Newsletter No. 14

No, 14 Jan.1991- CUHK Newslet ter Administration and Policy, Department of Educational Psychology, and Department of Physical Education. The new Faculty of Engineering will initially comprise three departments, all to be transferred from the existing Faculty of Science: Department of Computer Science, Department of Electronic Engineering, and Department of Information Engineering. Pending sufficient resources, a fourth department of Systems Engineering will be added. Foundation Stone Laid for Chiangs Building The University will soon build its fourth guesthouse at the eastern tip of the campus next to the Yali Guesthouse. The guesthouse, to be named Chiangs Building, is funded by a generous donation of $12 million from Dr. Chiang Chen, managing director of Chen Hsong Holdings Ltd. The foundation stone of the new building was laid by Dr. Chiang himself on 20th December 1990. Chiangs Building to be completed in early 1992 will be a nine-storey building with 64 twin-bed rooms, a common room, a conference room and a reading room. The new facilities will be used to provide accommodation for visiting scholars and fellows on training programmes, mainly from China. At a time when the University is actively developing exchange programmes and collaborative projects with institutions in China and overseas, and when the number of visiting scholars and research fellows is expected to be on the steady increase, Dr. Chiang's donation for the building project is most timely and welcome. A Series of Conferences Held in December 1990 December 1990 was a busy month for conference organizers in the University. A total of seven conferences were held by five different units and departments during the period. Asia-Pacific Institute of Business (APIB) Managing Cultural Differences Workshop 14th December 1990 Hong Kong Sheraton Hotel The workshop was jointly organized by the APIB and the Mass Transit Railway Corporation to examine issues related to managing and conducting business in a cross-cultural and multi-cultural setting. Prof. Geert Hofstede, professor of organization anthropology and international management at the University of Limburg, the Netherlands, delivered a keynote speech on ‘The Cultural Side of Management’. Senior officers of international corporations in Hong Kong were also invited to share their experience in managing staff of different cultural backgrounds. Department of Biology Symposium on Microbial and Engineering Technology in Waste Treatment 3rd-6th December 1990 Cho Yiu Conference Hall Over 50 scientists from all over the world took part in this four-day symposium to exchange information on the principles and techniques of applying microbial and engineering technology to the treatment of solid and liquid wastes. Some 30 papers on the most recent advances in this field were presented and Prof. G. Hamer of the Institute of Aquatic Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, delivered a keynote lecture on ‘Microbial 3