The award recipients include 6 students for the Li Ka Shing Prize (2005-2006), 10 students for the Awards for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student (2005-2006), 30 students for the University Postgraduate Fellowships (2007-2008), and 4 students for the Croucher Foundation's studentship and scholarship (2007-2008).
To further encourage academic research, starting from this year, the Li Ka Shing Prize will be awarded every year to 6 postgraduate degree graduates. Prizes will be awarded to 1 MPhil graduate and 2 PhD graduates of each of the two broad groups of "arts and humanities" and "science and engineering". Established in 1990 by a generous donation from Dr Li Ka Shing, the Prize was previously awarded every two years to 4 postgraduate graduates.
Members of the media are cordially invited to cover the ceremony, the details are:
Date: December 5, 2007 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:00pm
Venue: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, HKU
Officiating Guests:
■ HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui
■ HKU Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Tam
■ HKU Dean of Graduate School Professor Anthony Yeh
For enquiries, please contact Ms Denise Wong, Manager (Media) of External Relations Office, HKU (Tel: 2859 2600 /E-mail: denise.wong@hku.hk)
