Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2004

O Three faculty members of the Chinese University were honoured in the 2004 Honours List of the HKSAR for their outstanding contributions to the fight against SARS and to Hong Kong. Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung, professor of medicine and therapeutics, was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star. Prof. John S.L. Tam, professor in the Department of Microbiology, was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star. Prof. Albert Lee, professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, was awarded the Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service. O Prof. Lee Sik Yum, professor of statistics, has been selected as a 2004 Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for his outstanding work in research and in promoting the development of the statistical profession. O Prof. Fanny M. Cheung, chair of the Department of Psychology and professor of psychology, was selected as a recipient of a 2004 American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for her efforts to promote the field of psychology in China, cross-cultural research, and the study of women's issues. O Dr. Lee Sze Kuen Victor, director of the School of Continuing Studies, has been elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Marketing on 1st April 2004. O Prof. Yan Houmin 's paper 'Coordination of a Supply Chain with Risk-Averse Agents', coauthored w i t h Gan Xianghua and Suresh P. Sethi, won the Wickham-Skinner Best Paper Award at the Production and Operations Management Society Cancun meeting. Prof. Yan is from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. O Prof. Michael Harris Bond, professor of psychology, was awarded an honorary fellowship by the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) in recognition of his continuing and distinguished contributions to the field of cross-cultural psychology. He is also president of IACCP. O A paper entitled 'Orientalist Knowledge and Social Theories: China and the European Conceptions of East-West Differences from 1600-1900' authored by Prof. Hung Ho-fung, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, was awarded the 2004 Best Article Prize of the American Sociological Association (for the section on the Political Economy of the World System). O M.Phil, student Ngai Chi-kin and his supervisor Prof. Raymond Yeung of the Department of Information Engineering have won the Best Paper Award in Communication Theory at the 2004 International Conference on Communication, Circuits and Systems held in Chengdu, China from 27th to 29th June 2004. O Prof. Lo Yuk Ming Dennis, professor of chemical pathology, was recently made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. O Prof. Catherine A. McBride -Chang, professor in the Department of Psychology, was recognized as a 2004 Fellow of the American Psychological Society (APS) for her sustained outstanding contribution to the advancement of psychological science in the area of research. News in Brief 53