Highlights and News

• Physics Student Jack KWOK Receives Joseph Needham PhD Fellowship to Pursue PhD at Cambridge
• Prof. Michael PITTMAN and International Team Uncover Diet of Prehistoric Birds to Reconstruct Past and Present Ecosystems
• Prof. LAM Hon Ming - Perseverance in Bringing Soybean Home and Reaching Out to the World
• Prof. Michael PITTMAN and International Team Deploy Novel Technique to Unlock Mystery of Pterosaurs’ Water Launch
• Prof. Joe LEE and team Reveal Ecological Value of Mangrove Forests to Juvenile Fish through Novel Research Approach
• YIP Yuk Long Ryan - Reconnecting Humans and Nature

2022

• CHAN Tek Long - Serving with Passion and Care
• NEWSFLASH! Science Faculty e-Newsletter Issue No. 73 is published!
• CUHK Science Research Projects Receive RGC Joint Research Funding
• Prof. YAN Renbin and International Astronomy Team Release Largest-ever Collection of 3D Maps of Nearby Galaxies
• Life Sciences Researchers Reveal Storage Mechanism of Seed Proteins - Paving Way to Plant-Based Vaccine Technology
• Prof. JIANG Liwen Awarded HK$10 million in RGC’s Collaborative Research Fund for Establishing 1st Integrated Live Cell Imaging Platforms in Hong Kong

2021

• Prof. LIU Renbao Receives 2022 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics
• LAU King Heng - Riding Out the Storm with Science and Technology
• Scientific Training and Mentoring for STEM Talents Symposium
• Interdisciplinary Study Finds Adoption of Less Meat-intensive Diet can Reduce Premature Deaths related to Air Pollution
• Prof. Francis TAM Predicts Typhoons in Asia Becoming Stronger and Longer-lasting with Doubled Destructive Power by the End of Century
• Prof. LUO Haiwei Discovers Key Force in Evolution of Tiny Marine Bacteria for New Understanding of Work Efficiency in Fixing Carbon Dioxide
• Prof. Martin LI - A Beautiful Legacy of Geometric Research
• Prof. ZOU Jun Honoured as American Mathematical Society Fellow 2022
• Prof. LIU Renbao Elected Optical Fellow 2022
• Prof. XIA Keqing Elected as 2021 Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese version only)
• Paving Way to Emerging Solutions to Global Challenges - Science Launches 4 New Undergraduate Programmes
• The Song of Passion and Aspiration - The Energizing Life of Prof. SONG Chunshan
• Prof. Amos TAI’s Letter to Hong Kong - “Countering Climate Change by Changing Personal Lifestyle & Habits”
• CUHK Science Scholars Named Highly Cited Researchers 2021
• Prof. LIU Lin Received the AGU John Wahr Early Career Award
• Prof. XU Lei Discovers a Novel Method to Adjust the Elasticity of Material for Achieving Smart Elastic Metamaterials
• Plant COPII Vesicle Formation Mechanism Unraveled, Providing New Possibilities for Stress-resistant Crops
• CUHK Science Embarks on Ambitious Future in Innovation & Technology in Greater Bay Area
• Life Scientists Unveil a Novel Competition Strategy that May Fuel Plant Cells for a Sustainable Development of Crops
• [Scholarly Pursuits] Prof. TAN Yen Joe Predicts When Volcanoes Are Going to Blow
• [Obituary] Mourning Prof. LAU Ka Sing, the former Chairperson of Department of Mathematics
• Science Education Paves Way for Emerging Solutions to Societal and Global Challenges
• Prof. HE Xuhua Receives the 2022 AMS Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory
• Prof. Edwin CHAN Advocates Popular Science with his Awe-inspiring Cartoon Storybook
• Celebratory Conference for Prof. YANG Chen Ning at One Hundred
• CUHK Celebrates Prof. YANG Chen Ning’s 100th Birthday
• “Catalysis Today” Published Special Issue honouring Prof. SONG Chunshan
• Prof. Edwin CHAN Brings the Dawn of the Deadly Huntington’s Disease
• CUHK Science Scholars Receive China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2021
• [Scholarly Pursuits] Prof. Wilson LAU Uses New Imaging Hardware to Find How Plants Withstand Heat
• Prof. YANG Hongfeng Detects the Amount of Water Entering the Earth’s Interior through Southern Mariana Trench for the First Time
• Prof. WONG Hoi Ying - Big Data and Statistical Learning for Portfolio Risk Management
• Prof. Joe LEE Reveals Mangroves might be threatened by Low Functional Diversity of Invertebrates
• BASF Kids’ Lab sparks children’s passion for STEM in Hong Kong
• Prof. JIANG Liwen Named 2021/22 RGC Senior Research Fellow
• Life Scientists Discover Great Potential of Nutrient-based Approach in Managing Neurodegenerative Disorders
• Earth System Science Graduate Receives 2021 Croucher Cambridge International Scholarship
• CUHK Faculty of Science Achieves “World-leading” Rating in Research Performances in UGC Research Assessment Exercise 2020
• Nutritionist Stream in B.Sc. in Food and Nutritional Sciences is First UK Association for Nutrition Accredited Programme in Hong Kong
• CUHK Physics Ranks Top 50 in Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021 by ShanghaiRanking
• STEM Internship in Schools (Chinese version only)
• Young Alumni Career-Supporting Network (Chinese version only)
• Science Students Awarded the Esther Yewpick Lee Millennium Scholarship & the Gates Cambridge Scholarship
• Prof. WANG Yi & Engineering Research Team Develop Novel Ultra-dynamic Hydrogel
• Prof. LUO Haiwei Discovers Eukaryotic Fossils Hold the Key to the Evolution Timeline of Bacteria
  
• Prof. Apple CHUI Talks Childhood, the Ocean and Education with Six Items
• Life Scientists Unlock the Mystery of Small Heat Shock Protein Paving the Way for Plant Genetic Engineering
• Prof. Edwin CHAN Unveils a Toxic RNA’s Role in Neuronal DNA Damage Developing New Therapeutic Direction for Huntington’s Disease
• CUHK Science Faculty Hosts Lecture by Nobel Laureate on Faculty Research Day
• Prof. Ronald LUI Develops Algorithms Using Computational Quasi-conformal Geometry (CQC) to Help Medical Imaging Analysis
• Prof. Edwin CHAN Unveils the Balance Between Two Protein Counteracting Forces in the Neurodegeneration of Hereditary Ataxia 
  A New Direction for SCA3 Therapeutic Intervention
• CUHK Science Student Participates in International Physics Research 
  Discovers the “Heaviest Black Hole Collision” might be a Boson Star Merger
• CUHK Life Scientists Uncover Regulatory Mechanisms Behind Blood-CSF Barrier Function, New Direction for Treating Neurological Diseases
• CUHK Science Scholars Named inaugural RGC Senior Research Fellow and RGC Research Fellow
• Prof. SONG Chunshan - Science with and for Society
• Prof. CHAN Kin Wai Receives RGC Early Career Award
• Science Faculty Members Receive University Education Award and 
  Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award
• Ocean Park and CUHK Sign MOU for Integrated Wildlife Conservation and Education Programmes
• Chance and Choice in a Chemistry Career, Steve Tse Brings Chemistry and Computing Together
• CUHK Physicists Discover New Route to Active Matter Self-Organisation
  Self-driven Device Fabrication & Microbial Physiology in a New Direction
• Life Scientists Develop Novel Peptide Inhibitor as a Potential Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease

2020

• Prof. LIU Lin - Uncovering the Cryosphere with Artificial Intelligence
• Three Science Professors Named “Highly Cited Researchers 2020”
• CUHK Chemists Devise a Novel Catalytic System  Enriching Chemistry Toolkit for Advanced Drug Synthesis
• Prof. YU Chai Mei Jimmy - The Knowledge Transfer Pioneer
• Chemistry Graduate Receives Croucher Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research 2020
• Chemistry Postgraduate Students Awarded “Best Poster Presentation Award” & “Best Oral Presentation Award”
• Three Science Students Awarded the Innovation and Technology Scholarship 2020
• Prof. YANG Sen Leads the Physics Research Team to Develop “Universal Ink”
• Prof. XIE Zuowei Receives MoE Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (Second-Class Award in Natural Science)
• 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
• Science Faculty Researchers Awarded China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2020
• [Scholarly Pursuits] 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
• 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
• [Obituary] 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)
• [Roll Call Alum] 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
• [Scholarly Pursuits] 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
• [Roll Call Alum] 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
• [Scholarly Pursuits] Prof. LUO Haiwei - Research on tiny marine bacteria - Prochlorococcus
• [Obituary] 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 OutgrowthPaving 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
• [Roll Call Alum] 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)
  
• [Obituary] 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 HistoryCUHK Scientists Use Tiny Marine Bacteria to Trace Earth’s History
• CUHK STEM Course (3-7 July 2017)
• 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
• [Roll Call Alum] 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!