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Year 20136 June1 June1 JuneScience Faculty 50th Anniversary Banquet Reserve your Tickets now! For more information, please click here. 1 March1 MarchPopular Science Special Lecture Series: How to Win a Nobel Prize? The Faculty of Science presents three public lectures on research that has garnered scientists of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. Details of the event are as follows: Time: 16:30 – 18:40 The event was successfully held. For photos, please click here. 26 January26 JanuaryScience Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award cum Dean's Honours List Presentation Ceremony Science Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award cum Dean's Honours List Presentation Ceremony was successfully held on 26 January 2013. For details of the winning teachers, please click here. Year 20122 December2 DecemberAlumni Homecoming 2012 We welcome all Science alumni to come back, reconnect with your peers and teachers, and relive your memorable days as a student. For details and registration, please visit the Alumni Homecoming 2012 official website. For the Science Faculty activities, please click here. 17 November27 October19 October19 OctoberThe Science Student Exchange Programme Briefing Session 2012 For details, please click here. 10 September23 August23 August2012-13 Academic Counselling for New Full-time Undergraduate Students (334 New Curriculum) The Academic Counselling was successfully held on 23 August. For details, please click here. 9 August9 AugustCUHK Illuminates Pathogenic Pathways of Spinocerebellar Ataxias A research team led by Prof. Edwin Chan Ho-yin of the School of Life Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has unveiled the role played by the ‘nucleolar stress signalling pathway’ in the currently incurable disease, spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs), opening up new therapeutic directions for SCAs treatment at the RNA level. For details, please click here. 29 June29 JuneScience Faculty Research Day This year’s Science Faculty Research Day was successfully held on 29 June. For details, please click here. 14 June14 JuneCUHK Discovers Reversal of Dying Process in Normal and Cancer Cells, with Implications of Mutagenesis and Cancer Progression Scientists at the School of Life Sciences and the Center for Soybean Research at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that both normal cells and cancer cells can reverse a chemical induced dying-process, namely apoptosis. The research findings will be published in the Molecular Biology of the Cell tomorrow (15 June) as a highlighted article. This ground breaking research was jointly funded by the Lo Kwee Seong Biomedical Research Fund, the Lee Hysan Foundation, the University Grants Committee Area of Excellence Scheme, and Saskia van der Stap. For details, please click here. 29 May29 MayIn Memory of Professor Hu Shiu Ying (1910-2012) 愛徒憶冬青之母：深山做研究搵命博 (Chinese Only). 認識植物學的人，無不聽過「冬青之母」胡秀英，她窮畢生與植物打交道，鍾情研究冬青，在四百多種冬青中，有四分三由她命名；由她研發的感冒沖劑「三冬茶」，更成為病中救星。這位被譽為植物學「百科全書」的國際著名植物學家，上周二辭世，曾受她啟發的學生無不痛惜。追隨她四十年的得意門生畢培曦教授，及因為她頓悟「科研之道」的林漢明教授，娓娓道出與胡的相處點滴，畢培曦感歎：「慶幸有機會分享她的生命，就像中了一次頭獎。」胡教授的葬禮將訂於下月十四日舉行。記者麥凱淇 For details, please click here. 1 April1 AprilCUHK Takes a Quantum Leap in Ultrahigh-speed Optical Communication Research Prof. Liu Ren-bao of the Department of Physics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and his experimental collaborators Ben Zaks and Mark Sherwin at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) made a key breakthrough toward ultrahigh-speed optical communication that has potential to speed up the current Internet by 10,000 times. This work was recently published in the prestigious journal Nature.
8 March8 MarchDaya Bay Collaboration Announces First Results: A New Kind of Neutrino Transformation Discovered
CUHK The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment (the Experiment) today (8 March) announced its discovery of a new type of neutrino transformation, opening a gateway to a new understanding of fundamental physics by giving constraints and guidance to the construction of the Grand Unification Theory, in which all fundamental interactions are unified. It may also eventually solve one of the biggest problems in Big Bang cosmology – why there is far more matter than antimatter in the universe today. A research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and University of Hong Kong (HKU) has been an active member of the Daya Bay Collaboration since its formation in 2004. The Hong Kong team, with Prof. Chu Ming-chung, Department of Physics, CUHK as the principal investigator and Prof. John Leung Kon-chong and Prof. Jason Pun Chun-shing, Department of Physics, HKU as co-investigators, has designed and built subsystems for detector monitoring, background measurement and data acquisition of the Experiment. The team has also been running experiments in a small underground laboratory in Aberdeen Tunnel to support research and development of the Experiment. Over 40 CUHK Physics students, including many undergraduates, have contributed to the effort.
25 February25 FebruaryChemistry Students Garner Top Prize at Chemistry Olympiad A team of eight Chemistry undergraduates represented our University at the 23rd Hong Kong Chemistry Olympiad (for Tertiary Institutions) and brought home the Top Prize of the competition. The competition was organized by the Hong Kong Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry, and aimed to promote an interest in Chemistry among young people. This year’s theme was “Chemistry for Good Health”, and the CUHK team made a presentation on the crucial role of chemistry to the discovery and production of pharmaceuticals (namely the drug Tamiflu), beating out teams from five other local universities to claim the top prize. 16 January16 JanuaryTalk given by Prof. Wong Teng-fong of the State University of New York at Stony Brook Prof. Wong Teng-fong of the State University of New York at Stony Brook will be visiting the Science Faculty and giving a talk. Details are as follows: “Drilling into The San Andreas Fault: Hydromechanical Characterization of Core Samples and Earthquake Mechanics Implications” 14 January14 JanuaryScience Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award cum Dean's Honours List Presentation Ceremony Science Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award cum Dean's Honours List Presentation Ceremony was successfully held on 14 January 2012. For details of the winning lecturers, please click here. Year 201121 December21 DecemberCUHK Professor Chan Ngai-hang Received Econometric Theory Multa Scripsit Award Prof. Chan Ngai-hang, Professor of Statistics and Chairman of the Department of Statistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), received the Econometric Theory Multa Scripsit Award for his cumulative contributions to advancing econometrics research and his sustained publishing efforts in the Econometric Theory published by the Cambridge University Press. His work is known to have helped drive the growth of the subject, now a vibrant research area in economics. 11 December11 DecemberCUHK Uncovers Molecular Machine that Keeps Helicobacter pylori Alive in Human Stomach A research team led by Prof. Wong Kam-bo of the Centre for Protein Science and Crystallography, School of Life Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), has released its research results which show how a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, that infects half of the human population, causing peptic ulcers and stomach cancer worldwide, has managed to survive in the acidic environment of the human gut. The research paper has been selected as ‘Paper of the Week’ in Journal of Biological Chemistry, for its important implications in the design of new drugs to blunt H. pylori’s impact on human body. 4 December4 DecemberAlumni Homecoming 2011 We welcome all Science alumni to come back, reconnect with your peers and teachers, and relive your memorable days as a student. For details and registration, please visit the Alumni Homecoming 2011 official website. For the Science Faculty activities, please click here. 25 November25 NovemberPopular Science Special Lecture Series: How to Win a Nobel Prize? The Faculty of Science presents two public lectures on the award-winning research of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. Details of the event are as follows: Time: 17:00 – 18:30 15 November15 NovemberCUHK Faculty of Science Publishes A Science Enrichment Programme for S3-4 Students: Teaching and Learning Resources to Enhance Science Learning Among Young Talent The Science Faculty published a set of teaching and learning materials entitled A Science Enrichment Programme for S3-4 Students: Teaching and Learning Resources, and has distributed the resources to 486 secondary schools and educational institutions across Hong Kong. This bilingual resource is a collection of learning materials developed by member of the Science Faculty as part of A Science Enrichment Programme for S3-4 Students 2008-2010, and topics span across biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics. 10 November10 NovemberNew Technology Gives Significant Boost to LED Efficiency The project 'Rational Design of Plasmonic Crystals to Increase the Efficiency of Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)' developed by Prof. Daniel Ong Hock-chun from the Department of Physics was recently showcased at the China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF). The project is expected to contribute to energy saving and emission reduction, as well as the advancement of TV and display technology. 8 November8 NovemberCUHK Risk Management Science Students Win the 2011 DBS-SMU Quantitative Finance Challenge A team of four students from the Risk Management Science (RMSC) programme of the Department of Statistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong claimed the championship at the 2011 DBS-SMU Quantitative Finance Challenge organized by the Singapore Management University and the Q.E.D. Quantitative Finance Society of Singapore recently. 2 November2 NovemberCUHK Showcases Innovative Platform for Authentication of Dried Seafood and Tonic Food Products at InnoCarnival 2011 and China Hi-Tech Fair The project 'First-Stage Development of Platform for Authentication of Dried Seafood and Tonic Food Products' led by Prof. Kwan Hoi-shan, Director of the Food Research Centre, with a funding of HK$3 million from the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Government was recently showcased at the InnoCarnival 2011 and China Hi-Tech Fair. This innovative platform was developed for DNA-based authentication of common dried seafood and tonic food products in Hong Kong. 25 October25 OctoberUndergraduate Students Win Gold Medal at iGEM Asia A genetic engineering team formed by undergraduate students of science and engineering recently won a gold medal at the iGEM (international Genetic Engineered Machine) Asia Regional Jamboree. They also won the Best BioBrick Measurement Approach and the Best New BioBrick Part (Natural) awards and participated in the world championship of the iGEM Jamboree held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in November, competing with over 50 teams from around the world. 16 October16 OctoberHomecoming for CUHK Life Sciences Students Pursuing Their Summer DREAM A homecoming ceremony was recently held for 15 undergraduate and postgraduate students from the School of Life Sciences who participated in its summer DREAM (Dedicated Research Exchange and Mentorship) internship programme this year. The students finished their research projects on various interesting scientific topics such as seafood allergy, cancer-related proteins, biofuel etc at top overseas universities and institutions, including Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Tübingen and Academia Sinica. In the ceremony, they shared their research projects and their eye-opening experiences gained from the DREAM programme with other school members. 8 and 9 October8 and 9 OctoberOrientation Day for Undergraduate Admissions For complete details, please visit here. 3 October3 OctoberNew Four-year Science Curriculum Nurtures All-Rounded Science Talents The Faculty of Science will introduce its new normative undergraduate curriculum to tie in with the implementation of the '3+3+4' academic structure in 2012. Eleven major programmes of the Faculty will admit students via the broad-based admission scheme and a flexible first-year curriculum with courses covering five major groups of science subjects will be provided, so that students will acquire a broader view of various science subjects and be able to tackle problems in a comprehensive and integrative manner as science professionals. The Faculty will also launch a new major programme, Earth System Science, and an advanced major programme, Enrichment Mathematics, to meet the needs of society. 15 September15 SeptemberIntroduction to the DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School by Dr. Robert K. Kamei, Vice Dean of Education at the School. Please refer here for details. 15 September15 SeptemberScientists Reveal Genetic Link between Dissimilar Forms of Animals: Majestic King Crabs Evolved from Tiny Hermit Crabs Prof. Chu Ka-hou, Director of the School of Life Sciences and Simon F. S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, worked in collaboration with his PhD graduate Dr. Tsang Ling-ming, Prof. Chan Tin-yam from Taiwan Ocean University and Dr. Shane Ahyong from the Australian Museum in Sydney to develop a DNA sequence analysis for the crustaceans. With new evidence from DNA analysis, they have confirmed that hermit crabs indeed gave rise to king crabs. More importantly, this study indicates that the hermit crab is the ancestor of not only the king crab, but also almost all other anomurans, including the squat lobsters. That is, it is not just 'hermit to king' but 'hermit to all (anomurans)'. 13 September13 SeptemberUnderstanding the Interests of Students, Teaching Practical Skills In addition to the much-anticipated transition to a four-year curriculum starting in 2012, the CUHK Faculty of Science will also be launching two new undergraduate major programmes – Earth System Science and Enrichment Mathematics. Prof. Poon Wai-yin, Associate Dean (Education) recently met with members of the press to outline the kinds of preparation the Science Faculty has done to encourage students with a keen interest in science to explore various programmes beginning in 2012. 8 September8 SeptemberThe Stature of a Statistician Prof. Poon Wai-yin, Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Science and Professor in the Department of Statistics, CUHK, was conferred the inaugural UGC Award for Teaching Excellence by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. For full details, please click here. 5 September15 August15 AugustThe Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment Begins Taking Data The Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment (the Experiment) has begun its quest to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the elusive elementary particles known as neutrinos. The Experiment’s first completed set of twin detectors is now recording interactions of antineutrinos (antipartners of neutrinos) as they travel away from the powerful reactors of the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group in southern China. A research team from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been an active member of the Daya Bay Collaboration since its formation, leading researchers from two local institutions to monitor the Experiment and acquire data. For full details, please click here. 9 June9 JuneScience Faculty Research Day This year’s Science Faculty Research Day was successfully held on 9 June. For full details, please click here.2 June2 JuneLarge Strides in Renewable Energy Development with High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cell A research team led by Prof. Xiao Xu-dong and Prof. Li Quan of the Department of Physics successfully developed Cu(InGa)Se2 (CIGS) thin film solar cells that feature low production cost, high efficiency and extensive application prospects. Its conversion efficiency of 17% is the highest among the same kind of solar cells in the greater China region and reaches world-class level, representing a great breakthrough in the development of renewable energy. 12 April12 AprilBreakthrough in Quantum Science and Technology Research Makes Cover Story in Leading Journal A research team led by Prof. Liu Ren-bao from the Physics Department recently achieved another significant breakthrough in quantum science and technology. Professor Liu and his team developed a way to improve the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance to the single-molecule level, helping to advance the development of quantum computers with exceptional computing capabilities. The research made cover story in the April issue of Nature Nanotechnology, the most influential journal in the field of nanotechnology. 2 April2 AprilThe 6th Lau Oi Wah Memorial Science Lecture Series For details and registration, please visit the event website. 16 March16 MarchSchool of Life Sciences Research Paves Way for Development of Better Biotech Enzymes A research team led by Professor Wong Kam-bo of the Centre for Protein Science and Crystallography, School of Life Sciences, demonstrated a fundamental principle in changing the activity of enzymes by means of protein engineering. The findings will provide potential insights into the future design of biotechnologically important enzymes, and was published in the March issue of PLoS Biology, the top ranking journal in biology. 1 March1 MarchScience Faculty Awarded Two Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards Three remarkable scientific research projects at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) received the Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology) in the category of Natural Sciences from the Ministry of Education. Two Science faculty members were involved in two out of three award-winning projects: 'Concentration Phenomena in Nonlinear Elliptic Equations and Systems' conducted by Prof. Wei Juncheng, Professor of Mathematics; and 'Cholesterol-lowering and Cardiovascular Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals' conducted by Prof. Chen Zhen-yu, Professor, School of Life Sciences, and Prof. Huang Yu, Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences. 15 January15 JanuaryScience Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award cum Dean's Honours List Presentation Ceremony Science Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award cum Dean's Honours List Presentation Ceremony was successfully held on 15 January 2011. For details of the winning teachers, please refer here. Year 201019 December19 DecemberAlumni Homecoming For complete details of the Faculty programme, please visit: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/homecoming2010/. For registration and event programme, please visit: http://www.alumni.cuhk.edu.hk/homecoming. 24 November24 NovemberBiochemistry Students Win Gold at MIT Competition for Proving Bacteria DNA as Device for Information Storage A team of 11 students from the Biochemistry programme of the School of Life Sciences won gold at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2010 competition organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US. Under the supervision of Prof. Chan King-ming, Prof. Chan Ting-fung and Prof. Kong Siu-kai of the School of Life Sciences, the CUHK team significantly advanced the use of bacteria for information storage by strengthening its storage capacity and security system. 15 November15 NovemberBreakthroughs by CUHK Boosts Soybean Research Make Cover in Nature Genetics ‘Homecoming of Soybeans’, a joint project between the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (SKL-CUHK) and Beijing Genomics Institute – Shenzhen (BGI-Shenzhen), has made major breakthroughs in the soybean genomic research. The study has a profound impact on soybean research worldwide and brings new insights on soybean conservation and breeding programmes worldwide. The finding will be published as the cover story in Nature Genetics, the number one journal on genetics. 9 October9 OctoberOrientation Day for Undergraduate Admissions For complete details, please visit: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/oday/ 6 September22 August – 3 September22 August – 3 SeptemberMainland Undergraduate Association (MUA) Orientation Camp Faculty-hosted events had been successfully held on 23, 24 and 26 August. 11 August11 AugustOpen Forum on the Proposed Campus in Shenzhen A videorecording of and the Powerpoint presentations used during the event are now available online from The Office of the Provost. 20 May20 MayScience Faculty Research Day This year’s Science Faculty Research Day was successfully held on 20 May. For complete details, please click here. |
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