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Jockey Club Lab for Cultural Diversity Study launches multi-lingual booklet and documentary video and video highlight of Human Library cum Concert
The Jockey Club Lab for Cultural Diversity Study (JCLCDS) produced a multi-lingual booklet entitled “Youth in Transition: Growing up experiences of the ethnic minority youth in Hong Kong”. The booklet reports on selected stories of youth and young adults from the longitudinal and oral history studies between the ages of 18 and 33 with family heritage in South or Southeast Asia. The booklet aims to promote a better public understanding of youth transitions to adulthood and challenge some of the existing stereotypes of ethnic minority communities in Hong Kong. JCLCDS has also produced a set of documentary video and event video highlights of a Human Library-cum-Concert held on June 2, 2019, and commissioned a documentary by an ethnic minority videographer under the Project’s Human Library Programme. The booklet and videos have been made available on the Project website. JCLCDS, funded by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and co-created by the HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, is a component under the C-for-Chinese@JC initiative.
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HKU launches mindfulness resources package to support HKDSE students
Jockey Club “Peace and Awareness” Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative (JC PandA), a project organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences in HKU, has launched ‘Mindfulness in the Face of Academic Stress’ resources package to encourage HKDSE candidates and students to create a mindful space amidst the epidemic, so as to better adjust their emotions for their mental well-being. This package is a follow-up of an earlier resources package, ‘Mindfulness in the Time of Coronavirus Epidemic’, that supports the general public in this difficult time.
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HKU Engineering VAYU Project sets new Guinness World Record for “The Fastest 50m Swim by a Robotic Fish”
Supported by the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, a VAYU robotic fish project developed by a student team from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong set the Guinness World Record of 26.79s for “The Fastest 50m Swim by a Robotic Fish” on January 23, 2020. Compared with the world records set by human swimmers in long course swimming pools ratified by International Swimming Federation (FINA), the robotic fish swim faster than women in breaststroke (29.40s) and backstroke (26.98s). Led by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the VAYU Project is a joint effort with the Departments of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of the Faculty of Engineering. More than 40 students contributed to the project over four years.
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Knowledge Exchange (KE) Excellence Award 2019
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. The KE Excellence Award 2019 was awarded to Professor Zhiwei Chen of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine.
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Three HKU academics receive Croucher Innovation and Senior Research Fellowship Awards
Three HKU academics have been presented with Innovation and Senior Research Fellowship Awards by the Croucher Foundation. Dr Yufeng Wang, Assistant Professor of the Department of Chemistry who received the Croucher Innovation Award 2019, studies how to put together colloidal nanoparticles to form 1D to 3D superstructures for emerging applications such as photonics, drug delivery and micro-machinery. Professor Anderson Shum, Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Professor Wang Yao, Chair Professor of Department of Physics, received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowships 2020.
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Three HKU scientists make the list of Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific by MIT Technology Review
Three HKU scientists are among the four Hong Kong young scientists who made the MIT Technology Review annual list of Innovators Under 35 for the Asia Pacific Region and they are: Dr Hao Guo, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Department of Civil Engineering, who created an electricity- and chemical- free filter for rapid water purification; Dr Ziyan Guo, PhD Researcher of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, who co-developed world’s first intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)-guided robot for bilateral stereotactic neurosurgery; and Dr Ping Luo, Assistant Professor of the Department of Computer Science, who developed computer vision and AI technologies to understand human behaviours such as facial expressions, emotions and social relationships. The peer-reviewed annual award was established by MIT Technology Review in 1999 to recognise outstanding young innovators under the age of 35. In 2010, regional versions of the award were introduced to cover areas including Latin America, Europe, China, India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia/Oceania.
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HKU Engineering-led student team wins 1st runner-up at Global Grand Challenges Summit 2019 in London
A HKU Engineering-led student coached by Dr Hayden Kwok-Hay So of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering through the support of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing and the Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund was awarded 1st runner-up at the Student Competition of 2019 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS) in London on September 13. The award-winning project, “ClearBot”, an AI-powered, autonomous plastic-collecting robotic solution that took aim at the global ocean plastic epidemic, represents a truly multi-disciplinary solution that puts heavy emphasis on the relationship between technology and the people who are most affected by this plastic epidemic. From the initial experiential learning trip to Bali, to the open-source software/hardware development model, the development of “ClearBot” remains hinged on the belief that real-world impact can only be achieved by engaging the target communities at every step.
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