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CityU's annual cultural festival kicked off this year with an exhibition of ethnic costumes and silverware from nine Chinese minority groups.
The University Publications Office has published CityU's annual report for 2000-2001. Titled Connecting the World Through Knowledge, the report outlines the University's accomplishments in the past year, including the fulfillment of its ambitious five-year AURORA strategy, itself a significant achievement.
One of China's most renowned painters, Wu Guanzhong, turned his body into a brush and composed a 3-D drawing using CityU's innovative Body-Brush technology on campus on 13 March.
An audience of more than 300 danced to the rhythm of a Latin beat at University Circle as the World City Cultural Night extravaganza drew to a close. The 9 March event, which marked the opening of CityU's 2002 cultural festival, embraced an array of multi-cultural performances, such as Scottish bagpipes, Australian songs, Indian dance, American jazz, Chinese music, English folkdance, Latin salsa and African drums, all under the "Love and Harmony" theme.
CityU's Building and Construction Department has established a 200-cubic-meter reverberation chamber that will help researchers conduct sound absorption tests. Meeting both the ISO and ASTM standards, the chamber is an accredited laboratory for acoustics and noise reduction research.
Five local economists presented their views on the Hong Kong government's budget for 2002-2003 at a special economic forum hosted by CityU's APEC Study Centre on 7 March.
CityU's Students' Union must act as a bridge between students and University management while striving to create a united and democratic campus, said Council Chairman Mr Norman Leung at the 17th Students' Union Inauguration Ceremony on 5 March.
A grand reception was held on 1 March for the 136 outstanding students selected for the Executive Mentoring Scheme (EMS). At the reception, in the campus Multi-Purpose rooms, the students were able to meet their new mentors.
Miss Marui Noriko, a budding teacher from Japan, spent three weeks, from mid-February to early March, in the Division of Language Studies on an internship programme to polish her Japanese teaching skills. Her brief stay proved to be a stimulating experience for both Miss Noriko and the students in the Division.
First, some background and a disclaimer. Linkage is well aware that the University Grants Committee, in its current review of higher education in Hong Kong, is planning to stream the existing seven universities into teaching-oriented and research-oriented institutions (Linkage No. 208). This proposal has caused great consternation in the higher education sector.