Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1998

• D i p l oma P r og r amme i n Police Studie s (Distance Education) b y the School of Continuing Studies • D o c t o r a n d Ma s t e r of P h i l o s o p hy Programmes i n Comparative Studies i n Linguistics, Literature and Culture • Do c t o r of P h i l o s o p h y P r o g r amm e i n Pharmacy • Ma s t e r of A r t s P r o g r a mme i n An t h r o p o l o gy (full-time an d part-time, self-financed) • Master of Science Programme i n Business Economics (part-time, self-financed) • Ma s t e r of Science P r o g r a mme i n Information and Technology Management (part-time, self-financed) • Ma s t e r of Scienc e P r o g r a mme i n International Business (part-time, self- financed) M e d i c a l News Medical Staff Appointed Sims Black Professor by Royal College Prof. A l l a n Ch a ng Ma n g - z i n g , sub-dean (clinical) of the Facult y of Me d i c i n e a nd chairman of the Department o f Obstetrics and Gynaecology, was appointed Sims Black Professor for 1997 by the Royal College of Obstetricians a n d Gynaecologists. Prof. Chang is the first Chinese academic to have received this prestigious appointment. Each year , the college a p p o i n ts an outstanding obstetrician or gynaecologist f r om England or the British Commo nwe a l th as Sims Black Professor. Th e person thus honoured is invited to give lectures i n British C o mm o n w e a l th c o u n t r i e s if h e / s h e is practising i n England, and vice versa. New Centre for Nutritional Studies To promote n u t r i t i o n research locall y a nd enhance awareness of the i mp o r t a n ce of nutrition among health care worker s and the p u b l i c , experts f r om d i f f e r e n t academic d e p a r t me n ts i n t he U n i v e r s i ty p o o l e d resources and setup Ho n g Kong's first centre for n u t r i t i o n al studies on campus on 5th September 1997. The centre also organized its first annual scientific s ympo s i um at the Prince of Wales Ho s p i t al on 6th September for some 120 doctors, nurses, and dieticians f r o m local hospitals, as we ll as students majoring in food and nutritional studies and i n biochemistry. T h emes of d i s c u s s i o n r a n g ed f r o m a n t i o x i d a n t s , obesity, bone h e a l t h, a n d o s t e o p o r o t ic f r a c t u re to l o c al g r o w t h nutritional studies and nutritional suppor t f o r e l d e r l y Ch i n e s e v e g e t a r i a ns a nd hospitalized patients. Collaboration in Family Medicine with UBC A m e m o r a n d um o f u n d e r s t a n d i n g was signed between the University's Department of Commu n i t y and Family Medicine and the D e p a r t m e nt o f F a m i l y Practic e at t he University of British Columbia, Canada, o n 2 5 t h Se p t emb e r 1997 to f a c i l i t a t e c o l l a b o r a t i o n i n education, t r a i n i n g a nd research. The t wo departments w i l l exchange staff and students on teaching and research programmes, organiz e joint trainin g courses, and cooperate i n research projects. Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 1998 46