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CityU and Hong Kong Ocean Park Conservation Foundation researchers have released 15 captive-bred horseshoe crabs into the wild. The animals will now be tracked and their progress monitored in a bid to save the endangered species.
The Student Residence Office organised a Joint Hall Mid-Autumn Festival celebration in the Student Residence Halls on 12 September to enable students from around the world to enjoy a festive evening.
I was one of the torch bearers for the Beijing Olympics in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. Though I could not come back to CityU after the torch relay, I would love to share the unsusal experience in any other way with my fellow students.
Among the eight local higher education institutions in Hong Kong, CityU was ranked third in terms of the percentage of successful applications for funding from the 2008-09 General Research Fund.
State Vice-President Xi Jinping led a delegation visiting the CityU Shenzhen Research Institute and its Biotech and Health Centre on 5 July. He is the most senior official ever to have visited CityU facilities.
Professor Rudolf Wu Shiu-sun, from the Department of Biology and Chemistry, is nominated as a member of a United Nations body that provides advice to governments around the world on policies and issues relating to marine environmental protection.
The final of the Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge 2008, jointly organised by CityU and WWF, took place on 6 April in the CityU swimming pool, with The Shau Kei Wan Government Secondary School team beating 20 other entries in a high standard competition.
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.
The Centre for Marine Environmental Research and Innovative Technology led by CityU introduced to government and green group representatives novel technologies it had developed for conserving the marine environment in a two-day workshop on 19-20 November.
CityU was awarded a $4.5 million environmental consultancy contract by the Government after beating 17 international consultants and local universities in a highly competitive bidding exercise.