Press Releases and Stories

2018

Press Releases
Teaching and Learning, Chemistry
HKUST Faculty wins UGC Teaching Award 2018
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Corporate Project, Student Development, Design Thinking
"Improving Patient Journey"-Corporate Project Sponsored by Union Medical Healthcare
With the support of Union Medical Healthcare, 2018 spring term's Corporate Project challenged students to improve patient journey at General Practice (GP) clinics.
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Life Science, Research
HKUST Receives HK$100 million Donation from Lo Kwee Seong Foundation to Advance Frontiers of Knowledge of Life Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) received a HK$100 million donation from Lo Kwee Seong Foundation in support of the University’s frontier research in life science.
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Arts and Creativity, Award
Library Photo Contest 2018
The first Library photo contest has successfully concluded with 92 wonderful submissions from 57 participants (52 students and 5 staff members). Congratulations to all winners!
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Print books and E-book, Books Usage, Vision and graphics
Print Book vs E-book Usage
The Library recently studied overall trends in physical visits, book loans and e-book usage?...This reveals that users continue to visit the Library for activities other than borrowing physical books.
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Academic Reading
Print vs Electronic: Academic Reading Preferences @HKUST
In September 2017, the Library conducted the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS), an international project investigating students? attitudes and behaviors in regards to academic reading. So far, 32 different countries and territories have participated.
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Electronic Journals, Journal usage, Vision and graphics
E-Journal Usage : 5-Year Trend
Electronic journals are a daily staple of scholarly research. We have done some analysis of how heavily used our e-journals have been. The chart below shows the total number of article downloads and the number of article downloads per student FTE for the past five years (from 2013 to 2017).
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Community
HKUST Enhances Promotion on STEM Education Launches STEM@HKUST One–stop Online Platform
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is enhancing its efforts in promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education in Hong Kong.  With the support of its faculty, staff, students and alumni, HKUST has recently launched an interactive platform to h