Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2000

O t h e r R e s e a r c h G r a n t s A d d u p t o H K $ 1 3 0 m i l l i o n Research grants totalling some HK$130 million fromvarious other local and overseas sponsors for CUHK projects were recorded during the period May to October 2000: Sponsors Amount Involved Number of Projects Supported The Croucher Foundation HK$200,000 2 Health Services Research Fund HK$2,542,829 6 Innovation and Technology Fund HK$28,285,000 9 Rockefeller Foundation US$9,999 1 Health Care and Promotion Fund HK$122,900 Beat Drugs Fund HK$608,900 1 Hong Kong Sports Development Board Research Programme 2000-1 HK$414,425 Innovation and Technology Fund and Shipley Asia Limited HK$1,503,000 1 Innovation and Technology Fund and Eu Yan Sang (Hong Kong) Ltd. HK$9,280,000 1 Holy Carpenter Primary School (Funding from the Quality Education Fund) HK$201,000 1 Christian Family Services Centre (Funding from the Quality Education Fund) HK$55,000 1 S.K. Yee Medical Foundation HK$306,980 1 Hong Kong Education Department HK$1,225,000 S.K. Yee Fund HK$218,000 1 Quality Education Fund HK$85,746,260 18 Fellowship Awards Two fellowship awards wer e recorded during the same period: Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award 2000-1 Awardee: Prof. Raymond Yeung Wai-ho (Department of Information Engineering ) 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowhips in France Programme Awardees: Mr. Jun Li (Department of Biology) and Mr. Zhang Xue-bing (Department of Physics) Research Highlights To generate more interest in the University's research activities, the Chinese University Bulletin continues to bring to readers highlights of research projects supported by the Research Grants Council and other sponsors. Two such articles, on education development in South China and science fiction respectively, can be found on pages 36-45. Research News 35