News and Achievements

Team representatives of the first “CityU Science Patent Challenge” were awarded the patent certificates at the press conference hosted by CSCI on 15 September 2023. The College revisited the outstanding performance of the teams through video and sharing at the press conference, and introduced the details of the 2nd CityU Science Patent Challenge, which is now open for registration.

The College of Science (CSCI) hosted its Orientation on 29 August 2023, welcoming a new cohort of eager and enthusiastic freshmen to the academic year 2023-24.

After delivering online for three years owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fifth Science Summer Camp was resumed face-to-face and successfully held on the CityU campus in Hong Kong on 10-15 July 2023.

Professor Alex Jen, Lee Shau Kee Chair Professor in Materials Science and also the Director of Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy, has been appointed as a member of the "Green Technology and Finance Development Committee", under the chairmanship of the Financial Secretary Mr. Paul Chan.

The research paper entitled “Pharmaceutical Pollution of the World’s Rivers” published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in February 2022 has been awarded the 2022 Cozzarelli Prize in the Class VI: Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences.

The College of Science’s JUPAS Consultation Day finally resumed face-to-face mode this year on May 20, 2023!