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| Foundation
Stone Laying Ceremony
The foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Multi-media Building will
take place at 3pm on 26 March at the building site located on Cornwall
Street. The ceremony will be officiated by Mr Michael Suen Ming-yeung,
Secretary for Education; Mr Michael V Stone, Secretary-General,
University Grants Committee (UGC); Mrs Dorothy Ma Chow Pui-fun,
Deputy Secretary-General, UGC; Mr Chung Shui-ming, Council
Chairman of CityU; Professor Richard Ho Yan-ki, Acting
President; and Professor James Moy, Dean of School of
Creative Media. The building, scheduled for completion in 2010, will be
one of the world's most advanced teaching and research facilities in the
creative media field. Staff are welcome to witness this significant moment.
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| University
Development Forum
In preparation for moving towards the four-year curriculum, the Senate
approved the structure of the four-year normative degree in 2006 to provide
the framework upon which the university would design the new curriculum.
To assist faculties and schools with implementation of this new degree
structure, the Four-Year Curriculum Implementation Group has completed
a draft consultation document, which will replace existing regulations.
The University is now seeking views from faculties and schools on this
draft document. At a forum to be held on 20 March in the Wei Hing Theatre
at 3:30pm, Professor Paul Lam Kwan-sing, Acting Vice
President (Undergraduate Education), and Dr Jerry Yu Jer-tsang,
Chief Information Officer, will discuss developments related to the proposed
new structure.
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| Researchers
rewarded
The judging panel for the new CityU Research Excellence Awards Scheme
to recognise and reward outstanding research achievements has conferred
the Grand Award upon Professor Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor
in the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics; and the Award
of Excellence to Professor Paul Chu Kim-ho, Chair Professor
in the Department of Physics and Materials Science. Professor Zhang is
a world renowned scholar in humanities and cross-cultural studies, while
Professor Chu is a leading expert in plasma science and materials engineering.
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| Faculty
of Business receives triple accreditations
The Faculty of Business has become the only business school in the Greater
China region to be triple accredited. The recent accreditation by the
Association of MBAs, together with those received from AACSB International
in 2005 and EQUIS in 2007, reinforce the reputation of the Faculty, as
well as CityU as an international institution.
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| Departmental
integration
The Senate this month approved the integration of the Division of Building
Science and Technology (BST) into the Faculty of Science and Engineering
as one of its academic units. The proposal was deemed to bring about a
logical alignment of BST with the overall organisational structure of
the University.
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| French honour
Mr David Santandreu Calonge, Senior Education Development
Officer of the Education Development Office, has been appointed as a Chevalier
dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques ("Knight in the Order
of Academic Palms") by the French Minister of National Education.
He is also one of only six French nationals to be awarded the "Trophées
Sénat de la présence française à l'étranger"
(International Trophies of the French Abroad), a competition jointly organised
by the French Parliament (Senate) and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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| Hundreds of scholarships
awarded
CityU presented more than 500 scholarships worth a total of HK$10 million
to outstanding students courtesy of funds donated by professional bodies,
charitable trust funds, private firms and the CityU Staff Giving Club
on 13 March.
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| Transport
team
Employing teamwork, analytical skills and flawless presentation, students
from the Department of Public and Social Administration towered over their
Macau and Hong Kong fellow competitors in winning the 2008 Chartered Institute
of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Student Day Championship. The five winning
students from CityU were Tony Chan Hoi-hong, Lucy
Cheng Lo-sai, Castle Ng Yu-hok, Ivan
Wan Ying-wai and Timothy Wan Lap-tsun. Organised
by the CILT on 8 March, the contest was held to arouse the interest of
students in the logistics and transport industry.
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| Sporting
domination
CityU Athletic Teams put in a brilliant performance at this month's Annual
Athletic Meet organised by the University Sports Federation of Hong Kong,
China. CityU created history by capturing all the overall championship
titles as well as the top individual prizes, including the event Overall
Champion, Men's Overall Champion, Women's Overall Champion and the Most
Valuable Male and Female Athlete awards.
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| Cross-cultural
art exhibition
The Chinese Civilisation Centre is holding an exhibition entitled "The
Works of the Visiting Artists from China in Edo Period" from 15 March
to 27 April at CityU Gallery. About 50 artworks by Chinese artists visiting
Japan from the end of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
will be on display.
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