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Over the years, the Library has been fortunate to have generous support from donors to fund various projects which would not have been possible otherwise.

While HKUST is renowned for its research and academic acumen, many do not know about its efforts to be one of the greenest universities in Hong Kong.  In the past year, HKUST has continued hard work to be an environmental champion, and have achieved much in this regard. Among the environmental milestones for this year are several community-driven initiatives. The HKUST Green Team, a 100% student and staff-driven initiative, launched a Lunch Boxes Go Green Campaign, encouraging the community to bring reusable containers when buying takeaway food. A strong response saw more than 2,500 disposable boxes saved.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) held its annual Long Service Award Presentation Ceremony to honor faculty and staff members who have served the University for 20 years. HKUST established the Long Service Award to express appreciation and recognition to long-serving faculty and staff members whose dedication and hard work have contributed to the University’s rapid rise over the past 27 years.  This year, HKUST presented awards to 25 colleagues with 20 years of service at University. HKUST President Prof Tony F Chan, together with the vice-presidents joined the presentation ceremony.  The awardees’ families and friends were also invited by the University to attend the event and share the happiness of the celebration.

The MBA Program, offered by the School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School), has been ranked No.14 in the world by the Financial Times. This is the ninth consecutive year that the Program has been ranked in the top 15 globally. The HKUST MBA Program has constantly achieved positive results throughout the years. The newly released Financial Times Global MBA Ranking once again reflects the joint efforts made by the Program and the surveyed alumni who graduated in 2014 (i.e. intake of 2012) to understand the business talent that the changing market needs.

You don’t have to wait for postgraduate studies to produce significant research at HKUST. 4th year engineering student Jordy Evan Sulaiman, from Indonesia, faces the same old phenomenon every time he returns home: roadside pollution. The problem has plagued his home country since he was a kid, and he grew up thinking how he could find a cure via science. The passion brought Jordy to HKUST, where he got a head-start to begin a research career as an undergraduate. Last summer, the chemical and biomolecular engineering major found a way to advance a more sustainable future for us all, successfully undertaking a clean energy research project to boost the adoption of direct ethanol fuel cells as an alternative power source.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has discovered the mechanism of how human brains turn on and off neuronal activities, providing an important foundation to understand a wide range of neurologic conditions such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and ataxia-telangiectasia diseases. “As with all things in life, healthy brain function depends on a balance of neuronal activities. We think of our brains as active - moving a leg and saying a word are all "active" events, but it is just as important that our brains be able to stop these actions,” said Cheng Aifang, a postgraduate student from the Division of Life Science who made the discovery under the guidance of the division’s head and Chair Professor Karl Herrup. “Yet it was not clear how our brains actually perform this go/stop function until now.”

Prof. Arthur LAU, Co-director of Environmental Management and Technology Program, was invited by MTR Corporation Ltd. to shoot an educational video clip on MTR's water-recycling measures.

The Council of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) approved today the appointment of Prof Wei Shyy as the next President with effect from 1 September 2018, succeeding Prof Tony F Chan who will step down from the position on 31 August 2018.