Highlights and News

• Dr. Brad HEATER’s Trials and Triumphs with Biochemical Research
• Prof. LIU Lin Nominated for the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year
• Prof. CHOW Hei Man Kim - Big Data X Traditional Molecular Biology: Decoding Biological Signalling Network
  
• Prof. YANG Hong Feng Probes Deep into Earthquakes in Sichuan 
  Investigating Shallow Earthquakes Induced by Shale Gas Production
• Prof. HE Xuhua Awarded the XPLORER PRIZE Recognising his Spirit of Scientific Exploration and Potential for Innovation

• Prof. XIE Zuowei Receives MoE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Second-Class Award in Natural Science)
• Science Faculty Researchers Awarded China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2020
• Prof. Amos TAI Bridges Physical Sciences with Life Sciences to Tackle Environmental Problems
• Prof. Tjonnie LI and Prof. Juan CALDERON BUSTILLO Participate in LIGO Research and Signal Most Massive Gravitational-Wave Source Yet
• Prof. TAN Yen Joe Discovers Slow Earthquakes Behave Similarly to Regular Earthquakes
• CUHK Physicists Reveal Gravitational-Wave Signature of a First-Order Quantum Chromodynamics Phase
• NEWSFLASH! Science Faculty e-Newsletter Issue No. 69 is published!
• Prof. CHU Ming Chung: From Theoretical Physics to Fundamental Physics 
• Life Sciences Graduate Receives Otto Hahn Award
• Dr. TONG Shiu Sing’s Road to Advocating STEM Education
• Prof. SONG Chunshan Appointed Dean of Science
• Prof. Michael CHAN Develops a Novel Technology for Generating Biocatalysts for Biodiesel Production
• Prof. KWONG Fuk Yee Elected into Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK)
• Prof. Jerome HUI Decodes Jellyfish Genomes to Help Unveil its Reproduction Mechanism
• Shiu-Ying Hu Herbarium Announces Botanical Art Competition 2020 Results
• CUHK and Japanese Scientists Unravel Full Genome of American Shorthair Domestic Cats
• CUHK Experts Analyse the Impact of COVID-19 on Climate Change
• [Bulletin] Prof. YEUNG Ying Yeung Receives Young Researcher Award and Talks about Organocatalysis
• [News] Mourning Prof. LAM Yeh, the past Chairman of Department of Statistics
• [Scholarly Pursuits] Prof. WANG Jianfang Explores the Many Uses of Metallic Nanocrystals
• Prof. Amos TAI Establishes First Free-Air Ozone Garden in South China
• Prof. KWAN Kin Ming Discovers Novel Mechanism of Neural Progenitor Competence Regulation  Enlightening Stem Cell Therapy and Regenerative Medicine
• Dr. TONG Shiu Sing Spoke on the Topic “What Do Gravitational Waves Tell Us?” in “Class Acts” Online Talk
• Student scientists investigate a more sustainable lifestyle through experimental design
• CUHK Scientists Redefine Coding and Non-Coding RNAs
• Prof. Joe LEE Reveals Carbon Stores in Tidal Wetlands are 23% Larger than Previously Estimated
• CUHK Team Designs a Rapid Test for a Banana Disease and Wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition 2019
• 丘成桐教授獲選2019全球華僑華人年度人物 (Chinese version only)
• [Alumni Sharing] Physics Alumnus Shares Workplace Tips

2019

• CUHK Survey Finds Rare Disease Patient Registry is not Well-received
• Prof. WANG Jianfang received the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship 2020
• Prof. GOH Swee Kuan and Prof. YANG Sen Develop Novel Quantum Sensing Techniques
• Prof. XIE Zuowei has been elected a member of The Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
• Prof. Jimmy YU named “Highly Cited Researchers” for two consecutive years
• Prof. WONG Po Keung Finds Magnetic Solution to Purify Contaminated Water
• Chemistry Graduate Wins the University of Oxford Croucher Scholarship
• Three Science Professors Elected into Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK)
• 7th Shiu-Ying Hu Day Seminar Series (Chinese version only)
• CUHK 55th Anniversary “The Pursuit of Wisdom” Public Lecture Series - Prof. CHU Ming Chung Gives the Fourth Lecture
• Prof. XU Lei Finds New Pattern-forming Paradigm
• Prof. Henry WONG Receives the 35-year Long Service Award
• [Alumni Sharing] Business Potential of Regenerative Medicine in Hong Kong
• CUHK Research Hints at Feasibility of Sustainable Farming Practices as a Means to Resolve the Worsening Food Crisis and Air Pollution Problem
• CUHK Wins Bronze Medal in the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals
• CUHK Probes the Existence of Ultralight Bosons with a Single Gravitational Wave Measurement
• Two Physics Alumni Won Smart Business Grand Award in the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2019
• Scientists Discover How Plant Hormone and Vesicular Transport Regulatory Protein Work Together to Help Plants Cope with Stress
• Prof. WANG Jianfang and Dr YIP Hang Kuen have been awarded Bronze Medal in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
• Prof. ZOU Jun honoured as 2019 Class of Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow
• [Socially Enterprising] Mushroom Impossible - Prof. KWAN Hoi Shan and his team’s Fungi Enterprise
• Prof. LAM Hon Ming announces World’s First Reference-grade Wild Soybean Genome
• CUHK 55th Anniversary “The Pursuit of Wisdom” Public Lecture Series - Prof. LAM Hon Ming Gives the Third Lecture
• A Year 2 Physics Student awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship
• [Scholarly Pursuits] Prof. WU Yilin uncovers the Secret Pattern of Cell Movement
• CUHK-led Research Team Participates in “God Particle” Experiment
  Recognised by UGC as Area of Excellence
• CUHK Discovers New Inhibitors to Restrain Neurodegeneration 
  Shedding Light on Treating PolyQ Diseases
• [Scholarly Pursuits] The Big Bang of Plant Vacuoles
• CUHK Students Win Top Prizes in International Mathematics Competition
• Prof. JIANG Liwen gives New Insights into Improving Crop and Producing Pharmaceutical Proteins 

2018

• CUHK Team develops a Rapid On-Site Method for Detecting Influenza Virus and wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition
• Science Faculties receive Croucher Innovation Award and Croucher Senior Research Fellowship
• [Viva Voce] Prof. YEUNG Ying Yeung on Chemistry’s Past and Present
• Prof. WANG Jianfang and Prof. Jimmy YU named “Highly Cited Researchers 2018”
• Prof. QIU Yong, Faculty Honorary Professor, being conferred the Honorary Degree by CUHK
• Science students and their teams won Gold Medals in the National Competition (Chinese version only)
• Student scientists find inspiration from daily life to co-create fun chemistry experiments
• [Video] Challenge Cup 2018 Awardee Interview: Mushroom for the neXt
• Prof. WANG Jianfang Develops Nano Chips for Detection of Harmful Substances in Food
• Prof. CHU Ming Chung elected Fellow of American Physical Society
• CUHK fruitENCODE Project Finds Ways to Grow Healthier Fruits
• CMBI Programme - Harvesting the Fruits of a Decade
• CUHK Hosts Lecture by Dr. Jean-Loup Puget, Shaw Laureate in Astronomy 2018
• [Viva Voce] Prof. LAM Hon Ming - Long Romance with Legumes
• CUHK Researchers Provide New Insight into Improving Crop Quality
• Fostering Future STEM Talents
  
• CUHK’s Partner State Key Laboratories renamed as State Key Laboratories and presented with plaques 
• Prof. Henry WONG - In Defence of Late Harvest
• Prof. Edwin CHAN Finds New Treatment Paths for Neural Diseases
• Faculty of Science admitted students with a score of 35 for 2018 entry
• BASF Kids’ Lab set to ignite children’s interest in science at CUHK
• Prof. YAU Shing Tung Receives the Prestigious Marcel Grossmann Award
• Prof. LUO Haiwei - Research on tiny marine bacteria - Prochlorococcus
• [News] Mourning Prof. LEE Sik Yum, the past Chairman of Department of Statistics
  
• A Postgraduate Student in Mathematics Received Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowships 2017-18 
• CUHK Reveals a Novel Mechanism to Stimulate Neurite Outgrowth
  Paving a New Road for Brain Regenerative Medicine
• Prof. YANG Hongfeng Takes the Pulse of Earthquakes in Indian Ocean
• CUHK Receives Three MoE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards
• CUHK Nanotechnologist Wins Khwarizmi International Award
• [Viva Voce] Dr. TONG Shiu Sing — Pitching Physics to the Public
• [Viva Voce] Students’ Steely Support: Edwin Chan on Students and Growth
• [Alumni Sharing] Dreams Unbound - Jimmy Chan reignites the Hong Kong spirit

2017 or Before

• Agrobiotechnologists Further Research Collaborations
• CUHK Team Develops a Rapid On-Site Method for Subtyping Influenza A virus and Wins Gold Award in iGEM competition
• CUHK Uncovers How Helicobacter Pylori uses a Toxic Substance to Keep Alive in Human Stomach
• CUHK Chemistry Prof. XIE Zuowei Elected CAS Member
• Prof. Tjonnie LI received 2017-2018 Early Career Award from RGC (HK)
• [News] Mourning Prof. MA Lin, the past Vice-Chancellor of CUHK
• LIGO and Virgo Make First Detection of Gravitational Waves Produced by Colliding Neutron Stars  
• [RTHK Video] Our Scientists – Prof. LAM Hon Ming - Research in Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (Chinese version only) 
• The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for the Discovery of Gravitational Waves   
  Prof. Tjonnie LI from Department of Physics, CUHK Involved in the Winning Project
• 95th Birthday of Prof. YANG Chen Ning (Chinese version only)
• Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger Observed by LIGO and Virgo
• CUHK Scientists Use Tiny Marine Bacteria to Trace Earth’s History
• CUHK STEM Course (3-7 July 2017) (Chinese version only)
• CUHK Physicist and Statistician Work Together to Reveal Link Between Magnetic Fields and Birth Rate of Stars
• LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves for Third Time Unveils Hints on Formation of Black Holes
• CUHK Unveils Novel Mechanism of Neuron Development Setting New Therapeutic Direction for Cerebellar Ataxia
• Professors from Department of Physics and School of Life Sciences awarded the 2016 Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards in natural sciences
• Prof. Kenneth YOUNG awarded CUHK Honorary Fellowship
• CUHK appoints University Officers
• CUHK Unveils Pathogenic Mechanism for a Group of Rare Diseases
• CUHK-led Research Projects on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security   Recognized by UGC as Area of Excellence 
  Succession and Development of 20-year Legend of Research Excellence
• "Father of Hong Kong Mathematical Olympiad" Receives International Mathematical Award and Shares Insights into Mathematical Education
• Major Progress Made in Plant Autophagy Research by CUHK Researchers Published in PNAS
• CUHK Biophysicists Discover Hidden Order in Bacterial Collective Motion Provides new direction of study on biomedicine and active matters
• [Viva Voce] Ng Chung-yuen Bruce: 2016 graduate of Risk Management Science Programme / Recipient of United College Xin Min Scholarship 2015–2016
• Lyricist with a Big Heart - Kit Wong lives his dreams by helping others live theirs
• Prof. Thomas Au motivates his students to explore science from difference perspectives
• CUHK School of Life Sciences Signs Agreement with UC Berkeley on Biosciences Study Abroad Programme
• CUHK Mathematics Young Scholars Win Internationally Renowned Mathematics Awards
• CUHK Researcher Uncovers Mechanism Explaining Why Fathers’ Mitochondrial DNA is Not Inherited to Offspring
• Year 4-Molecular Biotechnology Student named 2016 Rhodes Scholar of Hong Kong
• Science Faculty 50th Anniversary Commemorative Publication is now available!