News and Achievements

A pioneering approach to fighting cancer has revealed as much as a two-third reduction in tumour size and weight in laboratory tests using an anti-cancer chemical compound developed by Dr. Guangyu Zhu, Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, and his team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).

Five faculty members from the College of Science have been listed as the “Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate Analytics for 2019 in respective categories of Chemistry, Cross-Field, Engineering and Materials Science. Congratulations for their exceptional achievements!

Xunlei Qian, a third-year student from the Department of Mathematics, teamed up with Boxun Yan (Department of Electrical Engineering) and Chen Wang (Department of Computer Science), won the second prize in the Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM) 2019, under the supervision by Dr Xianpeng Hu, Assistant Professor of the Department of Mathematics.

The College of Science and the College of Engineering were honoured to receive the delegation of Chang’e 4 Lunar Mission from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China National Space Administration on 23 October 2019. The visit successfully connected national scientists and researchers in the university, creating solid ground for future collaboration in different technological areas.

Professor Raymond Chan, Dean of College of Science, led a delegation visit to the Shenzhen Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital on 14 October 2019 and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the hospital to facilitate academic exchanges and research collaborations.

As part of the promotional outreach activities, Dean Chan led another College delegation comprising mathematician, chemists and physicists to Malaysia in September 2019. During the 4-day trip, the delegation visited the University of Malaya, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and Universiti Sains Malaysia to meet with senior science faculty members and postgraduate students.