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• Nobel Laureate in Literature
Mr Gao Xingjian spoke
on contemporary Chinese
literature at the University.
• The Kellogg-HKUST Executive
MBA (EMBA) program was
ranked No.2 in the world in
the
Financial Times
’ global
Executive MBA Ranking survey.
• The renovated Mr and Mrs
Ho Ting Sik Visitor Information
Center opened, using advanced
and user friendly display
technology to provide a
comprehensive source of
University information.
• HKUST held its 22
nd
Congregation,
conferring honorary doctorates
on five distinguished academics
and community leaders.
• Mr Ronnie C Chan, Hang
Lung Group Chairman, shared
his insights on the future of
Mainland China and Hong
Kong in the next decade at the
UC RUSAL President’s Forum.
• The Department of Physics
organized the HKUST IAS
Focused Program on Scattering
Amplitudes, the first major
workshop in Asia devoted to
recent advances in scattering
amplitudes in quantum field
theory, and the HKUST IAS
Symposium on Light Science
and its Applications.
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
• The University’s Fok Ying Tung
Research Institute Building
officially opened at the Nansha
IT Park in Guangzhou and
agreements were signed
on setting up the National
Supercomputer Center in Nansha
and education, research and
industry collaboration projects
to foster knowledge transfer and
research collaboration between
Hong Kong and Mainland China.
• HKUST ranked 16
th
in the World
Global Employability University
Survey and Ranking 2014. The
University took the top spot in
Greater China.
• The Department of Management
hosted the Management and
Organization Review Inaugural
Research Frontier Conference.
• The second HKUST-University
of Southern California Joint
Workshop on Big Data
Applications and HKUST-
University of Southern California
Forum on 3D Printing: Research
and Practice were held.
DECEMBER
