Bulletin No. 2, 2013

News in Brief   51  Marketing Engineering Lab Launched by CUHK and IBM Jointly launched by CUHK and IBM, the Marketing Engineering Lab was established. Officiating at the ceremony are Prof. Benjamin W. Wah (2nd right), Provost of CUHK; Prof. Dennis Fan (1st left), associate dean, Faculty of Business Administration CUHK; Mr. Tony Tai (2nd left), general manager, IBM Hong Kong, and Mr. Samson Tai (1st right), chief technologist, IBM Innovation Network, Hong Kong. IBM donated marketing software licenses and cloud facility to the lab, and is committed to supporting ongoing research collaboration. CUHK will run the lab for educational purposes and conduct marketing research. Shiu-Ying Hu Herbarium Opens The Shiu-Ying Hu Herbarium was officially opened on 22 May. Established by the late Prof. Hu Shiu- ying, honorary professor of Chinese medicine and honorary senior research fellow of the School of Life Sciences, the herbarium houses a collection of about 38,000 plant specimens, the most comprehensive in Hong Kong. The herbarium promotes various research, education and social service programmes, including the collection and preservation of protected native flora, research on the authentication of economic and medicinal plants, and the digitization of the existing collection to form an online botanical information database.