Bulletin No. 1, 2010

38  Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2010  Distinguished Professor-at-Large Awarded Royal Medal P rof. Sir James Mirrlees (right), Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Distinguished Professor-at-Large and Master of Morningside College of CUHK, was awarded a Royal Medal 2009 by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his economic theories, whi ch have had g rea t impact on global economic development. The medal wa s pre s ented by The Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip of the UK (left), on 11 August 2009. Scientist and Engineer Receive MoE Research Awards T wo CUHK researchers were honoured by the Ministry of Education of China (MoE) with its Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards 2009. Prof. Jiang Liwen (top) from the Department of Biology was awarded the Natural Science Award for his project ‘Molecular Characterization of Plant Prevacuolar and Endosomal Compartments’, and Prof. Helen Meng (bottom) from the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management was awarded the Technology Progress Award for ‘Multimodal User Interactions with Multilingual Speech and Language Technologies—Research and Applications’. Honours and Recognition