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In line with the caring culture advocated by CityU, more than 50 science and business students recently provided community service to people in need.
Three research projects led by CityU have received funding from the RGC Collaborative Research Fund 2008-09 totalling HK$16.2 million. CityU was granted the highest amount of funding among the local universities this year.
CityU has joined forces with the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences to set up a joint laboratory through its affiliate, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, to conduct atmospheric research.
Professor Lee Shuit-tong, Chair Professor of the Department of Physics and Materials Science, has been awarded the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation in recognition of his outstanding achievements.
Among the eight local higher education institutions in Hong Kong, CityU was ranked third in terms of the percentage of successful applications for funding from the 2008-09 General Research Fund.
The Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre launch ceremony was held at CityU on 16 June in appreciation of the support of donor Guy Carpenter & Company.
CityU, the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups jointly organised the 2008 Hong Kong Odyssey of the Mind Competition. The six winning teams will represent Hong Kong in the world titles to be held in the United States.
Applying creativity to physics, more than 180 secondary school teams from Forms 1 to 7, representing more than 100 Hong Kong and Macau schools, gathered at CityU on 27 April to construct straw launchers.
CityU confers the first Research Excellence Awards to Professor (Chair) Zhang Longxi and Professor (Chair) Paul Chu Kim-ho to recognise their outstanding research achievements.
Rose Yan Pei, a 2007 MPhil graduate of CityU, has been awarded a fully-funded research studentship to pursue PhD studies at Cambridge University in the UK.