Knowledge Exchange (KE) Awards 2012

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. Following the successful launch of the Faculty KE Awards, the KE Award (Non-Faculty Unit) has been introduced this year with the same objective for the independent centres, institutes and units of the University.

The following colleagues have won the Faculty KE Awards of their respective Faculties in 2012:

• Faculty of Architecture:
  Mr John C H LIN
  for the "Taiping Bridge Renovation Project"
• Faculty of Arts:
  Dr Peter CUNICH
  for the "Witness to War Project"
  Dr Chung Mou SI
  for the "Incorporating Culture Elements into Chinese Language for Schools in the Chinese Communities" project
  
  (Note: The Ad Hoc Faculty KE Award Selection Committee of the Faculty of Arts recommended that the Award this year be shared equally between the two nominees. According to the guidelines, no more than one Award will be made by each participating Faculty. Exceptional approval has been given by the KE Executive Group for this special case, without setting a precedent.)

• Faculty of Business and Economics:
  Dr James P VERE
  for his work on "Social Mobility and Economic Policy in Hong Kong"
• Faculty of Dentistry:
  Professor Edward C M LO and team members - Dr C J SENEVIRATNE, Dr Xiaoli GAO, Professor L J JIN, Professor L P SAMARANAYAKE and Dr Susan BRIDGES
  for the "Enhancing Student Learning of Biological Sciences through Capacity Building of Secondary School Science Teachers" project
• Faculty of Education:
  Professor Mark BRAY
  for the project entitled "Confronting the Shadow Education System: What Government Policies for What Private Tutoring?"
• Faculty of Engineering:
  Professor Yuguo LI and team members - Professor Dennis LEUNG, Mr HN LAM, Dr QIAN Hua, Dr XIE Xiaojian and Dr LIU Li
  for the "Ventilation for Better Infection Control in Hospitals" project
• Faculty of Law:
  Mr Thomas K H CHENG
  for his work on "The Introduction of Competition Law in Hong Kong"
• Faculty of Science:
  The Junior Science Institute Teaching Team - Dr B C H HAU, Dr Z LIU, Prof L S CHAN, Dr H C CHIU, Dr T W NG, Dr S P YUNG, Prof K M TSANG, Dr C W WONG, Dr K H CHAN, Dr N K TSING, Dr Y M CHAN, Dr Y K LAU, Prof W S CHEUNG, Dr G HAN, Prof W ZANG, Dr W K CHING, Dr A P L TONG, Dr E L M WONG, Prof W K CHAN, Dr C S C LO, Dr K F LAM, Dr A B DJURISIC, Dr S BEVAN and Mr S L CHEUNG
  for the "HKU Junior Science Institute"
• Faculty of Social Sciences:
  Professor Paul S F YIP
  for the "Population-based Suicide Prevention Programme in the Community" project

Individual faculties have the flexibility to decide whether to conduct a Faculty KE Award exercise in a particular year, taking into account the faculty's KE developments. In this connection, the Medical Faculty has decided to conduct the KE Award exercise on a biennial basis.

The recipient of the KE Award (Non-Faculty Unit) in 2012 is:

• Mr David PALMER and members of the Hub Team (University Libraries) – Mr Chun-yue LO, Mr Francis POON, Ms Eliot LIU, Ms Linda CHAN, Ms Joan SIA and Ms Judy TSOU
  for "The HKU Scholars Hub" project

My heartiest congratulations to all the colleagues concerned on their achievements in KE.

Professor Paul Tam
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research)
Director, Knowledge Exchange Office