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• N a t i o n a l S y m p o s i u m o n F o e t a l Mo n i t o r i n g , 19th to 21st M a y 1999, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Chinese Association of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; • Workshop on School Leadership i n Hon g Kong: A Profile for a New Century, 19th to 24th May 1999, Hong Kon g Centre for t he D e v e l o p m e nt of E d u c a t i o n al Leadership; • Summer Cours e for Ma i n l a n d Microbiologists, 31st Ma y to 14th June 1999, Department of Microbiology; • Conference on Psychology in Hong Kong: Entering the 21st Century, 5th June 1999, Ho ng Kong Psychological Society and Department of Psychology; • International Conference on Tradition and Change: Identity, Gender, and Culture i n Sou th Ch i na, 3 r d to 5 th June 1999, Department of An t h r opo l ogy and New Asia College; • First Pan-Pacific Nursing Conference, 9th to 11th June 1999, Department of Nursing; • A n n u a l Me e t i n g of the As i a - Pac i f ic Decision Sciences Institute, 9th to 12th June 1999, Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics; • Second Asian Pacific Phycological Forum, 21st to 25th June 1999, Department of Biology and New Asia College; • Interdisciplinary Conference on 'In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation- States and Cultural Indentities' , 25th and 26th June 1999, School of Journalism and Communication and New Asia College; • First Regional Conference on College English Teaching, 15th t o 17th June 1999, English Language Teaching Un it and the College English Teaching and Research Association of Guangdong; • The 1999 IEEE Hong Kong Symposiu m on Robotics and Control, 2nd and 3r d July 1999, Depa r tmen t of Mechanical and Automation Engineering; • International Conference on Global Supply Chain Management: Into the 21st Century, 13th and 14th August 1999, The Chinese University and the Hon g Kong University of Science and Technology; • Eighth Internationa l Symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA), 14th to 19th Augus t 1999, The SCBA and the University's Department of Biochemistry; • F i r s t H o n g K o n g D i a b e t es a n d Cardiovascular Risk Factors: East Meets West Symp o s i um , 21st A u g u st 1999, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics; • Seminar o n H o n g K o n g C h i l d h o o d Obesity, 28th September 1999, Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, Department of Paediatrics, and Health Promotion an d Education Department of the Adventist Hospital. Lectures Wei Lun Lecture Prof. Vaclav Smil, FRSC, d i s t i ngu i shed professor i n the Department of Geography of the Universit y of Manitoba i n Canada, delivered a lecture entitled ' Long Term Perspectives on China's Energy 1950-2050' on 7th October 1999. C h i n e s U n i v e r s i t yB u l l e t i n A u t u m n . W i n t e r 1999 54