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The Civil and Environmental Engineering Students' Society of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) held today the final round of the Secondary Schools Bridge Demonstration Competition 2011, in which Maryknoll Convent School won the championship. Meanwhile, Carmel Pak U Secondary School won the Best Presentation Award. The aim of the Competition is to promote the interest among secondary school students in the design and construction of civil engineering structures. Each team is required to build a small scale model of a suspension bridge that can withstand a weighted trolley running across it from a height. The team with the strongest bridge will gain the highest score. Judging is also based on each team's presentation about their experience in building the bridge. The two other schools that made it to the final round were Tsuen Wan Public Ho Chuen Yiu Memorial College and St Stephen's College.

The HKUST MBA program's global ranking hits its highest-ever placement as it is ranked 6th best in the world according to the Financial Times 2011 rankings of the top 100 full-time global MBA programs released today. The HKUST MBA program is ranked top 10 on a three-year average. The result reflects a significant advancement in the program's ranking over the past years, which moved up from 9th place in 2010 and 16th place in 2009. For the second year in a row, the HKUST Business School is the only Asian business school to crack the Financial Time's global MBA top 10. The School's research also ranks high at world's no. 14.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) today presented Long Service Awards to over 250 faculty and staff members who have served the University for 20 years or are serving the University for the 20th year. This is the first of a series of celebrations on HKUST's 20th Anniversary this year. The theme of HKUST's 20th Anniversary celebrations is "Our Miracle Continues". As HKUST's achievements in the past 20 years are regarded as a miracle, and the long serving staff are what made this miracle possible, HKUST decided to make the Long Service Award the first 20th Anniversary event.

A bronze statue of Dr Sun Yat-sen was unveiled today at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) by Dr Lily Sun Sui-fong, granddaughter of the late Dr Sun Yat-sen and President of the Dr Sun Yat-sen Foundation for Peace and Education, and HKUST President Tony F Chan. Situated at the lawn outside the University Library and Canteen and adjacent to the footbridge leading to the student halls, the Dr Sun Yat-sen statue commands a central location that touches various aspects of campus life at HKUST. President Chan said, "Dr Sun Yat-sen is one of the most influential and respected figures in modern times, especially in the global Chinese community. He brought China from the age of emperors to the contemporary age, and his Three People's Principles - government of the people, by the people and for the people - has become the core values in the world today."

Prof Joseph Hun-wei Lee, Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and his research team have been presented a State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (SSTPA) (Second Class) 2010 by the Chinese State Council. Prof Lee’s project “Buoyant jets in complex environments – theory, innovative technology and application” enables the prediction on the mixing and dilution of wastewater in complex ocean currents and leads to the development of a software that has worldwide applications in the design of facilities involving multiple sewage discharges on the marine environment. The other core team members are Prof Wenping Wang, Prof Yuguo Li and Dr Valiant Cheung of the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong, and Prof Hongwu Tang of Hohai University, Nanjing.

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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and its School of Humanities and Social Science, and Peking University (PKU) and its Humanities and Social Science disciplines have signed an agreement to enable the pursuit of mutually beneficial academic and research collaborations for students and faculty members in the Humanities and Social Science disciplines through participation in exchange programs. Under this agreement, both universities will exchange undergraduate students and postgraduate students each beginning from two per semester in these disciplines from the current academic year.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is pleased to announce that it has achieved yet another milestone in molecular neuroscience research. Prof Nancy Ip, Chair Professor of the Division of Life Science and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience at HKUST, and her research team have made breakthrough discoveries in unraveling novel signaling mechanisms in the brain that have far-reaching implications in biomedicine.