Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2000

• S ymp o s i um on d i a b e t es a nd c a r d i o v a s c u l a r risk f a c t o r s , 30th September an d 1st October 2000, by the Hong Kong Foundation for Research and Development in Diabetes of the Diabetes Care and Research Group, Faculty of Medicine. Lectures Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. Tu Weiming, professor of Chinese history and philosoph y and director of the Ha r va r d -Yench i n g Institute at Harvard University, delivered a lecture entitled 'Implications of the Dialogue Amo ng Civilization s for Cu l t u r a l China' on 4th October 2000. Prof. Tu miming (left) with Prof. S. T Kwok, dean of arts • Prof. Barbara Starfield, University Distinguished Service Professor and director of the Primary Care Policy Centre of Johns Hopkins University, gave a lecture entitled 'Primary Care: 21st Century Challenges to Quality' on 16th October 2000. Prof. Barbara Starfield (left) with Prof. Sydney Chung, dean of medicine Other Lectures • P r o f . Jon Douglas Willms , professor and director of the Canadian Research I n s t i t u te for Social Policy a t t he Un i v e r s i ty of N ew B r u n sw i c k, delivered a public lecture entitle d 'Performing Monitoring of Schooling Ou t c ome s: Wh at Sh o u l d We Be Measuring and Why? ' on 29th May 2000 u n d er the Sir Edwa r d Youde Memorial Fund Visiting Professorship. • P r o f . Torsten Hu s e n , P r o f e s s o r Emeritus of Education a t Stockholm Un i ve r s i t y, s p o ke on ' Re c u r r e nt Education and Lifelong Learning — Reflections of an Ol d Educ a t i on a l Researcher' as part of the Lee Hysan Lecture Series in Education, on 8th June 2000. • P r o f . Ch u Yu n - h an of Ta iwan University spoke on 'Re-engineering the Development State in the Age of Globalization: Taiwan in Defiance of Neo-Liberalism' on 9th June 2000. • P r o f . Ri cha r d M. Su i nn, eme r i t us professor of psychology at Colorado State Un i ve r s i t y, s p o ke on ' Ps ycho l og i c a l I n t e r v e n t i ons w i th Heart Diseases, Cancer, an d Arthritis Pain — A Review of Outcomes and Methods' on 20th June 2000. • P r o f . Christiani Jeya Henry, professor of h uman nutrition at Oxford Brookes University i n the UK, spoke on T h e Biology of Human Starvation: Lessons for the 21st Century' on 26th September 2000 under the Royal Society Kan Tong Po Visiting Professorship Public Lecture programme. CHINES E UNIVERSIT Y BULLETI N A u t u m n • Wi n t e r 2000 60