Newsletter No. 27

CUHK Newsletter No.27 February 1992 Announcements Professorial Inaugural Lecture Prof. Robert Jones, professor of pharmacology, will deliver his inaugural lecture entitled 'Discovering drugs: an unpredictable occupation' on Friday, 28th February at 5.00 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 6, Lady Shaw Building. All are welcome. New Stops for Shuttle Light-buses (Down-route) To enlarge the service area of the shuttle light-buses, two new stops for the down-route will be installed from 2nd March this year, one at the Library Boulevard by the five flagpoles, and the other at the junction of Central Avenue and Clinic Road. On the same day, the down-route stop near the BFC small carpark will be cancelled. New Publications of the University Press The following books will be sold at a 20 per cent discount to staff members at the University Bookshop, John Fulton Centre. • Health Care in Hong Kong: An Economic Policy Assessment (in English) by C. Joel W. Hay, 127 pages, paperback, HK$58. • The Yip's Concepts for Children Music Education: Creating a New Practice for Music Learning (《歡唱童 年：兒童音樂教育的新概念》） (in Chinese) by Yip Wai Hong, 164 pages, paperback, HK$35. Visiting Professor Dr. David C. Chung, consultant anaesthetist of the Mississauga Hospital, Ontario, Canada, has been invited as visiting professor to the University's Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care from 3rd March to 31st May 1992. Please contact Prof. T. E. Oh for details of Dr. Chung's visiting programme in the University. Services to the Community and International Organizations • Prof. Charles K. Kao, the vice-chancellor, has been appointed a member of the Engineers Registration Board by HE the Governor for one year from 19th July 1991. • Mr. T. L. Tsim, director of The Chinese University Press, has been appointed a member of the Education Commission by HE the Governor for one year from 1st January 1992. • Dr. Lam Kin-che, senior lecturer in geography, has been appointed a member of the Environmental Pollution Advisory Committee by HE the Governor for two years from 1st January 1992. • Prof. Kenneth Young, professor of physics, has been invited by the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation to conduct course validation for the B.Sc.(Hons) programme in engineering physics of the Hong Kong Polytechnic in November 1991. • Dr. Cynthia Chan, lecturer in community and family medicine, has been appointed an examiner in the Diagnostic and Management Interview Segments of and coordinator for the Oral Segment of the 1991 Conjoint Fellowship Examination of the Hong Kong College of General Practitioners and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners held in November 1991. - Dr. Clive Cockram, reader in medicine, undertook a short-term consultancy for the World Health Organization from 3rd to 26th November 1991, to advise the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Tonga upon the implementation of a programme for the prevention of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus. • Prof. C. N. Chen, head of Shaw College and professor of psychiatry, has been appointed temporary adviser to the World Health Organization from December 1991. Prof. Chen has also been elected aCorresponding Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. • Dr. Lena Fung, lecturer in physical education, has been electedby the Hong Kong Sports Association for the Physically Disabled to be a member of its executive committee and chairman of its technical sub-committee for one year from December 1991. - Prof. S. J. Oppenheimer, professor of paediatrics, has been elected amember of the Council of the Society for the Relief of Disabled Children for the year 1991-92, and a co-opted member of its executive committee. • Mrs. Grace Chow ， director of student affairs, has been invited by the UK/HK Scholarships Committee to be a Guest Section Panel Member for the award of the UK/HK Scholarships for the year 1992-93. • Dr. Chan Wing-wah, lecturer in music, has been appointed chairman of a working party to revise the music examination syllabus to be implemented by the Hong Kong Examination Authority Music Subject Committee in 1995. • Dr. Leung Kwok, senior lecturer in psychology, has been invited as a judge for the 1991-92 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, USA. • Dr. R. E. Allinson, senior lecturer in philosophy, has been appointed an Honorary Fellow of Templeton College of Oxford University, the Oxford Centre for Management Studies, in 1991-92. (All information in this section is provided by the Information Office) 8