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HKU Graduate School to hold Award Presentation Ceremony

10 Dec 2012

 

A total of 52 research postgraduate students of various disciplines will receive awards on December 12, 2012 (Wednesday) at the Award Presentation Ceremony of the Graduate School of the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

The recipients are selected based on the quality of their thesis and academic performance. They include six students for the Li Ka Shing Prize, 10 students for the Awards for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student, and 36 students for the University Postgraduate Fellowships.

In addition, 44 recipients of external prizes including the Croucher Foundation Fellowships/Scholarships, Doris Zimmern HKU-Cambridge Hughes Hall Scholarships, RGC-Fulbright Hong Kong Dissertation Research Programme Fellowships, Hong Kong PhD Fellowships and Johnson & Johnson Asia Outstanding Graduate Thesis Award in Bio-tech have been invited to the ceremony.

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

Date: December 12, 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU

Officiating Guests:
• HKU Vice-Chancellor & President, Professor Lap-Chee Tsui
• HKU Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Vice-President (Research) and Dean of Graduate School Professor Paul Tam
• Mr. Patrick Poon, Member of Board of Directors of HKU Foundation
• HKU Associate Dean of Graduate School Professor Nirmala Rao

For details of the event, please contact Ms Anna Wong of the Graduate School, HKU (tel: 2517 6382; email: annaw@hkucc.hku.hk)

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 (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600 email: melwkwan@hku.hk.