Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2002

• Seminar on moral education, 3rd Au g u st 2002, by New Asia College and the Beijing Oriental Mo r a l i ty Institute; • I n t e r n a t i o n al S y m p o s i um o n M i n g P r o v i n c i al Blue a nd Wh i te Ware f r om Jingdezhen, 26th and 27th September 2002, by the A r t Museum, sponsored by the Prof. and Mrs. Cheng Te-k'un Academic Fund i n Chinese A r t and Archaeology; • World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and Its Complications, 30th September 2002, and the H o n g Ko ng Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Factors 一 East Meets West Symposium, 29th September to 1st Oc t o b er 2002, by the D e p a r t m e nt of Medicine and Therapeutics, the WHO, and the International Diabetes Federation. Lectures • The Un i v e r s i ty L i b r a ry System i n v i t ed experts f r om Shanghai Library to give t wo public lectures entitled ' H ow to Appraise and Preserve Chinese Rare Books', and 'What Makes a Book Rare? The Study of Chinese Silk-stitched Bo u nd Books' on 20th and 27th A p r i l 2002 respectively. • Prof. Victor Zue, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology, and director of the institute's Laboratory for Comp u t er Science, delivered a distinguished l e c t u re e n t i t l ed ‘ " P r o j e ct O x y g e n" T owa r ds Pervasive, H u m a n - centred Compu t i ng' on 28th Ma y 2002 in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Faculty of Engineering. • The BBA A l u m n i A s s o c i a t i on a nd the Faculty of Business Adm i n i s t r a t i on of the U n i v e r s i ty j o i n t l y o r g a n i z ed a career p r e p a r a t i on talk for participants of the Undergraduate Me n t o r s h ip Programme on 1st June 2002. The guest speakers included Dr. Sammy Ho, executive director of j-hunter.com and M r . Patrick Cheung, partner of UR-Photos Ltd. • Three public lectures by Nobel laureates in physics were j o i n t ly o r gan i z ed by The Ch i n e se U n i v e r s i t y, the H o n g K o n g University of Science and Technology, and the Ho ng Kong Science Mu s e um on 15th June 2002. The first lecture, entitled ' H o w the Laser Happened: the Interaction Between Science and Technology', was delivered by Prof. Charles Ha rd Townes, 1964 w i n n er of the Nobel prize w h o is k n own as Father of the Laser. The second lecture, ' A t oms and Photons', was delivered by the 1997 N o b e l l au r ea te P r o f. C l a u de Co h e n- Tannoudji, w h o i n v en t ed laser cooling. The t h i r d lecture, 'The Universe of the Elementary Particles', was given by Prof. Gerardus't Ho o f t, 1999 No b el laureate w h o d i s c o v e r ed a n ew ma t h ema t i c al machinery in gauge field theory. Student Achievements CUHK Student Wins Rhodes Scholarship 2002 Miss Frances Lok Ma n Yin has been chosen as the 2002 Rhodes Scholar for H o n g Kong. Miss Lok, a student of Chung Chi College, majored i n Chinese Language and Literature at the University and is n ow pu r s u i ng a Bachelor of Arts degree programme in law at Oxford University on the Rhodes Scholarship. The prestigious Rhodes Scholarships were first set u p in 1902 under the w i l l of Sir Cecil Rhodes. It was originally intended for students f r om the Commonwealth countries, the United States, and Germany. Since 1985, Ho ng Kong has been included in the scheme and one local student has been chosen as Rhodes Scholar each year to pursue studies of his or her choice at Oxford. Over the last seven years, The Chinese U n i v e r s i ty has produced five Rhodes Scholars. 5 6 Chinese University Bulletin Autumn • Winter 2002