Bulletin No. 1, 2016

Congregations for the Conferment of Degrees 29 Prof. Randy W. Schekman (left) is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute as well as Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Berkeley. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1992. Among many other prizes and awards, he won the Gairdner International Award in 1996 and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2002. In 2013, along with Prof. Thomas C. Südhof and Prof. James E. Rothman , he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is also the chairman of the Selection Committee for Hong Kong’s Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine, and is a collaborator with CUHK’s Area of Excellence Centre for Organelle Biogenesis and Function. The University conferred upon Professor Schekman the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa , for his groundbreaking contributions to cell biology. Prof. Joseph E. Stiglitz (right) held professorial positions at Yale, Stanford, Oxford, Princeton and Columbia Universities. In 1979 he had won the John Bates Clark Award given by the American Economic Association to an economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. Professor Stiglitz joined the Clinton Administration, eventually becoming chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and a member of the cabinet. He also served on the International Panel for Climate Change. In 1997 Professor Stiglitz was appointed chief economist and senior vice president at the World Bank. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, along with A. Michael Spence and George A. Akerlof , for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. The University conferred upon Professor Stiglitz the degree of Doctor of Social Science, honoris causa , for his unique and remarkable contributions to economic theory and to social change on a world scale. Citations in full at www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/cong/hongrads/all