Bulletin No. 1, 2014

News in Brief  49  Grand Opening of C.W. Chu College C.W. Chu College celebrated its grand opening on 13 March 2014. The ceremony was attended by some 300 benefactors, friends, mentors, Chu Scholars, College fellows and teachers, and two cohorts of students. Officiating at the Grand Opening Ceremony were Mr. David Chu (3rd left), chairman of the College Committee of Overseers; Dr. Stanley Ho (2nd right) and Dr. Ina Ho Chan Un Chan (1st right), chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals; Dr. Edgar W.K. Cheng (2nd left), senior adviser to the Council of CUHK; Prof Joseph J.Y. Sung (3rd right), Vice-Chancellor; and Prof. Kenneth Young (1st left), Master of the College. CUHK–UU Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain Established CUHK and Utrecht University (UU) in the Netherlands held the opening ceremony of the CUHK–UU Joint Centre for Language, Mind and Brain on 13 March 2014. The centre provides an international platform to promote interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research in language, the mind and the brain. It represents an innovative effort to synergize and combine the strengths of CUHK and UU in areas involving the biological basis of language learning and development, cognitive neuroscience, and speech-language therapy. Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung (7th right), CUHK Vice-Chancellor; Mr. Wilfred Mohr (8th right), Consul-General, Netherlands Consulate General in Hong Kong and Macao; and Mr. Vincent Piket (6th right), head of the European Union office to Hong Kong and Macau, officiated at the ceremony.