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2022

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Business Education as a Family Tradition
Professor Ronald LAU knows HKUST and the School of Business and Management (SBM) well. A long service award recipient, he has spent over 20 years here, first as a Visiting Associate Professor and then as Associate Professor and UG Program Coordinator (Operations Management) at the SBM. He has taught many generations of students including all four of his sons.
I did not think teaching would be my life-time job.
“I did not think teaching would be my life-time job,” Prof. Lau chuckles. “When I graduated from secondary school, my grades were not good enough to get me a place into university. I started working as a cost and operation analyst in a bank while studying to become a certified management accountant before I went to study in the US.”

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Joint research revealed the importance of anthropogenic vapors on haze pollution over Hong Kong and Mainland China's megacities
Prof. WANG Zhe, Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)’s Division of Environment and Sustainability, has collaborated with international scientists and revealed the significant roles of anthropogenic low-volatility organic vapors on the secondary organic aerosols (SOA) formation in four megacities in China, providing new insights for effectively mitigating the urban air pollution issues.