校長報告
President’s Report
6
香港科技大學
2010-2011
年報
HKUST 2010-2011 Annual Report
7
2010, providing one-time seed funding for strategic team-
based and interdisciplinary research. Some 40 proposals
have come in under four categories: Energy, Life Science
and Health-Related, Sustainable Development for Hong
Kong and Frontier Research. They all bear our signature
interdisciplinary approach. Total allocations will exceed
$36 million. Independent reviews are carried out by a star-
studded panel consisting of Nobel laureates and eminent,
visiting IAS scholars.
The reputation of a university rests on the quality of its
students and faculty. In both areas, we try hard to ensure
the caliber of our intake. In faculty recruitment, we are
going global, as we always have. To date, 35 new faculty
members from top universities have come on board.
We are still trawling for more. Talent-scouting is one
reason among many why the Vice-President for
Institutional Advancement and I went to the East Coast
of the US in May this year, visiting 10 universities in three
cities, getting to know more about their leaders and their
graduates.
In student recruitment, our rising international rankings
are like a magnet, attracting high-caliber students from
near and far. This year our non-local intake hits 18 per
cent, the highest in local higher education. This number is
significant and it is almost evenly split between Mainland
and overseas students.
A good university is a global university, and we are global
not only in our student body and faculty composition,
but also in global outreach. This year, we put out our
welcome mat for the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge
and the Presidents of Caltech and Chicago as well as
the Deans from MIT among others. The national and
international media representatives also came calling for
a familiarization visit. Our global partnerships continue to
sprout in leading universities. To name just one, we recently
established a Joint Undergraduate Research Exchange
Program for Engineering Students between HKUST and
Princeton University.
Any talk of global outreach is incomplete without a
reference to our Mainland strategy. We have a good
start in the Pearl River Delta with our HKUST Fok Ying
Tung Graduate School in Nansha, now in talks with the
Guangzhou Government for wide-ranging collaborations.
In Shenzhen our IER building has been completed in
大學的聲譽取決於師生的質素，因此我們致力取錄最優秀的
師生，並繼續在全球各地招聘教學人才。我們至今已新聘了
35
位來自海外著名學府的教師，而且仍在不斷羅致人才。為
此我和副校長（大學拓展）今年
5
月專程前往美國東岸訪問
了三個城市的十所大學，加深對其領導層及畢業生的認識，
有助物色優秀的教研人員。
我們持續上升的國際排名吸引了國內外優秀學生入讀科大。
今年，我們招收的本科生中有18%是非本地學生，是本地高
等學府中的最高比例。科大招收的大量非本地學生中，近半
來自內地，另一半來自海外。
優秀的大學，亦必須是全球化的大學。科大匯聚全球優秀的
學生和教學人員，我們的網絡遍及全球。今年，我們接待到
訪的劍橋大學校長、加州理工學院及芝加哥大學校長，以及
麻省理工學院校長等。地區及國際傳媒的代表亦應邀到訪科
大。我們繼續與世界各地更多知名大學締結夥伴關係，最近
更為科大及普林斯頓大學工程學院的學生共同設立聯校工程
本科生研究交流合作計劃。
談到全球網絡，科大的內地發展策略肯定是其中關鍵的一
環。科大在珠三角南沙成立的霍英東研究院，已有很好的勢
頭；我們同時正與廣州政府磋商一系列的合作項目。深圳產
學研大樓已於今年落成，我們並於華東開設浙江先進製造研
究所，提供了一個集研究、技術創新及技術轉移、以及培訓
當地企業家的平台。有人說21世紀是中國人的世紀，我們
已作好準備，並且樂意悉力參與其中。
科大成立雖然只有
20
年，卻已在全球約
40
個地點建立校友
網絡。
300
多位海外校友為負笈海外的科大畢業生提供旅居
海外的寶貴意見，令畢業生受益不淺。今年上半年，我很高
興能在海外舉行七個校友聚會並與科大畢業生暢談，聚會地
點遍及深圳、上海、新加坡、瑞士、倫敦、洛杉磯、波士頓
及紐約。我們並計劃日後舉辦更多校友聚會。
科大創校
20
年後，建立了本身獨特的文化。「同一科大」
（
1-HKUST
）的理念突顯凝聚力量與發揮協同效應，顯示眾
志成城的力量 — 整體比各個部分的總和更為龐大。學生
方面，我們最近推出「同一科大」學生生活獎，贊助學生舉
辦活動，從而展示他們多方面的才能和團結校園的不同群
體。各學院攜手實踐使命，將學術研究活動融入本科生課程
之中。
為慶祝創校
20
周年，來自不同學系的百多位同學攜手合
作，在短短六個星期內製作了兩場叫好叫座的百老匯音樂劇
— 艾爾頓
‧
約翰/蒂姆
‧
萊斯《阿依達》，不但展示科大學生
的才藝，更反映這所年青科技大學的文化素養。
在短短
20
年間，我們提升了香港的學術研究文化，令市民
加深認識科技對推動經濟轉型的重要性。隨著國家踏上科技
建國的大道，我們的責任亦更加重大。科大已籌劃發展大
計，前路更見清晰。我們已準備就緒、立定志向，勢將奮力
向前，向著目標邁進。
校長
陳繁昌教授
太平紳士
January this year. Further north, the Zhejiang Advanced
Manufacturing Institute of HKUST offers a platform for
research, innovation and technology transfer, as well as
training for local entrepreneurs. The 21st century is said
to be China’s century, and we are ready, willing and able
to be part of it.
Young as we are, we now have the beginnings of a global
alumni network in some 40 locations throughout the
world, with over 300 hosts providing much-appreciated
relocation services to our graduates. I was glad to meet
our graduates at seven overseas alumni gatherings in
the first half of this year, from Shenzhen to Shanghai,
Singapore to Switzerland, and London to Los Angeles,
not to mention Boston and New York. More are planned
for the future.
After two decades, we are ready for own ethos to evolve.
Hence the “1-HKUST” concept, which in essence means
that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Among
students, the newly launched “President’s 1-HKUST
Student Life Award” initiative sponsors student-organized
activities that showcase their multiple talents and draw
together the multiple segments of the campus community.
The Schools, energized by a new spirit, are working
together to advance our mission. This concept also feeds
research into education even at the undergraduate level.
As part of our 20th Anniversary celebrations, a group of
100 students from various disciplines came together to
produce in just six weeks two sold-out performances of
Elton John and Tim Rice’s “AIDA”, a Broadway musical.
They are emblematic of what our students are capable of,
telling the world that, culturally, this young university
has arrived.
In just 20 years, we have raised the research culture in
our city, and roused our community’s interest in our
economic transformation through science and technology.
A weightier mission awaits us, as our nation embarks on
its path to a technological future. The plan is fixed,
the path is clear, and the hour is set. We are ready for
our destiny.
President
Prof Tony F Chan,
JP
