KE Newsletter Issue 21 (October 2021)
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News in Brief
New Associate Directors of KEO
I am pleased to announce that we have appointed three new Associate Directors of Knowledge Exchange Office (KEO) who will lead and manage the HKU KE programs with me for this academic year: Professor Wallace Choy, Professor Rainbow Ho and Dr Stephanie Ma. The increase in the number of Associate Directors from one to three signifies the importance attached to KE. My heartfelt gratitude goes to Professor John Bacon-Shone, the previous Associate Director, for his immense contributions to enhancing KE during his tenure at the KEO. With the new Associate Directors on board, the KEO is committed to enhancing the KE efforts of HKU. I’m looking forward to a fruitful year of ever increased quality of the KE programs.
Associate Directors:
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| Professor Wallace Choy Faculty of Engineering |
Professor Rainbow Ho Faculty of Social Sciences |
Dr Stephanie Ma LKS Faculty of Medicine |
Best wishes,
Dr Yiwu He
Chief Innovation Officer /
Senior Advisor to the President /
Director of Knowledge Exchange Office
Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2021
Warm congratulations to the following colleagues who have won the Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards 2021 of their respective Faculties:
Faculty of Arts:
Dr Janet Lorraine BORLAND, School of Modern Languages and Cultures
'Lessons from Japan: Empowering Children, Promoting Disaster Preparedness, and Helping Communities Recover'
Faculty of Business and Economics (HKU Business School):
Dr Bonnie Hayden Cheng, Faculty of Business and Economics
‘Corporate Wellness 2.0: Enhancing Workplace Wellness during COVID-19’
Faculty of Dentistry:
Dr Duangporn Duangthip and team members – Professor Chun Hung Chu, Professor Edward Chin Man Lo, Professor Cynthia Kar Yung Yiu, Dr Shiqian Gao, Dr Conson Yeung, Dr Zhan Yan Fong, Dr Meng Jiang, Dr Chia-Chia Monica Sung, Dr Mabel Hui Min Tan, Dr Gehui Iliana Yan and Dr Xiaoxue Yin, Faculty of Dentistry
‘Promoting Child Oral Health and Managing Tooth Decay in Preschool Children’
Faculty of Education:
Professor Nancy Wai Ying Law and team members – Professor Ka Ki Catherine Chan, Professor Jimmy de la Torre, Mr Patrick Lam, Dr Min Lan, Miss Qianru LiangIANG, Dr Elizabeth Ka Yee Loh, Dr Qianqian Pan, Professor Nirmala Rao, Dr Frank Reichert, Dr Cheng Yong Tan, Dr Ka Wai Gary Wong and Mr Yuxiao Zhang, Faculty of Education
‘Co-creating a New Normal of Empowered Learning through Digital Citizenship Research’
Faculty of Engineering:
Professor Chun Kong Reynold Cheng, Department of Computer Science
‘HINCare: A Heterogeneous Information Network for Elderly-Care Helper Recommendation’
Faculty of Law:
Dr Richard Wai Sang Wu, Department of Professional Legal Education
‘From Research into Values of Future Lawyers to Promoting Legal Professionalism in Greater China Region: Informing and Implementing Legal Ethics Education in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan’
Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine:
Dr Yuet Wan Kris Lok, School of Nursing
‘Baby-Friendly Community Initiative Program – Development of a New Breastfeeding GPS App’
Faculty of Science:
Professor Hongzhe Sun, Department of Chemistry, and team members – Dr Hongyan Li and Dr Runming Wang, Department of Chemistry; and Dr Shuofeng Yuan, Department of Microbiology
‘Development of Bismuth Drugs for the Treatment of Microbial Infections’
Faculty of Social Sciences:
Professor Rainbow Tin Hung Ho, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, and team members – Dr Kar Pui Caitlin Chan, Dr Ted Chun Tat Fong and Dr Ho Yin Adrian Wan, Centre on Behavioral Health; Dr Yu Te Huang and Dr Pui Yan Wong, Department of Social Work and Social Administration
‘Improving Holistic Wellness Across the Lifespan in the Community through Expressive Arts: from Research to Practice’
Virtual HKU Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition 2021
The 3MT Competition is an academic competition that challenges research postgraduate students to explain their research within 3 minutes to a general audience, using only one static PowerPoint slide. The 3MT was developed by The University of Queensland, Australia in 2008. The HKU 3MT Competition has been an annual event jointly organised by the Graduate School and the Knowledge Exchange Office since 2011.
The 3MT Competition 2021 of HKU was successfully held in a virtual format in April - June 2021. This year 18 PhD, MPhil and PD students participated in the competition by submitting their presentation videos to compete for 3 prizes decided by the adjudicating panel and the Online People's Choice Award.
The winners are:
Champion
Ms Lu Peng
PhD candidate, Faculty of Engineering
‘A Bubble within a Membrane, a Drop from the Ocean’
(Primary Supervisor: Professor Chuyang Tang)
1st Runner-up
Mr Nicolo Paolo Ludovice
PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts
‘Epidemic Villains? Animal Histories in Human Health’
(Primary Supervisor: Professor Robert Peckham)
2nd Runner-up
Mr Tim King Fai Yung
PhD candidate, Faculty of Arts
‘The Theory of Everything in Chinese Christianity’
(Primary Supervisor: Dr Peter Anthony Cunich)
Online People’s Choice Award Winner
Mr Mukesh Kumar
PhD candidate, Faculty of Science
‘Why Endure Allergies When You Can Cure Them?’
(Primary Supervisor: Professor Billy Kwok Chong Chow)
Watch the presentations of the awardees and candidates on our 3MT website.