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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) held the annual HKUST One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition with total awards amounting to HK$1 million to foster entrepreneurship. The championship went to Solaris, while Agito Group Limited and Inno-Chemos (International) Technology Limited were the second place and third place winners respectively. This year, 85 teams participated in the Competition. Each team consists of at least one member of faculty, staff, students and alumni from HKUST's schools of Science, Engineering and Business. An international judging panel comprising leading executives, professional investors and entrepreneurial academics selected 12 finalists.

Prof Albert Park, Director of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Chair Professor of Social Science and Professor of Economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), collaborated with the researchers from Peking University, University of Southern California (USC), and other international partner institutions, and released today the first major report from a massive survey of Chinese adults over the age of 45, providing critical insights into the most rapidly aging population in the world. Across 17,708 individuals over the age of 45 from both urban and rural areas, from a nationally representative sample of China except Tibet, the researchers found stark gender differences in how men and women age in the developing world.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) received a generous sponsorship from Ernst & Young for the establishment of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), which seeks to provide thought leadership on issues facing businesses and policy makers in emerging markets. The launch event and opening forum of IEMS titled 'Prospects for Emerging Markets in the Global Economy' featured world-renowned experts and academics giving insights into the complex concerns of emerging market economies as they seek to maintain economic dynamism in a changing global environment.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) received a five-million-dollar donation from Dr Simon Kwok and Dr Eleanor Kwok for the development of bio-devices for treatment of endoluminal diseases. These groundbreaking inventions, developed with an aim to improving stroke treatments, are the fruits of close collaboration between leading neurosurgeons and the engineering faculty at HKUST. The successful collaboration points a new way forward for the medical practitioners and the engineering academics to collaboratively develop frontier medical technologies in Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is pleased to join the X University Consortium of edX (xConsortium), the not-for-profit online learning initiative comprised of leading global institutions founded by Harvard University and MIT. The University is one of the first Asian institutions to join the xConsortium to deliver the next generation of online and blended courses. HKUST President Prof Tony F Chan said, "We at HKUST are delighted to join the xConsortium, the international online learning enterprise to provide world-class courses and a superior educational experience to anyone who is eager to learn. Further to our partnership with Coursera's online education platform last year as one of its first Asian partners, we are once again demonstrating our commitment to contributing to the global development of online learning as an international research university dedicated to excellence in education and research."

Prof Reinhard Renneberg, Professor of Department of Chemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was newly elected Academician of Leibniz-Sozietät. This is the first time such an honor was bestowed on a Hong Kong-based scholar.

Three pioneering research projects at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have won Awards for Research Excellence in Natural Sciences 2012 presented by the Ministry of Education, with two in First-Class and one in Second. Prof Joseph Hun-wei Lee, Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies offered his heartfelt congratulations to the award-winning research teams. He reiterated the University's ongoing mission to drive socio-economic development through excellence in education, research and innovation for the purpose of making greater contributions to Hong Kong and Mainland China. The Awards received by HKUST research teams attest to the University's strength in research and give a big boost to the conscientious researchers, not to mention deepening ties between local and Mainland scientists in resolving central issues and enhancing research capabilities.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) last Friday presented its first Common Core Course Excellence Award to courses which demonstrate the University's efforts to enhance balanced and holistic education in view of the four-year undergraduate reform. HKUST's Common Core Program, with more than 260 courses, encompasses humanities, social analysis, science and technology, quantitative reasoning, arts, English communication, Chinese communication, and healthy lifestyle. It comprises 36 credits out of a total of 120 to 126 credits of the four-year degree program.