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| Senior visit
State Vice-President Xi Jinping led a delegation visiting
the Shenzhen Research Institute of CityU and its Biotech and Health Centre
on 5 July. He is the most senior state leader ever to have visited CityU
facilities. Vice-President Xi was shown some of the research undertaken
at the Biotech and Health Centre, including the testing of anticancer
drugs that uses biochip technology, innovative diagnosis technology to
detect cervical cancer and the development of biosensors combining communication
and biology technologies for the testing of blood and urine samples.
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| Tertiary
internationalisation
CityU has organised a conference on The Internationlisation of Chinese
Universities to run from 17 July to 19 July. Hosted by Professor
Way Kuo, CityU President, about 50 representatives from universities
and government sectors on the mainland, in Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong
will share their views on the internationalisation of tertiary education.
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| Funding
success
Among the eight local higher education institutions in Hong Kong, CityU
was ranked third in terms of the percentage of successful applications
for funding from the 2008–09 General Research Fund. According to the Research
Grants Council, CityU's success rate in applying for funding was 40.7%,
a marked improvement on last year's 34.3%. This year, a total of 127 CityU
projects were funded, with a net value of $61.2m. In terms of the number
of grants and their total value, this represented an increase of 16.5%
and 1.5% respectively.
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| Senior
appointment
Professor Lee Chun-sing, Department of Physics and Materials
Science, has been promoted to the position of Chair Professor in the 2007–08
Promotion Exercises, with effect from 1 September 2008.
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| Booking
a place in curriculum
A Course in Sociolinguistics, co-authored by Professor
Benjamin T'sou Ka-yin, Director of the Language Information Science
Research Centre of CityU, has been selected by the Ministry of Education
as a national textbook for use in mainland universities. The book, co-authored
by Professor T'sou and Professor You Rujie from the Department
of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University, is one of the
very few Chinese textbooks examining linguistics and socio-cultural changes
from a Chinese perspective.
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| Mathematics
recognition
Professor Felipe Cucker, Chair Professor, Department
of Mathematics, was named Chairman of the Society for Foundations of Computational
Mathematics for three years, effective June 2008. The position is a major
international recognition, with previous chairmen including a Fields Medallist,
a Dantzig prize winner and professors from Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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| Debate contest
Students from CityU and Tianjin University will debate on the topic "Does
economic globalisation result in cultural globalistion?", on 17 July at
CityU. The debate will examine the interaction of Eastern and Western
cultures as found in Hong Kong and Tianjin.
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| Fun days
The Science and Engineering Fun Days are being held from 23 July to 25
July. The Fun Days, organised by the Faculty of Science and Engineering
(FSE), aim to introduce practical and interesting facets of scientific
knowledge to secondary students through laboratory tours and experiments.
Around 380 students had applied to attend more than 20 workshops and sample
FSE's facilities.
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| Lucky charms
The Chinese Civilisation Centre (CCIV) is holding an exhibition of ancient
amulets entitled "Chinese Charms: Arts, Religion and Folk Belief" from
now until 24 August at CityU Gallery. The exhibits include about 150 artefacts
dating from the Han Dynasty to early 20th Century. The opening ceremony
was held on 11 July. Officiating guests included Mr Zhou Yi,
Director of Research Institute of Culture and History, The People's Government
of Guangdong Province; Dr Alex Fang Chengyu, Assistant
Professor of Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics of CityU
and collector of Chinese charms; and Professor Cheng Pei-kai,
Director of CCIV.
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| Olympic
torch relay
Jamie Zhan Bao, a Year 2 student in the Department of
Biology and Chemistry, was selected as one of the 2008 Beijing Olympic
Torch Relay Bearers in Ordos, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The torch
relay was held on 9 July and Jamie was the 27th runner.
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