Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2004

• The conference on ‘Cultural Relations Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: Connections and Interactions', 18th to 20th December, co-hosted by the Shanghai-Hong Kong Development I n s t i t u te and the Re s ea r ch Cen t re for Comparative City Culture of the Research Institute for the Humanities. 2004 • The Forum on Enabling Entrepreneurship, 16th January, by the Faculty of Business Administration; • Workshop on Yield Management, 19th and 20th January, jointly organized by the Centre of Hospitality and Real Estate Research of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management, the Hotel Controllers and Accountants Association of Hong Kong, and SKAL International Hong Kong, co-sponsored by The Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel and Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong; • The International Heart Failure Symposium — Hong Kong 2004, 21st and 22nd February, by the Cardiology Division of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, and Tsinghua University; • The second workshop of the UGC Area of Excellence project ‘Chinese Medicine Research and Further Development', 26th February, organized by the Institute of Chinese Medicine, cosponsored by from the Hong Kong Science Parks Corporation; • The Fourth Tung Wah Group of Hospitals - CUHK Eddie Wang Symposium on ‘Complementary Chinese and Western Medicine — Integrated Approach', 27th and 28th February, by the Institute of Chinese Medicine and the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals; • The Ninth Annual Scientific Symposium of the Hong Kong Cancer Institute, ‘Anti-Cancer Drug Development: From Bench to Bedside to Market', 19th March, by the Hong Kong Cancer Institute; • The Fourth International Autobiography and B i o g r a p hy As s o c i a t i on Co n f e r e n ce on 'Inhabiting Multiple Worlds: Auto/biography in an (Anti-) Global Age', 15th to 18th March, by the Department of English; • Workshop on 'Application of Science in Footwear Design, Development and Manufacture', 14th April, jointly o r gan i z ed by the Human Movement Laboratory of the Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, the Department of Automation and Computer- Aided Engineering, and the CUHK-WHO Collaborating Centre for Sports Medicine and Health Promotion. Visiting Scholars • Prof. Klaus Held, professor emeritus of philosophy at the Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany, visited CUHK from 5th October to 4th November 2003 as the first holder of the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship in the Department of Philosophy. During his stay, Prof. Held taught a special graduate seminar course, gave a public lecture, and presented a seminar paper. • Prof. Kwok Pui-yan, professor of dermatology, Henry Bachrach Distinguished Professor and Investigator of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the San Francisco School of Medicine, University of California, visited Chung Chi College from 27th December 2003 to 18th January 2004 as its Siu Lien Ling Wong Visiting Fellow 2003-4. • Prof. Zhong Nan Shan, president of Guangzhou Medical College and head of the Institute of Respiratory Disease in Guangzhou, visited Shaw College as its 2003-4 Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar in January 2004. • Ms. Nancy Wolf, a renowned artist from New York, visited Chung Chi College as its Visiting Artist in February 2004. She is also artist-in- residence of the Department of Architecture in the second term of the 2003-4 academic year. • Prof. Dong Zhian and Prof. Qian Zengyi, professors of Shandong University, visited United College from 1st to 12th March 2004 as the college's Distinguished Visiting Scholars 2003-4. The two scholars delivered two public lectures on 5th and 9th March respectively. Obituary Prof. Lau Oi-wah, former professor in the Department of Chemistry and former dean of the Faculty of Science, passed away on 15th January 2004. Prof. Lau served the University from 1968 to 2004. News in Brief 6 3