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Professor Dirk Pfeiffer, Chow Tak Fung Chair Professor of One Health and Director of the Centre for Applied One Health Research and Policy Advice at CityUHK, has collaborated with a team of interdisciplinary scientists to develop a computer tool that enables the mapping and tracking of avian influenza virus.
The sustainable development of local fisheries is the major beneficiary of a HK$12 million government grant to CityU.
The term “bitcoin” was the most popular new word used by the media in the Pan-Chinese region, according to the 2013 LIVAC Pan-Chinese New Word Rosters released by CityU.
At a CityU Distinguished Lecture on 8 Nov, Professor Huang Chin-shing reflected on his study of Confucianism as a religion with a focus on the Confucian temple as a holy ground.
Four social scientists and a cultural historian at CityU have secured HK$1.87 million in research grants from Hong Kong, the UK and Taiwan research funding bodies.
The Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC in HKSAR shares his ideas on the risks and challenges of China, in a talk entitled “Current International Situation and China’s Foreign Policy”.
Renowned literary critic Professor Liu Zaifu gave a Distinguished Scholar Lecture at CityU on 22 April. With CityU’s Professor Cheng Pei-kai as his interlocutor, he shared some insights about how universal values are represented in Chinese literature.
"It is easier to generate academic achievement if individual scholars are allowed to conduct research according to their interests and impulses,” said Professor Lin Yu-sheng on the theoretical foundations of academic freedom.
International and local scholars in the field of cultural and language education converge at CityU this week for a two-day conference on Chinese culture, identity and language anxiety.
More than 30 civilizations history scholars take part in the “International Conference on Teaching and Learning of World Civilizations” from April 6 to 10 to develop the curriculum of a general education course titled “A History of Civilizations”.