Press Releases and Stories

2019

News
Advanced Materials, Breakthrough
HKUST-led Research Team Unveils Groundbreaking Quantum Simulation of 3D Topological Matter with Ultracold Atoms
Complex topological matter (peculiar materials with different bulk and surface properties) has become the focus of both industrial and academic research because it is seen as a way to eventually make quantum computing more noise-free and robust.

2018

Press Releases
Breakthrough
HKUST Scientists Rebuild Synapse-like Machineries to Unveil its Formation and Regulatory Mechanism Paving Ways for Diagnosis and Early Intervention of Mental Disorders
A research team led by Prof Mingjie Zhang, Kerry Holdings Professor of Science in the Division of Life Scienceat The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has employed a novel biochemical reconstitution a

2016

News
On campus, Sustainability, Breakthrough, Partnership
HKUST Print Shop Becomes the First FSC-Certified Printer among HK Universities
HKUST Publishing Technology Center (PTC) announced that it has become the first facility among Hong Kong education institutions to obtain Forest Stewardship Council Chain-of-Custody (FSC- COC) certification.

2015

Press Releases
Breakthrough, Biology, Research
HKUST Breakthrough Study Brings Hope to Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Patients
A research team led by Prof Kai Liu, Assistant Professor from the Division of Life Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), has successfully found a way to stimulate the growth of

2014

Press Releases
Breakthrough, Physics
HKUST Physicists Control Photon's Shape for Record Loading Efficiency into a Cavity
A research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), led by Prof Shengwang Du, Associate Professor of Department of Physics, succeeded in controlling photon’s shape, and reached a record photon loading efficiency of 87