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  • HKU to establish Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing with $100 million donation

    HKU to establish Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing with $100 million donation

    In the 1950s, the Department of Architecture was housed in the Engineering Faculty. Mr Tam Wing Fan Edmund, amongst the first cohort of HKU Architecture students admitted to the Faculty of Engineering, has made a gift of HK$100 million to his alma mater to establish an Innovation Wing in support of the experiential learning activities of Engineering students. In recognition of Mr and Mrs Tam’s generous gift, the University has named the infrastructure the “Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing”. The Inno Wing will serve as an iconic landmark of the Faculty of Engineering. Home of future cutting-edge research projects, the Inno Wing will provide an open environment to foster multidisciplinary innovation among students and teachers, enabling generations of students to gain comprehensive knowledge and a deep understanding of the latest discoveries and challenges in a wide range of emerging technologies. It will serve as a platform to engage the young generation in exploring the world, raising their creative and multidisciplinary abilities, and ensuring they acquire the practical hands-on experience they need to serve the community.

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  • HKU marine biologist collaborative study revealed overfishing and illegal trade of live reef fish

    HKU marine biologist collaborative study revealed overfishing and illegal trade of live reef fish

    Figures from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation showed Hong Kong had the second-largest per capita consumption of seafood in Asia at 60kg, three times the world average. The report, Going, Going Gone: The Trade in Live Reef Food Fish, jointly published by the HKU Swire Institute of Marine Sciences, ADM Capital Foundation and the WWF Coral Triangle Program revealed that between 20,000 and 30,000 metric tonnes of live reef fish were traded legally in Hong Kong each year, with a value more than US$1 billion. The volume of imports could be underestimated by 50% in account of illegal trade from inadequacies in the monitoring protocols and the culture of deliberate misreporting in the industry. The report’s lead author Professor Yvonne Sadovy, of the School of Biological Sciences, said it is critical for Hong Kong to take steps to regulate before it is too late, or popular wild-caught reef fish could be gone in the next couple of decades. The team urged the government to update laws on the importation of live fish and the seafood trade, and called on consumers to choose sustainable seafood. 

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  • HKU JC JoyAge project releases findings on public awareness and misunderstandings on elderly depression

    HKU JC JoyAge project releases findings on public awareness and misunderstandings on elderly depression

    Professor Terry Lum, Project Director of JC JoyAge and Professor of Department of Social Work and Social Administration, released findings of a survey on awareness and attitude towards elderly depression. Of the 1,332 respondents, more than half (52%) estimated at least 10% of elderly are suffering from depression, even up to 30% predicted by half of them. Over 85% of the respondents agreed to help the emotionally distressed elderly friends, relatives and neighbours. The survey also revealed common myths about elderly depression with half of the respondents failed to recognise depression is not a normal feature of ageing. About 40% of them did not take it seriously when the elderly express suicidal thoughts, and 48% were not aware that memory problem can be one of the depression symptoms. Up to 75% of them thought that it would be helpful to depressed elderly by reminding them to count their blessings and advising them to focus on positive thinking. Researchers reminded the public to pay more attention to changes in elderly's conditions and their complaints as elderly depression could be expressed as physical discomforts or cognitive problems. 

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  • HKU study reveals city's socially deprived exposed to more polluted air

    HKU study reveals city's socially deprived exposed to more polluted air

    An interdisciplinary research conducted by the HKU-Cambridge Clean Energy and Environment Research Platform (HKU-Cambridge CEERP) revealed that there is a statistically significant, positive relationship between ambient PM2.5 concentration and the Social Deprivation Index (SDI) in Hong Kong. The findings revealed the existence of air pollution-induced environmental injustice at the constituency area level in the territory. Professor Victor Li On-kwok, HKU Chair of Information Engineering and director of the platform said the findings confirmed quantitatively that those who were down and out were being affected by unhealthy air compared with those in better-off neighbourhoods. The platform’s co-director Dr Jacqueline Lam Chi-kei said the study highlighted the need for the city to develop more integrated, human-centric, location-based and justice-based environmental policies. 

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  • Knowledge Exchange (KE) Excellence Award 2017

    Knowledge Exchange (KE) Excellence Award 2017

    The university-level KE Excellence Award was introduced in 2015-16 to recognise the significant impact that our academic staff had made to benefit society.  Professor Paul Siu Fai Yip and team members – Dr Yik Wa Law and Dr Qijin CHENG of the Faculty of Social Sciences has received the KE Excellence Award 2017.

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  • HKU routine surveillance programme detects H5N6 virus in fresh provision shop

    HKU routine surveillance programme detects H5N6 virus in fresh provision shop

    The HKU routine surveillance programme for avian influenza at markets and fresh provision shops, commissioned by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD), detected traces of H5N6 virus from an environmental swab of a chopping board and skin swabs of a chilled duck sample taken from a fresh provision shop in Wan Chai earlier. After analysis by experts, it was believed that the chilled duck concerned was not infected and it was only contaminated by traces of virus on its outer skin. The chance of infection through properly treated chilled poultry meat is very slim. FEHD is investigating the source of the contamination.

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  • HKU biologist collaborative research offers solution to low oxygen in ocean

    HKU biologist collaborative research offers solution to low oxygen in ocean

    An international team of scientists from the Global Ocean Oxygen Network, an expert group of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, released findings of a research paper published in Science which investigated the causes, consequences and solutions to low oxygen worldwide, in both the open ocean and coastal waters. It was revealed that the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold in the past 50 years. The scientists said to halt the decline, the world needs to rein in both climate change and nutrient pollution. HKU marine biologist Dr Moriaki Yasuhara, a co-author of the paper, said the Asian coast including Hong Kong is one of the most seriously suffered. The scientists urged the world to take on the issue to address the causes: nutrient pollution and climate change, protect vulnerable marine life, and improve low-oxygen tracking worldwide.

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