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HKUST’s Visiting Professor in Marketing Robert Wyer was bestowed the Distinguished Scientist Award by the US-based Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). The Society is a scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychology, with a membership of 700 from all over the world. It is based in Buffalo, New York. Wyer’s award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to experimental social psychology. Prof Wyer’s research and theoretical interests focus on the cognitive processes that underlie beliefs and judgments about people, objects and events. It cuts across various aspects of social cognition, including the factors that influence how information is comprehended at the time it is first received, the organization and storage of knowledge in memory, and its subsequent retrieval and use in computing judgments and behavioral decisions.

HKUST has become the first and only university in Hong Kong chosen to develop a wireless communication system for Boeing’s commercial planes, including its latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Two other universities on the mainland identified to be Boeings new collaborative research partners are Tsinghua University in Beijing and Southeast University in Nanjing, both renowned for their technological and academic excellence. Each of the three universities will work separately and on a different facet of the wireless communications system. HKUST will develop the wireless communication system for Boeing’s commercial planes to facilitate onboard entertainment and communication among maintenance technicians. It will focus on the problem of seamless connectivity among different networks used by aircraft line maintenance technicians at airports.

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) today signed an agreement with the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR), a premier university in the Republic of Belarus famous for its expertise in computer science, radioelectronics and telecommunications. The agreement is to develop cooperation and academic contacts between the two universities. The agreement was jointly signed at a ceremony today, with Chair Professor Hoi Sing KWOK, Director of the Center for Display Research, representing HKUST, and Rector Mikhail Batura for BSUIR. In 2002, Prof KWOK had signed an agreement with the Rector of BSUIR over a joint research activity.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) will showcase its latest technologies and products at the 9th Annual China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) which opens today (Friday 12 October) in Shenzhen, Held at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre, the 9th Annual China Hi-Tech Fair features 14 technologies and products developed by HKUST’s academics and member companies of the HKUST Entrepreneurs Program, including: Real-time Video Quality Enhancement System for Advanced Mobile Communications: this technology boosts the effective utilization of the 3G video bandwidth, and at the same time improve the picture quality of video call through an automatic exposure and backlight correction system.

At the 15th Congregation of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to be held on 9 November, three pre-eminent leaders will be conferred honorary doctorates in recognition of their outstanding achievements and contributions. The three recipients and the respective honorary degrees to be conferred on them are: Prof the Hon Louis Cha, GBM, influential author and co-founder of Ming Pao: Doctor of Letters honoris causa Dr William M W Mong, GBS, celebrated philanthropist and Chairman & Senior Managing Director of Shun Hing Group: Doctor of Business Administration honoris causa Prof K Barry Sharpless, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry: Doctor of Science honoris causa   Chief Executive of HKSARG and HKUST Chancellor, the Hon Donald Tsang, will officiate at the conferment ceremony on 9 November. Brief biography of the three recipients:

Professor Oscar Au of HKUST’s Electronic and Computer Engineering Department has developed a breakthrough technology “Pan-V” that turns a mobile phone into a mobile media centre, and has this high impact technology successfully commercialized for the world market. Speaking at a press conference today (Tuesday), Professor Au said, “For a long time, mobile users have very limited choices of mobile contents. Pan-V gives an exciting alternative. Often people have a wide range of paid or free video/audio contents at home, including TV, DVD, cable TV, surveillance video, photos from digital camera, Hi-Fi, etc. Pan-V can turn these into their personal mobile contents easily accessible on their 3G/3.5G phones any-time any-where. Pan-V provides a much wider choice of mobile contents without a subscription fee.”

HKUST Chemistry Professor Dr Hongkai Wu has been named a DuPont Young Professor, the only local candidate from Hong Kong to have won the honor for 2007-09. Dr Wu will receive a grant for three consecutive years starting 2007 to conduct research on microfluidics, bioanalytical science and materials chemistry. The DuPont Young Professor Grant Program provides start-up assistance to the most promising young and untenured research faculty members in areas of interest to DuPont. “Our research team will use the grant to further our research on microfluidics, bioanalytical science and materials chemistry. We use the technologies in MEMS, microfluidics, soft lithography, and surface chemistry to design and provide new tools for the application and understanding of fundamentals in materials and biological sciences, including microfluidic chemical reactors, high throughput single-cell analysis and chemical separations.” remarked Dr Wu.

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