KE Spotlight - Community Engagement - HKU Knowledge Exchange

Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2011

Most faculties have introduced Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Award this year in order to recognize the faculty's outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organizations.

New Weapon to Crack Down Auctioned Fakes

The popular trend of online shopping nowadays is followed by a series of intellectual property infringement and auction of fake goods. In order to prevent this, a new system called Lineament Monitoring System II was jointly developed by the HKU Center for Information Security and Cryptography and the Customs and Excise Department of the HKSAR Government, making 24-hour monitoring possible.

Convalescent Plasma Treatment Reduced Mortality by 50% in Patients with Severe Swine Flu

Treatment using the convalescent plasma from donors who recovered from the swine flu can reduce the mortality rate from severe cases, our researchers from the Department of Microbiology and the Department of Medicine have found.

Extending the Power of Education through Knowledge Exchange

The Faculty of Education has a long tradition of contributing research findings and scholarship to the community. Over the years, the Faculty has been embarking on knowledge exchange activities with local and overseas policy makers, government bureau representatives, school principals, school teachers, speech and hearing specialists and information management professionals, parents, and other members of the public.

At the heart of Social Sciences

In Molière's play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, one of the biggest laughs comes when Monsieur Jourdain exclaims to his philosophy tutor, "Well, what do you know about that! These forty years now, I've been speaking in prose without knowing it! How grateful am I to you for teaching me that!" So it is with knowledge exchange – something the Faculty of Social Sciences has been doing these past 40 years without knowing it. Now that KE has been acknowledged and classified by UGC, however, the Faculty is delighted to move forward with yet more vigour.

Free Legal Advice on HKU Campus

Our Faculty of Law has introduced, on a pilot basis, a Free Legal Advice Scheme on campus under the Duty Lawyer Service. It is both an educational and a public service scheme, with a view to contributing to the legal community's effort in bridging the legal services gap in Hong Kong and to nurturing the pro bono culture among our future lawyers.

Madagascar's Menagerie Floated from Africa: One of the Greatest Unresolved Mysteries of Natural History has been Finally Laid to Rest

Madagascar is home to a 'bizarre' repository of creatures, many found nowhere else on Earth. But how they arrived on the island has baffled scientists for centuries. Jason Ali, Associate Professor in HKU's Department of Earth Sciences, tells the story of his research that seems to confirm the theory that the animals rafted there.