Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2003

• A d v a n c ed D i p l o ma P r o g r amme i n Leisure Services Management • Professional D i p l oma P r og r amme i n Fraud Examination • Diploma Programme i n Cardiovascular Perfusion Technology • Certificate Programme i n Administrative Leadership • Certificate P r og r amme i n Ad v e n t u re Tourism • Certificate Programme i n Basic Korean • Certificate Programme i n Critical Care Nu r s i ng • Certificate Programme i n Logistics and Transport Admi n i s t r a t i on The Senate also approved name change of five Asia-Pacific Institute of Business programmes and one Faculty of Science programme: • D i p l oma P r o g r amme i n Business to D i p l o ma P r o g r a mme i n Bu s i ne ss Management • Graduate Diploma i n Advanced Business Management to Executive D i p l oma i n Advanced Business Management • G r a d u a te D i p l o ma i n F i n a n ce to Executive D i p l oma i n Finance • Gr adua te D i p l oma i n Ma r k e t i ng to Executive D i p l oma i n Marketing • Graduate Diploma i n Supply Chain and Logistics Ma n a g eme nt to Executive Diploma i n Supply Chain and Logistics Management • D i p l oma P r o g r amme f or P r ac t i s i ng Herbalists to D i p l oma Programme i n Chinese Medicine Conferences/Workshops/Seminars • ‘ F r om Risk to Crisis Management: A Post-SARS Revival Workshop', 18th July 2003, by the MBA Programmes and the Risk Management Science Programme; • Second Seminar on Mo r al Education, 3 r d to 11th A u g u s t 2003, N e w As ia College and Beijing Oriental Mo r a l i ty I ns t i t u t e, f u n d ed by M r . L i u Shang Chien, trustee of the New Asia College; • Op en f o r um o n ‘Integration of H o ng Kong and Pearl River Delta: Issues and Concerns for the A i r Cargo Industry', 2 4 t h Sep t ember 2003, H o n g K o n g Centre of Cyber Logistics; • T h e H o n g K o n g D i a b e t e s a n d Ca r d i ovas cu l ar Risk Factors — East Meets West Symposium, and the 13th I n t e r n a t i o n a l S y m o s i u m o n Atherosclerosis, 3rd to 5th October 2003, b y the H o n g K o n g F o u n d a t i on f or Research and Development i n Diabetes of the De p a r t me nt of Me d i c i ne and Therapectics; • W o r k s h op o n ‘ Wa s te R e d u c t i o n, Re c y c l i n g, a nd Su s t a i n a b le Waste Ma n a g eme nt i n H o n g K o n g ', 17th October 2003, Centre for Environmental Policy and Resource Management. Professorial Inaugural Lectures • Prof. F u ng K w o k - p u i, professor of biochemistry, delivered his i naugu r al l e c t u r e e n t i t l e d ‘ F r o m D N A to Traditional Chinese Medicine' on 5th September 2003. • P r o f. D a v i d T. Yew, p r o f e s s or of a n a t omy, d e l i v e r ed h i s i n a u g u r a l lecture entitled ‘The Evolution of Brain Science — Views of an Ana t omi s t' on 3rd October 2003. • Prof. A n t h o ny P.C. Y im, professor of surgery, delivered his inaugural lecture en t i t l ed ‘The Cu t t i ng Edge' on 12th December 2003. • P r o f. Woo Kam - s a n g, p r o f e s s or of medicine and therapeutics, delivered his inaugural lecture entitle ‘ How Ha rd Is Your Artery?' on 17th December 2003. News in Brief 71