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Six #scientists from Hong Kong universities will join China’s 41st #Antarcticexpedition for the first time. #CUHK organised the #HongKongscientists to join the #farewellceremony for the #expedition teamon 1 Nov. Details: #polarresearch @CUHKScience
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Huge #congratulations to our #Olympic medalist Vivian! Our “Queen of Swords” and #CUHK Juris Doctor student Vivian Kong has clinched a gold #medal in the Paris Olympics in the women’s épée 🥇, the very first medal from the Hong Kong team in the Paris Games! . Photo credit: SF&OC
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Prof Rocky Tuan, our Vice-Chancellor and President, is named as one of the #PeopleOfTheYear : who mattered in #highereducation in 2019 by @timeshighered.
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The #slimerobot developed by @CUHKengineering can deform, grab objects and move, just like the sci-fi movie creatures. It is expected to be of great value in #medicalapplications, such as removing accidentally swallowed objects. Research findings:
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#CUHK has learned with deep sorrow about the passing of Prof Tang Xiaoou of the Department of Information Engineering. Prof Tang joined CUHK since 1998 and was one of the most influential scientists working in AI field. Details:
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In the newly announced #QSWorldUniversityRankings 2025, #CUHK has achieved a significant milestone by ranking 36th globally. This is an impressive 11-place leap from last year, marking CUHK’s best performance in the league table since it started in 2010.
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Congratulations to Prof Mei-Po Kwan who is the first Asian researcher to receive the 2021 Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography from the American Association of Geographers @theAAG. Details:
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Dinosaur fossils have been discovered in #HK for the first time, capturing public interest. Dr Michael Pittman, CUHK School of Life Sciences Assistant Professor, shares his lifelong passion for dinosaurs, devoting his time to research. Read his story:
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#CUHK has been placed 45th in the newly announced #THEWorldUniversityRankings2023. CUHK’s ranking has risen for three consecutive years, and its strongest performance since it was first listed in 2010.
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Good news! CUHK rises four places to 39th in the 2022 QS World University Rankings. @worlduniranking
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#Congratulations to Prof Philip Chiu from @CUHKMedicine on the nomination for this year’s #SpiritofHongKongAwards in the #innovationcategory. Prof Chiu pioneered endoscopic #roboticsurgery in treatment of #gastrointestinalcancer. Here’s his story!
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.@CUHKMedicine and @ETH Zurich successfully conducted the world’s #first in vivo teleoperated magnetic endoscopy using an animal model, over a distance of 9,300 km between Zurich and HK, study details published in #AdvancedIntelligentSystems. Learn more:
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.@CUHKMedicine has developed the world’s 1st #faecal bacterial #genemarkers test (M3) based on metagenomic analysis of 1100+ #cancer subjects. The sensitivity of this #noninvasivetest is 94% for #colorectalcancer detection, and over 90% for #polyp recurrence detection. @Gut_BMJ.
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Researchers from @CUHKMedicine found #forthefirsttime that #COVID19 patients have active and prolonged gut viral infection even in the absence of #gastrointestinalsymptoms. The study result has impacted the #clinicalmanagement of COVID-19 patients and was published in @Gut_BMJ.
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【Breaks Into #Top50】.CUHK has risen 7 places to No.49 in the #TimesHigherEducation (THE) #WorldUniversityRankings 2022. More on CUHK #Rankings: @THEworldunirank
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In #QSWorldUniversityRankingsbySubject 2022, @CUHKMedicine #Medicine and #Nursing are ranked 29 and 16 in the world, and both are ranked 1st in HK. What’s behind this achievement? @FrancisKLChan has shared his insights. #CUHKOutstandingSubjectSeries
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Today Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming is appointed as the ninth Vice-Chancellor and President of #CUHK for a period of five years from 8 January 2025. Professor Lo is globally renowned as a pioneer, innovator, and leader in liquid biopsy. Details:
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CUHK President Prof. Rocky S. Tuan and Prof. Gang Li of @CUHKMedicine are the first scholars in HK earning the honour of 2021 Fellows of the @ORSsociety, in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of #musculoskeletalresearch. Details:
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#CUHK has risen to a record high of 53rd place, climbing 29 places from 2020 to be ranked No. 1 in HK in #BestGlobalUniversitiesRankings2023 by the @usnews. CUHK also ranked in the top 50 worldwide in 11 subjects.
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#Congratulations to Prof Katalin Karikó(@kkariko) on receiving the 2023 #NobelPrize in Medicine! Her research has led to the development of the #mRNA #COVIDvaccines.#CUHK awarded Prof Karikó an honorary degree for her life-saving achievements in Aug.
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CUHK researchers from @CUHKengineering and @CUHKMedicine develop a new #goldnanoparticle, which can downregulate the genes that are linked to epidermis hyperproliferation and inflammation, as a self-therapeutic treatment for #psoriasis. @NanoLetters
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The 2023 #FutureSciencePrize Laureate Lecture was successfully held yesterday. #CUHK alumnus Dr Kaiming He (2011 PhD of Information Engineering) delivered a lecture and shared insights on "Deep Residual Learning and How It Shaped the #AI Landscape" with over 160 participants.
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The int. renowned geographer, Prof. Kwan Mei-Po, is determined to integrate sustainability into college education as the first female head of Chung Chi College. She offers an example of how students can practice sustainability. Details: #CUHKinFocus
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Researchers from @CUHKMedicine have recently analysed data from over 1,000 #COVID19 patients in Hong Kong and #liverinjury was found in around 20% of the patients, suggesting that liver function monitoring is important. Findings were published in @Gut_BMJ
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2021 Times Higher Education (THE) results are out now! CUHK rises 1 place to No.7 in the @timeshighered Asia University Rankings. #THEUniRankings @THEworldunirank
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.@LIGO and @ego_virgo announce the first detection of #gravitationalwaves by the most massive #blackholecollision. Profs Tjonnie Li and Juan Calderon Bustillo of @CUHKScience lead the only group in HK involved with the work of @LIGO. #GW190521 @PhysRevLett @AAS_Publishing.
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The CUHK 60th anniversary commencement ceremony will be held at 8pm on 12 Feb (Sun). A series of wonderful performances with state-of-the-art technology displays will be presented. Witness this historic #CUHK60 moment through live broadcast at
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Congratulations to CUHK JD student Vivian Kong for winning the women’s #épée gold at The Asian Fencing Championships 2022. Vivian claimed the #Asianchampionship in 2018 and she now becomes the first HK #fencer who to have won the Asian Championships gold medal twice.
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With 137.3 hectares of hillside space, #CUHK has one of the most beautiful campuses in all of HK. Help us share the #beauty of our University and set the scene with your very own #CUHKPalette. Watch the video for a few inspiring palettes, and find one of your own on campus.
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CUHK has been placed 38th in the newly announced #QSWorldUniversityRankings 2023. The rise to 38th place is one higher than last year’s ranking and represents CUHK’s strongest performance in over a decade. @worlduniranking Details:
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#CUHK held its #InformationDay for #UndergraduateAdmissions today, drawing about 47,000 visitors to the campus. It was the first Information Day held at CUHK in face-to-face mode since 2019. The event included talks introducing different admission routes.
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Prof Li Zhang of @CUHKERG has developed a strategy that selects the optimised bio-inspired #microrobotic swarms in different bio-fluids. It is an important intermediate step from a fundamental understanding of microrobotic swarms to their #clinic #applications. @NatureComms.
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“CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s #PhDScholarship Scheme” is launched to support #outstandingstudents to study a #PhD at CUHK in 2020-2021. Selected students will receive studentships of HK$216,300 per annum and scholarship of HK$80,000 to realise their study goals.
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In the newly published #QSWorldUniversityRankingsbySubject 2024, eight #CUHK subjects secure the top position in Hong Kong, and 19 subjects rank among the top 50 in the world. More about #CUHKrankings: @worlduniranking
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The 2nd term of the 2019-20 academic year has started this week. Prof Rocky Tuan, our Vice-Chancellor and President, issued an open letter to welcome all students back to the campus to continue their academic and intellectual pursuits. #NewBeginningAtCUHK
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#Medicalresearchers at @CUHKMedicine are making headway across diverse fields, from the #gutmicrobiome to #lungcancer as well as exploring new frontiers in #epigenetics. Discover more from the feature article on @NaturePortfolio: .#CUHKInnovation
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Distinguished #NobelLaureate Prof #CNYang will soon enter his 100th year. CUHK will host a series of #academicevents including #conferences, #exhibition and #publiclectures to introduce his remarkable #academicachievements and contributions. @Tsinghua_Uni
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There are lots of canteens at #CUHK. Does everyone know their business ideas behind? #cafe330 is the first #socialenterprise at CUHK aiming to promote #holistichealth. #TheUnitedCooperativeTuckShop was founded to empower unemployed, underprivileged women.
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To contribute to HK’s #innovation agenda, CUHK has established six InnoHK Centres covering #health, #biomedicine, #robotics and #AI, which apply CUHK’s world-class #researchdiscoveries to generate #translationalimpact on a local, national and global scale.
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#CUHK held 91st Congregation for the Conferment of Degrees today. 531 doctoral degrees, 7597 master’s degrees & 5190 bachelor’s degrees were conferred.5 distinguished people were awarded honorary degrees in recognition of their outstanding contributions.
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CUHK researchers enable navigation and localisation of #microrobotic swarms in blood vessels. The new strategy tackles the challenges of swarm navigation and real-time swarm localisation in medical applications. Details: @CUHKengineering.
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CUHK @meipokwan has received the James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in #AppliedGeography for her multidisciplinary, paradigm-shifting contributions to applied geography. She is the first Chinese and the third female scholar to receive the highest honour bestowed by @theAAG.
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A new era. A #refreshed CUHK brand. Founded on 17 Oct 1963, today marks the 1 year countdown to CUHK’s 60th anniversary. To prepare the University for the advent of the new “jiazi” (甲子) and the decades to come, CUHK today launched a brand refresh. More:
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In #QSWorldUniversityRankingsbySubject 2022, 21 subjects at CUHK ranked in #top50. Anthropology, Communication & Media Studies, Computer Science & Information Systems, Medicine, Nursing, Philosophy, Theology, Divinity & Religious Studies ranked 1st in HK.
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Professor Sir Charles K. Kao, the third Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics passed away on 23 September 2018, at the age of 84. CUHK is profoundly saddened and conveys its deepest condolences to his family.
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CUHK will host @Stanford’s Bing Overseas Studies Program @stanfordbosp in Hong Kong. Prof Harry Elam, Senior Vice Provost for Education of Stanford University and Prof Rocky Tuan, CUHK Vice-Chancellor signed an agreement today to mark the beginning of the milestone collaboration.
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#CUHK awarded the degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, to Prof Katalin Karikó @kkariko, #mRNA #vaccine pioneer, in recognition of her significant scientific discoveries and life-saving achievements. #Congratulations! Details:
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.@clarivate announced the result of #HighlyCitedResearchers 2021. Several CUHK professors have been listed! They demonstrated significant and broad influence in their field(s) of study through the publication of multiple #highlycitedpapers which ranked in the top 1% by citations.
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CUHK’s engineering team has built an #AI #navigationsystem that can make millions of #microrobots autonomously reconfigure their motion and distribution according to environmental changes, such as going around obstacles inside a human body. @NatMachIntell
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#CUHK will host the THE Asia Universities Summit with @timeshighered on 21-23 June 2023 in #HongKong. Themed “the Future Asian #University in 2050”, it will delve into university partnerships and alliances, research strategies and emerging #megatrends.
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In the newly released #BestGlobalUniversitiesRankings by U.S. News & World Report, #CUHK has attained the top position in HK for the second consecutive year, and risen to a record high of 42th in the world. 8 #CUHKsubjects are ranked among #top50. @usnews
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CUHK team #CloudPlayers recently won the #championship at the @Huawei #ICTCompetition, which attracted more than 600 students from universities in HK. Fourth-year PhD in statistics Zhang Wenyu achieved the highest score among over 600 participants.
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Professors Dennis Lo, Allen Chan, and Rossa Chiu from @CUHKMedicine have been named among the “Top 20 #TranslationalResearchers of 2020” by @NatureBiotech. The trio are the only #scholars from HK on the list and it’s the 5th consecutive year for Prof Lo to receive this honour.
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As spring warms and flowers bloom, when our busy lives leave us exhausted, it's time to pause and appreciate the blossoming beauty of the #CUHK campus, to embrace the vitality of nature, and to find a moment of tranquility for our body and mind.
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Congratulations to Prof Raymond Yeung who is the first Asian researcher to receive the “IEEE 2021 Richard W. Hamming Medal” for his exceptional contribution to network communication and pioneering development of the BATS code. @CUHKengineering Details:
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In the 'Reuters Asia Pacific's Most Innovative Universities' ranking, CUHK has been Hong Kong's most innovative universities for four years in a row.
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#CUHK has placed 47th in the 2024 #QSWorldUniversityRankings. It represents the 8th consecutive year that CUHK has ranked in the world's top 50, which once again validates our position as a #globalleader in #research and #education. @worlduniranking
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Should we get vaccinated or not? There has been false information on COVID-19 vaccines spreading around. We've invited different experts from CUHK - Dr Fung Hong, the Chief Executive Officer of CUHK Medical Centre, to share with us accurate medical info:
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In the newly released #QSWorldUniversityRankingsbySubject 2023, eight #CUHK subjects rank 1st in HK, and 13 CUHK subjects rank among the top 50 in the world. More about #CUHKrankings: @worlduniranking
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#Congratulations to the 15 #CUHK professors who have received #funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#NSFC) to further support their #research projects! Details:
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#CUHK, @cuhksz and the #ShenzhenMunicipalGovernment signed a #tripartite supplementary #agreement at a special ceremony held yesterday at the Government House of the HKSAR for further #collaborations on #education, #research and #technologytransfer.
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Welcome #XueLong2 to HK! China’s first domestically built #polaricebreaker and the 40th Chinese Antarctic Expedition Team arrived in HK today for a historic visit. #CUHK is the only academic partner for it. Prof Rocky S. Tuan and representatives attended the welcoming ceremony.
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How the Red Sun Rose authored by the late PRC #historian Gao Hua, translated by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian, and published by @CUHKPress received an Honorable Mention for the 2020 Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize. @AASAsianStudies
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A cross-disciplinary research team from @CUHKengineering & @CUHKMedicine develops retrievable nanorobots for targeted and enhanced thrombolysis, potentially saving stroke patients from brain damage. Published in #ScienceAdvances #ScienceRobotics. Details:
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A CUHK research team has recently devised a novel fabrication method for #softrobots that potentially enable flexible #shapedeformation and #multifunctionality in #environmentalsensing and #medicaltasks, after assembling different functional modules.
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CUHK has been placed 44th in the newly released #THEWorldUniversityRankings2025, its best performance ever, soaring nine spots from last year. This marks the ninth consecutive year in the world’s top 100 universities. Details:
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#CUHK60 #ThenandNow: “Gentleman Tower” and “Lady Tower” are two eye catching landmarks at #CUHK. They were built in New Asia College in 1972 and at United College in 1970 respectively to address the water supply need.
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Congratulations to two CUHK members who have been awarded #TenOutstandingYoungPersons 2021. Dr Jeremy Teoh of @CUHKMedicine led the development of a consensus statement on #ERBT for #bladdercancer treatment. Vivian Kong is an épée fencer who clinched bronze at the #NationalGames.
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The Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year Award showcases and celebrates the most recent #breakthroughsinscience and society from all around the world. This year, 4 CUHK researchers were shortlisted as finalists for the #Award. @Falling_Walls
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8 CUHK students who excel in academic performance and possess a passion for #innovationandtechnology have been awarded the Innovation and Technology #Scholarship 2022, one of the most prestigious #academicawards in HK.
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CUHK is ranked once again No. 1 in HK and No. 10 worldwide in #ComputerScience in the #BestGlobalUniversitiesRankings by @usnews 2022. The ranking covers a total of 43 #subjectrankings and evaluates nearly 1,750 #universities. @CUHKengineering Details:
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#Congratulations to Prof Juliana Chan from @CUHKMedicine on the nomination for this year’s #SpiritofHongKongAwards. Prof Chan has spent decades on the frontline of #diabetesresearch and wanted to #empowerpatients to take ownership of their health.
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CUHK is pleased to learn in the results of “Research Assessment Exercise 2020” announced by the University Grants Committee that our research performances were judged as being of “world leading / internationally excellent” standard in many disciplines:
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CUHK is ranked 1st in HK and 55th in the world in the @AppliedHE Rankometer #WorldUniversityRankings. This is a brand new world university ranking launched by AppliedHE (, combining the world’s influential university rankings into a single benchmark.
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People living with #HIV have twice the risk of healthy individuals of developing cardiovascular disease. @CUHKMedicine have evaluated the effectiveness of a simple tool #ARIA technology for assessing #cardiovascularrisk in people living with HIV.
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#CUHK has been placed 6th in the Times Higher Education (#THE) Asia University Rankings 2023 by @timeshighered . This is the sixth consecutive year that it has been ranked among the Asia’s top 10, as well as its strongest performance since it was first listed in 2013.
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#ThenandNow: Lake Ad Excellentiam in #ChungChiCollege has gradually evolved from the Lily Pond in the 1960s into one of the #CUHK landmarks of today. Learn more about the milestones of #CUHK60 at
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CUHK #palaeontologist have refined their understanding of the lifestyles of #earlybirds and their closest flying relatives by comparing their foot shapes with living birds. It was found that #Microraptor had a specialised lifestyle similar to living hawks.
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Prof. Helen Chan of @cuhknursing has been inducted into the 2021 Class of Fellows of @AAN_Nursing for her outstanding achievements and contributions to #nursing education and research. She is the only inductee from Hong Kong this year. Congratulations! 👏 @Helen_YLChan
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Congratulations to Professor Huang Chaoran from the Department of Electronic Engineering who has won the Optica (formerly OSA) Foundation 20th Anniversary Challenge for her pioneering research on integrated photonic neuromorphic processor.
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In the #THEWorldUniversityRankingsbySubject 2024, 11 subjects at #CUHK are ranked in the #top100intheworld, while seven of them have moved up in the subject rankings. Details: @THEworldunirank
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CUHK-led projects, “Centre for #MedicalEngineering of Molecular and Biological Probes” and “#Aging, Skeletal Degeneration and Regeneration”, got approved for a funding of over HK$140 million in the 9th round of the #AreasofExcellence Scheme under the #UniversityGrantsCommittee.
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.@CUHKMedicine reports a #groundbreakingdiscovery that children with #autismspectrumdisorder showed delayed #gutmicrobiome maturity compared with typically developing children. The research team also identifies faecal bacterial markers for autism. @Gut_BMJ
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The amazing bluegrass concert at #CUHK has ended, leaving us mesmerized by the incredible talent of #CUHK and @bereacollege student musicians! They transported us to the world of Appalachian #bluegrass, old-time, and country #music with captivating performances.
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Holding a #scalpel in an #operatingtheatre, #surgeons often have to stay focussed for 30 hours. What does it take to become a surgeon? Prof Jeremy Teoh of @CUHKMedicine will talk to us about the challenges and what he learnt as a surgeon. #staytuned.
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#hotoffthepress CUHK has leaped 3 positions to 55th place in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. @timeshighered #THEUniRankings @THEworldunirank
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CUHK VC Prof Rocky S. Tuan has been elected as an #InternationalFellow of the 2021 #FellowClass (FTERM) of the #TERMIS, one of the most distinguished honours accorded in the #tissueengineering and #regenerativemedicine field. He is the first-ever HK scholar to be named a FTERM.
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The Academic Impact Rankings of Global Scientists 2023 (Career-long impact) was recently announced. 134 #CUHKscholars are listed. Professors Dennis Lo and Kwan Mei-po are ranked no. 1 in their respective fields. #Congratulations! #AcademicImpact #CUHK
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Prof @Siew_C_Ng from @CUHKMedicine is named the #CroucherProfessor in #MedicalSciences, the very first named professorship bestowed in the name of @croucherFDN. Prof Ng delivered her inaugural lecture Prof Ng’s achievement:
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