KE Spotlight - Community Engagement - HKU Knowledge Exchange

HKU scholar launches new translation app ‘Newssary’

Dr Eva Ng of the HKU School of Chinese developed a new translation app "Newssary", a combination of "news" and "glossary" and is a bilingual news and current affairs glossary of over 7,700 entries built on the website "Resources for Interpreting". The new app can be downloaded for free. Recent popular entries included "kill without mercy" (殺無赦), "soft lobbying" (摸底) and "Rocket Man" (火箭人).

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2017

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognise each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organisations. Results of the 2017 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

Music and Architecture Listen to the Echoes

The Departments of Music and Architecture have entered into an unusual collaboration to explore their mutual interest in sound and space, through a two-year project called Sounding Architecture.

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2016

The annual Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards recognize each Faculty's outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organizations. The KE Award (Non-Faculty Unit) was introduced with the same objective for the independent centres, institutes and units of the University. Results of the 2016 KE Awards are now available.

Christie’s Education Hong Kong and HKU Faculty of Arts jointly launch Contemporary Asian Art seminar programme

HKU Faculty of Arts and Christie's Education Hong Kong will launch a five-day seminar programme titled Contemporary Asian Art: An Insider’s View from July 6 to 10, 2016. The programme combines art seminars with visits to various places including artists' studios, galleries, Christie's and museums, and conversations with art professionals, focusing on modern and contemporary art in Asia, in particular China, Japan and India. The art historical portion of the programme will be delivered by HKU Fine Arts Department, while the market-related portion by Christie's Education. Former Chief Secretary for Administration Mr Henry Tang will be a speaker of the programme.

Knowledge Exchange Awards 2015

The Faculty Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards were introduced in 2011 in order to recognize each Faculty’s outstanding KE accomplishment that has made demonstrable economic, social or cultural impacts to benefit the community, business/industry, or partner organizations. Results of the 2015 Faculty KE Awards are now available.

Hong Kong's malaria-ridden past

A KE-funded exhibition titled Fever: The History of Malaria in Hong Kong, co-presented by the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine of HKU and Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, revisits Hong Kong's battle with malaria in the past and alerts people to the prevalence of the disease in other parts of the world.