary Ph.D. students for the first time. The university welcomes recommendation-exempt direct-track Ph.D. students to enroll in two new interdisciplinary programs – Quantitative Biology and Complex Systems, and Sustainable Development Science and Technology.

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Core Textbooks for Biological Sciences 101 Program Published The cool breezes of autumn heralded a fruitful season in Hangzhou this September, when the city hosted a symposium on reforms and innovation in university life sciences education that included the launch ceremony for 11 core biological science textbooks.

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Westlake University Mourns the Passing of Professor Chen-Ning Yang Westlake University expresses its deepest condolences on the passing of Professor Chen-Ning Yang, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor at Tsinghua University, Honorary Chair of the Board of Trustees of Westlake University, and a member of Westlake's Advisory Board. Professor Yang passed away in Beijing on October 18, 2025, at the age of 103 due to illness.

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Congratulate to Dr. Jerry Wang on Nature Biomedical Engineering Publication | Causal AI Model Identifies New Combination Therapies for Cold Tumors Researchers from Westlake University, Caltech, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have developed a powerful machine-learning framework, Morpheus, that identifies molecular changes capable of transforming cold tumors-those lacking T cells-into hot tumors, which are heavily infiltrated by T cells and more responsive to immunotherapy. This work, published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, could help unlock new strategies for making immunotherapy more effective against tumors that have been difficult to treat, including colorectal cancer and breast cancer.

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