Bulletin No. 2, 2013

Teaching Music to Serve the Needy Wong Jing-men Jamie, music graduate of 2013, has been awarded the Esther Yewpick Lee Millennium Scholarship, which amounts to nearly one million dollars, for pursuing musicology studies at the University of Oxford. Jamie utilizes music to help the socially disadvantaged, such as serving as a volunteer at the Pik Uk Correctional Institution since 2010. She teaches a group of young inmates to play various musical instruments and coaches them to play as a band to boost their confidence and communication skills. Medical Student Unravels Mystery of Neuronal Circuits Development Through a series of experiments conducted on mice, Dr. Ko Ho Owen, a medical Year 4 student of CUHK, discovered that external stimuli contribute significantly to refining the maturation of neuronal circuits, whereas inborn mechanisms only partially contribute to this process. Owen’s research has increased human understanding of the maturation process of the brain and brain functions in infants. The findings were published in Nature in April 2013. 39 Students Receive HSBC Scholarships A total of 39 CUHK students hav e b e en g r an t ed awa r d s under the HSBC Hong Kong Scholarship, HSBC Social Work Scholarships, HSBC Overseas Scholarship and Innovation and Technology Scholarship Award Schemes for the academic year 2012–13. Some of the scholarship recipients attended the HSBC Scholars Day and shared their joy with Prof. P.C. Ching (centre, front row), Pro-Vice-Chancellor of CUHK; Ms. Caroline Wilson (2nd left, front row), Consul General, British Consulate-General Hong Kong; Ms. Anita Fung (1st left, front row), group general manager, CEO HK, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited; and Dr. Rosanna Wong (2nd right, front row) non-executive chairperson, Advisory Committee, The Hongkong Bank Foundation. 42   Chinese University Bulletin No. 2, 2013 The Best and the Brightest