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For the first time in its history, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is entering into a collaborative agreement involving three universities from three continents. Prof Paul Chu, President of HKUST (middle) today attended an agreement signing ceremony with Prof Gene Hambrick, Director of CMU International Development (left) and Prof Horst Hippler, President of Karlsruhe (right) to strengthen collaborations in research and education program in computing and communication technology. HKUST today (Thursday) signed an agreement with Karlsruhe, a top-ranked elite German research powerhouse, and Carnegie Mellon University, a premier university foremost in America for its expertise in computer science.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) today (Thursday) officially named its Graduate School in Nansha as “HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School” in a ceremony that combined the official opening of the Graduate School and the ground breaking of its Nansha campus.The naming is in recognition of the late Dr Fok Ying Tung’s great contribution to the motherland and Hong Kong and also his generous support of the HKUST. It was the enormous generosity of the Fok Ying Tung Foundation that made possible the establishment of the HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School at the Nansha IT Park, with a specific mission to contribute to the Mainland’s development as a knowledge-based nation.

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has come out in support of the setting up of the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. HKUST President Prof Paul Chu paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in Beijing earlier this month. Among topics discussed between Prof Chu and the Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Shang Yong, were ways and means of deepening the cooperation between the mainland and Hong Kong in science and technology. The Vice Minister was warmly supportive of HKUST's initiative in establishing the Institute for Advanced Study. In a press release on the Ministry website, the Vice Minister applauded Prof Chu's superb accomplishments as a scientist, and his stewardship of HKUST.

A 12-member delegation from Zhejiang University led by its Chairman of Development Committee, Prof Zhang Jun Sheng (the former Deputy Director of the Xinhua News Agency (Hong Kong Branch)), visited The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) today and signed an academic exchanges agreement between the two universities. Prof Zhang said, “That HKUST has been able to become a leading university in the world within only fifteen years is nothing short of miraculous.” President Paul Chu welcomed this opportunity for closer cooperation between Zhejiang University and HKUST. Under this agreement, the two universities will join hands to nurture postgraduates and PhD candidates of academic excellence.

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) today (9 January) jointly hosted a high-impact regional workshop at the HKUST campus. The workshop brought top academics, journalists, business leaders and policy experts from mainland China, Hong Kong and the United States together to discuss factors impacting the present Sino-American relations and analyze the global challenges to American Foreign Policy in the near future. Co-organized by the Center on China’s Transnational Relations of the HKUST and the New Era Foreign Policy Center of UC Berkeley, the workshop was the first session in the series of the “New Era Global Futures Project 2007”. Participants of the workshop had a fruitful discussion and generated concrete recommendations on the theme “What will be the biggest global challenges impacting Sino-American relations in 2012?”

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