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Professor Way Kuo, President of CityU, gave an opening address at the forum of the Cross-Strait Exploration Project on 6 August.
Columbia Law School won the 3rd International Alternative Dispute Resolution Mooting Competition, which was held at CityU from 29 July to 4 August.
CityU will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Professor Bai Chunli, Mr Hu Fa-kuang and Dr Allan Zeman in recognition of their significant contributions to education and the well-being of society.
Twenty-one students and three teachers from Shanxi and Hebei took part in the Hong Kong Tertiary Education Touch Camp organised by the City-Youth Empowerment Project from 11 to 17 July.
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.
In a display of its commitment to the advancement of teaching and research in the region, IBM China/Hong Kong Ltd has donated an e-business software package worth more than HK$14 million to CityU.
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.
CityU's Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management (MEEM) has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Dassault Systemes and MTECH Engineering Co Ltd that will help boost innovation, productivity and competitiveness in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Pearl River Delta region.
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.
"I wish the industrial training could be longer than it is now," said Ada Chan Hiu Kei, a third-year student in the computer engineering stream of the Department of Electronic Engineering. "I also think that the scheme should be extended to students from other faculties as well."