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CityUHK won the Research Project of the Year: STEM at Times Higher Education Awards Asia 2024, the only university in Hong Kong to win this prestigious award this year.
Researchers from CityUHK achieved outstanding results at the 49th IEIG, winning 36 awards. In particular, CityUHK secured a record high eight Gold Medals with Congratulations of the Jury this year. Their success keenly demonstrates CityUHK’s excellence in high-quality research and innovation on the global stage.
Research co-led by neuroscientists Professor Yung Wing-ho from CityUHK and Professor Ke Ya from CUHK Faculty of Medicine has made a groundbreaking discovery regarding number sense in animals by confirming the existence of discrete number sense in rats, offering a crucial animal model for investigating the neural basis of numerical ability and disability in humans.
Unique insights into the social lives of cattle revealed in a new study by scientists at CityUHK can enhance our understanding of animal behaviour and welfare. The study suggests that sex and social status influence social grooming among free-ranging feral cattle in Hong Kong.
Following its earlier announcement of the launch of the flagship innovation and entrepreneurship programme “HK Tech 300” with an allocation of HK$500 million, CityU held on 29 July the HK Tech 300 Seed Fund Presentation Ceremony, presenting seed funds with the total sum of HK$6.5 million.
Dr Xu Wanghuai, a recent PhD graduate in MNE, received the 2021 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (Silver) for his pioneering research on the development of a novel droplet-based electricity generator for advancing scientific research into water energy generation.