Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1980

Mr. J. L. Sherry, General Manager of IBM World Trade Corporation, and Dr. Ma Lin, Vice-Chancellor, signing a contract for the 3-year Partnership Programme for the Chinese Medicine Information Retrieval Project at Cho-Yiu Hall, C. U.H.K. Central Services and Administrative Matters Representatives Graduate School, Research Institute and School of Education Representatives Faculty of Medicine (Deans of Faculties of Medicine and Science, University Secretary, University Secretary-Designate, Bursar, Director of Buildings Office and Planning Officer of Faculty of Medicine) Vice-Chancellor MAAC 5th Meeting The University's Medical Academic Advisory Committee held its 5th Meeting on campus from 10th to 14th March, 1980. The Committee, appointed by the University Council in 1976 to advise the University on the overall planning of the new Medical School, is chaired by Professor Sir William Trethowan, Head of Department of Psychiatry, University of Birmingham, and consists of renowned medical educationalists of the United Kingdom, U.S.A. and Hong Kong. 3-year Partnership Programme with IBM The University and IBM World Trade Corporation, Hong Kong are launching a three-year partnership programme to expedite the Chinese Medicines Information Retrieval Project, which aims to provide the key to a treasury of information on Chinese medicines on a worldwide basis for medical and scientific investigations. The programme enables the translation of information on Chinese medicinal materials already collected by the University into standard English scientific 'keywords'. Under an overall corporate-and-scientific programme, IBM provides the University with free expertise, computer equipment and programmes. The equipment and programmes will supplement the computer central processing unit, an IBM model 3031 computer which was installed in July 1979. Honours for University Members * Dr. Choh-Ming Li, former Vice-Chancellor, was honoured by the Shoong Foundation, a major Chinese foundation in the U. S., for his outstanding achievements in education. His brother, Professor Choh-Hao Li, Professor of Biochemistry and Medical Science, and Director of Hormone Research Laboratory, University of California at San Francisco, was honoured for his achievements in Science by the Foundation on the same occasion. Professor Li is a member of the Advisory Board on Natural Science of this University. * The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ma Lin, has been elected an Honorary Member of the Hong Kong Chemical Society. 3