News & Stories

2018

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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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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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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 help spark junior high students’ inquisitiveness and support local teachers in teaching STEM subjects in Hong Kong.
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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 approach to show how proteins in postsynaptic density (PSD) are regulated in synapses to process and transmit brain signals, which may provide insights into further research on early detection and intervention of mental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia.
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Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
HKUST Hosts Xiangshan Science Conference on Neuromorphic Computing & Artificial Intelligence and Hosts Launching Ceremony for Hong Kong Society of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Nearly 40 distinguished scholars from Hong Kong, Macau and the Mainland attended the two-day Xiangshan Science Conference hosted by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) yesterday. The Honourable Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Chief Executive of HKSAR, Mr Chen Dong and Dr Tan Tieniu, Deputy Directors of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in HKSAR officiated at the closing ceremony of this high-profile conference today, which was founded by the State Science and Technology Commission (now the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, PRC) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Case Competition, Student Competition, Outside HK
Healthy Living in China
The International Student Innovation Competition 2018, held at Shanghai from 6 to 15 July 2018, gathered students from Dual Degree Program in Technology & Management (T&M-DDP), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HESSO) and ShanghaiTech University (SHTECH). Students teamed up with peers from different universities were challenged to create a new product/ service to solve a health problem in China.
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Branding, Announcements
IPO New Videos Go Live!
With IPO’s new branding theme “Leading Without Boundaries” being launched in the coming academic year, we are excited to share our new branding videos with all of you!  Let our students introduce IPO by taking you around the campus and be inspired by the sharing from our faculty and students!
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Research, Discovery, Biology
HKUST Scientists Determine Atomic Structure of DNA Replication Machine to Make Groundbreaking Discovery of DNA Replication Mechanism
Cells propagate by making copies of themselves through replicating their DNA genome, which are blueprints of their identities.  Every full grown human came from a single fertilized egg cell whose genome is replicated approximately 10 million-billion times.  What does the molecular machine that carries out this Herculean task look like?  A research team led by scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have determined the three dimensional structure of the DNA replication machinery at atomic resolution for the first time in history. When DNA replication was first proposed based on its double helix structure over half a century ago, many believed that deciphering the machine that separates the two strands of DNA for replication is near to come.  However, it turns out to be a much complicated task due to the large size, multi-partite nature (made up of three engines) and its flexibility of the machine.