12 Students Awarded HK Scholarship for Excellence

Twelve CUHK students (see table) have been selected as the first cohort of awardees of the Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence (HKSES) to pursue studies abroad.

Offered by the HKSAR Government for three years from 2015–16, HKSES will provide financial support to up to 100 outstanding local students per year to study undergraduate or postgraduate programmes at top-notch universities outside Hong Kong. Each awardee will be awarded up to HK$250,000 per annum to cover the tuition fees. Apart from academic achievements, selection of HKSES put a special emphasis on the leadership qualities and potential of the candidates as well as their commitment and contribution to Hong Kong. Awardees need to undertake to return to Hong Kong upon graduation to work for at least two years.

Miss Chan Po-ling Catherine, an MB ChB fresh graduate, has been awarded HKSES and and Diana LEE WONG Pui Yue Memorial Scholarship. She will pursue the Master of Research on Medical Robotics and Image Guided Intervention at Imperial College London in 2015–16. Catherine is fascinated and excited as the programme incorporates and integrates the medical knowledge she has acquired at CUHK into her interest in robots.

Upon completion of the programme, Catherine is planning to return to Hong Kong for working in the public medical sector and taking part in university research striving to become a responsible doctor.