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A ceremony was held at CityU on 11 March to mark the opening of a Japanese tea room, the first to be located at a university in Hong Kong.
Six outstanding teachers at CityU who have received the 2012–13 Teaching Excellence Awards introduced their unique pedagogies and teaching experience at a sharing session on 6 March.
Dr Allan Zeman, a successful entrepreneur and an honorary doctor of CityU, gave a lecture on the topic discovery and innovation on 4 March as one of the highlights of the 2013 CityU Discovery Festival.
Professor Paul Chu Kim-ho, Chair Professor of Materials Engineering at CityU, has been elected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society.
A discovery festival showcasing the strengths of CityU in teaching and learning, its unique DEC and academic programmes is being held on campus from 3 to 7 March.
More than 40 new inventions and innovative ideas from CityU are on display at the Innovation Expo 2001 from 22-26 November at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Since 1994, the University has sponsored excellence in teaching by recognizing and rewarding distinguished teachers with the Teaching Excellence Award.
The CityU Debate Team took the first runners up title in the Inter-Collegiate Putonghua Debate Contest organized by the Radio Television Hong Kong this year. In the final contest held at Shatin New Town Plaza on 11 November, the CityU Team argued against the motion: "Should the Hong Kong Press Council be exempt from libel charges? " The rival team, from Hong Kong Baptist University, won the championship and will later represent Hong Kong in a national debate competition to be held in Shanghai.
CityU's Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies (CCS), two years in preparation, finally made its official debut on 12 October. World-renowned sinologist and author of modern Chinese studies, Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, delivered a public lecture on "The Image of China in the West: Accident or Design?"to a packed audience at the Wei Hing Theatre.
Starting from the academic year 2002-03, CityU will introduce scholarships to recognize outstanding freshmen in the humanities and social sciences disciplines who have excelled in the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination.