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Animal Assisted Intervention for Hong Kong’s ‘Hikikomori’
The therapeutic value of animals to relieve stress in the young, elderly and sick has been documented by academics and medical professionals around the world. But what has not been known until relatively recently is how therapy animals can also help people who have difficulties dealing with modern society and lock themselves away in their rooms. Dr Paul Wong, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, is working with a non-profit-making social service organisation to study how therapy animals, mainly trained dogs, are helping Hong Kong’s hidden youth to regain their self-belief. Watch the full video.
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KE in the Review 2018
The University is providing funding, training and infrastructure to promote the sharing of its knowledge beyond academic circles and support activities that lead to impact in the community.
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Two HKU Engineering scholars elevated as IEEE Fellow 2019
Two academics from HKU Faculty of Engineering have been elevated to IEEE Fellows 2019. Professor Yu Yizhou of Department of Computer Science was elected for his contributions to geometric and image-based modeling, while Dr Jiang Lijun of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering was elected for his contributions to broadband computational electromagnetic methods. Professor Yu’s work has made significant contributions to subareas of computer vision and graphics, including image-based modeling and gradient domain geometric modeling. Dr Jiang has made distinctive contributions in large-scale heterogeneous electromagnetic modeling, EMC/EMI for VLSI and packaging, and multiphysics characterisation methodologies.
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HKU Faculty of Engineering and the Arts & Technology Education Centre jointly organize the Musical Instrument Design Competition
HKU Faculty of Engineering and the Arts & Technology Education Centre (ATEC) are jointly organizing the Musical Instrument Design Competition with the support of HKU Knowledge Exchange Fund. Over 300 students from primary 3 to secondary 5 have joined the competition. A number of talks and workshops related to sound, music, science and engineering were organized in November and December 2018. Students were taught to design and make a piece of work that can produce sound and be used as a musical instrument. This project aims to nurture students’ creativity and their problem solving and communication skills as well as to enhance their knowledge and appreciation of the science and mathematics of sound and music. A live performance of the participated students playing the musical instruments they designed and made will be held in May 2019.
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HKU Engineering Professor Ron Hui named Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors
Professor Ron Hui of the HKU Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been named a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Professor Hui said he is thankful that many of his inventions have been adopted for applications in wireless charging of portable electronics and sustainable lighting. He has over 55 patents adopted by industry.
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HKU uses App to help elderly with swallowing difficulties
HKU Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences joined hands with charitable organisation Sik Sik Yuen to help elderly people improve their swallowing ability via speech therapy from a mobile App “Keep on Talking & Eating [KOTE]” designed by HKU. 93 elderly people from Sik Sik Yuen completed the training programme from October to December to train their muscles used for swallowing, with 72% recorded an improvement in their tongue and throat muscles, which increased their swallowing safety. Dr Karen Chan, Assistant Professor and Director of Swallowing Research Laboratory of HKU, hoped more care facilities for the elderly can put swallowing training as part of the routine and hire speech therapists so that elderly people can receive proper training.
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HKU Assistant Professor makes the list of top 10 young Innovators under 35
HKU Computer Science Assistant Professor Dr Ruibang Luo is named as one of the top 10 young Innovators under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review. Dr Luo and his team used Next-Generation Sequencing and Single Molecule Sequencing technologies and developed algorithms for two fundamental genome sequence analysis problems, 'genome assembly' and 'genome alignment', shortening the time required for cancer and rare disease diagnosis and pinpointing the problems more accurately for targeted treatment.
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