HKUST 2005-2006 Annual Report
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his academic year is a watershed. It marks the end of HKUST’s
first 15 years as a young, dynamic university and the beginning
of our next 15 years of progress towards world-class excellence.
Coincidentally, it also marks the end of my first term as president
of this great university. I am deeply honored that the Council has
given me three more years to help steer the university towards its
next summit.
We are a young university. But we have big dreams for Hong Kong
and beyond. In our first lap, we have outrun ourselves. Our jury of
peers has judged us a top-performing university. Now within shouting
distance of academic greatness, we must not just aspire, but perspire,
to reach it.
2005-06 was a singularly successful year. Our signal excellence
is right across the board, from student to faculty, from alumni
to researchers. Late in 2005, for example, our Kellogg-HKUST
Executive Master of Business Administration Program was ranked
second in the world by the
Financial Times
. Our Engineering School
has been consistently ranked among the world’s top 25 since 2004.
Many say that HKUST owes its prestige to its prowess in science,
engineering and business management. But our strength extends
to humanities and social science as well. This year, Professor
Pun Ngai of the Division of Social Science became the first
Asian to win the prestigious C. Wright Mills Award, and
Professor X L Ding the first Chinese to be appointed by
the Washington DC-based Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace as its academic representative
to China.
We also shine in our past graduates. Our alumni
Miss Jenny Yeung and Dr Jack Lau were the winners
of the Young Engineer Award 2006, and Young
Industrialist Award of Hong Kong 2005 respectively.
Two of our MPhil students in computer science
took the Microsoft championship, while our
dual degree program walked away with the
Lucent Global Science Award two years
in succession.
本
學年是科大的分水嶺，標誌我們從年
青、動力澎湃的頭十五年，踏上茁壯
和成熟的新階段，向世界頂尖高峯邁
進。今年亦是我首個任期結束的一年，我非常榮
幸得到校董會委以重任，在未來三年，帶領科大
續創高峰。
科大是一所年青學府，活力十足，胸懷大志，為
香港以至世界作出貢獻的大志。科大在很短時間
內脫穎而出，成為同儕公認的優秀大學。雖然學
術成就人所共見，但我們更應努力不懈，不斷
精進。
2005-06年度的確是非凡的一年，不論是師生、
校友以至研究人員都取得卓越成就。2005年底，
Kellogg －科大的行政工商管理學碩士課程，在
《金融時報》的全球排名高踞第二位；工學院自
2004年以來，亦一直穩站全球25大前列位置。
不少人說，科大聲名鵲起，有賴理學院、工學院
及工商管理學院的優秀表現，但我們人文社會科
學學院的優秀實力，其實亦不遑多讓。今年，社
會科學部的潘毅教授，榮獲C Wright Mills獎
項，是首位贏得此項殊榮的亞洲學者。另外，
丁學良教授成為首名華人，獲美國卡內基國際
和平基金會，委任為在華合作項目代表。
