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A HK$3 million donation from the Hong Kong Hua-Yan Buddhist Association will be used to set up an endowment fund for student scholarships at CityU.
In his address at the first opening ceremony for the MPA + EMBA programme offered by CityU and Tsinghua University on 24 August in Beijing, Professor Way Kuo, CityU President, encouraged students to address social responsibilities when doing business.
This year the Elder Academy at CityU celebrates its 10th Anniversary. The celebration ceremony was held on 22 August.
The 3rd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications at CityU from 19 to 21 August brings together more than 300 engineering specialists from over 30 countries and areas.
CityU will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Professor Michael Kotlikoff and Dr Edward Leong Che-hung in recognition of their significant contributions to education and the well-being of society.
Once there were eight -- now CityU boasts nine Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the elite among the world's largest professional body of electronic engineers and scientists.
The public forum on "Direct Election for LegCo in 2008", held at the Purple Zone of the University Concourse on 25 November, aroused a heated discussion on political development of Hong Kong. The forum was a highlight of the Hong Kong Week, 24-28 November, organized by a group of third-year Applied Social Studies students.
Dear colleagues, At the 18th Congregation that has just been successfully completed, I was delighted to see another batch of 6,024 students graduating from our University. Amidst the intense discussion of the issue of budget reduction in the higher education sector, it is encouraging to learn that government officials have promised to look into ways to minimize the 2005-08 cuts.
As Ms Caroline Hu Yee-man, a student in the School of Creative Media (SCM), rides through the city of Hong Kong on a ding ding (tram), memories and reflections are captured in her nine-minute experimental film, ReMembrance, which won her the Best Experimental Award in the 6th New York University International Student Film Festival (ISFF).
A joint declaration on how to overcome the issue of the "digital divide", drafted by more than 300 university students from 189 nations/regions around the world, will be presented to about 50 heads of state in an upcoming world summit on global telecommunications, to be held in mid December. A CityU research student, Mr Steven Yang, was one of the young drafters.