Bulletin No. 1, 2011

Biochemistry Students’ Cryptography System Wins Gold A team of 11 students from the Biochemistry Programme of the School of Life Sciences developed a new encrypt-and- store information system for the plasmid DNA of Escherichia coli under the supervision of Prof. Chan King-ming, Prof. Chan Ting- fung, and Prof. Kong Siu-kai of the school. The team entered the innovative project into the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2010 competition organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US and walked away with the gold award. 38   Chinese University Bulletin No. 1, 2011 ISEIS Student Wins Best Young Author Award M iss Tan Lu, PhD student of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, won the Best Young Author Award for her paper entitled ‘A GIS-based CBR Model for Land-use Inference’ presented at the 31st Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS). About 200 papers competed for the prize. Miss Tan was one of the five recipients of the award. ACRS is the annual conference of the Asian Association on Remote Sensing. The 31st ACRS was held from 1 to 5 November 2010 in Hanoi. Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung (2nd right, back row), Vice-Chancellor; Prof. Ng Cheuk-yiu (1st left, back row), Dean of Science; and the CUHK team The Best and the Brightest