HKUST Annual Report 2016-17

34 HKUST 2016-2017 Annual Report BUILDING KNOWLEDGE The School of Business and Management shared its knowledge and expertise through public presentations by faculty members. The School also invited well-known local and global leaders to deliver talks on topical issues to classes or in open seminars. Such occasions not only enriched the student learning experience, but also forged closer connections with the business community. In 2016, Prof Sir Christopher Pissarides, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics and the first Nobel Laureate to join the HKUST faculty, delivered a talk on the impact of Brexit. In 2017, the School’s long- established BizInsight@HKUST presentation series partnered with United Overseas Bank and Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO to organize a series of open seminars, examining the impact and opportunities of the One Belt One Road initiative in different Southeast and Central Asian markets. HKUST participated in an “Evening Forum” in September 2016 to exchange views and insights on Hong Kong’s innovation and technology development with the aim of engaging young students and the public in science and technology. The forum was held as part of “InnoTech Expo 2016”, a large scale innovation and technology event organized by Our Hong Kong Foundation with support from the Ministry of Science and Technology. Public lectures on a range of subjects were presented by Division of Humanities faculty in partnership with the Hong Kong Museum of History throughout the year. DRIVING FORWARD GLOBAL VISION The University continued to receive an encouraging response from the community to its Global Vision campaign, launched in conjunction with HKUST’s 25th Anniversary. Donors provided generous support for new infrastructure, professorships, research, scholarships, and other programs. As part of the campaign, the University received a gift from the Tsang Shiu Tim Charitable Foundation to support the construction of a new indoor sports center. The center is one of the major Student Life projects of the fund-raising drive, seeking to promote sports development and enhance students’ overall campus experience. Named professorships enable significant recognition to be bestowed on eminent academics. Over the year, the University established two professorships for promising young faculty, following donations from The S H Ho Foundation Limited and Drs Tai-chin Lo and Tony Tai respectively. HKUST research projects also attracted a number of contributions, an indication of the community’s recognition of the University’s achievements in new knowledge building. HSBC 150th Anniversary Charity Programme funded a personalized real-time air quality informatics system project while the Lee Hysan Foundation made a donation toward research to develop treatments for Alzheimer’s disease focusing on the Chinese population. Other benefactors included Lee Kum Kee Family Foundation, Tanoto Foundation, Kingworld Medicines Group, iFlight Technology Company Limited, and Kerry Holdings Ltd. Further contributions enhanced student, entrepreneurship and other University development. Mrs Lee Fung Kung Wah supported the establishment of a student mentoring center in the School of Business and Management. Generous donations were also received from Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Ltd for research and facility development and from alumnus Mr Yeung Wing Yee, Tin Ka Ping Foundation, and High Fashion Charitable Foundation. In the sixth “Science-for-Lunch” talk series, six HKUST professors shared their discoveries and innovative technologies related to a novel drug injection method, stem cells, big data, quantum computing, drone technology, and water quality forecasting.