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HKUST 2012-13 Annual Report
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EMINENCE RECOGNIZED
A host of HKUST faculty members were honored
with prestigious national awards for science and
technology. Prof Tianshou Zhao (Mechanical
Engineering), Prof Qian Zhang (Computer Science
and Engineering), and their research teams
received State Natural Science Awards, while
Prof Furong Gao (Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering), Prof Christopher Leung (Civil and
Environmental Engineering), and Prof Matthew
Yuen (Mechanical Engineering), and their
researchers were selected for Higher Education
Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards
(Science and Technology): Natural Sciences,
established by the Ministry of Education.
Profs Ping Sheng, Che Ting Chan and Zhiyu Yang
(Physics) shared the Brillouin Medal awarded
by the International Phononics Society for
their discovery of locally resonant acoustic
metamaterials while Prof Xuhua He (Mathematics)
was awarded the 2013 Morningside Gold Medal
of Mathematics. Prof Vincent Lau (Electronic
and Computer Engineering) received a Croucher
Senior Research Fellowship for his contribution to
wireless technologies.
Individual Schools also support and highlight
their faculty members’ research achievements,
with awards for academics at different stages of
their careers.
During the year, the first Common Core Excellence
Award was presented to inspire faculty, instructors
and staff to enhance holistic education. HKUST’s
Common Core Program encompasses more
than 260 courses in humanities, social analysis,
science and technology, Chinese and English
communication, among others. The inaugural
award-winner was “Music, Drama and Theater”,
taught by Dr Oliver Lo (Humanities). The course
shows students how to create their own musicals.
Honorable mentions were given to “Developing
the Leader in You”, by Prof Karen Lee and
Ms Agnes Lai (Management), and “Physics in
Movies”, taught by Prof Che Ting Chan (Physics).
The Michael G Gale Medal for Distinguished
Teaching, an annual HKUST award highlighting
one faculty member across the University for
outstanding teaching, was presented to
Prof Stephen Nason (Management). Other
established teaching awards are presented by
individual Schools. The Best Ten Lecturers Award,
a student-run annual poll, highlights top teaching
from the learners’ perspective.