Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2005

• Prof. Shing Kung Ming Tony, professor in the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded designation as Chartered Scientist on 16th November 2004. • Prof. Ma Lai Chong Joyce, professor in the Department of Social Work, has been accepted as the Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) from 7th March 2005. • In a re ce n t a rtic le e n title d ‘ Social Psychology: Who We Are and What We Do', published by the Institute for Behavioral Research of the University of Georgia, Prof. M ic h a e l H a rris Bond, p ro fesso r of psychology, was named one of the most frequently cited social psychologists of the 1990s and one of two scholars on the list working outside North America. • Prof. Leung Ho Fung, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and E ng in ee ring , has been awarded the designation of Chartered Scientist by the Science Council, United Kingdom. • Prof. L im in Yang, research assistant professor in the Joint Laboratory fo r Geoinformation Science, has been awarded the Environm enta l Systems Research Institute (ESRI) 2005 Best Scientific Paper in Geographic Information Science, as a co author of the paper. • A research staff and a postgraduate student from the Jo in t Centre o f B iomedica l Engineering (JCBME) o f the Chinese University won three awards at the Sixth Asian-Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, held from 24th to 27th April 2005 at the Tsukuba International Congress Centre in Japan. Ms. Bao Shudi, a research assistant from JCBME, was awarded the Young Investigator's Award for her paper ‘A New Symmetric Cryptosystem of Body Area Sensor Networks for Telemedicine'. She also won the Best Presentation Award of the Young Investigator's Award. Ms. Wong Yee- man, an M.Phil. student from JCBME, was a w a rd e d th e Y o u n g In v e s tig a to r Encouragement Award for her paper 'The Ag ing Effect on the Cha racte ristic of Photoplethysmogram Waveform'. • A poster created and presented by a team from the University beat over a thousand other entries to win second prize at the third Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) Annual Congress held in Beijing from 25th to 27th October 2004. The team was headed by Prof. Mary Waye of the Department of Biochemistry and comprised Prof. K.P. Fung, Prof. Stephen Tsui, and postgraduate students Carol Lau and T.L. Yeung. Their poster was entitled 'Functional Characterization of RhoC and Rab14 in Liver Cancer Cells'. 3 0 Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 2005