Vice-Chancellor's Report 1978-82

some researches are amenable to the lone efforts of the individual scholar and some require the assistance and participation of a large number of research staff, well-equipped laboratories and even computer support. The University is gratified to record that researches of all kinds—some individual, some inter-disciplinary, some even cross-institutional 一 have been pursued by members of staff and most of these have led to substantial publications or papers delivered at international conferences. The list of research topics undertaken by the University's staff was building up in both length and content and it is only possible to single out for mention here those research projects which have attracted the most number of participants and which are supported by the most substantial allocation of funds: they include research into traditional Chinese medicine with the aid of chemical analysis and computerized information, the production of food protein and edible mushrooms from wastes, and the Hong Kong oral history project which involved participation f rom several social science and humanities disciplines. On the whole, there were more cooperative research projects than previously. One in particular was not only inter-disciplinary but cross-institutional, namely, the cooperative research on “Physical Activities and Quality of Life i n Densely Populated Urban Areas”. The research team included staff members of the University's School of Education, Physical Education Un i t , Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Social Science and the University Health Service. In addition, this research project also involved the Hong Kong Polytechnic, the Hong Kong Education Department, the Hong Kong Recreation and Sports Service and the Jubilee Sports Centre. C. Th e Researc h Institute s (i) Institute of Chinese Studies The Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) continued to enjoy the generous support of a number of local endowment funds and benefactors of the University, especially Bei Shan Tang, who not only provided part of the financial resources for research and publication but also made available a number of art objects for the University's Art Gallery. Their continuing interest i n supporting research activities in the University was much appreciated at a time when the Harvard-Yenching Institute, a traditional source of funds for the ICS's research efforts, was divesting itself 24