Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2004

Student Achievements CUHK Students at the Top in National General Knowledge Competition A t eam of s t uden ts f r om the Chinese University won second p r i ze i n the T h i r d Greater China General Knowledge Competition on 15th October held in Beijing. Twenty-one universities f r om mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau took part in the competition w h i c h was o r g a n i z ed j o i n t l y b y China's CCTV and Taiwan's CTI TV. The CUHK team outperformed their peers f r om b ig names like Peking University and Tsinghua University to w i n second prize. The contestants were asked questions on a broad range of subjects i n c l ud i ng politics, history, geography, mathematics, physics, English, science, economics, and medicine. The CUHK team comprised Wong Yeung (Electronic Engineering), Yang L i u (Accountancy), L in Peng (Biochemistry), Guo Zhi Xian (Journalism a nd C o mm u n i c a t i o n ), H u a n g Ren B i n (Information Engineering), and Susana Soo (Government and Public Administration). The team won because of the breadth and depth of their world knowledge. Doctoral Students Awarded • Ms. Xu Xiaodong (photo), doctoral student on the History of Chinese A rt Programme of the Department of Fine Arts, has been awarded the Ford Foundation Fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council in June 2004 to undertake dissertation research in the US in autumn 2004. • Mr. Rama Kamesh Bikkavilli, final year doctoral student at the Department of Biochemistry, was awarded £500 for w i nn i ng the Pfizer prize for the best oral communications during the 'BioScience 2004: From Molecules to Organisms' Conference held from 18th to 22nd July 2004 in Glasgow, UK. Champion of the Young Entrepreneurs Competition A CUHK team comprising Vincent Wang and Rockson Zhang, two full-time MBA students; A l an Lam, a graduate student i n engineering; and Sharon Yan, an M.Phil. student in computer engineering, won the championship of the Young Entrepreneurs Development Council (YDC) E-Challenge 2004 w i t h their business plan 'Lord of Computer Ring'. The team was presented a cash prize of HK$30,000 at the prize presentation ceremony on 19th June 2004. The competition was organized by YDC w i t h prizes sponsored by the Ho ng Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, and supported by the MTR Corporation and the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization. News in Brief 63