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Allocation
from the Restructuring and Collaboration Fund
The UGC has approved an allocation from the Restructuring and Collaboration
Fund to support CityU's initiative in two areas. HK$10 million is allocated
to the University as supplementary funding assistance for meeting part
of the cost of ex-gratia payments to affected College staff under the
2004 Departure Scheme. Another HK$5 million is allocated for the establishment
of a joint Enterprise Resource Planning Development Centre, in collaboration
with Lingnan University and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The
funding will finance the Centre in the following major aspects: developing
Chinese Language localization to meet local tertiary institutions' needs;
developing enterprise resource planning enhancement; common testing and
development.
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| Plans
for the Creative Media Centre
The University will announce plans for the Creative Media Centre later
this week. To be built on Cornwall Street, Kowloon Tong, the Centre will
be a focal point for the development of creative media industry in the
region, and in Hong Kong. The Centre consists of two parts: the Academic
Facility and the Public Outreach Facility. The Academic Facility will
provide educational facilities for the School of Creative Media and other
related departments; the Public Outreach Facility will be the interface
between the University and the outside world, providing space for exhibitions
and other events. A HK$550 million capital cost for the Academic Facility
was approved by the University Grants Committee (UGC) in 2001. The University
is seeking a further HK$200 million private sponsorship to fund the Public
Outreach Facility.
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| Distinguished
Lecture Series
CityU has invited three distinguished persons to deliver lectures in October
and November for the University's Distinguished Lecture Series: Professor
Xu Jialu, Vice-chairman of the 10th Standing Committee of the
National People's Congress, and Director of the College of Chinese Language
and Culture of Beijing Normal University; Mr Justice Xiao Yang,
Chief Justice and the President of the Supreme People's Court; and Mr
Orhan Pamuk, a renowned Turkish writer whose landmark novels
include Yeni Hayat and Kara Kitap. Kicking off the series
is Professor Xu, who will deliver a lecture on Zen and the meeting of
Chinese and Indian cultures, 18 October, at the Wei Hing Theatre. Mr Xiao,
who will be conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws in the 19th Congregation,
will deliver his lecture on 12 November. Mr Pamuk will conclude the series
on 25 November.
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CityU
researchers participate in 973 project
Dr Li Qing and Dr Jia Weijia, Associate
Professors of the Department of Computer Engineering and Information Technology,
and Dr Liu Wenyin, Assistant Professor of the Department
of Computer Science, are participating in the "China Semantic Grid"
project, a 973 project funded by the National Basic Research Programme,
under the administration of China's Ministry of Science and Technology.
The "China Semantic Grid" is a five-year project with a total
funding of over RMB 20 million yuan, led by Professor Zhuge Hai
of the Institue of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The CityU researchers join this project as key investigators, along with
investigators from other eight leading mainland universities.
Meanwhile, the three CityU researchers will engage in a "Web Services"
sub-project of the "China Semantic Grid" project. "Web Services" will
be a joint collaboration with the University of Science and Technology
of China (USTC). A seed capital of RMB 0.9 million has been approved for
the setting up of a Centre of Excellence on Web Services, to be based
in the USTC-CityU's Advanced Research Institute in Suzhou.
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CityU
delegation to Zhongshan
Professor H K Chang, the President, and
Professor David Tong, Deputy President, led an 11-member
CityU delegation to visit Zhongshan University on 23 September. Both universities
expressed interest to collaborate in: co-supervision of postgraduate students,
administrative training for staff at CityU, and summer programmes for
CityU students.
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Presidential
speeches
Professor H K Chang delivered a key note
speech entitled "Ideal Biomedical Engineers in the 21st Century"
at the 2nd World Congress for Chinese Biomedical Engineering, held in
Beijing, 27 September. He also presented his lecture "From Movable
Type to World Wide Web" at the Beijing Jiaotong University on the
same day.
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Signing
ceremony
CityU's Co-operative Education Centre will sign a Memorandum
of Understanding with Nanyang Technological University's Office of Professional
Attachments, on 18 October. The objective of the Memorandum is to establish
collaboration between the two universities on mutual support to obtain
placements for industrial attachment.
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Kudos
Ms Irene Cheng, Executive Officer I of the Centre for
Cross-Cultural Studies, has been awarded a fellowship from the Ford Foundation
to conduct research in San Francisco on the historical architectural context
of Chinese immigrants from Kaiping in Guangdong province.
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CityU
students win AIA award
Five students have been awarded The Best Presentation
Award in the AIA Young Leaders Development Programme. The students are:
Lau Yuk-nam, a Management Science major; Lee
Ka-man, a Linguistics and Language Technology major; Tsang
Chi-wai, an Information Engineering major; Yeung Pui-wai,
an Information Systems major and Yung Wing-cheung, a
Surveying major.
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20th
Anniversary updates
Professor H K Chang, the President, will
be the Chief Honorary Coach of the Proud of 20 Team. To meet the target
of HK$200,000 for charity, the Organizing Committee has also invited Deans
of Faculties/Schools to be Honorary Donation Leaders, to encourage staff
and students' support.
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