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An international conference organised by the Department of Building and Construction addressed urgent challenges facing the global building and construction industries.
Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd offered a cross-disciplinary review of alternative suggestions for what it means to be human at the latest City University Distinguished Lecture.
Professor Ron Hui introduced the latest developments in his ground-breaking research on wireless power transfer at the President’s Lecture Series.
A series of public lectures at CityU promoted transdisciplinary and cross-cultural research as part of the inauguration programme of the newly established Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies.
Overall consumer confidence has dropped in Hong Kong, mainland China and Macau compared to the previous quarter, according to a recent survey conducted by CityU, while confidence in Taiwan rose.
The inauguration ceremony for the Hong Kong Advanced Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Studies, the first transdisciplinary research institute in Hong Kong, was held on 12 January at CityU.
CityU has received a donation from the Hong Kong Construction Association to set up a scholarship fund for outstanding students studying at BC and BST.
If a group of management sciences professors at City University have their way, the Centa-City Index, a winner of CityU's prestigious Applied Research Excellence Awards in 2001, may become as widely accepted and creditable as the Hang Seng Index in measuring the territory's economic health.
Research and postgraduate education were the focus of CityU's ninth University Development Forum, held on 18 September. The open presentation gave four focus groups the opportunity to present their observations and members of staff the opportunity to provide feedback on the recommendations.
Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, author of such futuristic works as I, Robot, would have been impressed. For here was a robot capable of crawling through cramped ventilation ducts for inspection and cleaning, a robotic petrol-filling station, a fearless robot that can scale the walls of high-rise buildings and clean windows, and a robotic muscle arm for nursing, just to name a few.