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Mr Eddie Ng Hak-kim, Secretary for Education, shared the government’s blueprint for education at an annual dinner hosted by CityU’s EMBA Association.
Professor Arden L. Bement, the former head of the National Science Foundation in the US, spoke about roles of higher education in innovation and globalisation at the latest City University Distinguished Lecture.
At a CityU Distinguished Lecture on 9 April, Professor Noriko Mizuta discussed how the government in Japan could respond better to increased longevity and fewer babies being born.
CityU and Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong jointly handle a whale grounded in Hong Kong.
Dr Raymond Lam Hiu-wai, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, has developed a tight-fitting clothing that remotely monitors the heart conditions of patients.
Department of Electronic Engineering Professor Ron Hui and his company, E-Energy, have received the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park Award. His team's two breakthrough products, the two-wired dimmable ballast and the universal electronic ballast for fluorescent lamps, were highly commended by the selection committee.
More than 130 international accounting professionals shared their latest research and insights into contemporary accounting and auditing issues at CityU's Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics Symposium on 3 and 4 January.
To establish the significance of his information processing paradigm, Cellular Nonlinear Networks (CNN), Professor Leon Chua summoned Shakespeare: "There is a tide in the affairs of men/ Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;/ Omitted, all the voyage of their life/ Is bound in shallows and in miseries," (Julius Caesar IV iii).
With his thought-provoking discussion on cross-cultural collaboration and virtual learning, Professor Douglas Vogel, Chair Professor of Information Systems, gave his audience much to consider at his professorial inaugural lecture in the Wei Hing Theatre on 5 December.