News & Stories

Around 25 Risk Management & Business Intelligence (RMBI) Program students attended a training workshop at Bloomberg to acquire skills in using The Bloomberg Terminal which is a popular financial tool to provide real-time financial information.

"Solve for Happy" Workshop was held at HKUST, for the first time in Hong Kong, on 19 March 2016 and gathered over 100 participants to explore the ultimate solution to happiness.

作者在座談會中，分享《夢想 X 熱情 -- 青年創業家的路》一書中科大十多位校友的創業故事。

Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management (T&M-DDP) Reunion Party is held annually to strengthen connections between students, alumni, staff and faculty. This year, around 130 students, alumni, faculty and staff joined the Annual Party on 12 March 2016.

Division of Environment (ENVR) has held winter camp annually since 2013 for students to understand more about environmental issues with first-hand experience from a lively perspective. This year, "I'M LOVING EAT" ENVR Winter Camp brought students through a journey of fair trade and food waste recycling from 6 to 8 January 2016.ÿ

Peer Counselor Training Program aims at equipping a group of dedicated and respectful students to reach out to their peers who are in need of support, encouragement, companionship and resource information on campus.

Noga RavivParticipant at hackUST A fast finish took on fresh meaning at the University’s second hackUST in March 2015 when students from all over Hong Kong took part in the exciting computer coding event to turn ideas into prototypes in just 24 hours. Non-HKUST exchange student organizer Noga Raviv relates her awesome experience“HKUST was not even my university, but it was the place that I felt the innovation and entrepreneurship community thrived most and felt most comfortable”At the end of March, some HKUST friends and I organized a 24-hour hackathon for roughly 250 students on campus.As an exchange student, I was looking for a community where I could connect with local students, do something interesting, and see new places. How did I get involved? 

Constantinos Spandagos Postgraduate Student Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The story of how HKUST became part of my reality begins back in 2011. And it begins neither in Hong Kong nor in my native Greece, but in London. President Tony Chan together with Dr Eden Woon (HKUST’s Vice-President for Institutional Advancement) visited Imperial College London to give a talk to the students and faculty. And it was there, at Imperial where I was pursuing my postgraduate studies at that moment. I saw the poster advertising the talk and I thought it would be interesting to stop by and see what our guests wanted to share with us.