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51 Postgraduate Students to receive Prizes at HKU Graduate School Award Presentation Ceremony

08 Dec 2008

A total of 51 research postgraduate students of various disciplines will receive awards on Thursday (December 11, 2008) 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 (2006-2007), 10 students for the Awards for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student (2006-2007), 32 students for the University Postgraduate Fellowships (2008-2009), and 3 students for the Mrs Li Ka Shing Postgraduate Scholarships (2008-2009).

To further encourage academic research, starting from 2005-06, the Li Ka Shing Prize has been 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 1991 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 11, 2008 (Thursday)

Time:     4:00pm

Venue:   Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU

Officiating Guests:

• HKU Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President Professor Paul Tam
• Dr Philip Wong, Chairman of The University of Hong Kong Foundation for Educational Development and Research
• HKU Dean of Graduate School Professor Anthony Yeh

For enquiries, please contact Miss Karen Wu, Executive Officer, Graduate House, HKU (Tel: 2857 2160 /E-mail: karenck@hku.hk )