Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1991

* Prof. George Fan, professor of information engineering, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled ‘Information, Communication and Computers' on 19th April 1991. The Li and Fung Lecture on Commerce and Industry Prof. Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford I I Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, was invited by the University's MBA Programmes as the guest speaker of the Fifth Li and Fung Lecture on Commerce and Industry, which took place on 4t h April in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. A specialist on modern China and Japan, Prof. Vogel spoke on 'Reintegration of the Hong Kong and the Guangdong Economy'. The L i and Fung Lecture Programme was established in 1981 under the auspices of the MBA Programmes and has been financed by an endowment fund set up by the Li and Fung Group of Companies in commemoration of its 75th anniversary. Professorial Appointments The University has appointed the following new professors: Professor of English Prof. Andrew Terence Leonard Parkin has been appointed as professor of English from 2nd January 1991. Prof. Parkin graduated from Cambridge University and pursued further studies in drama at Bristol University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1969. Prof. Parkin acquired extensive teaching experience in adult education centres and universities in the UK and in Hong Kong during the sixties. He joined the Department of English of the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1970 and was promoted to professorship in 1988. Professor of Electronic Engineering Prof. Ian Howard Wilson has been appointed as professor of electronic engineering from 2nd January 1991. Prof. Wilson received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Reading, UK in 1962 and 1966 respectively. He then served as research fellow in the Department of Physics of Sussex University, and as head of research and development and chief metallurgist of Engelhard Industries Ltd. He joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of the University of Surrey in 1971 and was promoted to reader in 1986. In 1987-88, he was distinguished visitin g professor of the Physics Department of Arizona State University, USA. Professor of Operations and Systems Management Prof. Eden Siu-hung Yu has been appointed as professor of operations and systems management from 2nd January 1991. Prof. Yu graduated with a B.S.Sc. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1968. He received his MS degree from Southern Illinois University in 1970, and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in 1974 and 1976 respectively. He was an associate economist in the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City from 1974 to 1976. He started his teaching career in the University of Oklahoma in 1976 as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. He joined Louisiana State University in 1984 and was promoted to professor of economics in 1985, and Gulf Coast Bottling Distinguished Professor of Business Administration in 1988. Professor of Community and Family Medicine Prof. Owen Llewelyn Lloyd has been appointed as professor of community and family medicine from 9th January 1991. Prof. L l oyd has wide academic interests. From 1959 to 1978 he obtained from the University of Edinburgh various qualifications in different fields: MA, Dip.Ed., M.B. Ch.B .， B.Sc., Ph.D., Dip.Com.Med., and MD. NEWS 15