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tto心ebalmpresence of the Univer‘sit}r C}1ancellor, Council Chairman and
Vice-C﹜1air司manto do the honors for UST's largest number of graduates to date. This year a total of 2,307 students, including 465 postgraduates, received academic degrees before packed houses of family and friends.
In his second yeai‘的 Chancellor,SAR ChiefExecutive Tung Chee Hwa presided over the final day of the Congregation and bestowed
honoraiγdoctorates on Prof Ambrose Ye。－chiKing, the Hon Antony Kam Chung Leung, Prof Merton H. Miller, Prof Xu Kuangdi and Mr Larry Yung Chi Kin.
The Congregation was opened on 11 November by the Council Chairman, Dr the Hon Sze-Yuen Chung, who presented the first Award for Distinguished Contribution to the University to the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust in appreciation of its life-giving and life-sustaining contributions to the University
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S creation and expansion.The 1998 Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching was awarded to Dr Khaled Ben Letaief (ELEC), and the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body went to former Student Union president Ruby Hau Yuk-yin. This year also saw the presentation of the first MSc degrees in investment management, and the first batch of graduates with minors in humanities and social science. There were 16 winners of the Academic Achievement Award as well.
Dr Khaled Ben Letaief and Presi-dent Chia-Wei Woo (top left);the Chancellor (top right); and the Council Chairman with Mr Alan F. S. Li, Chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club (center).
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dentifManagement Office (EMO) is handling its budget cuts. EMO director Mike Hudson points out that spending covers a wide range of services and activities, varying from those l呵uiredby law to those of a cosmetic nature.
“Our job is to develop and maintain
the best possible physical environment for teaching and research by effectively using available resources;' he says.“
The real skill is in getting the priorities right so that budget cuts have the minimum impact on the users of campus facilities了，Demands on resources are evaluated according to where they stand in the queue of priorities:
• The most important is work that has to be carried out to meet statutory requiremen俗， suchas the maintenance and certification of lifts, and the maintenance of the fire detection and alarm system. There is less room for manoeuver in this area than any other. Howev訓， EMO still managed to cut costs by identifying a bank of lifts that is not in frequent use and suspending its operation, resulting in maintenance and energy savings of more 出an $500,000 a year.
• Next is what Mr Hudson describes as technically essen-tial jobs, such as ensuring the working order of the air conditioning, lighting, power, water and drainage systems. The University's daily routine is disrupted when any of these systems fails as nearly the whole of the academic building is air-conditioned, artificially lit and dependent on running water. Energy bills alone come to about $1 million a week. Again, EMO has managed to cut costs -this time by the use of energy-efficient fluorescent light-ing and occupancy sensors that detect when classrooms are vacant, switching off the air-conditioning automati-cally. These strategies save over $3 million a year in energy costs.
• A third category is made up of hygiene-related activities such as general cleaning, filter cleaning in the air-condi-tioning system and operation of the swimming pool
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s fil-tration plant. EMO scrutinizes the schedule for these operations and saves money by adjusting where possible the frequency with whjch these operations are carried out, while still complying with recognized standards..
Then comes the category of what may be described ashighly desirable but not essential work. Improvements to landscaping, for example, are likely to be deferred in the current economic climate.
Apart from prioritizing, EMO is also introducing multi-skill training for staff and reviewing the way tasks are organized and performed. Efficient computer-based maintenance management systems are being explored to process the 3,000 work orders that are
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completed each month.
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all will have to ，而rodemore cost effec tively and be willing to accept new challenges in order to maintain the quality of service we provide;’Mr Hudson says.He points out that EMO looks after four million square feet of building 訂閱一 imagine60 soccer pitches air-conditioned and full of furniture.
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Our biggest problem is in the future. As the buildings age, maintenance costs will increase. Balancing the needs of customers while prioritizing the funding needed to preserve the University's most valuable financial asset will make a tightrope walk-er's job look easy;' he says.EMO won the worldwide International Facility Management Association's Golden Circles Award last year. The award is presented annually to an organization that shows outstanding performance, provides quality service and contributes to the overall mission of the community that it serves. This was the first time the award was presented to an organization outside the US and the first time it was won by a universi作“Withreduced funding for EMO, the real achievement will be winning the award in 200咒， saysMr Hudson.
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The first World Wide Web Consortium Office in China was inaugurated at UST on 13 November with the aim of promot-ing a concerted effort by companies and institutions in the region to develop a more mature Web environment for Chinese-speaking communities throughout the world. Prof Otto Lin (right), Vice-President for Research and Development, signed the agreement with Dr]
ean-Francois Abramatic, W3C Chairman.ON THE LIGHT SIDE
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Having reached two milestones in recent
years>an age of 60 years and a weight of 220
pounds, I decided that one of these numbers
would have to go down. I would have
pre-ferred it be the former, but could not figure any way to make that happen, so I went for the latter. As a result, I am now closer to 180, having lost 35+ pounds.
As you can appreciate, this has been a
gradual process-well under one pound per
week and most people who know me did
not notice I was getting less massive. Until
recently, that is, when a lot of people have
suddenly wanted to know what my secret is.
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Sorry, there is no secret to a year long weight
loss program follcs. You just eat less than you
used to, and you get used to 祉， becauseyou
are not going to be able to go back to your
old eating habits unless you want to go back
to your old weight. In fact, if you start at 150
and eat what I E泣， youtoo will probably find
yourself moving towards a weight of 180.
Not that I haven
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have swum through the Stillman water di仗， dined carnivorously on the Atkins no
carbohydrate diet, gorged myself on grape
fruit, and swilled cans of 弘1etrical.I even
invented my own fad diet, back in my
beer-drinking days: four bottles of beer and 8
large Dutch pretzels per day. That gives you
about 1200 calories, but it not only doesn't
satisfy your hunger, it doesn't even provide
enough alcohol to give you a good buzz.
While my current program is not based on keeping an accurate count of the calories
I consume, there are some calorie-counting
tips I can pass on from past years of largely futile dieting. First of all, if you eat something and no one sees you eat 泣， ithas no calories.
Furthermore, things licked off knives and
spoons (such as peanut butter on a b吐長， ice
T he School 叫叫 has again
recognized the outstanding teaching
of ten faculty members. Each semest凹，
the School presents Teaching Excellence
Appreciation Awards and, to date, 55 faculty
members have been so honored.
Winners of the Summer 1998 Teaching
Excellence Appreciation Award are Dr Oscar
Au (EEE), Dr Christopher Chao (MECH), Dr
Mark
J.
Davidson (CIVL), Dr MordecaiJ.
Golin(COMP) and Dr I-Ming Hsing (CENG) (top
row); Dr Chin Tau Lea (EEE), Dr Dimitris
Papadias (COMP), Dr Douglas Rigby (CIVL),
Dr Qing-Ping Sun (MECH), and Dr Benjamin
Yen (IEEM) (bottom row).
This is the second teaching award that Drs
Davidson and Golin have received. Dr Davidson was the winner of the 1996 Michael
G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching, and
Dr Galin was recognized as one of the
Univer-sity's top lecturers in the April 1996 poll
conducted by House II students.
In announcing the awards, Dean of
Engineering Ping K. Ko expressed his gratitude
to the awardees
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for their good work andde-votion in striving for teaching excellence
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cream on a spoon) have no calories if you
are in the process of preparing something.
Another well-known fact is that if you drink
a diet soft drink when eating chocolate, the dietsoftdn吋＜cancels out any calories in 出e
chocolate.
There are some special rules for social
occasions. For exampl巴， wheneating with
someone else, your calories don’t count if
you eat less than they do. (Unfortunately, the
reverse is also true一ifyou eat more than
they do, your calories count double.) An
other helpful rule is that movie related foods
such as popcorn and M&Ms do not add
calories because they are part of the entire
entertainment package.
Of course, the ultimate good deal (valid
only here in Hong Kong) is that a meal that
consists solely of dim sum does not have to
be counted at all. It follows that if you order
a dish of vegetables with your dim sum, you
only have to count the calories in the
vegetables. And of course, any fried rice or noodles you have is just something to go
with the vegetable dish, so you can consider their calories as having already been counted.
Bon appetit!
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Campus Calendar
Until 30 Jan I 999 Sculpturing Time and
Space-Yuyu Yang (1926-1997) Library Gallery
Until 6 Dec
Works by Chen Danging
Exposition Hall
3Dec
Alain Robbe-Grillet Film Screenings
Glisseme，山 Progress，β DuPlaisir
7:30 pm LIE 4 Dec
University A征airsLecture on Hong Kong
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s economy ProfK. C. Chan, Prof Leonard Cheng,Dr Francis Lui and Dr K. C. Wei 4pm
Citibank Lecture Theater(LT A) 9 Dec Workshop Performance Theater Workshop 7pm Exposition Hall 23 Dec Payday
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and Professional Education. According to this policy, it is the University's intention to offer
continuing and professional education programs
of an advanced type as a service to industry,
business and the professions. These programs are offered on a self-support basis by the individual
Schools and Departments with overall policy guidance from the Continuing and Professional Education Sub-Committee of the Universit}
Administrati,e Committee. The offering of
regular University credit courses on an extended basis to part-time students is not encompassed
within this definition.
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In any case, we already 日 llour UGCap-proved quota for undergraduates with our full-time program, so we could not o叮eran additional
part-time program using UGC funding. The cost of any such new program would have to passed
on I 00% to the students. We have no plans at this time to introduce such a program.
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…陶 a吋 scient心luablecoral reefs around the wor闕， including some over 1,000 years old, and many
in remote locations, have been badly damaged
by an unprecedented bleaching and die-off in 1988, says UST marine biologist Dr Gregor Hodgson, coordinator of the annual Reef Check Global Survey.
At the Reef Check 98 press conferenc巴， Dr Hodgson enumerated the disturbing results of
the 1998 Reef Check, carried out for the second year by a world-wide network of volunteer
divers trained and led by professional marine scientists.
Preliminary data from almost 40 countries,
up from 31 in 1997, reconfirm last year's
find-ings that coral reefs are severely overfished with stocks of most high-value fish and shellfish such as grouper and lobster heavily or totally
depleted. In Indo-Pacific waters, there was no trace of a local gourmet favor巾， thehumphead wrasse, at 90% of the reefs surveyed, and no
edible sea-cucumbers at 62% of the reefs, a 23%
increase over 1997.
Dr Hodgson described the unprecedented bleaching of coral reefs, observed globally for the first time but with worst impact in the
Indo-Pacific area. This phenomenon occurs when
living corals are vacated by the symbiotic algal cells which are their food source, duet 0 changes in water temperature such a s occurred in 1998-the hottest year on record.
“Unless the
algae return naturally to thecorals, the bleaching problem will only be
solved by reversing the current global
warm-ing trend
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said Dr Hodgson.Further details of Reef Check 98 can be
found at www. 的 t.hk！～仰brc/ReefCheck/
reef html.
New
Graduates in Humanities
and Social Science
Among 由臼serecei aca
UST 治 1998Congregation are some truly
enterprising pioneers, the 白rstgraduates of the
Minor Program in the School of Humanities
and Social Science.
These new graduates-31 in Humanities
and seven in Social Science-not only satisfied
the requirements of their m句orfield of study,
but also earned a minimum of 18 additional
credits in their minor program.
One student, finance m句orLeung Ka Ming,
took five courses in history and anthropology
during his last semester to qualify for the minor.
“
It gives me more options;’he said. "I can teachboth subjects in secondary school, but first I want to work in business for a few years to gain some experience.’,
Of the 38 new HSS graduates, IO further distinguished themselves by earning Dean's List
honors. This recognition is given to students who achieved a cumulative grade-point average of 10 or above (out of 12) in all courses
com-pleted for the minor program.
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[heng Hau Lam E[ON History and Anthropology Cheung Tat Wan MGTOLam King Fung FINA
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Lau Mui Fong A[[I Philosophy and Rel1g1on Ng Tai Wing [PEG
Wong Tsz Man FINA
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s degree in computer science, said:“It broadened my mind. When you study about com puters, it's all about machinery. In studying
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Currently, 136 students are enrolled in HSS這 minorprograms.
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科大“強力出擊”中藥研究
去年3你把傳統中藥研究列入叫 中藥標準化和安全性 地、製備方法有闕，也與用量多少及用藥的 il壁”的項目，期望它對香港和中國內地 的醫學保健及經濟發展產生影響。在香港工 業馨的工業支持基金和科大基金的幫助下， 科大生物技術研究所在夏天正式成立了傳統 中藥中心。同年 ，科大組織了傳統中藥研究 協調小姐2協調管理包括科大生物技術研究 昕傳統中藥中心、香港傳統中藥研究中心、 中藥安全信息中心在內的全校範圍內的設 施、人力及項目 。 目前，科大的中藥研究已 從下列三古面展開． 即使是同一種中藥，其品種不同，就有 對象有關。應用毒理學的方法，評價中草藥 不同的藥效。釐定時1藥品種的標準 ，既困難 的健康風險也屬科大中藥研究之列。 又非常重要。就拿貝母來說l吧，人人都知道 不︱大建立了“中藥文獻資料庫”，收集藥 它是止咳去瘓的要藥， 也知道川貝效用最 物的已知化學成份、對人體的不良反應、劇 生物試驗和藥物開發 好。可是市場上出售的貝母有 25 種之多 ， 其價格亦可相差 100 倍之巨 。科大學者用分 子生物學的方法，通過貝母的基因圖譜 ，借 助指放鑒定的方法來鑒別不同品種的貝母 ， 已取得突破性進展 。 科大研究人員也用高 效被相色譜祖IJ 出當 歸、黃龍、天麻、黨 科大學者分離出五昧子的活性成份 ，研 參的圖譜，並找出了 究了它的抗氧化能力，以及與麥冬、人參、 它們的特徵峰。 靈芝等中藥合用的防治心臟病和抗衰老等功 中國古代就有“毒 效 ，並已在《李錦記》的協助下 2將成藥推向 藥攻邪”的說法3 比如 市場。傳統的中藥食品 龜苓膏，因其清 巴豆、水銀等劇毒的 火去2年的作用而待到民間青睞。科大正和恭 植物、礦物都在傳統 和堂合作，從分于生物學的角度，探索其免 中藥之列。中藥的有 疫功能。天然植物石杉的一種提取物一石 杉自在甲在提高記憶力、治療記 體功能障礙方面具有特殊作 用。學者們正研究有闋的衍生 物 ，致力開發治療早老性癡呆 的新藥。他們也正研究著有止 痛作用的、有助於治療中風、 抗腫瘤、止︱店、治療絕經期綜 合症等疾病的各種中藥。 但哥 大學會否效法港大、中大、遣大及城大，設立持續教育中心，開辦夜間 兼讀本科學位課程？ 勾至F 協理副校長杜家磊教授誼：“按照大學的持續及專業教育的政策，大學希 望為工商及專業界服務，開辦高等持續及專業教育課程。這些課程由院校及學系 自行開辦，自給自足，並由大學行政委員會的持續及專業教育小組指引政策。因 此 ，大學不會為兼讀學生開設正規的學分課。 大學獲教育資助委員會資助的全自制本科生學額已滿，不能再運用教貨會的 資助開辦額外的兼讀課程，所有成本須由學生承擔。我們沒有計訓於此時間辦兼 讀本科課程。” （請將筒題傳真至 23580537 或電子鄧件 genesis•) 同 41) 一九九八年十二月二日 毒藥品的信息和各國進口中藥的安全標準 等。在液相色譜儀、質譜儀等先進檢說︱︱儀端 的幫助下 ，研究人員力圖準確、方便而快速 地測定中藥的成份。 中成藥劑型研究 多少年來 3 一提到中藥 ，人·fl'『聯想到的 就是大包的藥，鞠黑的罐 3 還有彌漫在空氣 裡的濃得化不間的苦澀氣l味。雖然中成藥已 經越來越多，可是不少服用中藥的人還是要 忍受熬藥的不便和楊藥的苦澀。原因在於， 不是昕有古劑都已經製成藥丸 i 再說，有些 方劑製成藥丸後 ，效果不佐。 科大學者希望能將更多湯劑製成藥片或 藥丸，並姐姐改進工藝過程來提高藥效 ， 同 時也致力於改善成藥的日感。例如 ，西洋參 茶的生產。過去廠家都用高溫烘錯的方法來 處理西洋參原藥，而科大所試驗的噴霧乾燥 法 ，在產品的色澤及效用方面 ，都已經得到 廠家的首肯。 科大生物技術研究所昕長葉玉如教授指 出 ，科大的中藥研究集中了生物學、生物化 學、化學及化學工程立于面的各路專家，得到 本港、國際 3 特別是中國內地科學家的廣泛 支持。他們既從事基礎研究，又承接有直接 應用價值的開發項目 ，已經成為本港中藥研 究中的一支勁旅 。7
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第六屆學位頒授典禮
大學於 1 月 11 至 13 日舉行了第六屆學位做典禮。隨著大學 穩步發展 3 今年共 2,307 位（ 1,842 位本科生及 465 位研究生） 畢業生獲頒授學位，數目為歷年之冠。 大學監督、香港行政長官董建華先生主持了第三天的儀式。首 兩天典禮則分別由校董會主席、行政會議召集人鍾士元議員及校董 會副主席羅康瑞博士主持。 五位傑出人士獲大學頒授榮譽博 士學位。他們是金耀基教授、梁錦松 議員、 MertonH. Miller 教授、徐匡 迫教授及榮智健先生。 大學今年首頒“傑出貢獻獎” ，表 揚及感謝香港賽馬會慈善信託基金推 動了大學的誕生及成長。校董會主席 鍾士元博士向賽馬會主席李福探先生 頒授獎狀。8
電機及電于工程學系副教授李德富博士（ DrKhaled Ben Letaief)
獲頒授“祁殼卓越教學獎章”。 16 位本科畢業生成績優異，獲頒九八 學業成就獎。第五屆學生會會長侯玉燕則領受“張鑑泉卓越學生服務 獎章”。 工商管理學院迎來第一批投資管理碩士畢業生。人文社會科學 學院則喜見 38 位副修人文或社會科學的同學畢業， 其中十位更名列 院長優秀生名單。
