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HKU weekly notice (from March 8 to 14, 2014)

07 Mar 2014

 

Three Minute Thesis (3MT^®) Competition 2014
33 research postgraduate (MPhil and PhD) students will participate in the Competition this year.  10 finalists to be shortlisted from the heats will enter the final competition to compete for 5 prizes.  Each candidate will have only 3 minutes to explain his/her research project, using no more than one static PowerPoint slide and in language that is appropriate to a non-specialist audience.  Apart from the top three winners, there will be a People’s Choice Award, to be determined by audience ballot at the final competition.  In addition, the Online People’s Choice Award will be opened for voting via YouTube after the event to promote the 3MT concept to young researchers and the public.

Prof. Paul Y. S. Cheung, Associate Vice-President of HKU, will be the officiating guest of the Competition.  The adjudicating panel will comprise both internal and external members.  Dr Laura King, Arts Engaged Research Fellow of the University of Leeds, Mr Man Cheuk Fei, HKU Council Member, and Ms Linda Yeung, Education Editor of the South China Morning Post, are the external members on the adjudicating panel of the final competition. 

Date: March 11, 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 3:00 – 4:30pm (Final Competition)
Venue: Wang Gungwu, Graduate House, HKU
Remarks: The Competition will be conducted in English

For presentation schedule and topics, please visit: http://www.ke.hku.hk/hku3mt/pdf/A_3MT2014_Schedule_of_Presentations_Heats_20140224.pdf

For details, please visit the 3MT website at http://www.ke.hku.hk/hku3mt/.  For enquiries, please contact the Knowledge Exchange Office (tel: 2299 0172; email: keoffice@hku.hk).

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition: “Surviving Evil: The Pictorial Language of Sara Atzmon”
The Hong Kong Holocaust and Tolerance Centre, the University Museum and Art Gallery and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong are organising a major exhibition in Hong Kong of artworks by Sara Atzmon, a Shoah (Holocaust) survivor who was born in Hungary and now resides in Israel. Ms. Atzmon’s artworks, many of which are large-scale, highly impactful paintings, reflect the artist’s memories of her horrible experiences during the Shoah. In 1944, Ms. Atzmon was first deported to Auschwitz and from there she was sent to Bergen-Belsen under terrible circumstances.

As an adult, Ms. Atzmon became a talent painter dedicated to use her, often very dramatic and explicit, paintings, to bring awareness to the cruel times in our fairly recent past, and to educate a young generation to treasure and practice tolerance, and foster understanding and compassion between people of different religions and cultural backgrounds.

Period: February 26, 2014 (Wednesday) to May 4, 2014 (Sunday)
Opening Hours:  09:30 to 18:00 (Monday – Saturday); 13:00 – 18:00 (Sunday). Closed on University and Public Holidays
(For details, please visit http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/about_us.html)
Venue: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong (For location, please visit: http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/location.html)
Tel: (852) 2241 5500 (General Enquiry)
Free Admission

For media enquiries, please contact:
Miss Elena Cheung (Communication Officer), Tel: (852) 2241 5512, Email: elenac@hku.hk       

For details of the exhibition, please contact:
University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong, Tel: 2241 5500, Email: museum@hku.hk.