On March 14, HKU held a jubilant Alumni Day, a highlight of the University’s 115th-anniversary festivities, drawing more than 5,000 alumni, friends, and family members to the HKU Main Campus.
In an annual tradition that marks the arrival of spring, the University Lodge welcomed nearly 600 members of the HKU community in to admire the cherry blossoms and other floral delights in the gardens.
GLOCAL Connect is an initiative of the Centre of Development and Resources for Students that brings together non-local and local students to help them navigate university life, appreciate different cultures and form lasting friendships.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Sir Andre Geim, the pioneering scientist behind the revolutionary creation of graphene, will join HKU this April as Chair Professor in the Faculty of Science.
HKU continues to attract the brightest minds from around the world, as Professor Ngô Bảo Châu, recipient of the 2010 Fields Medal, will be joining HKU as Chair Professor in the Department of Mathematics.
HKU Libraries opens a revitalised Special Collections and a new Open-View Conservation Laboratory to preserve cultural heritage and to support and advance academic research in Hong Kong and beyond.
The lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth’s atmosphere. HKU and UCLA co-led planetary sciences research uncovers the source of energy that produces these dazzling spectacles.
Great Body Teachers help medical students understand not only the complexities of human anatomy, but also the boundaries of life and death, and the importance of empathy and compassion.
HKU scientists have made a major breakthrough by using a natural magnetic material to achieve negative refraction, without the need for complicated artificial structures, opening the door to imaging, telecommunications, and countless other technologies.
