e-Learning Technologies Symposium
Keynote speakers and panellists including educators, researchers and administrators from local and international institutions will share research and insight at the “Empowering University Education with e-Learning Technologies Symposium” on 27 June 2023 organised by the Office of the Provost and Deputy President. Four key presentations, each followed by a panel discussion, will highlight major issues in e-learning for higher education today. Areas up for discussion include the integration of online and digital instructional tools to enhance teaching and learning; a data-driven approach to teaching and learning enhancement; quality assurance and assessment within the virtual teaching and learning context; and the “new normal” for the higher education sector. More details can be found here.
CB affirmed as a top business school
The College of Business (CB) has secured reaccreditation from the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), one of the world's top international business school accreditation systems, for a further five years. This endorsement reaffirms the College's position among the world's leading business schools and recognises the quality of its educational programmes and research. CB was commended by EQUIS for its strategic plan, international partnerships, research performance, programme management, student quality, and the quality of its MSc in Professional Accounting and Corporate Governance programme.
CityU Science Video Competition 2023
Aiming to boost greater public interest in science and inspire more creative thinking, the CityU Science Video Competition invites full-time secondary school students in Hong Kong to explain a scientific principle or phenomenon in a simple and clear way for laypeople. Entrants are asked to create short, innovative videos that explain or demonstrate a scientific principle or phenomenon that would otherwise require many words to communicate. For more details, please visit here.
Milk Product Counter
CityU Milk, produced by Hong Kong’s only dairy herd, is now available at the Milk Product Counter. The milk comes from the Jersey cows now resident on CityU Farm and contains the A2 beta-casein protein, which is more easily absorbed by the human body. CityU Farm is a teaching and research facility at the Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences where students in the Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine programme gain essential learning opportunities in animal handling, husbandry and bovine veterinary medicine. The Milk Product Counter is located at 3/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building.
A musical odyssey from East to West
Musicians from the Nur Collective will lead a musical tour of the cultures of the Tianshan mountains in Central Asia to the Mediterranean at a seminar held by CityU’s Cultural Exchange Oasis. Featured highlights include demonstrations of local musical instruments, such as the darbuka, oud and qanun, highlighting their distinctive melodies and rhythms. Titled “Connecting to the World Music Seminar: A Musical Tour between East & West”, the seminar explores the connections between history, culture and geography. More information about the event, which takes place on 27 June, can be found here.
Kudos
PhD student Liu Xiaoyuan from the Department of Electrical Engineering (EE) has won the Top Ten Academic Youth Award for Metamaterial Postgraduate at the 2nd China Metamaterials Conference for a paper titled “Intelligent Meta-lens for Aerial, Land, and Underwater Imaging”. More than 300 participants joined this competition and 88 were selected to give an oral presentation. Liu Xiaoyuan, whose supervisor is Professor Tsai Din-ping, Chair Professor in EE, is one of 12 awardees. For more information about this conference, please visit here.
The HK Tech 300 start-up called i2cool won the Gold Award and a prize of US$1 million in the second edition of the TERA-Award Smart Energy Innovation Competition with its patented “Electricity-free Cooling Technology”. The competition, jointly organised by Towngas and State Power Investment Corporation Limited, received 275 entries from 41 different regions and countries. The “electricity-free cooling technology” is a zero-energy cooling/heat-dissipating paint that can be applied to architectural coatings, wall tiles and even fabrics. Experiments have shown that when the paint is applied, the roof surface temperature of buildings in Hong Kong can be reduced from 60°C to 30°C during the daytime. It is estimated that applying this paint to all buildings in Hong Kong could reduce carbon emissions by a total of 600,000 tonnes a year.
Dr Li Yangyang, Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for her major contributions to chemistry. She researches biomineralisation mechanisms and green processing of ceramics; sensors, particularly surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy probes for food safety, environmental, and biomedical applications; and electrochemistry of materials for electrocatalysis and charge storage.
Dr Walid Daoud, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been made a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. His research interests include approaches for harvesting light and kinetic energies; hybrid nanogenerators for self-powered wearable electronics; flexible organic-based photovoltaics; compatible energy storage batteries; and solar wearable self-cleaning nanotechnology.
Vision Carbon, a team from CityU, won the Gold Medal and “The Best Cross-Border FinTech Solution” award at the FinTech Olympiad (FTOL) 2023 competition in which participants had to pitch their financial technology-enabled business solutions to a panel of industry leaders. Vision Carbon proposed a blockchain-based project aimed at enhancing the transparency, verifiability and traceability of carbon credit trading across the Greater Bay Area (GBA). FTOL, hosted by CityU and supported by HSBC, attracted 94 teams from 18 universities. The 10-month active learning programme includes training, a project-based competition and networking events.