An environmental scientist at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has been awarded US$100,000 by Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE), an initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for a novel way to cultivate 10 distinct probiotic bacteria simultaneously.
Aerosol science and technology is the focus of a major international conference that coincides with the 10th anniversary of the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU).
Dr. Lin Zhang has published a translated book by Peking University Press. The title of this book is “Greening Economy, Graying Society” (中文名：綠化經濟與構建可持續社會).
Miss Jin Liu, PhD student under Prof. Michael Leung's supervision, presented her research entitled "Cobalt Carbide Embedded in Carbon Nanofibers as Excellent Bifunctional Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Reaction Catalyst" in the 2019 Symposium for the Promotion of Applied Research Collaboration in Asia (SPARCA 2019) organized by the Asia Pacific Society for Materials Research (APSMR).
Dr. Alicia An’s research group in the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at City University of Hong Kong has proposed a novel membrane distillation (MD) system for the efficient treatment and sustainable treatment of textile wastewater.
Dr. Yun Hau Ng’s latest review paper, titled “Heterogeneous photocatalysts: an overview of classic and modern approaches for optical, electronic, and charge dynamics evaluation” was recently published in Chemical Society Reviews -- a leading journal in the discipline of chemistry and chemical engineering with impact factor of 40.182.
Dr. Vincent Cheng (Arup Fellow, Director of Building Sustainability Group, and Global Leader of Environment and Building System Skill Network, ARUP, Hong Kong), delivered a colloquium for the SEE community on 23 January 2019. Dr. Cheng focused on the invention process to inspire the students to have more brilliant ideas to contribute to the world. The worldwide visions and trends on sustainability development were also be discussed. The colloquium was very well-received.
Dr. Edwin Tso spoke on indoor air quality on RTHK programme (in Chinese 《日常8點半》(民生l消閒)) . The importance and maintenance of indoor air quality were discussed by Dr. Tso and the hosts.
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