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HKUST continues to garner global accolades for outstanding achievements in cutting-edge research that directly impacts people’s lives.
Clever Solution to Water Infrastructure Issues
An interdisciplinary team co-led by Prof. Mohamed Salah GHIDAOUI, Chinese Estates Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST, has won the Creativity Prize at the 12th Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW).
Western orchestration met unique Chinese philosophical reflections at a captivating concert held at the HKUST Shaw Auditorium on July 5 to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study (IAS).
This musical feast, “Together We Celebrate: Bright Sheng & Beethoven Across Time,” brought together world-renowned composer Prof. Bright SHENG, IAS Helmut & Anna Pao Sohmen Professor-at-Large, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (SZSO), and the SZSO Chorus.
Covering more than 70 percent of Earth’s surface, the oceans regulate our climate, sustain marine ecosystems, and support life on a global scale. However, the complexity of the underwater world is often overlooked and taken for granted because so much of it is hidden from view.
This is precisely the challenge that Prof. GAN Jianping and his research team at HKUST set out to confront.
Two major announcements from Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council (RGC) reaffirm the strength of the research-intensive ecosystem that HKUST has built over the past 35 years.
Together, these awards represent more than HK$74 million in competitive funding and highlight HKUST’s strengths in both large-scale collaborative research and individual scholarly excellence. The University secured the largest share of funding under the RGC’s 2026/27.
At 3 a.m. on a Monday, the Chia-Wei Woo Academic Concourse would normally be empty. But on World Cup Final morning, it reverberated with the squeals of delight and groans of despair as the two finalists battled it out.
More than 300 HKUST students, faculty and staff traded sleep for football as they gathered on campus for a live screening of the World Cup Final. With Spain facing Argentina for the sport’s biggest prize, the concourse was transformed into an unlikely early-morning stadium, filled with cheers, laughter, and the shared suspense of every attack, save, and near miss.
For generations of alumni, HKUST is where the relentless “can-do spirit” was born. That same ethos came alive once again when nearly 400 alumni returned with their children for a special camp, eager to introduce their alma mater to the next generation.
Welcoming alumni and their families back to the campus, Prof. TAM Kar-Yan, Vice-President for Business and Administration, highlighted the University's remarkable transformation over the past 35 years into a world-class research-intensive university.
Floating in microgravity inside China’s Tiangong Space Station, Hong Kong’s first payload specialist, Dr. LAI Ka-Ying, alongside her Shenzhou-23 crewmates, carefully assembled and mounted a compact high-tech payload developed by HKUST on the exterior of the station.
The launch and operational success of “MUSICO”, the Multi-Spectral Imaging Carbon Observatory, brings together two Hong Kong firsts: our first astronaut and the first Hong Kong-developed scientific payload to be deployed on a national space station, representing a unique confluence of Hong Kong talent.
After dedicating the prime of their lives to HKUST, Professors Emeriti remain an active and valued part of the University community. Since 2022, a group of devoted former faculty has come together to establish the HKUST Retired Professor Association (RPA), with the hope of continuing to contribute to the University in meaningful ways.