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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has today (Wednesday) conferred Honorary Fellowship on four distinguished community leaders in recognition of their contributions to Hong Kong. The four are: Dr James William Hayes, Mr Hui Hok-Chee, Ir Dr Lo Wai-Kwok and Dr Tam Wai-Ho Samson. HKUST Pro-Chancellor Dr the Honorable Sir Sze-Yuen Chung, Council Chairman Dr the Honorable Marvin Cheung, and President Paul Chu officiated at the conferment ceremony.

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China has awarded the HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School (FYTGS) the status of “International Science & Technology Cooperation Base”. There are 60 “International Science & Technology Cooperation Bases” on the Mainland, and five are in Guangdong Province. With this new official recognition and status, the FYTGS will strengthen its cooperation with overseas universities and corporate research institutes on research in biotechnology, information technology, environment protection and advanced materials. The FYTGS aims to build joint research laboratories, establish an exchange visiting program for the university and corporate researchers, and apply for international collaboration projects with plans to host international conferences.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has managed to win many international honors and become one of the world’s leading universities of science and technology in less than 17 years. Behind this miracle are exceptional employees who put the interest of the university above their own. In order to recognize the outstanding contributions of its non-teaching staff members, HKUST today (Thursday) presented its first “HKUST President’s Outstanding Service Award” on its campus. The first “HKUST President’s Outstanding Service Award” received keen response. Three awardees have been selected by the Selection Committee for their outstanding service. They are Senior Purchasing Manager in the Purchasing Office Mr Michael Cheng, Chief Technician in the Facilities Management Office Mr Albert Lam and Clerk in the Office of University Development and Public Affairs Ms Anna Wong.

The Hong Kong Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce has pledged HK$4.5 million to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to nurture young Chiu Chow talents to pursue postgraduate studies at the University’s School of Science. Under the Hong Kong Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce Postgraduate Scholarship Program, 10 scholarships of HK$450,000 each will be sponsored by members of the Chamber to recruit non-local postgraduate students of Chiu Chow ancestry to support their tuition and living expenses over a three-year research program. Priority will be given to those enrolled in the Chinese Medicine Research and Development Program which is designed to enhance the status of traditional Chinese medicine by the latest scientific and research technology, so that it will become part of modern medicine.

The Center for Demography and Sustainable Development (CDSD) of Fok Ying Tung Graduate School at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) recently completed a special training on Census Data Analyses for selected officials from the Central Bureau of Statistics, Pyongyang, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK). The training was under the direction of Professor John Ma, Associate Professor and Director of the Center and Dr. Yun Kim, Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Utah State University, USA, and Senior Population Scientist at the Center and it was fully financed by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA).

HKUST’s Chair Professor in Electronic and Computer Engineering Xiren Cao has been named a fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), making him the first-ever Hong Kong scholar to become an IFAC Fellow since the Federation’s inception in 1957. According to the Assessment Committee, Prof Cao was conferred this exceptional honor for his “contributions to the analysis of discrete event systems, stochastic learning and optimization theory, and their application.” IFAC is an international professional organization consisting of 48 national member organizations (NMOs), which include most industrialized countries; China and Hong Kong are two of the NMOs. This year, only 16 fellowships were conferred including two Mainland scholars and one Hong Kong scholar. Prof Cao will deliver a plenary presentation at IFAC’s 17th triennial World Congress at Seoul, Korea, in July 2008.

A wide range of scholarships have been awarded to outstanding students at HKUST through the generous donations of public-spirited individuals, caring alumni, philanthropic foundations, and corporations. In the 2007/08 academic year, over 980 scholarships and prizes were awarded through HKUST to 675 outstanding students, with the total scholarships value amounting to approximately HK$29.76 million. In recognition of the donors' generosity, scholarship recipients today (Wednesday) expressed their personal warm regards to the generous donors in a tea reception at HKUST. Some awardees went on stage to share their happiness and exciting experience in overseas exchange activities sponsored by scholarship programs.

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