Bulletin No. 2, 2016

News in Brief 39 Honours And recognitions Prof. Dennis Y.M. Lo Receives Two Prestigious Awards Prof. Dennis Y.M. Lo, Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Medicine, Chairman of the Department of Chemical Pathology and Director of the Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, was awarded the Future Science Prize– Life Science Prize, and has been named this year’s Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate–Chemistry in September for his seminal contribution to the widely- used non-invasive prenatal test based on the original discovery of fetal DNA in maternal blood, which has benefited millions of pregnant women globally. General Education Team Awarded 2016 UGC Teaching Award Led by Prof. Leung Mei-yee (left), Director of University General Education, Dr. Wong Wing-hung (centre), Associate Director of University General Education and Dr. Julie Chiu (right), Deputy Programme Director of General Education Foundation (GEF) Programme, CUHK’s General Education team were awarded the 2016 University Grants Committee Teaching Award. Over 24,000 students enrolled in the GEF programme since its launch in 2012. With small-class seminars as the major learning platform and an amount of 3,800 freshmen every year, GEF offers around 152 sections for each course with only 25 students from different disciplines in each class.