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An ancient map and Korean classics exhibition and a dedicated Korea Week will take place in March to promote cultural exchange between China and South Korea.
Professor Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, has been honoured with a special reception marking his election as a foreign member of the esteemed Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. [full story]
Professor Gary Feng, Professor Man Kim-fung and Professor Keith Zhang of CSE have been named IEEE Fellows in recognition of their contributions to the advancement of engineering, science and technology, achieving breakthroughs of significant value to society.
Professor Chen Guanrong, Chair Professor of Electronic Engineering at CityU, was conferred a second-class award under the State Natural Science Award in recognition of his achievements and contributions in the field of chaos theory.
For the second successive year, students majoring in BA (Hons) in Language Studies (Korean) in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics were awarded scholarships by Samsung Electronics Hong Kong in recognition of their outstanding performance.
Some CityU students worked as volunteers at the 2008 Olympic equestrian events in Hong Kong. Some performed duties as ceremony hostesses, sharing with athletes the joys of their success, and one of them served international royal family dignatories.
Professor Kenneth Mei Kwai-Hsiang, Honorary Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, has won the 2009 IEEE Electromagnetics Award, a world-class honour.
CityU has obtained approval from the Ministry of Science and Technology to set up the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, the first state key laboratory in the engineering discipline in Hong Kong.
The opening ceremony and symposium of the third City Literary Festival was held on 18 April, with 11 well-known local and overseas writers discussing the creative processes behind their prose and poetry.
The final of the Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge 2008, jointly organised by CityU and WWF, took place on 6 April in the CityU swimming pool, with The Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School team beating 20 other entries in a high standard competition.