Bulletin No. 1, 2012

News in Brief   39  Award Winning Hearing Technology A hearing technology, ACEHearing, co-developed by CUHK, won the bronze award and Audience Choice Award in The Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Awards. It is the world’s first hearing technology to integrate hearing test and custom sound enhancement into everyday electronic devices and can, within seconds, automatically calibrate that device to enhance sound output based on the user’s specific hearing deficiency. Prof. Andrew van Hasselt, lead-inventor and chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at CUHK, received the award on 3 November 2011. Sichuan Rebuild Project Receives Culture Heritage Award Launched by the Wu Zhi Qiao (Bridge to China) Teams of CUHK and Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, the Village Rebuild Demonstration Project in Maan Qiao Village of Sichuan was awarded the Jury Commendation for Innovation in 2011, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation. Prof. Edward Ng (4th left), chairman of Wu Zhi Qiao Charitable Foundation and professor in the School of Architecture at CUHK, and other project members attended the award ceremony held on 21 December 2011 at the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China.