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JUPAS
admission for 2005
CityU has performed well in this year's Joint University
Programmes Admissions System (JUPAS) Admissions Exercise. The average
admission score of new students recruited through the main round JUPAS
offer has hit a record high of 10.34, representing a rise of 4.66%
over that of last year and 13.37% over that of 2001. About 80% of the
entrants admitted to CityU's UGC-funded bachelor's degree programmes placed
our programmes in their Band A choices. The encouraging results show that
CityU's focus on professional, quality education is being recognized.
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Orientation 2005
The University is preparing to welcome over 4,000 new
students this year. A range of orientation and induction programmes will
be organized by the Student Development Services and other units to help
new students adapt to life at CityU.
The University Welcoming Ceremony
will be held from 29 to 31 August in the Chan Tai Ho Multi-purpose Hall,
followed by faculty/departmental orientation activities. For details,
please visit: www.cityu.edu.hk/orientation.
Semester A starts on 5 September.
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Unveiling
ceremony of Yuan Yunsheng murals
Two murals will be mounted on the walls of the main entrance
foyer of the University on the third floor of the Academic Building. Professor
Yuan Yunsheng, Vice-Director of the Academic Committee of the
Central Academy of Fine Arts, used the themes of humanity and technologies
as inspiration for the two 10m x 4m murals.
All students and staff members
are invited to the Unveiling Ceremony of the Murals to be held at 4 pm,
26 August (Friday), at the entrance foyer of the Academic Building. Mr
Chuang Shih Ping, Chairman of the Hong Kong Culture Association;
Professor Pan Gongkai, President of the Central Academy
of Fine Arts; Professor Yuan; and University President Professor
H K Chang will officiate at the Ceremony. Meanwhile, an exhibition
of Professor Yuan's paintings will be on display at the CityU Gallery
until 10 September.
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New
research centres
Three new Faculty Research Centres have been established.
The Centre for Applied Computing and Interactive Media (ACIM) has been
formed by the Faculty of Science and Engineering and the School of Creative
Media. Headed by Chair Professor K M Liew in the Department
of Building and Construction, ACIM will form a campus-wide supercomputing
IT and digital media hub to serve as a focal point for all aspects of
high-performance computing at the University and provide production computing
resources to students and staff.
The Halliday Centre for Intelligent
Applications of Language Study has been established by the Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences (FHS). Its emphasis on intelligent application
of language studies includes research withglobal partners in comparative
language studies, corpus-based studies, and intelligent computing with
meaning. Dr Jonathan Webster, Head of Department of Chinese,
Translation and Linguistics, has been appointed Acting Centre Director.
The Centre is named after the internationally honoured linguist Professor
M A K Halliday, who will serve as an Adviser.
The Centre for Communication
Research (CCR) also set up by the FHS will focus on media communication
studies and applied professional discourse studies under an overall research
theme of "Communication, Media, Technology, and Discourse: Re-orienting
Asia in a Global Context". CCR, led by Chair Professor C
C Lee in the Department of English and Communication, aims to
establish CityU as an internationally and regionally recognized centre
in the field.
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External
funding for research projects
CityU researchers in the Departments of Chinese, Translation
and Linguistics; Biology and Chemistry; Electronic Engineering; and Manufacturing
Engineering and Engineering Management have been awarded external grants
worth over HK$831,000 from various sources for research projects ranging
from Putonghua learning software and developmental pharmacology to digital
amplification and soft measurement of temperature distribution.
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Senior
staff appointment
Professor Michel Andre Van Hove has been appointed Professor
(Chair) of Physics, and concurrently Head of Department of Physics and
Materials Science. Professor Van Hove assumes duty on 15 August.
Dr Daniel W C Ho
has been appointed Acting Head of Department of Mathematics with effect
from 8 August.
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Kudos
Dr Andrew Leung, Associate Professor
in the Department of Electronic Engineering, has been selected to receive
the 2005 IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award for his paper
titled "The Plenoptic Illumination Function".
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More
Kudos
Ms Apple Fok Wai-ping, a PhD student
in the Department of Computer Science, won the best paper award at the
9th Annual Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education for her
paper "Adaptive User Interface for Personalized Education based on
Hidden Markov Model".
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Student
athletes
Five CityU students, who went through a demanding screening
procedure with the Hong Kong Post-Secondary Colleges Athletic Association,
were selected to join the Hong Kong, China Delegation. They will attend
the 23rd Universiade held at Izmir, Turkey, from 11 to 21 August, competing
in fencing, swimming, taekwondo and volleyball events.
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