Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1998

• G i f t e d Education Training Seminars, 5th to 7th Ma r ch 1998, Faculty of Education a n d t h e H o n g K o n g I n s t i t u t e of Educational Research; • Seminars on T r an s l a t i on Studies a nd Interpreting, 13th and 27th Ma r c h 1998, De p a r t me n t of T r an s l a t i on a n d Shaw College; • T e l e m e d i c a l C o n f e r e n c e o n A v i a n Influenza H5N1, 31st March 1988, Faculty of Medicine. L e c t u r es Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. H a r v e y V. Fineberg , p r o v o st o f Harvard University, gave a lecture entitled 'Public Health: The Unfinished Agenda' on 20th October 1997. • Prof. Thomas Curran, f o u n d i n g chairman of the D e p a r t me nt of D e v e l o pme n t al N e u r o b i o l o gy of St. Jude' s C h i l d r en Research Hospital in the US, gave a lecture entitled Transcription Factors, Oncogenes and the Brain: the Good, the Bad an d the Ug l y' on 19th December 1997. • Prof. Steven Ch u , 1997 No b el Laureat e i n Physics, a n d Theodor e and Frances G e b a l le P r o f e s s or of P h y s i c s a n d A p p l i e d Physics at Stanford University, gave a lecture on 'Laser C o o l i ng a nd T r a p p i ng of A t o ms a nd Particles' o n 25th Ma r c h 1998. Professorial Inaugural Lectures • Prof. A n n Ma c k e n z i e, p r o f e s s or of nursing, delivere d her inaugural lecture e n t i t l ed ' Re c o v e r y f r o m S t r o k e: the Evidence for Nu r s i n g' on 31st October 1997. • Prof. Lee Sik-yum, professor of statistics, delivered his inaugural lectur e entitled T h e Development of Structural Equation Models' on 7th November 1997. • Prof. Ma y c h i ng Kao, professor of fine arts and director of the A r t Museum, delivere d her i n a u g u r a l l e c t u r e e n t i t l ed ' A r t Edu c a t i on i n China: f r om T r ad i t i on to Mo d e r n i t y ' on 5th December 1997. • Prof. H e n r y N . C. Wo n g , professor of c h em i s t r y, d e l i v e r e d his p r o f e s s o r i a l inaugural lecture entitled ' A Tale of Three Cities: Planar Dehydro[8]annulenes and Their Reverberations' on 23rd January 1998. • P r o f. Peter T.S. Y u m , p r o f e s s o r of i n f o r ma t i o n engineering, delivered his professorial i n a u g u r a l lecture entitled ' M u l t i p o i nt Teleconferencing' on 20th February 1998. • Prof. Chan Hok-lam, professor of history, delivered his inaugural lecture entitled ' F r o m F e u d al to F e u d a l - i sm : A H e r m e n e u t i c Exercise i n Ch i n e s e Historiography' on 27th February 1998. • Prof. Wo ng W i n g - s h i n g, professor of i n f o r ma t i o n engineering, delivered his professorial i n a u g u r a l lecture entitled 'Wireless C o mm u n i c a t i o n i n the 21st Century' on 13th March 1998. • Prof. L i u Pak-wai, professor of economics, d e l i v e r e d his p r o f e s s o r i al i n a u g u r a l lecture entitled 'Incentive, Performanc e and Pay' on 26th Ma r c h 1998. Other Lectures • Mr. K w a n Ting-fai, deputy director of the Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 1998 44