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CityU Press participated in the 30th Hong Kong Book Fair. Mr Lester Garson Huang, CityU Council Chairman, and Professor Way Kuo, CityU President, visited the CityU Press booth to show their support.
A donation of HK$2 million from Mapletree will be used to set up an endowment fund for students of CityU.
More than 200 top university leaders from over 30 countries and regions shared their insights at CityU during the "Leadership and Management Summit" jointly presented by CityU and Times Higher Education.
Professor Way Kuo, President of CityU, joined a panel discussion at THE Young Universities Summit in Surrey. He also led a delegation to Berlin for a talent search in late June.
Members of CityU community were included in this year’s HKSAR Chief Executive Honours List in recognition of their significant contributions to Hong Kong.
Professor István T. Horváth of the Department of Chemistry has been elected External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
The City University booth proved popular with visitors to this year's Education and Careers Expo, held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 20 to 23 February.
City University of Hong Kong's School of Law (SLW) played host to the second WTO ambassador to visit the School this year when Ambassador Dr Toufiq Ali, Bangladesh Permanent Representative to the WTO, called on the School on 12 February. "It's a good experience to visit Hong Kong where I can look at how people have adjusted to the new situation in Hong Kong and China from an economic perspective," said Ambassador Ali, who currently chairs the WTO's Committee on Trade and Development.
The Chinese New Year Staff Party, held on 7 February, was full of festive fun and joy for the more than 1,000 City University staff members who gathered in the Chan Tai Ho Multi-Purpose Hall to celebrate the Year of the Goat.
In a time of economic recession and imminent, substantial cuts in public funding, Professor Robert Prichard, former president of the University of Toronto and President and CE" of Torstar Corporation, gave local universities an uplifting message: institutional advancement, pursued professionally and persistently, can make a powerful difference in opening new sources of alternative funding.