Bulletin Spring 1989

Mr. Lau Ho-fuk, senior lecturer in marketing and international business, on Wholesale/ Retail and Import/Export Trades Training Board. Dr. Charles F. Steilen, senior lecturer in marketing and international business, on Committee on Management and Supervisory Training. Dr. Kelvin K.C. Chan, reader in pharmacology, on Committee on Technical Education. Dr. Chan Chack-kuen, lecturer in electronics, on Electronics Industry Training Board. Dr. Chung Po-sheun, reader in electronics, and Dr. Edwin Y.B. Pun, lecturer i n electronics, on Committee on Training of Technologists. Dr. Chan Sin-wai, lecturer in translation , on the Committee on Translation. * Dr. Leung Yee, senior lecturer in geography, on the School Examinations Board of the Hong Kong Examinations Authority from 3rd January to 31st August, 1989. * Dr. P.S. Chung, reader in electronics, on the Electronics Committee of the Industry Department for a term of one year from 1st January, 1989. * Miss Linda Hu, senior assistant registrar (Academic and Examination Section), on the Advisory Committee on Qualifications o f the Government's Civil Service Training Division. * Professor Choy Chung-loong, professor of physics, to participate in the United Kingdom Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) validation exercise for the proposed BSc(Hons) in Applied Physics programme of the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong from 13th to 15th March. * Mr. Lau Ho-fuk, senior lecturer in marketing and international business, to participate in the CNAA representative validation exercise for the proposed BA in Clothing Studies programme of the Hong Kong Polytechnic from 19th to 23rd March. Professorial Inaugural Lecture Professor R. Swaminathan, professor of chemical pathology, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled 'Chemical Pathology — a Balancing Act’ on 3rd March. New UPGC Members The following persons have been appointed members of the University and Polytechni c Grants Committee (UPGC) for a period of three years from 1st April, 1989: Professor E.R. Oxburgh, head of Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University Professor Sir Colin Dollery ， professor of medicine, Royal Postgraduate Medica l School, University of London. Reopening of the Universities Service Centre The University has reached agreement with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to take over management of the Universities Service Centre (USC), which was removed from its Argyle Street premises last June, The Centre, now temporarily relocated to the Central Library Building on CUHK campus, resumed partial service to qualified scholars from 16th January, 1989. Established since 1963 ， USC has provided office accommodation and professional assistance to several generations of international scholar s who came to Hong Kong for a great variety of research work on contemporary China. As a result, the centre has built up an extensive library holding of books and other original materials published in China, including over 400 newspapers and 1,000 journals and magazines. For a number of years, The Chinese University has been in touch with ACLS, exploring the possibility of providing a permanent institutional base for th e centre here in Hong Kong, and the two parties successfully concluded their negotiations in 1988. By agreement, the University will fund and manage the centre for the next three years, during whic h the centre will be fully maintained for use by all qualified international scholars. At the end of the three-year period, it is expected that a final decision will be made to locate the centre permanently at the University. The University is presently submitting to the UPGC a plan for expanding the centre into a full-fledged library of Modem Chines e Studies, which would, if approved, become a major repository of original source materials as well as a complete research library for studies of modem China. It will also continue to provide a full range of services to both international and local scholars. The centre is now under the directorship of Dr. H.C. Kuan, reader in government and public administration. Ms. Jean K.M. Hung, who has long been associated with USC, now serves as the assistant to the director. The policy and overall direction of the centre rests with an advisory committee consisting of academics from both local universities as well as ACLS representatives. 14