Annual Report 2006–07

服務香港 放眼世界 Service to Hong Kong and the World 61 Association for his contributions to statistical research, education, and application. Prof. Chan was the only local academic to receive the honour this year and also one of two recipients from the Asia-Pacific. Four professors of the Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Robert Li Shuoyen, Prof. Wang Jun, Prof. Wang Yu Michael, and Prof. Zhang Yuanting, were named the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow 2006. Prof. Zhang was also the recipient of the 2006 IEEE-EMBS Service Award for his exceptional and meritorious service to the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Promotion of Art and Culture Each year the University and its constituent Colleges organize a variety of distinguished professorship and fellowship schemes, which bring world-renowned scholars to campus. These public lectures and seminars invigorate the intellectual community of Hong Kong and generate fruitful academic exchanges. In 2006–07, the University hosted public lectures by four Nobel Laureates including Prof. Edmund S. Phelps and Prof. Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences; Prof. F. Sherwood Rowland, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; and Prof. Louis J. Ignarro, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine. Other prominent speakers visiting CUHK during 2006–07 included: Mr. Shigekazu Sato, Consul-General of Japan in Hong Kong Mr. Jean-Pierre Thébault, Consul-General of France in Hong Kong Mr. Whan-Bok Cho, Consul-General of the Republic of Korea Ambassador Alaudeen Alaskary, Consul-General of Saudi Arabia in Hong Kong • • • • 教授更獲頒二零零六年IEEE-EMBS傑出服務獎， 以表揚他對醫學及生物學工程協會的貢獻。 ઐᄤነ୺ʼʝ 大學及成員書院經常舉辦傑出學人訪問計劃，邀 請國際知名學者蒞校主持講座及研討會，促進學 術交流，並為本地學術界帶來新思維。 二零零六至零七年度，中大共邀得四位諾貝爾獎 得獎學人主持講座，包括諾貝爾經濟學獎得主埃 德蒙 ‧ 費爾普斯教授和道格拉斯 ‧ 諾斯教授，諾貝 爾化學獎得主希活 ‧ 羅蘭德教授，以及諾貝爾生 理/醫學獎得主路易斯 ‧ 歇拿奴教授。 其他到訪中大的傑出講者包括： 日本駐香港總領事佐藤重和先生 法國駐香港總領事戴博先生 大韓民國駐香港及澳門總領事趙煥復先生 沙地阿拉伯駐港總領事施嘉年大使 二零零六年邵逸夫天文學獎得主索爾 ‧ 普密特 教授、亞當 ‧ 利斯教授及布萊 ‧ 施米茲教授 史丹福大學商業研究院操作、資訊和科技講座 教授李效良教授 哈佛大學享利福特二世社會科學榮休講座教授 傅高義教授 中華人民共和國外交部駐香港特別行政區特派 員呂新華先生 全國人民代表大會常務委員會副委員長蔣正華 教授 ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ 大韓民國駐香港及澳門總領事趙煥復先生(左) Mr. Whan-Bok Cho (left), Consul-General of the Republic of Korea 二零零六年邵逸夫天文學獎得主索爾 ‧ 普密特教授 Prof. Saul Perlmutter, winner of the Shaw Prize in Astronomy 2006 香港特別行政區行政長官曾蔭權先生 The Honourable Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region