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HKUST 2011-2012 Annual Report
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Two
receptions were held for
consul-generals
from 21 countries
to introduce HKUST’s strategic plan
and to forge closer relations.
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The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA
program was ranked the
world’s
no. 1 emBa program
by the
Financial Times
2011 EMBA global
rankings. It was the third year in a
row that the program occupied the
top spot.
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HKUST hosted the
first asia
regional Jamboree for the
international genetically
engineered machine
competition
, an undergraduate
Synthetic Biology competition
launched by MIT.
nov
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The
topping-out ceremony
for the HKUSt Fok Ying tung
graduate School Building
in
Nansha was held. The building
strengthens the University’s
education and research footprint in
Mainland China.
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A session of
international Poetry
nights in Hong Kong 2011
was
held by the Division of Humanities
at HKUST, featuring well-known
poets from Asia, Europe, North and
South America.
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Speakers from Purdue University,
Northwestern University, and
Emerson Network Power took part
in the
HKUSt research Forum
.
The gathering helped to foster
interdisciplinary collaboration.
■
Mr Jimmy Lai, founder of Giordano
and Next Media, kicked off the
second annual HKUSt mBa
entrepreneurs conference
.
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The University’s
20th anniversary
celebration Party
on campus was
attended by Court and Council
Members, faculty, staff, students
and alumni.
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The
citi international case
competition 2011
, sponsored by
Citi Hong Kong and co-organized
by the School of Business and
Management, took place at
the University.
dec
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HKUST, the Hong Kong Academy
of Engineering Sciences and the
Hong Kong Institution of Science
co-organized a high-powered
Science and technology Forum
in
Hong Kong and at HKUST Fok Ying
Tung Graduate School in Nansha
to discuss how to strengthen
collaboration between Hong Kong
and the Pearl River Delta.
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HKUST signed a
memorandum
of understanding with
the guangzhou municipal
government
on education and
research.
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The Division of Life Science held
the
eleventh aearU workshop
on molecular Biology and
Biotechnology
, enabling scientists
to exchange insights on physical
biology.
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The
first international
Symposium on carbon cycling in
china Seas
took place at HKUST.
It was jointly organized by the
Division of Life Science and the
State Key Laboratory of Marine
Environmental Science, Xiamen
University. The symposium received
support from the Croucher
Foundation and KC Wong
Education Foundation.
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HKUST Institute for Advanced Study
pioneered a
one-month topical
research program on arithmetic
geometry and representation
theory
, the first of its kind in
Hong Kong.
