KE Spotlight
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Faculty Knowledge Exchange Awards 2024
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HKU Impact: Social Media Competition 2024
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KE Excellence Award and HKU Innovator Award 2023
Impact
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Creating Breathable Cities
Urban ventilation has been an important but at times overlooked factor in improving air pollution and mitigating urban overheating. One of the world’s experts on its benefits is Professor Chao Ren of the Faculty of Architecture, who has helped to convince policymakers in Mainland China, various cities around the world and international organisations of the need for policies and programmes to improve the urban wind environment.
Engagement
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Lifting the Burden of Hopelessness
"We want to intervene well before someone needs professional help, so we have moved away from a medical approach to a bio-psycho-social approach. Suicide is not only a medical problem, it’s a public health problem."
Global
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Rural Sustainability Programme – APAC Initiative for Regional Impact (AIRI) Held Inaugural Regional Roundtable
AIRI is a proud extension and scaling up of our Rural Sustainability programme at Lai Chi Wo, where the great work has been recognised by the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation in 2020
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The Migration Mystery of Hong Kong’s Danaid Butterflies
With its forests of high-rises reaching for the sky, Hong Kong is often referred to as a concrete jungle. But about 40% of the SAR’s total land is made up of public green spaces containing a rich diversity of flora and fauna.