Bulletin No. 1, 2015

News in Brief  43  Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine Established To further sustain innovative research in biomedical engineering focusing on clinical application, CUHK has established the Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine. It serves as a platform for engineers and clinicians from the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Medicine to encourage academic exchange and collaboration. The opening ceremony was held on 30 January 2015. Officiating guests included Ms. Therese Chow, solicitor, notary public and China appointed attesting officer; Miss Janet Wong, Commissioner for Innovation and Technology; Prof. Joseph J.Y. Sung, CUHK Vice-Chancellor; Prof. Francis Chan, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine; Prof. Irwin King, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Engineering; and Prof. Philip Chiu, director of the Chow Yuk Ho Technology Centre for Innovative Medicine. Centre for Chinese Classical Learning Opens With a generous donation of HK$10 million from the Fung Sun Kwan Chinese Arts Foundation, CUHK has established the new Centre for Chinese Classical Learning under the Faculty of Arts. The donation will be used to support the operation of the centre in the first five years and for the promotion of Chinese classical learning and traditional Chinese values and virtues. With over 100 distinguished guests from the academic, religious, education and commercial sectors in attendance, the inauguration ceremony of the centre was held on 3 March 2015 at Cho Yiu Hall of CUHK.