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Consumer satisfaction in 2007 hit a record high of 70.2, up 0.1% from 2006 with a considerable drop in the Food & Drink category, according to a survey conducted by CityU’s Department of Management Sciences.
About 150 marine environmental scientists, academics and students from Hong Kong and the mainland attended a symposium on climate change and marine pollution at CityU from 9-10 January.
CityU’s Language Information Sciences Research Centre has released its 2007 Pan-Chinese New Word Rosters and highlighted five new words which were found in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei last year.
The Fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Mathematics opened at CityU on 7 December, bringing together an esteemed collection of mathematicians from around the region and marking the tenth anniversary of the University’s Liu Bie Ju Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
About 40 international and local experts in bioethics are participating in a three-day workshop co-organised by CityU from 6-8 December to explore critical issues relating to human nature amid the rapid development of biotechnologies in the 21st century.
Linguistics experts from around the world assemble at the conference organised by CityU’s Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies from 5-7 December, exploring the significance of a language transforming into a world language.
Dr Jacky Cheung Chau-kiu from the Department of Applied Social Studies announced the latest findings of a study on adolescent idol worship in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in a seminar on 17 November.
The first "International Conference on Ideas of Humanity in the Age of Globalisation" in Hong Kong, organised by the Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics of City University of Hong Kong (CityU), was held from 18 to 21 November at CityU.
Two guest speakers from Melbourne's Monash University addressed CityU staff on November 12 on how best to tackle the quality audit process.
Nobel Prize-winning chemist Professor Jean-Marie Lehn led a full-house audience of almost 200 people to an illuminating journey into the world of chemistry at a distinguished lecture held at CityU on 30 October.