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HKU Graduate School to hold Award Presentation Ceremony

08 Dec 2013

 

A total of 56 research postgraduate students of various disciplines will receive awards on December 9, 2013 (Monday) at the Award Presentation Ceremony of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) Graduate School. The recipients are selected based on the quality of their thesis and academic performance.

The award recipients include 6 students for the Li Ka Shing Prize, 10 students for the Awards for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, 40 students for the University Postgraduate Fellowships.

In addition, 48 awardees have received other prizes, such as Hong Kong PhD Fellowships, the Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Scholarships, RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Dissertation Research Programme Fellowships and Three Minute Thesis Competition Awards are also invited to attend the ceremony.

For details of the awardees, please visit:http://www.cpao.hku.hk/media/Brochure_content_2013.doc

Members of the media are cordially invited to cover the ceremony, the details are:

Date:       December 9, 2013 (Monday)
Time:       4:30 p.m.
Venue:    Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU

Officiating Guests:
HKU Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Vice-President (Research) and Dean of Graduate School Professor Paul Tam
Professor Rosie T.T. Young, Chairman of the HKU Foundation
Mr C.F. Man, HKU Council Member
HKU Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Studies of Graduate School Professor Nirmala Rao

For details of the event, please contact Ms Tracy Cheung of Graduate School, HKU (tel: 25480486; email: tracy-cheung@hku.hk)

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office (tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk)