Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1993

his career, he moved to Ireland to help establish the National College of Physical Education, where he served as senior lecturer and head of physical education for over seven years training professional PE teachers. He then accepted an appointment as principal lecturer and head of science of human movement in Nonington College, England. There he managed to get approved and validated the first degree course in occupational therapy in the UK. In 1984, through the British Council, he was invited b y the Singapore government to set up and develop a college of physical education in Singapore, which is now the School of Physical Education in the new Nanyang Technological University. Dr. Robinson joined The Chinese University in July 1992 as senior lecturer and chairman of the Department of Sports Science and Physical Education. As an exercise physiologist, his research interests are related to the effectiveness of school PE programmes, environmental physiology and health. Dr. Robinson is married and have three children. He is also actively involved in a variety of sports such as soccer and mountaineering. Dr. James A. Weisel Lecturer in Accountancy Dr. Weisel obtained his BS degree f r om the University o f Wisconsin at L a Crosse in 1982 and his M B A degree from Marquette University in 1983. He then worke d for three years in Marquette University, teaching principle s of accounting, and subsequently acquiring qualification as a Certified Public Accountant. In 1986 Dr. Weisel got married and moved to the University of Kentucky to take up doctoral studies. He was awarded the degree of DBA in 1991. Before joining The Chinese University in August 1992, he taught for four years at the University of Akron, Ohio. Dr. Weisel is primarily interested in teaching managerial and international accounting and quantitative methods. Part of the reason for his coming to Hong Kong is the desire to conduct research into international accounting issues . He is currently working on a project to study the effect s of the 1992 US presidential election campaign on Southeast Asian equity markets. In his leisure time, Dr. Weisel enjoys hiking, windsurfing, scuba diving, and travelling. Both Dr. and Mrs. Weisel are happy to be in Hong Kong at The Chinese University, for they consider it an excellent cultural experience. Dr. L i Ping Lecturer in Psychology Born in 1962 in Hunan, China, Dr. L i Ping graduated B A in Chinese linguistics from Peking University in 1983 ， and M A (general linguistics) in 1986. He furthered his studies in language learning and psy- c ho l i ngu i s t i cs in the Netherlands on a scholarship offered by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from Leiden University in 1990. He was then awarded a fellowship by the Human Frontier Science Program Organization to conduct research on language processing and computer simulation at the Center for Research in Language, Universit y of PROFILES 19