Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2005

Music Graduate Wins Top Dissertation Prize At the annual conference of the Society for Western Music held in Shanghai, Zheng Zhong (right), former Ph.D. student at the Chinese University, was awarded first prize for his dissertation 'A Study of Messiaen's Solo Piano Works' by 12 eminent scholars in the field. The event was held from 27th to 30th March 2005 under the auspices o f the Chinese M usicians' Association, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Central Conservatory of Music, and the Conservatory of Hangzhou Teachers' College. Psychology Student Wins First R.C. Lee Centenary Scholarship Wong Kwai-ling (right) of Chung Chi College has been awa rded the R.C. Lee C en tena ry Scholarship. Miss Wong is a final-year student majoring in psychology. She w ill pursue doctoral studies in cognitive psychology at Vanderbilt University in the US in August 2005. The R.C. Lee Centenary Scholarship was established by the Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Y ew p ic k Lee C h a rita b le Founda tion to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Richard Charles Lee. CUHK Graduates W in Best Paper Award o f the Association o f American Geographers Two CU graduates won the first and second prize respectively of the Best Student Paper Award of the Association of American Geographers in early April 2005. This marked the first time one of the awards was bestowed on a non-American student. Yu Hongbo (right), a former master student of the CUHK Department of Geography and Resource Management now pursuing doctoral studies in the US, was awarded the first prize in the Best Student Paper Award. Li Xiang (middle), a Ph.D. graduate of the same department won the second prize in the geographic information systems section of the award. He is the first non-US student to receive the honour since it was established in 1991. News in Brief 49