Newsletter No. 15

No. 15 Feb.1991 CUHK Newsletter ANNOUNCEMENTS Professorial Appointments Professor of English Prof. Andrew Terence Leonard Parkin has been appointed as professor of English from 2nd January 1991. Prof. Parkin graduated from Cambridge University in 1961 and obtained his MA degree in 1965. He pursued further studies in Bristol University and received his Ph.D. degree in 1969. In the sixties, Prof. Parkin held various teaching appointments in secondary schools, adult education centres and universities in the UK and in Hong Kong. He joined the Department of English of the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1970 and was promoted to professorship in 1988. Aged 53, Prof. Parkin is married, with one child. Professor of Electronic Engineering Prof. Ian Howard Wilson has been appointed as professor of electronic engineering from 2nd January 1991. Aged 50, Prof. Wilson received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Reading, UK in 1962 and 1966 respectively. Upon graduation, he served as research fellow in the Department of Physics of Sussex University, and was later appointed by Engelhard Industries Ltd. as head of research and development and chief metallurgist. He joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering of the University of Surrey in 1971 and was promoted to reader in 1986. In 1987- 88, he was distinguished visiting professor of the Physics Department of Arizona State University in the USA. Prof. Wilson is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He is married, with four children. Professor of Operations and Systems Management Prof. Eden Siu-hung Yu has been appointed as professor of operations and systems management from 2nd January 1991. Prof. Yu graduated with a B.S.Sc. degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1968. He furthered his studies in the United States and received his MS degree from Southern Illinois University in 1970 ， and his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University in 1974 and 1976 respectively. He was an associate economist in the Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City from 1974 to 1976. He started his teaching career in the University of Oklahoma in 1976 as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. He joined Louisiana State University in 1984 and was promoted to professor of economics in 1985, and Gulf Coast Bottling Distinguished Professor of Business Administration in 1988. Prof. Yu was avisiting associateprofessor at Claremont McKenna College in 1982-83 and was also invited as visiting professor to universities in Taiwan in 1988 and Beijing in 1989. Professor of Community and Family Medicine Prof. Owen Llewelyn Lloyd has been appointed as professor of community and family medicine from 9th January 1991. Aged 51, Prof. Lloyd has wide academic interests. From 1959 to 1978 he obtained from the University of Edinburgh various qualifications in different fields: MA, Dip.Ed., M.B. Ch.B., B.Sc., Ph.D., Dip.Com.Med., and MD. He also obtained his FFCM in 1984 and MFOM in 1986. Prof. Lloyd joined the faculty of his alma mater in 1968 and worked in the Department of Physiology for about six years. He then served as a Fellow in Community Medicine, Lothian Health Board for three years before he took up a teaching post in the Dundee University in 1977. Prof. Lloyd stayed in Dundee for about 13 years, teaching first in the Department of Community and Occupational Medicine and then in the Wolfson Institute of Occupational Health, Department of Community Medicine. Prof. Lloyd is married, with two children. Professorial Inaugural Lecture Prof. D. E. Pollard, professor of translation, will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled Translation and Lu Xun: the discipline and the writer’ in Lecture Theatre LT6, Lady Shaw Building on 1st March at 5.00 p.m. All are welcome. New Instructional Video Programme on Democracy The University Instructional Media Services (UIMS) has produced a new instructional video programme entitled 'The Meaning of Democracy', which is now on sale. The 57-minute programme (in Cantonese) was planned by Dr. Leslie Lo of the School of Education and Ms. Winnie Chan of UIMS and is specially designed as a reference for educators in Hong Kong. It discusses the meaning of democracy from various perspectives, delineates its limitations, and attempts to address the question of whether democracy can be developed in Chinese societies. For enquiries and booking, please contact the UIMS (Ext. 2750 or 2729). 7