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HKU weekly notice (from March 15 to 21, 2014)

14 Mar 2014

 

HKU to hold Long Service Award Presentation Ceremony for senior staff members
The Long Service Award Presentation Ceremony of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) for academic and senior administrative staff members will be held on March 17(Monday) in Loke Yew Hall. The Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui will officiate at the ceremony to present awards to over 400 staff members to thank them for their dedication, commitment and loyalty to the University.

In addition to the 40, 35 and 25-year awards, this year’s Long Service Award will be extended to staff members who have served the University for 15 years. The number of awardees amounts to over 400. There will be one member receiving the 40-year award, five members the 35-year award, 20 members the 25-year award, and 411 members the 15-year award.

For the list of awardees, please visit:
http://www.cpao.hku.hk/events/longservice/2014/LSAI/LSAIlistof2014awardees.pdf

Details of the Award Presentation Ceremony are as follows:
Date: March 17, 2014 (Monday)
Time: 3:00 pm
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, Main Building, HKU

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) Tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk or Ms Melanie Wan (Senior Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) Tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk.

HKU to hold the 190th Congregation to confer honorary degrees upon five outstanding individuals
The Pro-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Dr David Li Kwok Po will confer honorary degrees upon five outstanding individuals at the 190th Congregation to be held on March 18 (Tuesday).

The honorary degree recipients are:

Doctor of Laws honoris causa
WONG Yan Lung

Doctor of Social Sciences honoris causa
Huang Jiefu
Ann HUI On Wah
Walton LI Wai Tat
Thich Nhat Hanh

Honorary Degrees are awarded to individuals in recognition of their distinguished service and commitment to the University, the community, and to academia. They are also conferred to those who have made valuable intellectual, social and cultural contributions to society and the world.

Details of the 190th Congregation are as follows:
Date: March 18, 2014 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, HKU
**Photographers should bring their long lenses and not to use flashlight in Loke Yew Hall

For photos of the honorary degree recipients, please visit: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1ktbm7fjs23irka/lGmt7pXT7z

For the biographies of the recipients and details of the 190^th congregation, please visit: http://www4.hku.hk/hongrads/

For media enquiries, please contact: Ms Trinni Choy, Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office, tel: 2859 2606 email: pychoy@hku.hk; Ms Melanie Wan, Senior Manager (Media), tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk; or Ms Rhea Leung, Manager (Media), tel:(852) 2857 8555, email: rhea.leung@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.

Exhibition 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.